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Summary: Jurassic Park & The Lost World
Review: Jurassic Park- Ok, here we go. This film was released in 1993, and the first time I saw it was on video in 1994. I loved it. I knew the dinos were fake, but they looked extremely real. The acting was excellent especially the Jeff Goldblum, Richard Attenborough, and Laura Dern characters. The story line is superb. I thought the movie was gonna be about these dinos who run around on an island and eat a bunch of people. This film was just the opposite. Lets look at the high & low points: High Points:1. Awesome special effects 2. Great story 3. Good acting Low Points 1. Wayne Knight 2. The book was better 3. They should have known that Rapters could open doors since Rapters have problem solving intelligence. Overall Grade: A 96.7% The Lost World In my opinion, The Lost World was better. I saw this one in the theater a week after it came out. I went in with high expectations, and was not dissapointed. I loved that this movie was such a blast to watch, and that it was pretty scary. The overall plot may not have been as good, but it's still a good movie. I did like the T-Rex trailer, and the Rapter chase sequence. The scene in the long grass was sort of eerie to watch. The acting was very good in this one. I particuallarly liked the Jeff Goldblum, Pete Posthelwate, Julianne Moore, and Vanessa Lee Chester characters. High Points: 1. Better Special FX 2. More likable characters 3. Scarier dinos 4. The movie was a lot scarier. Low Points: 1. The T-Rex in San Diego sequence was so far out there, but a blast to watch 2. The book was better Overall Grade: A 97.9%
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Summary: This is not "The Lost World: Jurassic Park" by Crichton
Review: this is not a complete version of the Crichton,s book, but still entertaining and originall. Spielberg don,t like to do the stories that we all know. This is a story more a la Speilberg than a la Crichton
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Summary: Jurassic Lark
Review: Having watched THE LOST WORLD again, I liked it better than I remembered from its theatrical run. My only criteria for technically rating DVD's is picture quality and sound. I think Universal has done a great job in both of these areas. I hate it when studios use a bad print to make the DVD -- THE LOST WORLD looks crisp and the colors are fine. The bonus stuff is pretty cool. The storyboards and preproduction paintings are very attractive and very interesting. The cut scenes are fun to see -- the more I watch cut scenes on DVDs, the more I realize WHY scenes get cut. Included on THE LOST WORLD disc is a 3 minute scene of an IMAGIN Board Meeting where the members vote Hammond (Richard Attenborough) out of the company. Yawn. The plot point is handled in a later scene where, with one line ("They're voting me out of the company"), the information is relayed simply and quickly. Movie-making is so interesting! Anyway, like others have said, THE LOST WORLD is no JURASSIC PARK, but it is fun in its own ways. The T-Rex and trailer-over-the-cliff action scene is a blast! Enjoy the film, and have fun with all the DVD extras.
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Summary: Jurassic Sequel Isn't 'Lost' in the Woods
Review: The second installment of the Jurassic Park trilogy came and went with a lot of fan-fare but little praise. It was seen as a big-buget flop, a movie made for finicaial gain even at the expense of the audience. I only bring this up to dismiss such rumors. In truth it's better than the original, if only for conventially shallow reasons. The special effects are better, the digital sound is first rate and the new additions to the cast couldn't be better. And they include (deep breath) Julianne Moore, snubbed by academy voters that same year for a knockout performance in Boogie Nights, Vince Vaughn whose gone onto cackle his way into our hearts and minds with leading man quality work in Psycho & Clay Pigeons and Richard Schiff who'd gone unnoticed with roles in Seven and The Arrival but made his mark on TV's The West Wing (for which he won an Emmey this year). You get the idea. So the group of fresh faces find themselves trapped on a desolate island along with free-roaming dinosaurs who seem twice as ferocious here as in the original. We move from one action sequence to another, Spielberg holding back the reins so as not to desensitize his audience with violence and general mayhem. It's those broad master strokes that keep us aware that we've put our faith in a great filmmaker and he won't let us down. I found myself more caught up in the DVD than I could've possibly imagined having not realized how much the film had lost in it's VHS transfer. The disc offers a pair of interesting deleted scenes but the biggest disappointment comes in the Jurassic 3 'trailer' which is actually not even worthy of being called a 'teaser.' But whose to complain when everything else is so outstanding.
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Summary: totally dissappointed at the contempt the filmmakers have
Review: for the public at large and especially the fans of these two films.Fans,who in large part,helped make both films blockbusters.I purchased an all in one dvd/surround sound reciever with DD5.1 and DTS capability.I agree that DTS is the superior sound standard.It's more powerful,clearer,and the sound channels are seperated more effectively(no aspect of the audio dominates at any one time).It's a sound standard that Spielberg helped to invent ,and it was first utilized in the theatrical version of Jurassic Park.He's a huge advocate of this format,and that's why i would like to know why fans of DTS and The JP films,like me, are being treated like an unwanted stepchild.Get DD5.1 and you get extras,purchase the DTS version and you get zilch.Oh wait you get a documentary.A documentary that's been televised numerous times before,around the time each film was released,it's nothing new.Storyboards.Please stop.Storyboards leave me board.Please throw me another bone mr SS.I don't want to hear that because DTS isn't compressed that they couldn't fit the extras.Didn't they ever hear of a Two-Disc Set?I'm officially protesting these Dvd's until they start showing some respect for the consumer and give the fans what they want.Plus,you know there's probably a "definitive version"waiting to be released after the all the first generation dvd's are sold.Just like boogie nights and evil dead and countless others.SS has become way too arrogant and self important that's he's forgotten who made him who he is,the moviegoing public and his fans.I'm not a fan of his but i do like JP and the Lost World.PS:with the purchase of the 83.00 box set i think you get a coupon for a rampaging rhino lollipop,compliments of ILM and Mr berg himself.There such swell guys.
