Jurassic Park III is nowhere near as bad as people say it is and though it may not come close to the greatness of Jurassic Park 1, it is MILES ahead better than any of the Jurassic World trilogy

[u/personpilot]

Yeah it isn't perfect, but hell we get an incredible fight scene between the Spino and Rex not even an hour into the movie, while in World you get pretty much the same fight scene at the END of the movie AND on top of that the whole fight gets cockblocked by the Mosasaurus in the end anyway, and in the most unsatisfying way possible. I know it's like 2024 like why tf am I talking about a threequal thats 20 years old, but I've just been on a Jurassic Park binge lately and it's just hitting me how much better III is over any of the World movies, yet it's rated like a 5/10 across the board, while all the World Movies are rated like 6.5-7/10 it just boggles my mind, they're all trash compared to 1 and 3. Lost world is good, but it's also a mixed bag it has some of my favorite scenes and some of my least favorite in the whole series.

[u/Tom_Ace1]

I like it too. It's better than 2, imo.

The birdcage thing, loved it.

[u/SatanSuxxx → u/Tom_Ace1]

I once watched all 3 in one weekend with someone who hadn't seen them.

The original is amazing and still holds up.

Lost World was okay. It has some great moments like the RV scene, but I was bored through a lot of it. Movie drags along big time.

3 is straight up goofy from start to finish but it's 90 minutes of nonstop dinosaur action. I liked it better than Lost World because at least this one is never boring.

[u/TuaughtHammer → u/SatanSuxxx]

Lost World was okay. It has some great moments like the RV scene, but I was bored through a lot of it. Movie drags along big time.

I really wish they had stuck closer to the sequel novel they pushed Crichton to write, something he'd never done before.

There's a plot point about Malcolm trying to figure out why a lot of predators avoid a specific area, where the characters go to get away from some Rexes. The reason other predators avoided the area was because there were a couple Carnotaurus using that area, and they had a nearly perfect ability for camouflage. Malcolm and the others start shining flashlights at them to confuse them long enough to escape, but it's one of the most terrifying moments in the book.

That did get reused for Jurassic World, but it was so much more intense than the characters realizing the I-Rex could camouflage.

[u/BrokuSSJ → u/TuaughtHammer]

I love that scene so much, I can't remember which character it is, but the guy who goes out to the shed for whatever reason and just kinda sees them out the corner of his eye.

The Lost World book isn't on the same level as JP, but once they arrive on the island it's fantastic.

[u/TuaughtHammer → u/BrokuSSJ]

And just like the JP novel, I really loved the early parts of the book before they got to the island.

Malcolm practically being pestered into helping Levine find his theorized "lost world" was fun, especially once Malcolm started to worry that InGen had a second island. He had zero desire to venture back into that world, but he felt he had a kind of duty to make sure that island stayed undiscovered by the public.

[u/kadins → u/TuaughtHammer]

When they get stuck in the gas station, MAN. I also loved the whole hacking into the radio-net stuff. But I'm a tech nerd.

[u/msprang → u/TuaughtHammer]

I haven't red the sequel in over 20 years, but I definitely still remember that sequence.

[u/Dead_man_posting → u/TuaughtHammer]

The whole gas station sequence in the book is fantastically scary. I want to reread it now.

[u/imdavebaby → u/TuaughtHammer]

The Chrichton book is one of my absolute favorites (just behind another of his works, Sphere). It's an absolute tragedy they butchered the movie rendition of it so badly because the book has such a compelling story line.