The original is terrific, the only movie in the series I would actually say is a good movie. But god damn if the first 75% of Lost World isn't my fucking jam. If it just ended when the Malcolm and co got on the helicopter and cut all the little T-rex in the big city bullshit it would be my fave, hands down. III has a handful of decent scenes, mostly on the boat. I've had the same journey with World that i did The Force Awakens; saw it on release, thought it was fine. Derivative but mostly unoffensive, popcorn type flick. But after rewatching them years later the patina has rubbed off, theyre soulless cash grabs and I only enjoyed them because theyre aping (much better) works that I already loved. Fallen Kingdom and Dominion are both. At least fallen kingdom can be shown to film school students as a cautionary tale (hey, do you have a subpar idea for a movie, but its only gonna take up about 60 minutes of screen time? Just slap an entirely different, wholly unconnected, and yet somehow worse 2nd movie on the end of it.) Dominion is just... boring. Fucking prehistoric locusts? I mean, i guess the respect to the deep cut nod to the Super Nintendo Jurassic Park and its inexplicable giant killer fly enemies...
>>212170413I wonder how much of that has to do with it being the first movie not (kinda, its complicated) directly based on a book is. Cuz, if you've read either JP book or just Crichton in general he really just loves to naval gaze for pages and pages, fucking Malcolm just wanking about chaos theory for like 30% of the first book. Also, no Spielberg.