Yes, we watched it as well and I concur, he was the only good actor in it. Indeed, the novels are both far better than the movies. Unless you're a HUGE Jurassic Park fan like me, you didn't miss much with JP///. JP/// also does not have a book, well, there is a book, but it's based off the movie not vice versa. The reason: Crichton had never written a sequel before in his entire life, but decided to write The Lost World. Outcome: He did not enjoy it. Why: He did not enjoy the fact that he had to use Jurassic Park as a crutch along with the fact that he had to do very little research (as it had already been done for the first novel) and thus put many equations over Chaos Theory and evolution into it. In the end, he vowed to never write another sequel. Of course, rumor has it thet had he may help with the fourth Jurassic Park (yes, there is going to be a fourth JP, which shall be the final one in the franchise), but I doubt he is actually helping since he didn't help with the third one and, actually, hasn't even seen it yet. But I had read that JPIV shall include parts they left out from The Lost World (the novel), which will, hopefully, make it better and possibly redeem the franchise with a great finale. By the way, the JPIV is set to come out in 2005. Here's a site for more info on just about all things Jurassic Park: Dan's JP3 Page And The Great Gatsby was almost exactly like suicide....