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Purple Dave
06/07/09

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To quote a certain famous author, "Oh, frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!"
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eguess
06/06/09

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Suck it. I just watched that movie and loved every second of it.
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Jack_Burton
06/08/09

@eguess: Stands on its' own, and has only a vestigial relationship to original series.

I chuckled through it all. No gut-busting, and no courtesy knee-slapping, just a consistent flow of one-liners and slapstick. The T-Rex and the Pterodactyl scenes work well on the big screen (you can see the money), but most folks won't care.

I imagine there are probably some good deleted scenes / gag reel on DVD too. I kind of wonder if they'd gone for the R rating, how much could it have been improved?
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Feyhra
06/06/09

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Will Ferrell is enough to kill any movie. I hate him almost as much as I hate Jim Carrey. Actually more, Carrey does at least have a sort of twisted demonic talent.

I still haven't gotten over Ferrell in that Xmas abomination, Elf.
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Purple Dave
06/07/09

@Feyhra:
Carrey can actually pull off a decent role, if it's not written specifically for him. Granted, The Truman Show was the only movie I can remember seeing that wasn't at least partially influenced by his In Living Color days.
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theshadowalker
06/06/09

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Done properly, a new 'Land of the Lost' franchise probably could've been the next 'Jurassic Park'...unfortunately, the filmmakers took the easy, lazy and obvious route: to make fun of the original (...and hiring a comedian whose shtick became tired several movies ago didn't help).

Seriously, the original may've been a cheap, children's series...but it was also often a surprisingly intelligent, cheap, children's series (like how the Sleestak, for example, devolved from a technologically advanced race into a bunch of primitive, superstitious nitwits) that was written by the likes of Ben Bova, D.C. Fontana, David Gerrold, Larry Niven, Norman Spinrad and Theodore Sturgeon.

If Hollywood can respect a cartoon that was basically just a glorified commercial for a pre-existing line of toys ('Transformers'), then why couldn't it also have shown some respect to 'Land of the Lost'?
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Grey_Area
06/06/09

@theshadowalker: I are confused. Please provide your definition of this word "respect".
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Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
06/06/09

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And here I'd given up all hope for America. My faith is slightly renewed.
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3o01
06/06/09

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I saw this coming. Will Farrell makes Comedy look like a bad thing. Talk about no talent.
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Trai_Dep
06/07/09

@3o01: I can handle one Will Farrell (pudgy former frat-dudes need role models too), but considering this was to be the vehicle for the breakout of that annoying White Trash bearded guy, I'm happy to see Lost go down. And go down hard.
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phoenix
06/06/09

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Wait, someone filmed an hour and a half of Will Ferrell being chased around by a CG dinosaur and they actually expected people to go see it? Shocking! ;)

Seriously though, they'll probably make it up in DVD sales.
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SynicVance2.0
06/07/09

@phoenix: Yeah, I think they just got outdone with the advertising by another comedy. When pot heads have a choice between seeing two movies and one of the movies actually has "hangover" in the title, it's pretty much a done deal.
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dirtybacon
06/07/09

@SynicVance2.0: Not a pot head, but the Hangover was a fantastic movie... really good stuff, and it had good buzz.

Land of The Lost's buzz? not so much...
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