Who doesn't agree with me that The Jurassic Parc is much better a dinosaures film than this one?
Especially tiranosauruses in The Lost World: they are looking at people, as if thinking of something, but nothing do. I even had pity for them.
This aint The Lost World the film...it's The Lost World the television programme.
Ruthie Henshall and Catherine Zeta-Jones rock my wurld!!!!!
The only thing the Spielberg/Crichton 1997 movie and this one have in common are prehistoric creatures in a faraway land. Other than that, they cannot really be compared. The Spielberg movie must have had an astronomical budget and could afford expensive actors and the best special effects. But it felt bombastic and overbearing (typical Hollywood). Furthermore, it was a sequel and suffered from the typical sequel shortcomings. I liked the idea of Crichton's Jurassic Park book very much, but the sequel felt like a warmed-up concoction of leftover ideas, put together to generate more revenue.
The 2001 movie, on the other hand, is based on a 1912 book by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The book must have been an astonishing breakthrough in terms of its ideas. I read it many times and liked the 2001 movie version very much. The special effects looked OK to me. But the highlight was the acting, costumes and the whole 19th century atmosphere that felt very warm, subtle and genuine.
Strictly speaking I feel I can judge the originality of 19th century London much better than the originality of Cretaceous reptiles. Which dinosaurs look "better" is strictly subjective and depends on what the director wants and what the FX guys generate on their Silicon Graphics workstation. :) Remember that very little is actually known about what these creatures were like. Everything we know is based on a limited fossil record. Their living habits, hunting patterns or even posture are based on inferences derived from fossils. I am not a paleontologist, but I am nevertheless a geologist and dare say that most of Crichton's ideas or Doyle's ideas are pure fiction. We do not even know what color they were.
I cannot help a little geological discourse. Dinosaurs were around for a VERY long time. They first appeared in the Triassic (230 million years ago) and hung around until the end of the Cretaceous (65 million years ago). In all they existed in various forms for some 160 million years. (Humans have been around for just a few million years.) Their whole existence is almost 3x as long as the amount of time that separates our age from the time they went extinct.
The main bad-boy dinosaur in Doyle’s book was something called the Allosaurus who lived in the Late Jurassic (155-145 million years ago). Crichton’s Tyrannosaurus Rex lived much later during the Cretaceous (68-65 million years ago) . The book should have been called “Cretaceous Park” but I suppose “Jurassic” sounded better….
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