The scientific community's reaction to the movie was more mixed. Jurassic Park was responsible for creating a number of tropes and ideas regarding dinosaur behavior that persist in popular culture to this day, many of which are not entirely accurate, as described below. The film took pains to be scientifically accurate (seemingly, see below), which sparked the public's interest in the scientific method, evolution, cloning, and genetic engineering. In contrast, Jurassic Park portrays them as fast, dangerous, intelligent animals worthy of respect. Prior to the film's release, dinosaurs were often seen and depicted as slow, blundering, unintimidating monsters. Jurassic Park reignited the public's interest in dinosaurs.

3 Scientific inaccuracies popularized by the film.

And after over a decade in development hell, a fourth film, Jurassic World, was released in 2015 and a fifth- Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom-in 2018. In 2001, a third film, Jurassic Park III, was released to negative reviews. A sequel novel, The Lost World, was published by Crichton in 1995, and was adapted to film as The Lost World: Jurassic Park in 1997, receiving mixed reviews. The movie was a critical success and an even bigger commercial one, becoming (until that 1997 Titanic-themed chick flick with Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet) the highest-grossing film of all time. Hilarity ensues when a disillusioned, indebted programmer decides to steal the clone dinosaur embryos and sell them to a rival company, requiring him to briefly shut down the park's security systems, allowing the dinosaurs to escape. The plot involves an eccentric multimillionaire who builds a theme park with genetically recreated dinosaurs and invites a team of scientists to examine the park and give it their seal of approval. Jurassic Park is a 1990 novel by Michael Crichton in 1993 the novel was adapted into a blockbuster film that had a major impact on the public understanding and media portrayal of dinosaurs.

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