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    Land of the Lost's Lost Language

    Land Gets Lost At Box Office

    "Land of the Lost" Is "Anchorman" With Dinosaurs and Aliens

    6 Land Of The Lost Clips Will Help You Decide If Dino Shtick Is Actually Funny

    The Feel Of An Explosion At His Back Moves J.J. Abrams To Song

    The Land Of The Lost Looks Scenic, Hectic In New Trailer

    Hold Up — Will Land Of The Lost Actually Be Funny?

    Are Cute Sleestaks And Sneaky T-Rexes Enough To Carry A Movie?

    It's Sleestak Sunday In Leaked Land Of The Lost Trailer

    Great Odin's Raven! Anchorman 2 In Space?
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    Image of twophrasebark twophrasebark
    06/10/09

    In reply to Land of the Lost's Lost Language
    SsS - LOL
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    Image of ManchuCandidate ManchuCandidate
    06/10/09

    In reply to Land of the Lost's Lost Language
    Where's the Sleestak dictionary?


    SSSSsssss - "OMG"


    Ss - "it is"


    SSssSSSSsss - "Will Ferrell"


    Sss? - "Why"


    s - "is"


    SssS - "he"


    SSSSSsss - "eating"


    SSSsssS - "Dino"


    ssssssSSS - "Pooh"

     Reply
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    06/10/09

    @ManchuCandidate: "SsssssSSSSSSSSSssssSS!!!" - Oh help me gods I'm stuck in a scat film.
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    Image of AngryEddy AngryEddy
    06/10/09

    In reply to Land of the Lost's Lost Language
    Paku should be used to encode communications during wartime. Imagine our enemies trying to figure that out.
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    06/10/09

    @AngryEddy: And then, someone buys the DVD set of the original Land of the Lost off the Internet...
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    Image of AngryEddy AngryEddy
    06/10/09

    @crashedpc : ゴキブリ and 蟑螂 division: Thanks for spoiling national security, man.
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    Image of TemporalSword TemporalSword
    06/10/09

    @AngryEddy:


    Terrorist analyst: Sir! We've intercepted the American communications, but it's in a new language!


    Terrorist Leader: What the $%@$ is THAT? Sounds like my two year old kid playing with his trucks and rockets. Get our best linguistics guy on it, right away!


    Analyst: Yes, sir!


    Leader: Also, Jihad! Jihad!

     Reply
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    06/10/09

    @AngryEddy: Oops! Teehee!
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    06/10/09

    @TemporalSword: Admittedly, "BBBBBBBBBBRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR" and "FWWWWOOON" might actually make for a pretty tough encryption method, as without any discerning auditory features, the language would be hard to crack. Of course, then they'll assume it's encrypted and start doing reverse Fourier analysis on it and then who knows what may happen..
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    Image of TemporalSword TemporalSword
    06/10/09

    @crashedpc : ゴキブリ and 蟑螂 division: Cause I can totally envision the terrorists hiding in their crappy little caves with advanced supercomputers capable of Fourier analyses just out of sight. Maybe they are like little Bat caves, with gadgets lying around and souped-up goats ready to launch from 6 different tunnels. Hm, come to think of it, that was kinda the cave in Iron Man, so, yeah!
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    06/10/09

    @TemporalSword: Never underestimate the power of ricer goats.
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    Image of Purple Dave Purple Dave
    06/07/09

    In reply to Land Gets Lost At Box Office
    To quote a certain famous author, "Oh, frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!"
     Reply
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    Image of eguess eguess
    06/06/09

    In reply to Land Gets Lost At Box Office
    Suck it. I just watched that movie and loved every second of it.
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    Image of Jack_Burton 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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    Image of Feyhra Feyhra
    06/06/09

    In reply to Land Gets Lost At Box Office
    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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    Image of Purple Dave 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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    Image of theshadowalker theshadowalker
    06/06/09

    In reply to Land Gets Lost At Box Office
    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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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    06/06/09

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

    In reply to Land Gets Lost At Box Office
    And here I'd given up all hope for America. My faith is slightly renewed.
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    Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. was starred Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. was unstarred
    Image of 3o01 3o01
    06/06/09

    In reply to Land Gets Lost At Box Office
    I saw this coming. Will Farrell makes Comedy look like a bad thing. Talk about no talent.
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    Image of Trai_Dep 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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    Image of phoenix phoenix
    06/06/09

    In reply to Land Gets Lost At Box Office
    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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    Image of SynicVance2.0 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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    Image of dirtybacon 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...

     Reply
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    Image of kingzilch kingzilch
    06/05/09

    In reply to "Land of the Lost" Is "Anchorman" With Dinosaurs and Aliens
    Okay, quick, easy test. All of you who enjoy Will Ferrell...


    How do you feel about Jar-Jar Binks?


    Because if you hate Jar-Jar but enjoy Will Ferrell, you're a hypocrite.

     Reply
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    Image of Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
    06/05/09

    @kingzilch: I passed the test!
     Reply
    Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. was starred Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. was unstarred
    Image of KSChris KSChris
    06/04/09

    In reply to "Land of the Lost" Is "Anchorman" With Dinosaurs and Aliens
    Are people still under the impression that Will Ferrell is funny?
     Reply
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    Image of Purple Dave Purple Dave
    06/05/09

    @KSChris:
    Sadly, that seems to be the case.
     Reply
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    Image of Rasselas Rasselas
    06/04/09

    In reply to "Land of the Lost" Is "Anchorman" With Dinosaurs and Aliens
    "I stabbed an attempt to revive the Terminator franchise in the heart."
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    Image of Alexis Alexis
    06/04/09

    In reply to "Land of the Lost" Is "Anchorman" With Dinosaurs and Aliens
    I guess this disproves my "Will Farrell gets a funny wig and makes a movie" logic I've stuck by for so long.
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    Image of Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
    06/04/09

    In reply to "Land of the Lost" Is "Anchorman" With Dinosaurs and Aliens
    Wow, this review makes it sound even more horrific than the trailers and ads do. I'm almost physically revolted.
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    Image of Annalee Newitz Annalee Newitz
    06/04/09

    @Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.: Hahaha. Having come to know your taste via comments, Ms. Evil Tortie, I can say definitively that you would hate this movie. Definitely avoid.
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    Image of Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
    06/04/09

    @Annalee Newitz: Which proves you've written a fine review!

    Will Ferrell used to be funny -- I thought he was great hosting SNL last month -- but something happened.
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    Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. was starred Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. was unstarred
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