10 Surprisingly Good Scenes In Otherwise Terrible Movies

Years after Steven Spielberg vehemently denied the very concept of sequels as "cheap carny tricks", sure enough, there he was, making one himself. In fairness, the director has made vague apologies for The Lost World - though the film's very existence is a cash-in.

In Michael Chrichton's original novel, Ian Malcolm (Jeff Goldblum) spends most of the book in a morphine-induced haze ranting about chaos theory before dying off-page. But Goldblum's charisma forced the role live on. Chrichton's own ridiculous sequel, written specifically to be adapted, opens with the character giving a lecture that begins, "Though I was presumed dead..."

As ridiculous, over-stuffed and money-grubbing as The Lost World turned out to be, it's still a Spielberg film, which means two things: first, there's bound to be a subplot about parenting and second, he'll manage to get a decent set-piece out of it.

It comes at the half-way point, when an accordion RV is hanging half-over a cliff, two T-Rex's attacking it, attempting to ram it off the edge. The tension grows when Julianne Moore lands on the slowly cracking plate glass back. Ultimately, our protagonists desperately clinging to a rope as the entire vehicle sails in between them. While probably a physical impossibility, Spielberg's mastery of pacing and frenetic energy makes it a nail-biter.

If that's not enough, who doesn't want to see a T-Rex rampage around modern-day San Diego?