I remember the first time I saw Jurassic Park. It was back in July of 1996, in and around my ninth birthday. I may only have watched it on VHS through a crappy SD TV, but Lord, was I FLOORED by the experience. I don't think any other movie, before or since, ever impressed me so profoundly so quickly as that one movie did. From 1996 to 1998, I considered it one of my favourite movies.

Suffice it to say, once I heard about Lost World the next summer, I was brimming with anticipation to see it. I figured if JP was pure awesome, then Lost World would be even purer awesome. Unfortunately, it wasn't. By the time I got around to seeing it, I was completely underwhelmed by how lame everything was; I've never been able to watch the movie the whole way through in one sitting due to how completely unengaging it is.

Saw Jurassic Park III on TV a year or so after it came out. Found it better than the Lost World, but it still didn't live up to the original. I haven't seen it since.

I finally got around to reading the novel a number of years back. It was alright, but this is one of those rare cases where I find the movie vastly superior to the book. I donated my copy to a thrift store afterward.

Tried to read the Lost World novel after that, but I just couldn't get into it. I eventually gave up and, as with the JP novel, donated my copy to a thrift store (Truth be told, this has happened to all of the Crichton books I've bought and tried to read; the guy's style just doesn't do anything for me.).

I have absolutely no desire to see Jurassic World -- none whatsoever. I don't think I need to go into the reasons why; I've stated my grievances with modern Hollywood more than enough times by now.

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The triceratops is, has always been, and forever shall be, my favourite dinosaur.