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Posted Jun 2nd 2009 at 5:30 pm in Entertainment | 15029044 Commentshttp%3A%2F%2Fbighollywood.breitbart.com%2Fbighollywood%2F2009%2F06%2F02%2Fland-of-the-lost-opens-everywhere-friday%2F%27Land+of+the+Lost%27+Opens+Everywhere+Friday2009-06-03+00%3A30%3A31Big+Hollywoodhttp%3A%2F%2Fbighollywood.breitbart.com%2F%3Fp%3D150290
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I loved the original Land of the Lost in all its campy glory. The trailer for this remake depresses me no end.
Ditto. I don't mind seeing modern takes on classics (even campy ones), but Will Ferrell? Why do people like him? If I may quote Ferrell in Zoolander, "I feel like I'm taking crazy pills."
By the way, to atone for my heresy yesterday, I said four hail Chuck's and I watched Planet of the Apes.
Aww, that's so nice. Don't you feel better, now? As far as Will Ferrell goes, his popularity is an utter mystery to me. To paraphrase the superb Arrested Development, "Are people taking their stupid pills?"
the whole idea of a mega$$$ remake of kiddie fare from the 70's strikes us as just more of Hollywood's
chronic emptiness… no offense to fans of said series but this is just a Will Ferrell vanity piece and he has the clout to get it made. We too, have always found the modestly talented Ferrell's career a head scratcher as well. We have had folks suggest 'Zoolander' with the equally puzzling Ben Stiller as an unusual and entertaining film- but after the execrable 'Talledega Nights' it was nigh on impossible to tune him in…
I agree. Most of the re-makes these days are nothing more than attempts to milk a pre-existing audience (those who loved the prior show) by selling them a generic modern movie covered in trappings of their favorite childhood shows. If you changed the character names, most people wouldn't even know that the movie was a remake.
Will Ferrell is an aquired taste. . . like vd. You only get it if you're stupid.
Ferrell fans to attack in 10. . . 9. . . 8. . . 7. . .
Sorry Will Farrel is in this and I have things to do that are more important. such as sorting my link off my socks.
I would like to say that I do, but. . . I think there's just too much heretic in me. . . I, damn dirty, ape.
Have you seen the commercial for Man vs. Wild featuring Will Ferrell? I guess it's too much to ask to have Bear Grylls push him off a cliff.
I like the way you think!! I haven't seen the ad, but I'd be all in favor of Grylls leaving Ferrell's corpse in some remote wilderness.
Cool show.
Another ripoff CGI bonanza . Zz.
I might just catch this on DVD since Anna Friel, a.k.a Charlotte Charles from Pushing Daisies plays a starring role.
The episode is on tonight. I think I'll skip it. There's plenty of baseball on.
What is this baseball of which you speak? Is it like football?
Baseball and football are sports I love. Yes, they are alike.
we would far prefer watching Will Ferrell try to keep up with the FAR cooler Les Stroud and 'Survivorman' than the egocentric Grylls; we have had a chance to interact with him and he was truly a legend in his own mind; some SAS types spoke poorly of him as well…
I have a dilemma. My two boys want to go see this, and I definitely do not. Don't want to disappoint them, so they may end up dragging me (kicking and screaming) into the -900,000th century…
Might be a good time for a long overdue nap.
Y'know, Talladega Nights made me laugh. So did Ron Burgundy. I don't begrudge Farrell his success, but this sucker has giant turd all over it. Cash that check quick, Will!
Most of the time I don't care for Ferrell, but then he'll catch me off guard and make me laugh ("Elf" comes to mind). I may cut this some slack only because "Land of the Lost" was so cheesy in its own right. Don't get me wrong, I was a loyal watcher of all things Sid and Marty Krofft (Bugaloos anyone?). But I don't think most Krofft productions lend themselves to serious film making. "Sigmund and the Sea Monsters," "H.R. Puffinstuf" and "Wonderbug" just don't scream Academy Award winning material to me. So… I just don't see the harm in this remake.
I'm confused, is it the movie or Will Farrell that has the giant turd all over it?
Ferrell's middle name is turd; because I look at his success and say "WTF?"
I like Anna Friel, and the Sleestacks look cool (at least, in the Subway commercial), but I have no intention of watching this.
The original Land of the Lost (the first two seasons, anyway) had episodes written by people involved in the classic Star Trek including David Gerrold (The Trouble with Tribbles), D.C. Fontana (Charlie X, Tomorrow is Yesterday, This Side of Paradise, Friday's Child, Journey to Babel, By Any Other Name, The Ultimate Computer, The Enterprise Incident, That Which Survives, The Way to Eden), Walter Koenig (Chekov), Theodore Sturgeon (Amok Time, Shore Leave), Norman Spinrad (The Doomsday Machine), and Margaret Arman (The Cloud Minders, The Paradise Syndrome, The Gamesters of Triskelion) as well as science fiction authors Larry Niven and Ben Bova. David Gerrold was the script editor and got the best writers he could get his hands on and he's responsible for a lot of the mythos of the show.
No wonder I loved Land of the Lost so much. Star Trek was one of the best television shows ever. I shudder to think who wrote the script for the Land of the Lost remake.
I've had that dilemma with my two children regarding Night at the Museum, and that's exactly what happened. You have my empathy.
You know I used to love Wil Ferrell movies, and tnen he had to do the whole tired Bush schtick, way past relevance and into Bush Derangement Syndrome. Totally erases any enjoyment I once got out of his pretty funny stuff. Maybe I'm petty for not being able to separate his politics from his body of work. Sorry
Elf was good, and so was Stranger than Fiction, which I think was his best film. All of them feel like they are about 30 minutes too long (minimum) except Stranger than Fiction, and I think that's because it was the only one that wasn't a Ferrell vehicle. It could also be because it's not stupid-silly. But I'm kind of a snob that way.
