7. The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)
One of the moments that defined my movie going experience as a child was seeing
Jurassic Park for the first time on the big screen. Like so many others I was in awe of what Spielberg presented to us. It sparkled my imagination and was one of the reasons why I fell in love with movies in the first place. So when the prospect of Spielberg returning to direct the sequel, excitement was massively high. I dragged my dad out of work so that he could take me to see this movie, I was that excited. Yet it seemed that when you try to follow a classic, you're bound to fail. It's difficult to follow a classic, even if it is your own classic that you're following. Not that
The Lost World is a total failure, by any means. It was simply no more than well... meh. Nothing more than mediocre at best. Nowhere near up the standard of what could've been or the standard of it's predecessor. Still, this is way better than the third installment.
6. Watchmen (2009)
Hailed as the greatest graphic novel of all time, the inevitable film adaptation was always bound to disappoint and boy, did it disappoint. Made by a fanboy for the fanboys, it seemed that director Zack Snyder was more interested in recreating the panels from the novel in perfect detail rather than translating the political allegories or any of the novel's substance for that matter, that Moore and Gibbons alluded to in their seminal work. I Instead Snyder's film was an exercise in sheer style over substance (not to mention a whole bunch of slow-mo). I think I would've preferred to see Terry Gilliam's proposed miniseries instead. Now that would've been something to behold. Click "next" below to read the next part...