Second best Jurassic park movie?

[AnneFan]

I liked the darker atmosphere of TLW - it provided a different feel and viewpoint from what the first presented. Letting us go 'behind the scenes' to where it all originated before moving the dinosaurs over to Isla Nublar.

It actually did quite a lot different to the first movie to justify it's existence. As time goes by, I appreciate what Spielberg achieved with his follow-up.

I think Jurassic World is a good film, but I think it works best as the third or fourth in the franchise. It needs a decent length of time to have passed for another working park to be an option. So indeed, JW may be the first 'spiritual sequel', but I think TLW was perfect for the time.

 

[kedrell]

All I could remember thinking in TLW was that I really hoped the dinos would eat everybody except the big game hunter and the poor schlub that the T-Rex's split between them. Especially Vince Vaughn's character, he needed to reside in the belly of a big lizard...UGH!

 

[AnneFan]

John Williams' score for TLW is fantastic, too.

 

[Drizzle]

I do think Jurassic World is a bit overrated, but it's a worthy sequel and deserves the title of second best in the franchise. The Lost World isn't that far behind it. It's got its flaws but it does deliver plenty of dinosaur action. I went crazy for it as a kid.

 

[Doctor Jones]

The Lost World easily. I do love it. I just love how it's just not like the first film. I love how much more dark and cynical it is compared to the first one. The wonder is gone and now the ugly remains. While still being entertaining and cool. I agree with AnneFan, JW, works best as a later sequel than a direct one for me. Tonally speaking I think TLW makes more sense as a follow up.

I really do love that scene between Malcolm and Hammond in the beginning. You don't see scenes like that often in blockbusters. Better than any human interaction scenes in the JW.

"If you want to make a name for yourself fine. But stop putting it on people's headstones, John."

Spielberg also doesn't get enough credit for directing some disturbing ****.

 

[Broseph44]

John Williams' score for TLW is fantastic, too.

The score is indeed awesome, love the jungle tribal feel it has to it.

 

[AnneFan]

The score is indeed awesome, love the jungle tribal feel it has to it.

I like how Giacchino used TLW theme briefly, too.

 

[divan]

Jurassic Park
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Jurassic World
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Jurassic Park III/The Lost World

World just seemed to be the superior sequel to me and, despite its flaws, the first one where I felt the filmmakers knew what it was doing. TLW just seems lost, it's more like a collection of scenes (some of them good, some perhaps even great) but as a movie I found it fails to showcase any kind of cohesive storytelling. The story doesn't know where to go, the message shoe-horned, the characters are stupid and, quite frankly, not any deeper, less clichéd or more interesting than the much-more maligned ones from JW. The worst thing is that I think it makes the dinosaurs parts feel much more like a rutine instead of something exciting or remotely special - Even though some of the scenes themselves are well executed, their place in the story seems to be going-through-the-motions - "Oh, yeah. Oooh, ahhh, that's how it always starts. Then later there's running and um, screaming", Malcolms utterly bored expression when he said this seem to reflect the movie's own boredom in what it was doing, this is something even III seemed to do better. Williams score is great, though.

III is fun as an "extra" adventure, even if it feels unnecessary.

 

[GR8GODZILLAGOD]

Jurassic World. It provided dumb fun. The other two were just dumb.

 

[Warhammer]

1. Jurassic Park
2. Jurassic World
3. The Lost World: Jurassic Park

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4. Mowing the lawn

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5. Jurassic Park III

 

[Warhammer]

I liked the darker atmosphere of TLW - it provided a different feel and viewpoint from what the first presented. Letting us go 'behind the scenes' to where it all originated before moving the dinosaurs over to Isla Nublar.

It actually did quite a lot different to the first movie to justify it's existence. As time goes by, I appreciate what Spielberg achieved with his follow-up.

I think Jurassic World is a good film, but I think it works best as the third or fourth in the franchise. It needs a decent length of time to have passed for another working park to be an option. So indeed, JW may be the first 'spiritual sequel', but I think TLW was perfect for the time.

I like this.

 

[DA_Champion]

I rewatched Lost World and JPIII this weekend, they have a lot of plotholes.

