I don't care. I just don't care if Steven Spielberg himself lost interest while filming this sequel because what he ended up putting on the screen is still, in my opinion, a worthy follow-up to its revolutionary predecessor. Its inevitable comparison to the original may have hurt its own identity but The Lost World: Jurassic Park remains a highly satisfying second chapter that offers its own set of thrills & entertainment which simply work.

Set 4 years after the events of the first film, The Lost World: Jurassic Park follows Dr. Ian Malcolm who, after meeting with John Hammond, assembles a team to set off to the Site B island (where dinosaurs are allowed to roam freely) in order to get…

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"Spielberg is a mischievous filmmaker, as if that wasn’t already known. Look at Temple of Doom, where voodoo, evil cults, and human sacrifices by way of heart removal and fire were dabbled in glee, and you only need to think about E.T. to be reminded of Spielberg’s playful joy. Jaws and Jurassic Park fused a little of both, offering awe and terror of the respective creature spectacle, and even his more mature efforts find sadism and heartbreak to be truthful, but emphasized in the narrative. The Lost World: Jurassic Park, in comparison, is far beyond anything the director has made, precisely because it’s so outrageous. That one yawn cut is a sliver in the etching of a mountain –…

"Well he's got all the money in the world, but there's one thing he can't buy... a dinosaur."
— Dr. Richard Hammond

all i want, as a "cinephile", are films with dinosaurs in them, films with jeff goldblum in them, films in which san diego is descended upon by something voracious like a t-rex or capitalism or amanda bynes. Only like 1% of films have dinosaurs in them, it happens every year and we as a global consciousness are letting it happen, you are letting it happen. With the ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner the "second greatest predator on the planet" decides to destroy the current first place podium occupant, man decided long ago that he would either sit…

The Lost World: Jurassic Park is one of the most misunderstood works in Steven Spielberg's filmography, up in the ranking along with AI: Artificial Intelligence and War Horse. Without any dissection of its "playing God" themes that flowed through the original masterpiece, TLW instead deconstructs the hubris of the Dino Creators, showcasing a tale of gigantic mistakes under the guise of a Grade-A monster movie.

And even with the haunting message, Steven Spielberg never loses his sense of efficient and air-tight suspense, crafting multiple set-piece moments of masterful terror and immaculate direction. So many scenes visualize ingenious images of innocence and childlike wonder slowly dissolving into terror, with the highlight being a child annoyingly awakened by a T-Rex outside his…

The Lost World and the first Jurassic Park film were both staples of my childhood. I can't believe I ever liked this though. I mistook it's many interesting set pieces with visual intensity/intrigue. And the perfect cast for well developed characters. It flows like an amusement park ride, but because there is no one to care about, it doesn't matter. Dr. Malcolm is stripped of his weird, creepy charisma that made him so interesting in the first film. Now he is Chris Pratt without the sense of humor before Chris Pratt was a thing. Generic leading man. Julianne Moore (who I love) is a damsel in distress here as Sarah. She was awesome to me as a little gay kid.…

I hadn’t realized until now that I have never seen this movie. I was always under the assumption that I did, but I suppose that thought stemmed from me seeing the cover my uncle’s copy endless times when I was a child.

The Lost World: Jurassic Park is based off of Michael Crichton’s novel of the same name. He wrote it after his first book was adapted into the wildly successful 1993 film. I assume he was pressured to do so in order for the story to be adapted again. Unfortunately, this adaptation doesn’t work nearly as well as its predecessor.

The second installment in the Jurassic franchise gets a few things right. It sets up its characters and their…

After you watch Jurassic Park, you have to go to its sequels right? Actually, that's not true. I think you could totally go right from Jurassic Park to Jurassic World and you wouldn't notice a thing, but for the sake of this review let's travel back to 1997.

This has to be one of the weirder entries in Steven Spielberg's filmography. At times it has some of the best imagery and tension in the franchise and some would even say Spielberg's career. I'll post my two favorite shots at the bottom in rot13. www.rot13.com to unscramble. At other times it's messy, cheesy, too dumb to suspend my disbelief for, and has worse CGI than it's 4 years older prequel.

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