other than "it sucks". So thank you for that.

>That's really the only reason.
>
>You can point to the gymnastics or the effects (which weirdly
>are less impressive) or the finale (which feels more like a
>Godzilla remake audition than an actual high-stakes finale)
>for "reasons why," but overall it's a lot of fun IMO.

And the gymnastics is a very brief moment as bad as it is.

The San Diego stuff was a throwback to Sir Aurthur Conan Doyle's "The Lost World" (as is the title itself), and as goofy as it is I can forgive ambition over laziness.

Anyone
>who'd watched this *before* the original likely would have
>felt blown away-- there's just some natural sequel imagery
>carryover which makes it feel "less fresh" to those who
>worship the OG (as they should). It's still damn good tho.
>

If the first was an adventure movie with elements of sci-fi and horror, this one is an action adventure movie where the main characters are just trying to survive. In fact 90% of the anti-heroes who work for the antagonist are men of action and they die.

>And there's no denying that the sequence with the RV,
>culminating in the absolutely unbelievable Moore-on-the-glass
>scene, is among the best action that Spielberg has ever shot.
>

Son that shit was straight from a Hitchcock movie. In terms of just suspense alone the movie has multiple great sequences.