Over the years, film critics and industry professionals have often cited Jurassic Park as one of the greatest movies of the action and thriller genres. The movie is also an example of a techno-thriller.[225] The American Film Institute named Jurassic Park the 35th-most thrilling film of all time on June 13, 2001.[226] In 2004, Empire magazine judged Jurassic Park the sixth-most influential film in the magazine's lifetime.[227] Empire called the first encounter with a Brachiosaurus the 28th-most magical moment in cinema.[228] In 2008, an Empire poll of readers, filmmakers, and critics also rated it one of the 500 greatest films of all time.[229] On Film Review's 55th anniversary in 2005, it declared the film to be one of the five most important in the magazine's lifetime.[230] In 2006, IGN ranked Jurassic Park as the 19th-greatest film franchise ever.[231] In a 2010 poll, the readers of Entertainment Weekly rated it the greatest summer movie of the previous 20 years.[232]
The movie's popularity led the management of the National Basketball Association expansion franchise founded in Toronto in 1995 to adopt the name Raptors.[233] In addition, during the team's playoff games, fans watch the game on a large television in a fan area outside the arena that has been nicknamed Jurassic Park.[234] The film has been said to have given rise to a Jurassic Park generation, young people inspired to become paleontologists, and to a surge in discoveries about dinosaurs.[235]
Jurassic Park's biggest influence on subsequent films was a result of its breakthrough use of computer-generated imagery.[236][237][238] The film is regarded as a landmark for visual effects.[239][240][241] Film historian Tom Shone said of the film's innovation and influence, "in its way, Jurassic Park heralded a revolution in movies as profound as the coming of sound in 1927".[242][243] Many filmmakers saw Jurassic Park's effects as a realization that many of their visions, previously thought unfeasible or too expensive, were now possible.[227] ILM owner George Lucas, realizing the success of creating realistic live dinosaurs by his own company, started to make the Star Wars prequels;[244] Stanley Kubrick decided to invest in pet project A.I. Artificial Intelligence, which he later got Spielberg to direct;[227] and Peter Jackson began to re-explore his childhood love of fantasy films, a path that led him to The Lord of the Rings and King Kong.[245] Jurassic Park also inspired films and documentaries with dinosaurs such as the American adaptation of Godzilla, Dinosaur from the Deep, Carnosaur (in which Laura Dern's mother Diane Ladd starred), Dinosaur Island and Walking with Dinosaurs.[227] Stan Winston, enthusiastic about the new technology pioneered by the film, joined with IBM and director James Cameron to form a new special effects company, Digital Domain.[246] In 2018, Jurassic Park was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".[247][248][249]
It also started a trend of dubbing US films into Hindi for the Indian market and was the highest-grossing US film in India at the time with a gross of $3 million.[250]
