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Summary: YUCK!
Review: This was HORRIBLE!!!!!The book wasn't half-bad, for a script. The movie didn't just deviate, it went irretrievably down the proverbial toilet. The movie degenerates into a Jurassic Park (a GOOD movie) meets Mad Max (another goodie) with reality-challenged child-gymnast-thwaps-dinosaur-in-head, and then - hey! - let's let them loose on downtown San Diego! That's not Godzilla-esque! Save your money and don't even rent this stinker. But if you do watch it, there is a funny scene where Jeff Goldblum picks up a pair of binoculars to sight the incoming helicopters, and HE HOLDS THEM UP TO HIS EYES *BACKWARDS*!
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Summary: The Lost World Rocks!!!
Review: The T-Rex, Velocirators, comsognathus, mamenchisaurus, gallimimus and so on, these dinos are unbelievably amazing!!! To say the truth I like the Jurassic Park a little better than this one but this one's also thrilling and exciting. It's possibly the best PG-13 film I've ever watched so far. The mercenary team tries to capture many dinosaurs and while Ian Malcolm and his team frees the dinos, the both teams faces extreme dangers and gets stranded on the Isla Sorna. Will they ever survive? Find out while you're watching this fantastic film!!!
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Summary: Wildly Underrated
Review: I'm going to begin by talking about the 2 major shortcomings of Michael Crichton's novel Lost World. In Dr. Crichton's novel Jurassic Park, the mathematician Ian Malcolm dies. There is no satisfactory explanation for his resurrection. Just a major continuity error. The second problem is the title. It is stolen from the novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (The same guy who created Sherlock Holmes) about a group of explorers who find a remote plateau where Dinosaurs still live. Taking that into consideration, the title almost feels like a form of plagiarism. This is why the movie is better. Mr. Spielberg works in several leftover plot bits from Jurassic Park into Dr. Crichton's basic story, then twists the plot a bit more so that he can work in elements of Sir Arthur's story as well. The result is a hodge podge of some of the cooler elements of both novels by Michael Crichton as well as some decent acknowledgement to the original source material as provided by Sir Doyle. Doyle's influence is most strongly felt in the T-Rex in San Francisco climax. In the original 1925 silent film The Lost World, a captured Brontosaurus wreaks havoc in London. In the original novel, a baby Pteradactyl causes panic in a lecture hall. Of course the movie lacks some of the wonder of the original. Once the audience is used to seeing such exceptionally realistic dinosaurs, they can't really go back. And the characters aren't much more memorable in this movie than they are in the first, in spite of efforts to make them stronger. This is because, in spite of the audience's familiarity with the visual effects, those effects still overpower the characters. This has always been the way with this type of movie. Does anyone remember any dialogue from King Kong besides "It was beauty killed the beast?" King Kong is even boring until they finally get to Skull Island. People are prepared to compare The Lost World: Jurassic Park to either Michael Crichton's novel Lost World, or to Steven Spielberg's movie Jurassic Park. I am of the opinion that Mr. Spielberg, in working in elements from older, similar stories, tried to take his movie further than Dr. Crichton's contrived plot allowed. And for the most part, Spielberg succeeded
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Summary: BETTER THAN THE FIRST
Review: The disaster that occurred at Jurassic Park is over. It's beenfour years since the genetically bred dinosaurs terrorized thescientists and visitors who had come to marvel at their existence. ButDr. Ian Malcolm (Jeff Goldblum) has just learned some very disturbingnews: John Hammond (Richard Attenborough), the billionaireentrepreneur who funded the original Park, has been breeding moredinosaurs at a second, secret location. What's even more shocking toDr. Malcolm is learning that his girlfriend, paleontologist SarahHarding (Julianne Moore), is already at the site, studying thedinosaurs. Arriving at the island, Dr. Malcolm must not only avoidthe dangerous velociraptors and Tyrannosaurus Rex, he must deal with abig game hunter who plans to bag the biggest trophy of his life, andJohn Hammond's nephew, who plans to transport dinosaurs to themainland. Is San Diego ready for dinosaurs roaming its streets?
