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The Lost World: Jurassic Park (Widescreen Collector's Edition)

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I'm not going to praise this movie to death, we all know it has its problems here and there. But, we all must keep in mind that "popcorn movies" still exist. I realize that the original JP had economical and moral undertones, but in the end, it was intentionally a goofy monster movie (and I'd like to believe that Speilberg would say the same). This series of films is one of the more enjoyable in recent memory, simply because it has not lost sight of what it was. I personally don't mind saying that Michael Crichton's source material is a step down from this movie. That's right, a step down. I have read three of his novels (JP, Lost World, and Congo) and have been deeply disappointed in his style and his narrative. I like the technical portions of the novels, but when you dedicate that much time to revel in such tired, meandering literature, you expect a whole lot more. Having said that, the film, I believe, would be worth a shot at (ESPECIALLY IF YOU CAN TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THAT OL' DTS AUDIO TRACK). Heck, I'll be buying it sooner or later just for the DVD transfer.

This movie was very medeocre. I don't really like Jeff Goldblum very much. I think they should just end the movies. It is alright to see only once, but it for sure isn't worth buying.

Except for special effects, everything in this movie is unrealistic. Starting with the casting: Since when are Archaeologists hot lusty young red-headed chicks?
Gee, where can I get this year's archaeology pin-up calender?
I miss the days of more realistic movies, like "Andromeda Strain", where the scientists actually looked like scientists, even the female ones.
The story is more akin to a cartoon than a movie. Much like most of Spielberg's stuff.

I think that Lost World was a very good movie. Sure it wasnt as good as the first one but what sequels are? The lost world improved JP's dinos making them more realistic and fritening. Although the plot wasnt as good it was better then the third and made more sense.

You saw the third one right?Well this movie is GREAT!Jurassic park 3 is the WORST movie since Jaws The Revenge and Batman Forever!Well,this movie has alot of GREAT action,alot of deaths(like the first)and one BAD thing,I wish they stayed with Isla Nublar,this new island,Isla Sorna is BAD!No real BAD things happen!Open the park,betray Grant and let people get eaten!But this is a great film!

This movies starts off with a very long and boring beggining in order to set up for an exciting and thrilling filler with lots of Action, All the sudden for some stupid reason the movie seems to switch gears in the last thirty minutes or so and gets too silly and unbelievable. A HUDGE dissapointment by its silly finale!!

Spielberg never seems to pass up an opportunity to preach to the crowd and JP2 is no exception. His main thrust is the usual predictable Hollywood eco-wacko worship of "nature", usually based on the twisted propaganda of Greenpeace and others of their ilk.

Protecting the environment is a good thing and if the dinosaurs in question had been discovered as survivors of the reptile age in some remote part of Antarctica then taking extreme action to protect them would be justifiable. However the dinosaurs in question are not really dinosaurs but artificially created creatures that are part frog anyhow. They are not real dinosaurs. They have not been raised in the real Jurassic environment (we'll ignore that T-Rexes are from the Cretacious period not the Jurassic for simplicities sake). There is little to be learned from studying them. So the comments of various characters that messing with the pseudo-dinosaur part-frog creatures is wrecking some sort of ecological system is bogus. The pseudo-dinosaur part-frog creatures are interlopers into a real ecological system and it is the pseudo-dinosaur part-frog creatures that are ruining the ecology of the islands.

In fact, eco-wackos are always going on about how evil humans are wrecking the environment by introducing foreign species that wipe out the native ones. So the Eco-terrorist phony journalist character from Greepeace should be helping the hunters capture the darned things!! In addition to this the eco-terrorist directly precipitates the death of the first guy in Goldblum's party by stupidly taking a wounded faux T-Rex baby to their camp. This in addition to his criminal act of releasing the pseudo-dinosaur part-frog creatures which destroy the hunters' camp, eventually resulting in the slaughter of almost all of them. The eco-wacko journalist character should have been arrested, tried for the deaths he caused and permanently removed from society. Either life at hard labor or execution would be fine. He is protecting animals that are not even real dinosaurs! And he has no justification under the Endangered Species Act to do so. Especially on foreign soil.

The pseudo-dinosaur part-frog creatures were created by the Ingen corporation, were they not? So how on earth can Ingen be considered evil for simply making use of the things? Anyone who buys dead animals to eat at the supermarket is also to be reviled I guess. Ingen spent a lot of money developing these creatures, so whatever else their faults they deserve some credit, don't they? Not in Spielberg's mind.

The movie moves into utter silliness with the pseudo-dinosaur part-frog faux T-Rex's foray into SanDiego. We'll pass over just how the faux T-Rex managed to kill the entire ship's crew and then lock itself up in the hold. (Maybe it was the severed arm that cleverly waited until the T-Rex went back in the hold and then lowered the doors.) Faux T-Rex runs down the dock and destroys the big sign that proclaims the authority of the United States of America. This is supposed to symbolize that the US is powerless against pseudo-dinosaur part-frog creatures, I guess. However this is not true and any US Marine company has the fire power with its heavy weapons to easily slaughter any number of pseudo-dinosaur part-frog creatures.

Enough lecturing. Still, the movie is entertaining. The added unintentional laughs that result from Spielberg's eco-wackoism only add to the entertainment value.

Bad sequal to one of the great movie experiences of any time. Speilberg should have stopped when he was ahead.

I really thought the whole, My girlfriend is on the island so I must go save her, was really stupid. Coulden't they find a better way to get him there? Unlike others, I did not think the acting was that bad. I really thought Jeff did a good job. I thought the special effects were good too. The thing that really made me mad was that the movie was compleatly different from the great book by Michael Crichton. If you read the book but have not seen the movie, DO NOT BUY THE MOVIE. It will be a waste of your time and money. Instead go and read the novel again. The fact that they changed the characters and made new ones for the movie was just plain stupid. I say it would have been a better movie if they just stuck to the book.

While making the first Jurassic Park, Spielberg seemed VERY enthusiastic about it (at least that's what the making-of feature implied). He was doing something nobody had ever done before and originality is an important thing to a great director, which Spielberg definitely is. When the Lost World came out four years later, it was a box-office smash, but it also disappointed a lot of people. A movie like this is essentially critic-proof, so bad word-of-mouth wasn't going to stop anyone from seeing it one way or the other. Yeah, it boasted more special effects, dinosaurs, action sequences, etc., but you could just tell that Spielberg wasn't as energized about this as he was the first one. And I'm of the belief that the only real reason he did this was to get another fat paycheck from Universal because, obviously, he wasn't really doing anything we haven't seen before.

So if you take that into account, the Lost World is an enormously entertaining movie which just so happens to have been made by a great director with half-hearted effort. In my opinion, I think mediocre Spielberg is more worthwhile than a lot of the junk out these days. In fact, if you were to compare the Lost World to, say, the Mummy, you'd realize that the Lost World comes very close to being a modern classic. While I hate to do the whole comparison thing, it only goes to prove my point. And please, for the sake of God, PLEASE don't pick every little aspect of this movie apart as if you were watching a David Lynch film. An attitude like that will get you nowhere with escapist cinema.

If you're a fan of fast cars, glossy visuals and a techno music soundtrack, watch the Fast and the Furious. If you're a fan of lame acting, sloppy editing and the butchery of a novelist's legacy, watch Queen of the Damned. If you're a fan of REAL entertainment, watch the Lost World.