JP3’s actually my third favorite, I just didn’t share that opinion in this post. The pteranodon and raptor sequences are great and a spinosaurus is really important to this series because every Jurassic film after jp3 has had a new “big bad dino” when lost world had the 2 trexes. I think I would argue that it’s the most influential Jurassic film aside from the first to the franchise as a whole.

Also, yeah. Imo Van Owen should have died for his actions in the second act of Lost World.

Yeah this is something I didn't think about when I was making the "lack of reason" section. Surely local authorities will immediately be able to find the Rex within 20-30 minutes and someone in the office has a larger grade firearm or some explosive weapon that could be use to neutralize it so it wouldn't kill people.

I really like this movie and even though I feel like it's overhated, I get why people don't like it, but the reasoning why is mostly in how the final act wasn't handled too well. I get in the writing room they were probably like "Great, lets get our leads in the city with this T.Rex for a thrilling climax." But there's probably ways they could have handled it better.

The boat sequence was the biggest plot hole in this entire IP before the later World films happened, but at least for those plot holes they aren't core to the overall plot or narrative and are just background details that don't add up. In the Lost World it hurts the ability to immerse yourself in the film if you think about it at all.