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Summary: An exciting sequel to the record breaking blockbuster
Review: Like "Jurassic Park," "The Lost World" is also taken from a novel by Michael Crichton, and Steven Spielberg is once again the director of this exciting and edge-of-the seat sequel. Some people soon discover that a few dinosaurs have survived and are living on an island. One group of people led by Ian Malcolm (Jeff Goldblum) are there just to watch the dinosaurs and not to cause them harm in any way. Another group is there wanting to take the dinosaurs off the island and transport them to a new Jurassic Park, sort of like a new zoo that's planned. Both groups of people that are sharing the island with the dinosaurs soon discover more danger than ever with the dinosaurs, mainly with the Tyrannosaurus Rex after somebody takes its baby as hostage. After a near deadly experience, the two groups find each other and have to team up in order to have a chance to survive the raid of these angry dinosaurs. I agree that "The Lost World" doesn't have the awe or the wonder that "Jurassic Park" had, but it shouldn't really be expected to, this is the second time around, "Jurassic Park" was the very first time we had seen realistic dinosaurs in a motion picture. "The Lost World" also isn't as groundbreaking as "Jurassic Park," but one thing that "The Lost World" is, is more exciting. There were many different times when I was on the edge of my seat watching this movie while the dinosaurs were attacking, especially when a T-Rex nearly pushes a vehicle with a few people in it off the edge of the cliff and the people struggle badly to get out before the vehicle falls and crashes on the rocks below. Now that was what I call thrills and suspense at its very best. My only complaint with "The Lost World" is that it didn't have as much of the other dinosaurs other than the T-Rex featured, but everything else about the movie was GREAT! The special effects are spectacular, Jeff Goldblum, Julianne Moore, and most of the other actors and actresses did a good job, and best of all, this movie is very exciting and action packed. If you liked "Jurassic Park," and especially if your favorite parts of "Jurassic Park" were the parts where the dinosaurs were hunting down and attacking the people, I definitely recommend getting "The Lost World." Can't wait for Jurassic Park 3!
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Summary: Spielberg makes art of an ordinary man's work
Review: O, how easily we forget to watch for originality in a sequel. How our expectations about special effects dull our ability to hear the tale of one of this century's greatest filmmakers. True, Lost World is a mere collection of action sequences strung together in a thin plot. Character development is minimal, as is depth, but all these complaints can be made of the first film. What Spielberg does that so few directors do these days is make good action sequences. Most action scenes I watch today are simply mindless montages in which no intelligent conflict or suspense is established and therefore nothing is resolved. The good guys fight the bad guys, action, action, good guys win. Spielberg sets up situations for his characters to get out of, gives you some idea of the resolution, then makes you sit in agonizing pain waiting for the resolution. For example, a double-linked RV is thrust dangerously over a tall cliff, and Julianne Moore falls to her certain death, only to be stopped by - a pane of glass. Not only does Spielberg show us the terrifying drop through this clear material, but the glass cracks and cries in perfect eeriness. Cue intense audience anguish. Now cut to the scene atop the cliff, as the only character not in the RV races to tie a rope to a tree and rescue Julianne. A simple task, were it not for the 2 angry T-Rexs hiding in the jungle you see filling every inch of the screen. Cue increased audience anguish. The final moment where Julianne (and friends) hang onto this rope while the RV falls down the cliff around them is, well, it's just as amazing as it sounds. Spielberg takes his time in setting up conflict - he shows you the opposing forces, maybe a T-Rex and a bunch of sleeping human beings, and also establishes location, so you know how far away danger is, what direction safety is and how far away, etc. Compare this to a movie like Gone in 60 Seconds, which just has a random array of cars, swerving left, now swerving right, with no sense of order. Only the techno-rap soundtrack reminds you not to get a headache. Watch Lost World if just to see Steven's wordless stories unfold before your eyes.
