Lost World Sucks Newsletter #2 Hello to all Lost World Haters this is the second Lost World Sucks Newsletter #2 and I do not have a lot of your stories so this issue won't be as long as the last time.

AJMARINCO@aol. com wrote. This was probably the most anticipated movie sequel ever made and the most disappointing movie sequel ever made. I read the Lost World book and was really excited about seeing the movie. I thought Speilberg was the best director ever after Jurassic Park, but after seeing this movie, I just think that he is just full of himself.

O.K., O.K., Jurassic Park is the most successful movie ever made, and his directing and his creative license, streamlining the book to movie form was successful, He is just way off the mark this time. This time he is just a Hack ! Oh sure, this movie will make millions of $$$ and will prove to be yet again one of the most profitable movies ever made, but don't forget, the Lost World movie made more money than most do even before it was even released. This movie is just an advertisement for J.P. the ride, Burger King, Lost World toys and action figures and anything else with the J.P.Lost World Logo.

If I were Crichton, I would sue ( But then again he is probably making more money keeping quiet). Speilberg raped his idea. Now I hear that there is talk of a JP3 book & movie sequel. Hey guys, you want to save money & time ? Don't write a new book. If you simply write a screenplay based on the Lost World book that Michael Crichton initially wrote you would have a movie more successful than the two that have already been released. You could even throw in some of the Lost ideas from Crichton's original J.P. book like the Pteradactyl Aviary and the T-rex river chase and stay true with the rest of the Lost World book story line. Voila ! Instant success.

Speilberg needs to stay away from this franchise. He has ruined it and turned into a B-Movie. He must have been jealous of Roger Corman's Carnosaur movies or mad that Devlin & Emmerich have beat him to the rights to make Godzilla. Lost World is just Lost. It has no real plot and lacks direction. Fans that have read the book will be disappointed and wonder if Spielberg even knew there was a Lost World book and fans of J.P.the movie will just think they have seen a rehashed sequel. Lost World the book was not a sequel and it equaled the excitement of J.P. Without J.P. the movie, The Lost World movie would never be accepted the way that it has been and would probably be a direct to video release ( with the exception of the spectacular special effects by ILM - the only reason to see this movie ).

Let me be the first to volunteer to direct any future sequel to this movie. I have no experience as a director and have never even been on the set of a motion picture production, but if the $$$ take for Lost World proves anything, it is that anyone can direct Crichton's dinosaur idea for a movie and make money. Speilberg did it and it appears that he was merely involved with it to go on vacation in Hawaii again. His lack of direction in this film should not be tolerated and should be exposed. If it were anyone else, that director would never work again. Spielberg has just bought the J.P. name and has exploited it. J.P. and Lost World fans deserve better.

Here is some praise about the Lost World Sucks Newsletter:

illyana rasputin-fett wrote: i was very pleased that there were other lost world haters out there, the newsletter was very good! yesterday, i read "The Lost World" book again, just to remember how good it was and how spielberg crapped up the movie. there were sooo many good parts to the book that made the dinosaurs seem like real animals, not mean monsters. once again, that movie was a disgrace and i hope many more people will come to realize that!

Well that is all that I have for this week please keep sending more stories in. I will put anything related about JP2 and I will put it on the newsletter.

Oh, and don't forget that the newsletter is on the internet so if you want to visit it the address is https://members.tripod.com/~GerrenJ/lostnews.html Talk to ya all next week

Gerren Jolkowski gerren@juno.com

Lost World Sucks Newsletter #1 Here is the first of (I hope) many Lost World sucks Newsgroup. If you still have any stories or want to reply to a story that is in this letter you could e-mail me your reply and I'll put it on next weeks letter. Make sure you tell me to put it on the letter thanx.

Here is what Astroman66 wrote: I agree with almost everything you said ,, this movie cheesy and had no sense of reality wich is what makes a good scarry movie .... the main person to blame for this is David Koepp .. he changed this story so much from the book its not even funny ....... This was my most anticipated movie ever yet such a let down , Fuck David Koepp , Michael Crichton should have been the screen play writer all himself it would have been much better following the book , they could have replaced kelly and arby with lex and tim and it wouldve been the most perfect sequel ever

