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ELI5: Why are older Jurassic Park movies more realistic than the newer ones like Jurassic World, do they not have the budget to get animatronics?

Recent movies seem so cheesy now with all that CGI. How come movies with huge budgets not invest in animatronics to enhance the "realness" of the films?
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One of the main reasons why the original Jurassic Park looked so good is because various camera tricks were used to account for the limited technology. Even then, the CGI sucked and the animatronics--while they were definitely beneficial to the film--weren't enough to carry the weight of the special effects throughout the entire movie. 

So what was the solution? Using shadows, night scenes, and backgrounds that had similar colors to the CGI dinos being used. All of that contributed to making the blemishes of the dated technology far less noticeable than they would've been in brighter and/or more dynamic environments. 

Today, CGI is undeniably better than it used to be but generally, directing techniques don't utilize it to its full potential like Spielberg did with JP (mainly because it's easier, cheaper, and less time consuming). 

That said, current CGI may look cheesy, but if 90s movie directors used the same tactics that directors today use (and some certainly tried), it wouldn't just look bad, it would look offensively terrible.