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Summary: Godzilla vs Good Special Effects
Review: OK so we're back to genetically engineered dinosaurs. Can we at least get one new idea? This was one of the worst movies I ever bothered to see, and based on one of the worst books I ever bothered to read, so why did I? Because the first book and movie were good. (The original movie pales next to the book, but don't they all?) The acting is second-rate at its best, and the young girl was terrible. The special effects have all been done before, and the Godzilla run through San Diego was at least funny when you could laugh at the rubber monster rather than trying to believe it.
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Summary: Pretty true to the book
Review: After seeing this film in the theatre years ago, I remember leaving disappointed. I decided to give it another try on DVD because we all loved the first film so much. For some reason, it seems a much better movie now, maybe I was expecting too much the first time around. Ian Malcolm (Goldblum) returns and gives a classic performance, battling the wits of his stow away daughter and his overambitious girlfriend. The special effects were as good as the first film, but somehow didn't seem quite as beleivable. In this film there are TWO T-Rex and they make more cameos than in the first film. Staying pretty true to the book of the same title, it even surprized me by putting BACK in a scene from the original book, Jurassic Park. My favorite scene in that book was the waterfall scene where the T-Rex tries to LICK out the characters from within.....it was depicted well in the movie. The actors pulled it off and seemed genuinely petrified, while the delivery of dry humor seemed to slip easily off of Goldblum's tongue. Amazing lenghths were taken to create the right effects, and the raptor sequence in the feild was a brilliant example of this. On the DVD version they explain the different technics used. Overall an enjoyable film, although I think the ending was a bit far fetched and I wish they had left in all of the deleted scenes (also on the DVD version), they were brilliant. The surround sound is awsome on this film as it is in the first film, right down to the falling rain. Of course, one of my all time favorite film scores adds to the drama and beauty that is "The Lost World, and Jurassic Park".
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Summary: Cold weather dinos disappoint
Review: It's hard to believe it's been 25 years since "Jurassic Park" thrilled moviegoers with its uncanny computer generated imagery of the Rolling Stones tour. Keith, Mick, Charlie and Ron never looked so photorealistically decrepit! In "Lost World," the sequel, once again Jeff Goldblum emerges from either a Buddhist monastery in Thailand, or his failed relationship with Gina Davis to battle septugenarian rockers for dominance of VH1's playlist.
It seems the foxy old man (Richard Attenborough) responsible for killing everyone in the first flick has yet another island full of dinosaur rockers for Goldblum to crack wise about in that weird Goldblumian stammer. Who will Goldblum face this time? The Swinging Medallions? Steppenwolf, featuring the original replacements for the guys who quit or died, and not their own replacements? A Cher so cunningly lifelike she makes the Hall of Presidents at Disney World seem almost robotic by comparison?
Instead, our hero battles a gargantuan recreation of Brian Wilson, a truly stupendous achievement by the ILM effects wizards. Especially when a team of renegade hunters dino-nap Wilson back to San Diego and he goes wild in the streets, frightening offensively stereotyped Japanese tourists and destroying all semblance of himself as a musical genius, all the while suing Dr. Eugene Landy for brainwashing him into this mess in the first place.
Will Goldblum avoid Wilson's shambling about while muttering and romance co-star Julianne Moore while saving his angry-yet-cute daughter who only wants her estranged father to watch her perform gymnastics? Will Vince Vaughn survive to collaborate with Jon Favreau again? And what lurks in the tall grass? Oh no! A pack of cloned Gary Glitters! They'll devour everyone!
The DVD features not only the movie, but a lot of fascinating stuff about how they made the movie. You know... like every other DVD where the movie is only interesting from a techno standpoint and they try to convince you all their sweat and computer geekery was worth it.
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Summary: Don't Run In Tall Grass When You're Being Chased By Raptors
Review: This movie will defiantly send chills down your spine! The dinos look so real. This movie is a must have for all those people out there that like really good movies (and who wouldn't?)
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