I have a hard time believing the same man that directed Jurassic Park also directed this movie. There's just no way Spielberg cared that much when he made this. It sucks. This movie has none of the charm or wonder that the first one did. Gone are the characters that love dinosaurs. Instead, we have Ian Malcolm, his impossibly bland girlfriend and his impossibly dark daughter. I understand that The Lost World book followed Malcolm, but based on all the liberties that this movie took with the book, they probably should have either had new characters entirely or brought Sattler and Grant back. Also, I loved how intimate the first film felt. This film, on the other hand, had a bunch of inGen goons on the island for little to no reason. This film somehow looked worse than the first one too. But if we ignore all that and just enjoy the dinosaurs, we still have to deal with the fact that this movie was incredibly boring. The T-Rex sequences sucked. The Raptor sequences sucked. We got one look at Stegosauruses. I know I'm rambling, but this movie is just so damn unsatisfying. Ugh.
Do you think the first movie would have been as suspenseful if the kids knew they could take out the raptors with gymnastics?
ReplyDeleteI forgot to mention how much all the one-liners sucked. Also, the action sequences were far too unbelievable (the stupid gymnastics scene being one example). Less is more damn it.
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