Rebecca Doll wrote: > > Thank you for starting this web page, as I felt the need to unleash my > rage against this movie. I began to wonder though, if I wasn't outraged with the movie, but with the people around me who saw it and LIKED it!! > Hell, they thought it was the best movie they'd ever seen! Were we > watching the SAME movie? > > You know, in the first movie, I could believe that people went to this > island without the proper weapons or defense mechanisms to conquer these > dinosaurs, but in The Lost World, it's hard to believe that only ONE (or > two if you include the "great white hunter" character) guy has "poisoned > darts" that can level a T-Rex...and he gets torn in half right > away...the "dart" gun tossed into oblivion, I guess. Why does no one > else have something to control these creatures? Either we as viewers > have to be freakin' stupid, or we have to believe that everyone in the > film is. > > And what was the deal with Ian's daughter being black? Perhaps I'm just > not as politically correct as I should be, but don't we deserve an > explanation for a character that has no bearing on the story > whatsoever. Okay, so she pulls the Mary Lou Retton on the raptor, but > let me ask you this...If she were to spin around with such force that it > knocks a 200 lb. raptor into the heavens, don't you think she would have > broken her damn foot off or something? No 90 lb. kid has the strength > training in their ankles to master that feat, let alone a grown adult. > > And am I wrong, or were those damn vans developed by John Hammonds > people to be safe housing for the scientists, etc. visiting the fair > Isla Sorna? If they weren't going to provide some protection, why > didn't they just put up some tents? And why park the damn thing next to > a cliff? Everybody knows the T-Rex will treat those vans like Barbie's > camper gone bad! And if these damn vans are sooooo protective against a > T-Rex attack, why does a woman's fall and subsequent fall of a small > metal briefcase-type object shatter the glass altogether? Why, why, > why? > > If the T-Rex's first instinct, upon arrival in San diego, is to ingest > some water, why does she turn 180° away from San diego's harbor and head > directly to the 'burbs?? Perhaps we are to think that the T-Rex prefers > chlorinated water as opposed to sea water?? Someone, explain. > > How is everyone on the ship dead and in parts upon arrival to San > Diego? If the T'Rex is trapped in the cargo hold, how does she munch on > the entire crew and safely place herself, with the hatch securely > fastened, back in the hold?? Explain, please. > > And can you say "tuck and roll" on the last scene when the women > scientist exits the Ingen headquarters and quickly runs away with Ian > Malcolm and daughter? She's being pursued by raptors, but perfectly > rolls herself out of the broken headquarters and straight to safety. It > looked liked "The Stuntwoman Training Tape." > > What about the "Hi-Hide"...revelence to the plotline?? Couldn't it have > been used for more? I mean, shouldn't someone have either been > valiently saved by this contraption or horribly devoured by its > inadequacy against these creatures? If neither one of these is true, > then why even include it in the storyline? Anyone??? > > Basically, the fun is gone from this movie. Jurassic Park stirred up > new concepts that made us think about the possibilities, but The Lost > World is just another dino-movie and a lame one at that. > > Thanks for letting me vent.

illyana rasputin-fett wrote: here's my top ten reasons (in no real order) of why the lost world sucks: 10. they included tim and lex to try to get the audience to remember the first film. (i liked the kids in the first film, but they were NOT needed here!) 9. they used the waterfall/t-rex tongue scene from the first book. 8. not enough high hide footage. 7. they changed the real reason why malcolm went to the island in the first place. 6. the stupid scene with the kid doing the gymnastics. they REALLY over-did all of that crap! 5.the fact that ANYONE would be stupid enough to try and bring a t-rex to san diego. 4. i liked the part with the raptor holding the candy bar wrapper in the box. that was not in the movie. 3. they didn't include the part with arby (from the book) in the cage-thing getting tormented by the raptors. 2. they once again used jurassic park book ideas - the girl and the family in the beginning finding the compy. 1. i hated watching the assholes capturing the dinosaurs ;< so, i love your site and i'm glad you made it.

