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Post by Gwangi on Apr 30, 2008 21:28:12 GMT -8
the Sleestak were damn scary to kids back in 1973. Scared the heck out of me when I first saw this in the 1970s! I like that Sleestak design. In the T.V. show since they were played by members of the UCLA basketball team, they were at least 6'5"? That fear of using total CGI, they probably would have made them bigger! For now, it looks like that won't be the case. But this being done as a comedy? Land of the Lost was Sid & Marty Kroft's most serious show!
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Hakaida
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Post by Hakaida on May 14, 2008 12:24:24 GMT -8
Any time a movie based on a TV show is turned into a feature as a comedy that's an instant RED ALERT that tells the world that the people behind it have no respect for the original source material nor the fans that made that show a hit in the first place.
The original Land of The Lost (especially the first season) was really great sci-fi. Treated properly, it could have become a terrific franchise. Imaginative sci-fi concepts combined with ILM dinos, Stan Winston Sleestaks and Rick Baker Pakunis is an honest-to-God nerd's ultimate wet dream come true.
Instead, we're gonna get a one-shot flop that will be forgotten within a week of its release. I hope I'm wrong, but it sure looks ugly from where I'm standing. Stupid friggin' Hollywood asshats.
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Post by RoadWarriorYajuta on Mar 8, 2009 20:35:33 GMT -8
I saw the previews and it looks bad. My Wife thought it looked cool and when I asked her she had never heard of the TV show. I just sat there and shook my head.
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Post by Shonokin on Mar 11, 2009 7:47:31 GMT -8
yeah it makes me want to cry. so much lost potential there.
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Post by Xenorama ™ on Apr 7, 2009 13:13:03 GMT -8
i really have nothing but contempt for this whole project.
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Hakaida
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Post by Hakaida on Apr 17, 2009 6:46:27 GMT -8
Watching interview clips of Sid & Marty Krofft talking up how good this new LotL movie is going to be and how 'funny' the old show was, and how great Will Ferrel is... blah, blah, blah...
It's pathetically obvious that these two old farts are just sucking the Hollywood weeny... crapping all over one of their best properties in order to rake in enough quick cash to keep them in Depends until they die.
UGH.
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Post by Shonokin on Apr 17, 2009 7:36:28 GMT -8
In reading about the origins of LOTL itself, they never had anything invested in the overall idea of the show. They just wanted a show with dinosaurs in it and probably didn't even understand that Gerrold had given LOTL an actual story that used real writers to tell something very high concept for a Saturday morning show.
They think the movie is fine because they are ignorant of what their property is (was) all about.
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Post by Zone Fighter on May 11, 2009 14:30:13 GMT -8
I've seen the ads, shame what they've done to it. Why do they rarely take a TV series seriously? I expect the Hawaii Five O movie to be dreadful.
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Post by Torgaman on May 12, 2009 14:17:16 GMT -8
Here's a thought: Why don't we judge the film after it comes out? Let's face it alot from the series was going to be left out because they can't fit two seasons into ninety minutes. Let's just see what happens.
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