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Summary: Back To The Dinos
Review: Many critics are thrown off by the dark tones of the film. However, I find The Lost World to be an excellent contribution to the Jurassic Park series. It does not follow the formula of the first film, and therefor, Spielberg is to be commended. The Lost World takes us to a second island. The mysterious island where the basis of the genetic testing and research had been done. It's a darker place, out of the eyes of the public, and is not the happy Disneyworld island that was represented in the first film. The effects are amazing. It's great to see Goldblum back as the most interesting character of the series. Vaughn, Postlewaite, Moore, and Howard are more convincing and interesting characters than those in Jurassic Park. But yes, I too have a few groans about the film. Ian's daughter has no purpose to the story. I felt she was just thrown into the film to appease the younger audience. And I can't escape the contridictory dialogue Julian Moore's character had throughout the film. Other than those two main gripes, the film is a great rollar coaster ride from the best film maker of our time. Cheers.
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Summary: The Lost World
Review: This sequel to the 1993 blockbuster is good as sequels go but isn't a great movie. Jeff Goldblum gives a good performance as Dr. Ian Malcolm and Julianne Moore contributes, too. The screenplay based on the novel by Michael Crichton is poorly done but has a few funny lines. The cinematography is good and captures the horror very well, and the production design is very frightening. The soundwork is very good, but the editing by veteran Michael Kahn (Close Encounters, Raiders of the Lost Ark, E.T.) is not very well done, you can hardly digest what is happening. John Williams contributes a rousing yet ominous score. One thing that keeps this movie moving are the incredible Oscar nominated special effects done masterfully by the great Dennis Muren and Stan Winston. The basic plot is that John Hammond, the creator of Jurassic Park, has an island where dinosaurs roam freely but must send Malcolm along with his girlfriend and two other companions to photograph the dinosaurs and release the pictures to the public so Ingen will be kept from disturbing the dinosaurs. Overall, fairly well done, suspenseful, but fails to capture the awe, greatness, and wonder that the original possessed. There is also a Jurassic Park 3 coming out. I can't wait.
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Summary: The Lost World
Review: This sequel to the 1993 blockbuster is good as sequels go but isn't a great movie. Jeff Goldblum gives a good performance as Dr. Ian Malcolm and Julianne Moore contributes too. The screenplay based on the novel by Michael Crichton is poorly done but has a few funny lines. The cinematography is good and captures the horror very well, and the production design is very frightening. The soundwork is very good, but the editing by veteran Michael Kahn (Close Encounters, Raiders of the Lost Ark, E.T.) is not very well done, you can hardly digest what is happening. John Williams contributes a rousing yet ominous score. One thing that keeps this movie moving are the incredible Oscar nominated special effects done masterfully by the great Dennis Muren and Stan Winston. The basic plot is that John Hammond, the creator of Jurassic Park, has an island where dinosaurs roam freely but must send Malcolm along with his girlfriend and two other companions to photograph the dinosaurs so Ingen will be kept from disturbing the dinosaurs. Overall, fairly well done, suspenseful, but fails to capture the awe, greatness, and wonder that the original possessed. There is also a Jurassic Park 3 coming out. I can't wait.
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Summary: The Movie's OK
Review: This isn't the best movie as far as plot and such but for effects and lights off soundtrack movement, this is it! The first one probably is an all around better film, but this one has it's moments. As far as the DTS comment and lack of extras, DTS is from what I am to understand 0 compression. That leaves alot less space on the DVD for extras. I for one am glad to see any DTS DVD's as it is superiour to 5.1 in just about every way (except for space). Glad to see classics like these finally hitting the press.
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Summary: The Lost World Bites - What were they thinking!
Review: I was so dissapointed when I went to first see this film, and recently reluctantly again watched it on DVD, in the words of Hammond it's 'devoid of merit'. The whole dark attitude of the movie is so totally wrong, completely losing what made the original great, wonder and awe. Lets face it, this may be a 'Spielberg' film, but it's pretty ordinary, no suspense, no fear, no wonder, in all honesty this is a 'b' or even 'c' grade action film with some at times very ordinary CG dino work by ILM thrown in. Added to all of this John Williams write a strangely bland score. The sum total is a movie that is a huge misfire by all involved, a sum total that's so terribly less than the parts involved. The films one redeeming factor is it's final shot over the island , there for a brief few seconds we capture the magic and wonder of the first film (even if the T-Rex and Stegs are ridiculously close together). Other than that though, this film and the Special Edition DVD are only for those who are easily pleased, JP3 comes out next year but on this effort, whose going to bother with it. Save your money for Walking with Dinosaurs, it's infinetly better.
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