Ditto
This will be a "watch on late night FX" deal for me.
Happily dodged that one- Mom took them. Guess I'll have to man up and take this one on the chin. Ferrell's just not my cup of tea.
You could try to find some of the Krofft TV series for them to see,
I think Sci-Fi ran some episodes recently.
That ought to change their minds.
Re: Night at the Museum II, Dittos.
The first was entertaining, this one is Number Two.
I'm sure Sci-Fi will show it sooner or later, and I may catch it then.
It looks bad, Ferrell is on a role of bad movies (and his lame Bush-bashing play), and it's coming in between some excellent movie weekends. I'm guessing it's going to do well enough to not be a disaster, but will finish a distant second (or possibly third) then quietly disappear from the theaters within a couple of weeks.
Sci-Fi did a marathon on Memorial Day and it looks like they'll be showing it over starting 8AM tomorrow through 5:30PM and again on Friday.
As I mentioned in my reply to Another Carolyn earlier, Land of the Lost had top-notch writing talent and a background mythology for the first two years because of story editor David Gerrold, who had written the classic Star Trek episode The Trouble with Tribbles and worked on the animated Star Trek. A lot of the writers for the first two seasons of Land of the Lost were either classic Star Trek alumni and/or well-known science fiction authors who have won prizes in their field, so Land of the Lost was a notch above the usually psychedelic "drug trip" writing found in most other Sid and Marty Krofft shows like H. R. Puffinstuff, Lidsville, or the Bugaloos (though one of my first TV crushes was on the girl from the Bugaloos). I suppose I should mention that the writing for The Lost Saucer was also sometimes sound science fiction writing, too.
Posted video would not play. I'm sick of Farrell. Won't see this or anything else with him in it. Maybe he could run for political office like Franken.
Why oh why do people insist on remaking things that should not be??? Land of the Lost, Planet of the Apes, the Brady Bunch, American Pie, etc. Come up with something original and stop spoiling our gems for the next generation. ____I remember when Lady Marmalade (which was a decent remake) was just out and I was DJ-ing at a Cancer Walk-a-thon. A group of young girls requested Lady Marmalade and I purpously put on LaBelle's version. The girls yelled at me for putting on the wrong song. I turned to them and told them it was the orginal of thesong and if they listened to it, they might like it.
Land of the Lost is only "campy" due to budget constraints of Sid & Marty Kroft; in the 70's, it was just a kids' TV series. The remake to make the show campy is wrong. It should be serious. Land of the Lost is not a comedy. It's about family & sticking together through tough times for a yearning to be home. As a kid, I never saw it campy. I just loved seeing the dinosaurs, Sleestaks, & the weird ape kid, Chakka.
Bugaloos! Yes! Girl Bug = Hot! LOL None of my friends remember Bugaloos. Is it sad because they've forgotten, or sad because I watch(ed) WAY too much television?
Didn't Ferrell used to be funny once ? What happened ?
A new Will Ferrell movie? Has suck written all over it. Hate, hate him in any film. Cast him in a film and watch it just turn into a turd instantly. Example? Bewitched. Great cast, great story, great acting by the other actors in the film and then Will happened. Thank goodness for DVDs and fast forward. Just skip the scenes with him in it and I can enjoy the film. Though I lament how good it could have been.
I don't know the background of "Land of the Lost" so I'll have to take your word for it. But I'm still not convinced that "Land of the Lost" is the same caliber as "Star Trek." I wasn't broadcast in prime time and that may have been for a reason. I'm sure it was meant to appeal to the same demographic as all the other Krofft shows which, in my mind, puts it in the less-relevant category and open to comedic treatment. Just my two cents.
When I saw the big screen was making "Land of the Lost" I immediately put it on my radar as a "must see". Silly me; I thought it would be an update of the old seventies series which was a campy delight but with a big enough budget for "real" dinosaurs and Sleestaks.
Then I saw the trailer and I knew my barfometer would not sustain a 2+ hour sit down for what would have been great fun were it not for casting.
Casting is a lot of what's wrong with Hollywood these days. The writing generally sucks but with a good enough cast and special effects, we can overlook that. Casting is the one thing that cannot be overlooked. When we sit down in the darkened theatre, we want to believe the people we're seeing on the screen ARE the characters they're playing. Will Ferrell no longer is an actor or a comedian. He's just another Lefty making fun of George Bush — a dime a dozen. Casting Ferrell in anything is a big mistake, casting him AS anything but Bush is a bigger mistake. Like Tina Fey was destroyed by her determination to destroy Sarah Palin, Ferrell has been destroyed by the character he tried to mock.
With any Sid & Marty Kroft creation, it must be taken seriously. The problem is the revamps do not take the source seriously. Unlike the other Sid & Marty Kroft where comedy is part of the story telling, the Land of the Lost remains really a science fiction drama for kids. It was always serious & grim. However, Marshall, Will & Holly remained stronger because they are family. The Land of the Lost is ultimately about family. Chakka became part of their family in a sense, although he did not live with them. The dinosaurs are just the window dressing & not a primary part of the show. I loved the nicknames they gave the dinosaurs too: Alice & another name…
HARD TO BELIEVE THIS GUY IS …..FUNNY? AS FOR HIS BUSH THING…..COOL.I HATE BUSH!!! I HATE ANYBODY WHO LIKES HIM. WHAT A JOKE MAN! YOU HAVE TO BE AN IDIOT IF YOU ACTUALLY LIKE THAT A#$HOLE!!
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