10 Unpopular Movie Opinions (And How To Justify Them)

9. The Lost World Is The Best Jurassic Park Sequel

Now, none of the Jurassic Park sequels are particularly great movies, but there's one that stands head and shoulders above the rest, yet it rarely gets credit as such: 1997's The Lost World.

To be clear, it may not be a patch on Steven Spielberg's 1993 original, but The Lost World does excel as a shameless piece of crowd-pleasing fluff, boasting two ultra-suspenseful set-pieces worthy of its predecessor (the long grass and the literal cliff-hanging sequence) and best of all, Ian Malcolm (Jeff Goldblum) as its effortlessly charming protagonist.

The set-up is laboured and the scene where Malcolm's daughter kicks a raptor to death gymnast-style is terrible, but there's still enough good, even great in this movie to balance out the missteps.

Moreover, compared to the three sequels that followed, it's positively terrific. Next up is Jurassic Park III, a rushed mess without a proper third act but with plenty of an ultra-annoying Tea Leoni to compensate.

Jurassic World was a visually ugly, flatly directed and generic blockbuster too keen to dine out on nostalgia, and if you saw this past summer's Fallen Kingdom, you know how head-smackingly stupid it is. It also straight-up invokes The Lost World in some of its better moments, albeit in inferior fashion.

There has yet to be a single great or even very good Jurassic Park sequel, but two decades later The Lost World still holds up as daft popcorn-munching entertainment.

Is it likely anyone will be saying that about the other three movies, to say nothing of the planned sixth?