‘Jurassic Park’ Is Not a Franchise

Undoubtedly, Jurassic Park is one of the greatest blockbusters ever made, if not also one of the greatest films ever made full-stop.

Director Steven Spielberg’s adaptation of the Michael Crichton novel is a terrifying, thrilling adventure packed with some of the filmmaker’s best-executed set pieces ever, as cutting-edge technology brought dinosaurs to the big screen in a massive way.

Audiences responded in droves, and the film’s $47 million opening weekend broke the box office record set the previous year by Batman Returns.

It surpassed E.T.

as the highest-grossing film ever worldwide, and …

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