Unlike the other aforementioned series, if you want to watch the "Jurassic Park" series in the "correct" or chronological order, you get to start with the first film, released back in 1993, directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Sam Neil's Alan Grant, Laura Dern's Ellie Satler, and Jeff Goldblum's Dr. Ian Malcolm, along with supporting performances from Richard Attenbourough and Samuel L. Jackson. This is the first time we are introduced to the partially finished dinosaur-cloned theme park, and learn all of the backstory about how Attenbourough's John Hammond created it. We all saw how one wrong move or bad egg (like, say, Wayne Knight's Dennis Nedry) could set off a chain of disastrous Jurassic events.
Next up, considering it directly follows the events of the first installment, is "The Lost World: Jurassic Park." Grant and Satler are absent, shifting to focus on Goldblum's Dr. Ian Malcom as he and a group of researchers head to study the now free-roaming dinosaurs that have taken over what was left of the old dinosaur theme park after it was abandoned. They run into InGen again, who have other plans for bringing some dinosaurs to San Diego. After a few deaths and some wholesale destruction, the dinosaurs are sent back to Isla Sorna. Not only is this film correctly placed chronologically, we're able to see the development of man's desire to continue experimenting with the natural cycle of life.
