Friday, September 21, 2007
A good follow up - The Lost World: Jurassic Park Reviews
Anyone who has read Michael Crichton's books JURASSIC PARK and THE LOST WORLD will know that the books kick the movies' sorry little ass. But the movies are also fine little works on their own.
In the original Jurassic Park, scientists led by a brilliant madman bring dinosaurs back to life and stick them on an island in Costa Rica. Of course, when the first people come the dinosaurs break out, eat them, and the project is cancelled. The island gets nuked, dinosaurs die, end of story, right?
NO! In The Lost World, we find out that there is another island with more dinosaurs, freeroaming this time, interacting just like they did back when our parents were in grade school. Two teams go in, one wanting to take the dinosaurs to a zoo in San Diego (not the main one), the other trying to save them. Bunch of stuff happens, they team up for survival, and they airlift a T-rex back to San Diego. Rexy escapes, more stuff happens, and he gets sent back. Very cool.
Before we get into the content, let me state a few thing about this movie. First, Jeff Goldblum is a ***** and a drug addict. His character is already weird, and he screws it up even more. Just to add on more *****, he has a black daughter. What is up with that? No talent whatsoever. Secondly, the reason this movie is the best of the three is that it shows the main predators correctly. No 200 foot tall spinosaurus (the real spinosaurus was actually a scavenger with extremely weak jaws, and fairly small) or gay-ass "raptors" jumping around killing everything with human intelligence. Next thing you know, the movie producers will make them have x-ray vision and shoot lasers out of their eyes! The rex is king, the raptors sit and cowardly attack people from the "long grass", and everything is good.
Now, why is this the best Jurassic Park Movie? I'll tell you why:
The chase scene - when about 20 different hummers and motorcycles are chasing a huge herd of herbivorous dinosaurs, bringing a few down. This is the best scene a movie has EVER had, and the best part has to be when the guy rides a motorcycle inbetween the legs of the HUGE apatosaurus.
"Don't go into the long grass!" - that has to be the best movie line ever, when the nerdy AJ guy is shouting and throwing his backpack, then going in with the rest of them to be ambushed and taken out by the raptors. Wonderful.
The stegosaurs - the first real dinos you see, these huge beasts almost kill Jeff Goldblum's ugly girlfriend when she's in a log and they ram their tail spikes in. I could watch this a hundred times and not get bored - it's pretty damn cool stuff.
All things considered, Jurassic Park II: The Lost World is the best Jurassic Park movie ever made and one of the top five best movies ever (Im not sure of the exact order, but this would be in it)
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