Anson Mitchell wrote: Well I was going there all excited thinking how good it ws going to be a good movie, the first sign I got that it was going to suck was when it started out with the scene for the first JP.

here is another story from illyana rasputin-fett about her experience at "The Lost World":

It was sunday, may 25, 1997. i was on my way to see "The Lost World: Jurassic Park" with my brother, peter; my father, paul; and my father's girlfriend, susan. i was VERY excited, because i loved the first "Jurassic Park", and i had heard from my brother's friend sean that "The Lost World" was just as good - maybe even BETTER! peter and i had even gone to the theatre early to guarantee our seats and we arrived an hour before our show to reserve seats for us and my dad and susan. sean had told me the night before the EXACT moment to scare my brother (the part where the raptor almost bites kelly's head off in the shed). i was SO excited! peter and i found good seats, my dad and susan arrived, we sat through the previews, and FINALLY the movie started. the begining was okay, i made the obvious mean comments about the first scene being stolen from "Jurassic Park" the book, and how kelly wasn't malcolm's daughter in the book. then, timmy and alexis came in. now, i know that everyone hated them in the first movie, except me. i loved those kids! so, now i was really glad to see them. then, dr. malcolm went to the island, blah, blah, blah. then, the "bad guys" started to capture the dinosaurs. i almost walked out of the movie. i could not STAND the sight of those poor dinosaurs being captured. it reminded me of when i saw that alien autopsy show on the fox network and a man was talking about how someone hit one of the aliens on the head with the handle of his rifle. i hated that part soooo much. then, i calmed down. i sat through the rest of the horrible movie, and hardly said anything when the t-rex was loose in san diego. it was just so dumb, i was speechless. after the movie ended, i commented on how bad i thought it was. my brother couldn't believe i thought that, and neither could sean when i told him. now, they agree with me on some parts. they still like it, but i am staying with my opinion. "The Lost World" was a really bad movie, and i am ashamed of even thinking it would be good. i hated how they left out the plot, and the best parts of the book. i hated how they put scenes from "Jurassic Park" the book in it. i hated the little girl. thank you for listening to my rantings. the end.

Justin Tribble Wrote: This is a story that is alittle overblown and overdone, yet still contains a simple truth - The Lost World characters were BRAINLESS -

"THE LOST WORLD my have been one of my single most devistating movie experiences ever. Throughout the movie I was yelling, outloud and to myself, at the chatacters in the movie. I would say, "Get out of there!", "Look out!", "Get up!", "What are you doing??!!!", "That is a stupid idea!", "Just kill the T.Rex for goshsakes!", "Don't you realize the boat is about to smash into the dock???", etc. It's hard for someone like me, a dedicated movie buff, to be subjected to such stupid movie characters."

This might make a nice addition to your newsletter. I hope that I, along with you and many other LOST WORLD haters, can continue this newsletter for months and maybe even years to come in hope of revealing to the world how bad this movie is.

Regards, Justin Tribble Sedona, AZ.

Terri Mandel wrote: Other inconsistencies to note:

1. When the woman scientist and the PC Earth First guy took the baby T-Rex into the trailer, both of them should have known that the parents of the baby would come after it.Especially the scientist, who was working on some kind of thesis to prove that T-Rex has a maternal instinct. She would have known what to expect.

2. Did anyone notice that the sound and the lighting were really bad? Or was this just a matter of us seeing a bad print?

3. Why would the woman scientist accept a project like this, and go to the island without teling her boyfriend, the one guy in the world who knows anythng about this. Not only did she not tell him, but why wouldn't she invite him along? What kind of relationship is that?

4. Why would they park their trailer right on the edge of a cliff?

5. When the guy went to take a dump in the forest, in real life, he would never have gone alone. Dangerous expeditions always require people to operate on a "buddy system."

6. Before the vehicle (trailer) went off the cliff, they were having problems with their phones. Why didn't their expensive sattelite dishes work?

7. Why did the science team go there with so little equipment?

8. If the T-Rex escaped from it's cargo hold to kill everyone on this ship, why did it go back inside in time for its arrival on the dock? And how did it close the doors behind it?

9. Why didn't the T-Rex puke after drinking 50 gallons of water from a chlorinated swimming pool?

10. How did the T-rex get its mouth into the pilot house of the ship (where the captian's arm was still hanging from the wheel), without doing any damage to the pilot house?

Well that is it for now put before you go you might want to read about the new feature about my page. It is you could write a coulple of setences about yourself for I could put it on with your name on the Lost World Haters List. For example I would write. . . I am 15 years old and I live in Omaha NE. Please I do not want life stories just a couple of setences.

And if you are not on the Lost World Hater List and you want to be on then e-mail me your name e-mail address and a couple of setences about yourself and i'll put you on A.S.A.P.

Talk to ya next week Gerren Jolkowski gerren@juno.com

If you want to be in this newsgroup then you e-mail me saying you want on the newsgroup. And if you like you can send in your own story or review about Lost World.