Dinosaurs rule and Jurassic Park brought them to life.  Steven Speilberg adapted Michael Crichton’s novel about an island amusement park filled with living dinosaurs cloned from a fossilized mosquito’s blood. The film unleashed eye-popping special effects in computers and robotics, bringing to the screen realistic fake things like never before.  This inspired many directors from Peter Jackson to James Cameron to George Lucas, all who went to push the technological envelope of film (though not all for the better).