Remember a time before The Franchise had a near-monopoly on movie dinosaurs? Me neither. To avoid any references to the Crichton and Spielberg-spawned behemoth, you’d have to travel in time all the way back to the 1980s. And that seems like as good a reason as any to set the ‘modern day’ portions of any new dinosaur films during that decade – it’s the most recent era during which the characters can quite plausibly encounter Mesozoic beasties and not start…
