User blog comment:Daniel large/The Lost World Jurassic park Vs. Jurassic park 3/@comment-11047508-20120428112711

This the real reason why everyone liked Jurassic Park. This is why TLW became second, and JP3 always became obscure.

Jurassic Park was the first movie in which the dinosaurs looked real. Therefore everyone wanted to see it, both nerds and normal people alike.

When TLW was released the public had something like: "we know you can do the dinosaurs, but what can you do with them". And what they could do with them wasn't impressive to non-nerds.

By the time JP3 was released, realistic dino's had appeared in many media. When the general public heard about a JP3 they all though " dinosaurs, lame". And only nerds and little kids showed up in the theatre.

So, most fans like TLW more than JP3 because it was released in a time there were almost no other dino movies with real dino's.