This gets way too much hate for that one particular scene
The dark, gritty atmosphere is top notch and it has the best main theme of the entire franchise
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This gets way too much hate for that one particular scene
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I liked the banter between Eddie and Ian, they bounced off each other good.
How were the benefits? Did you get dental cover?
The ending saves it from being terrible.
the ending is also terrible
>that one particular scene
which one?
Raptor kicking
I can't stand how moronic Sarah Harding acts in this movie.
>supposed animal/predator expert
>knows the T-rexes can track their infant because they just pushed them off a fricking cliff to get it back
>neither she or anyone else sees a problem with her walking around afterwards wearing a jacket covered in the infant's blood
What makes it worse is that Roland Tembo of all people is the one to point it out and neither one of them fricking picks up on it until it's too late.
Why would it matter? The T.rexes aren't going to have any trouble tracking the scent of a small army of people, bloody jacket or not. The biggest sin in this regard is simply that she's still wearing such a grossly soiled item of clothing.
Harding and Tembo are the story's experts but somehow the biggest fricking tards as well
Vince Vaughn could have easily been written out/replaced by uhh errr Ian Malcolm
And the daughter was only there for the "kicking a raptor" bit
The Lost World is a pretty piece of shit. No number of CG stegasauruses can change the nonsensical writing of the characters.
Counterpoint: Battle damage toys were rad as frick
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Most of the problems come from Kelly being a waste and the heroes directly being the cause of almost everything that goes wrong. The InGen hunters and Roland Tembo scenes are GOAT. Also I love the vehicles in this: the trapper vehicles and mobile command center were awesome to me at age 5.
I maintain if Jurassic Park was "a zoo/theme park gone horrible wrong," then TLW should have been a safari gone horribly wrong ala Roland's 'rich dentists" speech.
That said, I don't think going closer to the book would have done much good either. It's significantly different from the film.
>That said, I don't think going closer to the book would have done much good either. It's significantly different from the film.
I still think it's funny that Spielberg practically forced Crichton to write a sequel and then didn't use like 75% of it.
It weird that it's Malcolm who goes to the Site B Island instead of Grant. In the first book, he gets severely injured by the T Rex, spends the rest of the book waxing philosophical while high on morphine, and then unceremoniously dies of sepsis at the end. Then in the sequel book it turns out he didn't really die (Crichton uses this cliche in so many of his books), he goes to the island for personal interests, gets injured by a T Rex again, and again spends the rest of the book on morphine.
Grant is the actual paleontologist and wasn't half crippled from the events of the first book, he should have been the one brought back for the sequel.
He's just more interesting than Grant
At least in the movies
It's a Michael Crichton book, none of the characters are interesting
I mean, Crichton was kind of a shit. Malcolm was his author-self-insert character in the first book, who spends the whole story being magically right about everything (even in cases where it was dumb), before tragically dying as an unappreciated martyr. When it came time for the cash-in sequel, of course he wants his self-insert mouthpiece back to do more of the same.
>Somehow, Ian returned
>Malcolm was rushed to a nearby hospital where he was pronounced dead.
>He was then transferred to a better hospital where doctors upgraded his condition to "alive".
>Crichton was kind of a shit
Yes, but he was my favorite a shit. Sphere, Andromeda Strain, Great Train Robbery are some of my favorites
in the book he kept playing up chaos theory with the cryptic lead graphic before each chapter. Looked cool and mysterious, but didn't really add up to much in the end. The chameleon dinosaurs were cool in adding to the tension and introducing a cool new ability.
This was the book with the color changing, invisible dinos, right? They basically ripped them off in JW
Yeah, it was a pair of Carnotaurus with chameleon-like camo abilities. That scene is probably the best part of the book.
>TLW should have been a safari gone horribly wrong
>Roland Tembo as MC
kino
Reminder Spielberg went back and cut a bunch of scenes and edited the film because test audiences preferred Roland to any of the main cast.
They should have Nick be the one eaten, but they needed to justify Roland being away for the Rex attack. Otherwise Ajay could have reloaded him and we would've gotten Elephant Gun vs Tyrannosaurus kino.
Then, if the Buck or Doe was killed, it would have made reuniting the infant with the surviving parent even better.
>Make movie about dinos escaping to mainland
>Fricking everything up, destroying towns and shitting up the ecosystem
>Legally obligated to fix this, InGen hires the best hunter in the world, Roland Tembo
>Provide him with a fleet of vehicles and mercs to help him capture and/or eliminate every dinosaur they can
>The bad guys are a bunch of ecoterrorist hippies trying to let the dinos run free because, like, nature and stuff man
>Final scene is a fist fight between Roland and the leader of the hippies Nick Van Owen
>Reminder Spielberg went back and cut a bunch of scenes and edited the film because test audiences preferred Roland to any of the main cast.
>Muldoon gets killed off instead of surviving like in the book
>we're denied a Muldoon/Tembo dino hunter kino team up
I'm putting together a team
that would have been some fricking kino. Maybe they can be united in a Turok movie.
agreed would have been great. instead we get a bunch of psycho animal lovers
absolutely based
I actually love TLW book more than JP and have always wished for a film that did more of the plot of the first half. The mysterious world hopping adventure where characters are trying to get to the bottom of what the frick is going on while a shadowy corporation tries to hide all evidence of mysterious creatures turning up in various parts of the world is super fricking awesome.
>The mysterious world hopping adventure where characters are trying to get to the bottom of what the frick is going on while a shadowy corporation tries to hide all evidence of mysterious creatures turning up in various parts of the world is super fricking awesome.
Well they didn't kill off Hammond in the movie so Malcolm just goes and gets the Site B location from him.
Could have easily still had him in the movie in basically the same role while keeping the mystery
>gets fired and replaced in beginning
>Puts together team and summons Ian to join
>before he can relay the information he dies under mysterious circumstances(adding in conspiracy and more evil ingen plot)
>still has video message at the end
The book has some interesting ideas, but there are so many threads that go nowhere. Maybe I'm an idiot, but I've read it several times and I'm still not 100% sure if Malcolm knew where the animals in Costa Rica were coming from and was just trying to keep it from Levine or whether he was genuinely curious about it. So much of his and Levine's "detective work" happens in the background. Also, the whole "this island will tell us once and for all why the dinosaurs went extinct...oops, never mind, all these dinos have prions" thing has always annoyed me.
the little dinos killing the lost guy was such a useless scene, why should we care about that moron at all?
Because they'd gone too long without someone dying and had to save Ludlow for the ending. I feel like the compy zapping scene was added later after they realized Dieter hadn't done anything to make viewers hate him.
That "one scene" is actually the least of my issues with it
The book was better, though Jurassic Park 3 kinda follows the tone of walking around an abandoned park all alone.
Lost world is all over the place. First we check out an island, kid stoe aways, animal pouchers, gymnastics, then king kong.
>https://jurassicpark.fandom.com/wiki/Screaming_hunter
What did spielburg mean by this?
With their powers combined they became a fat computer nerd