The Lost World - Jurassic Park (Collector's Edition) (DTS)

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Summary: What?!
Review: For those people out there; THIS IS MUCH BETTER THAN THE ORIGINAL. The original didn't have anything much to it except for the fact that they had 30 minutes of the T-rex pen attack. This movie is longer and has much more stuff to it, like the San Diego setting at the end. And at least this movie has an ending to it, not just flying off in a helicopter and leaves you to wonder what happens next. This is one of the best sequels I've seen.--P.S.: I've read the book and I agree the movie is not even close to the book. But does it matter? When you were watching the movie, was the movie in your head, or the book?

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Summary: Spielberg's Worst Film to Date
Review: He should be ashamed to be associated with exploitation trash like this. I am sure it will only be a matter of time before the second sequel violates the public's intelligence.

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Summary: no, No, NO!
Review: Okay, I will admit the main reason I didn't like this movie is because I read the book first. (i'll give you a tip, never read the book first! it'll only disappoint you!) Nothing, NOTHING is the same save one scene and maby two characters. But of course, you can assume it woldn't be the same because Hammond wasn't killed in the first one like he was supposed to be. And I don't agree with those who say that unless we can make a Acadamy Award-winning film we don't have the room to talk about this one being bad! It was perfectly feasable to make a sequel based on the book, but movie-makers wanted to start from scratch and add in some parts from the book they thought were good. They shouldn't do that. I'm only 12 and I can complain about it! It was a great dissappointment to me because I saw the first 8 times. It was a landmark, i know they could never measure up to it, but I thought the Lost World book was better than the first and the movie could have been the same. (especially with the effencts they have nowadays, which they did make use of BTW.)

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Summary: The Book is better
Review: Recently I read the book. Having watched the movie 3 times I quickly fell in love with the book. The movie I cannot rate that well because it is nothing like the book. The characters are different, the animals are different, and they even added a part which wasn't in the book. Yes, that is why the ending is so horrible, it was never in the book. No dinasours go to the main islands, and even if they did, why was it that the main island was some major city like LA or San Fransisco, I thought they were in Porta Rico? Watch the movie, enjoy it if you want. But you won't get the full thrill, excitement, adventure, and emotions as the book will. In Jurassic Park John Hammond and Ian Malcolm die. What are they doing alive again. John Hammond is also a mean old man who swears a lot. Why isn't he like that in the movie? To make it a kids movie. Even the way it is it still doesn't classify as a kids movie. Remember: You won't have anything, until you have the book.

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Summary: Wonderful!
Review: Oh, come on. Yeah it's not as good as the original but WHO CARES! It was great! Especially the special-effects.

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Summary: Jurassic Park 2: The Search For More Money
Review: Come on, people! Have a heart! You're saying this movie insulted your intelligence and was a waste of film. Well if you think you're so great, let's see you build up the balls to make a great dinosaur movie that is an all-around hit in thought, box-office receipts, and merchandising; and top it off with a sequel! You give Spielberg a hard time about this movie and whine about Crichton's book being mutilated. Yes it was. Spielberg even said that! Granted the book probably would have been a good movie(it was obviously written to be one) this sequel did do justice to the original. of course it is flawed but all movies are so quit your constant whining! I waited four years between the original and the sequel and I was definitely not disappointed! This film had an interesting cast of middle-aged semi-fresh faces and was a blast to watch over and over again. It's just too bad they didn't keep in the two scenes they added to it on FOX though. They were good scenes. The one thing that really bothered me was that my favorite character Nick Van Owen (Vince Vaughn in the first film I saw him in) was passed off as the witty hero of the movie, but if you watch his actions, every disaster in the movie ends up being a result of something he did. And I just want to restate to all those fools who constantly bully the industry with your bad reviews, once you go out there and make an academy-award nominated film, then you'll have the right to gripe about movies till you're blue in the face.

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Summary: GOOD SEQUEL!
Review: This movie is interesting, exciting and entertaining. Jeff Goldblum heads a team of well meaning scientists going to another dinosaur infested island. However things take a down side when a rival team (this one consisting of hunters) lands on the island and disturbs the islands delecate ecosystem sending both peaceful and destructive carnivors on a brutal rampage. The acting is true, the story is painfully standard, but the truly interesting thing about this movie is it shows the fabulous CGI dinosaurs everybody remembers from the first film, and puts them into a remarkably horrific truly prehistoric natural habitat. The begining of the film (with a little girl being attacked on the islands beach by the nightmarish Compsagnathus') set's the decidedly darker tone. The films climax, displaying one of the films T-Rex's on the loose in San Diego, is one of the high points of excitement. Dinosaur moments include an angry Stegesour herd, a crazed Triceretops destroying the hunters' camp, Compy's chomping on a mean hunter, the male and female Rex's breaking in on the groups' camp, and a mini finale with a pack of Velociraptors stalking the hunters in a field of tall grass. Julianne Moore is Sarah Harding, Pete Postlewaite is Roland Tembo, Arliss Howard is Peter Ludlow, Vince Vaugn is Nick Van Owen, Venessa Lee Chester is Kelly Malcolm, Thomas F. Duffy is Robert Burke, Peter Storemare is Dieter Stark, Richard Schiff is doomed Eddie Carr, and Harvey Jason is Tembo's partner Ajay Sidhu. Special visual effects by Stan Winston, Dennis Muren, Micheal Lantieri, Randall M. Dutra, and Ned Goreman. Directed by Steven Speilberg.

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Summary: It could have been much better.
Review: I was one of the millions of people who flocked to see The Lost World: Jurassic Park the first day it opened. I liked it the first time I saw it, but, as the glamour of the film wore off, I saw how hollow it was. Jurassic Park, the movie was terrific. The Lost World book was actually pretty good, but Spielberg (probably wanting to give Universal Studios a little something before he took off to DreamWorks), gave us what his imagination saw. He has a pretty bad imagination. The roars were much duller, the animations weren't as crisp, the Raptors (although more accurate to their real-life physical description) are much smaller and are given one small chase scene through an abandoned city, which looked like the film was looking for more time to waste. And the T-Rex run through San Diego was a waste, although pretty funny. Buy the book or the first movie, cause you aint missing much here.

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Summary: waste of money
Review: If you like dinosaurs-eating-people special effects, watch the first one and leave this on the shelf. The plot was a complete and utter joke. None of the main characters were worth saving and the suspense scenes were way too predictable. An awful, awful attempt to squeeze a few more bucks out of the genre. Don't waste your money on this one.

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Summary: A utter disappointment!
Review: Any yokel who lauds "Lost World: Jurassic Park" as a triumph for Steven Spielberg & Michael Crichton needs some sense desperately knocked into his/her head! Like the rest of the lobotomized Generation X, I saw this film over its 1997 Memorial Day weekend debut with naive high-hopes. In hindsight, all I can say is that I'm thankful that my folks coughed-up for the tickets and not my hard-earned money! "Lost World" ranks as low as "1941" and "Twilight Zone: The Movie" as among Spielberg's few forgettable worst. With the international success that the original film found in 1993, I'm reminded of the popular adage "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" when it comes down to "Lost World". You definitely aren't missing much (unless you are teenage girl who lusts for Vince Vaughn) and probably won't when "Jurassic Park 3" comes out if you are one of the fortunate few who hasn't seen this avaricious Spielberg sequel!