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jasonandrew ([personal profile] jasonandrew) wrote2009-05-25 10:04 pm
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The Land of the Lost

The Land of the Lost is a lot better than I remember. I've been watching the marathon today on the Sci-Fi channel.

The acting is horrible. The special effects abysmal.

And yet, the writing was consistent. The characters slowly learn about the Land of the Lost and all of the details are consistent, even if the science isn't perfect.

I actually am curious about the new movie coming out.

[identity profile] sasjhwa.livejournal.com 2009-05-26 07:07 am (UTC)(link)
My problem with the new Land of the Lost is Will Farrell who plays the same basic character in every movie. He is very two dimensional. Rather like Jim Carrey was for a while and Robin Williams too come to think of it. Otherwise it looks like fun. I wasn't able to watch LOTL today although I saw that it was in marathon mode.

[identity profile] steve-vernon.livejournal.com 2009-05-26 09:04 am (UTC)(link)
What I have seen of the trailers for the new Will Farrel version is pretty depressing. Just a lot of mugging, pratfalls and potty humour.

I've only seen a couple of episodes of the original series, but there seemed to be some actual storytelling going on.

[identity profile] highway-west.livejournal.com 2009-05-26 02:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, sad. :)

[identity profile] glamberson.livejournal.com 2009-05-26 12:48 pm (UTC)(link)
The writing for the first season really was good, which is why I didn't like it as a kid--it was so melancholy. David Gerrold was the story editor and brought in a bunch of SF writers. I think there were more actual IDEAS on display that first year than there were on STAR TREK.

But Gerrold left after that first season. I'm not sure how many of the writers he used continued, but the show lost its direction. We watched the first season on DVD, and they actually had commentary tracks with some of the writers.

We started Year Two, then I misplaced the set! We have Season 3 and haven't started it, but that's when things really get wonky: the kids have grown up but are still wearing their same costumes (which must have been fabricated by Reed Richard's "unstable molecules"), dad was replaced by Uncle Jack (Ron Harper from the PLANET OF THE APES TV series, who was a decent actor), killed off some of the dinosaurs and pakuni... a blood bath!

I actually think the FX were pretty good: this was the first stop motion animation done on video, and on a weekly basis yet, and the miniature of the lost city was great. Only the compositing sucked.

[identity profile] highway-west.livejournal.com 2009-05-26 02:56 pm (UTC)(link)
It did seem pretty awesome what I saw.