Breakfast with Girls

I liked JP3 much more than JP2... and probably about as much as the first one. I liked that they didn't even try to fake a build up and very quickly got to dinos eating people. Of course, the first one is a classic and a much better film than the third one, but for entertainment value alone I enjoy the first and third equally.

UAIOE

Thats because the San Diego shit was made up, it was never in the book.

I've said it before, JP2 was an alright movie (except that girl and her gymnastics) but it blows compared to the book.

mikehunt

JP2 had all the vehicles that they had as toys from JP1
JP3 ends too abruptly. that marine force would have had to have been just off the coast of the island when the call was made to show up that fast

Michael Corvin

I've said it before and I'll say it again. The Lost World movie was developed independantly of the book. The movie had a script before Crichton was even finished writing the novel. They had the basic plot, and once he finished the book they mined it for anything cool to slap into the movie. The trailer over the cliff sequence for one.

That is why they are so different from each other.

RocShemp

Well that does certainly explain alot, Michael Corvin. But JP2 still blows. JP1 is the best (thought it pales in comparison to the book) and JP3 is a decent popcorn flick. But, as others have said, it ends too abruptly and I expected another T-Rex to show up at the end since the T-Rex is viewed as the hero of the series.

tanman

Reading the premise for the movie made it sound really cool. But watching the trailer...didn't really help it.

UAIOE

I had always assumed that the movie was different because so much was changed in the orginal movie.

The "villan" in the book had exactly 2 minutes of screen time in the orginal movie...and i realize he didnt stay long in the book either...but i know nobody would have realized that was him from JP1 except movie buffs.

boredsilly

After reading "A Sound of Thunder" last year I was looking forward to the movie. I still am...well looking forward to the dvd. I could still be fun in a way "The Core" was, but it doesn't look like it will come close to approaching the brilliance and elegance of the short story.

Kloggur

Hey look at me! I'm getting reported to my ISP!

scott shelton

Agreed.

matome

My feelings exactly. JP2 was just a overdrawn turd and definitely won out in the annoying kid factor for the series. While certainly not up to the original, JP3 was much more streamlined and just fun from an action standpoint, which is basically all there is since the magic of CGI dinosaurs are old school now. I'm curious to see what JP4 brings to the table.

UAIOE

JP3 (IMO) was missing something...and i think it has alot to do with all this "streamlining" that has been mentioned.

The movie seemed to rush into things, getting to the island, being stranded on the island, getting across the island, the Marine ending. It just all felt rushed.

As i have said before, i did enjoy the parts where Grant and others made reference to the what happened after the first and second movies. I did find it cool that Grant had changed his outlook on dinosaurs after his visit to the park. This actually showed some character growth for Dr. Grant.

RocShemp

Concept Art (circa 2007)

Solid Snake

Yeah. I saw that on geektyrant as well. Weird shit. Wonder who decided to do that?

RocShemp

Honestly, I would have enjoyed that. All you'd need is Tomas Jane as the human leading the dinos. But perhaps they should have made it a standalone movie with tangenial references to Jurrassic Park instead of an actual sequel.

TGM

dino-humanoid hybrids? fuck yeah!

islandclaws

I don't see that working as a JP film, but as a hard-R action/horror? Hell yes.

GoldenJCJ

Agreed. Jurassic Park has always been more grounded in reality (as realistic as re-engineering dinosaurs can be). While cool, giant, mutant, dino-warriors just doesn't fit with the of the JP universe.

I wouldn't mind seeing such a movie, however.