Lost World: Everybody is dead on the boat, even though they have the T-Rex contained. How did they contain it if they're dead, how did they set course? Why didn't the new T-Rex liberate the other one in the cage? OK, maybe I missed some stuff there.

JPIII: The T-Rex and the Spinosaurus were going their merry way for a decade or so, co-hbitating on the same island. Then one day humans show up and one of them goes extinct again. What?

How did all those navy seals get there in time? How did the kid survive for eight weeks? I give up. The main problem though is they kept making dumb decisions.

 

[Micromind]

My ratings -

1. Jurassic Park
2. Jurassic World
3. Jurassic Park 3.

4. Lost World.

I rated JP 3 higher the The Lost World because it works as an action movie on it's own and it portrayed Raptors with feathers, though I hate the annoying human characters in the movie.

Only half of Lost World is good, I hate the part when T-Rex is in the City.

 

[Ipodman]

Don't know why people hate JP3 so much... I guess if you watched it at that time it just didn't feel as fresh as 1 or 2....

 

[Kahran Ramsus]

Don't know why people hate JP3 so much... I guess if you watched it at that time it just didn't feel as fresh as 1 or 2....

It is short with one of the worst endings I have ever seen, there is no real story so much as an excuse to get them back on the island, the characters aside for Grant are some of the most annoying in film history, and (unlike every other film in the series) there aren't even any good deaths.

 

[Val_Zod]

JW for me was the second best, as it manage to bring back the childhood wonder of the first, while the others didn't.

 

[Drizzle]

Spielberg also doesn't get enough credit for directing some disturbing ****.

To be fair, Spielberg has had disturbing scenes in his movies since the beginning of his career. The deaths in Jaws, opening the Ark in Raiders, hell, even E.T. dying on the operating table is traumatic for kids. It's just that out of his films, TLW is one of the more forgettable ones to non-JP fans.

 

[AnneFan]

It is short with one of the worst endings I have ever seen, there is no real story so much as an excuse to get them back on the island, the characters aside for Grant are some of the most annoying in film history, and (unlike every other film in the series) there aren't even any good deaths.

Yeah. The JP3 ending was between a bunch of raptors, eggs and then being rescued by the military which were conveniently nearby. Love or hate the San Diego T-Rex rampage, at least TLW went out with a bang.

 

[Kahran Ramsus]

Yeah. The JP3 ending was between a bunch of raptors, eggs and then being rescued by the military which were conveniently nearby. Love or hate the San Diego T-Rex rampage, at least TLW went out with a bang.

Yeah. At least TLW had a proper ending. JP3 doesn't have one. It is like, oh we ran out of time/money and now the movie is over. One of the most unsatisfying conclusions to an action movie that I've ever seen. The raptors just leave. That's it. And then they get conveniently rescued out of nowhere.

 

[cheungcheung]

World for me, with TLW being last.

Agreed.

1. Jurassic Park
2. Jurassic World
3. Jurassic Park 3
4. Lost World

The kid in Lost World was the worst

 

[Flint Marko]

I am shocked that TLW is getting so much love. I thought it was a universally hated movie; I quite liked it because of nostalgic reasons.

 

[OcStat]

I'm shocked that TLW is supposed to be universally hated.

 

[Wildcard]

I love all of the films in the franchise but Jurassic World would definitely be my second favorite....I like it nearly as much as the original, in fact. And before I get attacked with pitchforks, I said I like it as much, not that it's better. JP is my probably my most watched film ever (literally). From childhood to now I've no doubt seen it hundreds of times so for me to like JW almost as much after two viewings says a lot.

As for TLW, I've always loved it. I don't see why it gets so much hate now but I've always seen it as a great installment. It doesn't surpass the original but it gives us a male & female T-Rex, the former of which tramples San Diego. And that's pretty damn fantastic. haha

 

[AnneFan]

I'm shocked that TLW is supposed to be universally hated.

Maybe the dislike comes from the tone being different? JW does bring back the sense of wonder the original had, so perhaps people are responding positively to that.

 

[ThePhantasm]

TLW was the first PG-13 film I ever saw in theatres, so it holds a special place in my heart