At the beginning of Jurassic Park, after Alan Grant gets the vapors because an old guy told him that a Tyrannosaurus Rex might want to be his friend, director Steven Spielberg treats viewers to a tour of an extremely 90's visitor's center filled with such exciting things like nerds in lab coats and a long educational video. Eight year old Johnny angrily balled up his fists and pounded the sides of his movie seat: where the hell were the dinos? You just showed us some dinos, show me more of the freakin' dinos!
And of course eventually you do see more dinosaurs, they're cool and they eat people (they're cool because they eat people), but as a kid I didn't care about the interpersonal relationships between the characters, or the business espionage, or a paleontologist learning that children are people too.