The Lost World: Jurassic Park is my personal favourite and I still don’t understand to this very day why it has so many detractors.
It’s my favourite too, but I hate the first Jurassic Park. The Lost World is pure action from start to finish, never trying to be smarter than it is. The first film is awfully written: the scientists have little to no purpose, no outcome to the end of the movie. They keep repeating that everything will go wrong for scientific reasons, but when it goes wrong it’s because of a petty treason for money by a disgruntled employee (the ridiculously (and insultingly) token geek). And don’t get me started on the female scientist: she’s here just to show her putting her arm fully inside a giant pile of shit (again she says that there’s something biologically wrong, and then it’s quickly forgotten).