Which Is Your Favourite Jurassic Park Movie?

[01keith]

What is your favourite JP Movie for me it is The Lost World with some of the scenes from th third coming close after.

What does everyone else think.

Everyone does not include Ragnar!:D

[Ragnar]

Originally posted by 01keith

What does everyone else think.

Everyone does not include Ragnar!:D

NO COMMENT.:mad:

But for the record, the first one.

[richpoyle]

Got to be the first; good story, groundbreaking FX and Spielberg at the top of his game for set pieces.

The Lost World; a couple of good set-pieces but absolutely no plot (unlike the book, which I consider very underrated).

III: Even less plot, stupid characters, sloppy direction and poor FX. However, if I was still 8 years old it would probably be my film of the year.

[mythuk]

richpoyle, i totally agree.

i just wanted them to find that damn kid dead.

if only!

[john316]

I have to be controversial and go with Jurassic Park III - thought it was superb, a much quicker pace and better action sequences and also dispenses with the sentimentality of the first two movies!

[Robby]

My favourite is still the first one. Something about that t-rex sequence.

I liked the third one but i pretty much hated the spinosaurus, what's wrong with the T-rex?.

[silverpenguin7]

Originally posted by john316
I have to be controversial and go with Jurassic Park III - thought it was superb, a much quicker pace and better action sequences and also dispenses with the sentimentality of the first two movies!
I have to second that :)

[mythuk]

but the end of 3 was just so, so bad. A child could have written a better ending!

the fact that they were all in army planes (which i can only assume have GUNS), and just watched as those terawossnames flew away was the cherry on the cake! not to mention the pure cheese of the army etc in the first place. and how did the woman at home (forget her name at the mo) know where to send them? AND talk about seeding a sequal.ARGGGG!!!

very poor

[Roberto]

Sometimes i feel like the only person to like the second one. better story and better SFX

[rezabelady]

i like all three but if i was to put them in order (starting with best) i would go 1, 3, 2

Originally posted by mythuk
but the end of 3 was just so, so bad. A child could have written a better ending!

the fact that they were all in army planes (which i can only assume have GUNS), and just watched as those terawossnames flew away was the cherry on the cake!

very poor

isn't it s'posed to a kind of parallel to the ending of the 1st film where there are birds flying alongside the helicopter? - i agree the whole giving back the egg/talking to the raptors was cr@p, tho

but on the subject of the Pteranadon's...
i'm sure that they show Pteranadon's/flying dino's in the second movie - either when they're leaving the island for the first time or when they go back with the T-Rex at the end - and i'm sure they weren't caged then, so why didn't they escape already?

[Uridium]

Definitely the first, captures the whole sense of wonder and excitement that's present in all the best Spielberg movies. The T-Rex section with the jeeps in the storm is one of the classic movie moments.

The second film is really dodgy, much preferred the book. Only worth watching for the FX.

The third one was sort of ok - inoffensive stuff really. At least it zipped along quite merrily. Didn't like the end though. Wasn't gonna bother with the DVD of it but the lure of behind the scenes at ILM and Stan Winston's Workshop was too much for an effects freak like meself.

How many people have got the first two in the box set but quite fancy the trilogy box set with the bonus fourth disc? You gonna trade up? I'm not sure yet.....

[charlie angel]

Originally posted by Roberto
Sometimes i feel like the only person to like the second one. better story and better SFX

Same here - slightly darker in tone as well. Lost World for me :)

[Mike]

Yes, "Lost World" for me as well. I thought it was more exciting than the first and it had a pleasingly nasty edge of cruelty which I haven't seen from Spielberg since "Jaws".

[utero]

Personally I like the third better, it was fast paced didn't have any real slow parts and the introduction of the pteranadons was excellent. I also didn't mind the ending because there is one moment where the look on one of the raptors faces is priceless

[robbiejm]

Originally posted by charlie angel


Same here - slightly darker in tone as well. Lost World for me :)

Another vote for Lost World.

[urruri]

the first one

[Ben Martin]

the one i enjoyed most at the cinema was jurassic park but i have never liked it as much after reading the book (which i have now done several times) because it is so good, and so much better than the film. sure, you have to make sacrifices to film a book but they watered it down so much it's a real loss.

so now i'd probably go for the third one, although my preference would be none of them.

[Ron Hill]

Loved the first one. Classic Spielberg set pieces galore even if the story was very slight. Hated the messy,illogical second. Third felt like an average ho-hum adventure flick but passed an hour and a half in a relatively painless manner. The Spinosaurus was seriously taking liberties with the archaelogical evidence from the basic curiosity reading I did online. It may have been bigger than T-Rex but from online descriptions it was nowhere near as powerfully built. Some water scenes with a beast like lipluridon would've been far more interesting.

[Tristan H]

Part one, the others don't even come close. I remember hearing a great deal of positive reaction to number 3 with people going on about how great Macy was etc. I thought it was the worst film of the summer and couldn't wait to escape the cinema. Much worse than Pearl Harbour, Tomb Raider etc.

[Chief Brody]

Neither JP2 or 3 are fit to lick the boots of the first one. I can still remember as a teenager going to see JP it's first week, i sat in the front and when the brachiosaur first appeared, i turned round and witnessed 250 gobs hanging down so far they were almost touching the floor. "Dr Grant, my dear Dr. Sattler, welcome...... to Jurassic Park". To this day it gives me chills to watch that scene. So sad to see that the Hollywood Blockbuster has declined to it's present pitiful levels in the years since.:)

[Vader]

OK...... this is to those who accept TLW as anything but pure cinematic trash. Spielberg should stick to what he has shown he knows how to do well: dramas (Saving Private Ryan, Schindler's List), and stay away from action/adventure! JP was a fair adaptation of the book; the first half of the film was an acceptable take from the first third of the book.... after that, both diverged completely. Why? Because Spielberg thought he could do better than the book (wrong!). But with TLW, Spielberg lied to the fans about what the film was to be about from the start. When Crichton wrote the novel, he did it with a screenplay in mind, but what Spielberg delivered was nothing more than a “bait-and-switch”. In other words, we were told that the film would be based on a very good book, and then given little more than a Spielberg ego-fest. That was even more blatant than with Alien 3 (remember the teaser trailer, "....on Earth everyone can hear you scream"). Never mind the fact that, at Spielberg's insistence, continuity between JP and TLW was completely ignored (both Malcolm and Hammond die in JP, but we won't nit pick here). Spielberg simply ignored the novel (screenplay) the film was supposed to be based on, took the parts he liked from both JP and TLW, and wrote what he thought would please some snot-nosed 7-10 year old brats who complained that JP had too much story and character development (?!?), and that they simply wanted more dinos. By the way, he said as much in several interviews that the adult audience was pretty much not a consideration in making the movie. And then there was William's score, not that I place any blame on him.... he had garbage to work with from the beginning. For this reason, JP3 was far superior to TLW, and that was due to the fact that Joe Johnston is at the helm; Spielberg has lost his teeth when it comes to action/adventure, if he ever had any...... 'Nuff said.