In the Lost World when we first see the stegosaurus', Goldblum says something to the degree of it starts out ooo and ahh then there is the running and the screaming. Which does end up happening in this movie. Save for the screaming, does this not describe Spielberg to a T. Did the less is more in all of his movies, it ended up working well for him then in Close Encounters, Jaws, ET, etc. But Lost World?? The first Jurassic Park had the convenience of being setup as a theme park first. It was safe, the animals were behind cages. They were off in the jungle through the wires, not dangerous. It works well in that situation not in a situation where, as Hammond had only described mere minutes earlier, that the animals were all over the fucking place with that geothermal map. They hit that island boom I want raptors jumping out of the bushes, T-Rex eating them, and chasing killing a bunch of people, it is Chaos. It is what Malcom sadly predicted. But Spielberg tried to rely on steady as she go formula and kind of ruined what could have been a crazy experience. Then tried to make it up too much and we got San Diego. Ridley Scott could have directed it. Imagine a cross between Black Hawk Down and Jurassic Park. like helicopter goes in rescue mission right, you bring a military group but they are shot down and it is just rampaging the whole movie. Contra style. And this touches on the third, the third tried to do it this way but mucked up even more. They were walking all over that island and screaming and yelling. They should have all been dead within 20 minutes.
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