The classic Sid & Marty Krofft TV show from the 70s has been remade into a full length feature film starring Will Farrell due to be released June 9, 2009. When I first heard about this film being made, my reaction, was "NOOOOOOOO!!!!!", then I heard Will Farrell was attached, so then my reaction became "NNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!".
Now, for those who don't know me, I'm not a Will Farrell fan. I'm actually an anti-Will Farrell fan. If it comes down to watching a Will Farrell movie or watching the Lifetime channel, I'll usually choose Lifetime. The only truly good, funny thing he ever did (in my opinion) was that short YouTube video with the 2 year old yelling and cussing at him (and I only watched that because Robin Meade said I should). So, I'm going to qualify my opinion of this.
The Land of the Lost was a TV series (for more info click here)by those crazy Kroffts. It was about a family who got lost and ended up in a hollow Earth land where stop motion dinosaurs still roamed the Earth and there were reptilian humanoids called Sleestaks and all kinds of 70s drug induced strangeness.
To make a long story shorter, this was a series that I have great fondness for, even though I barely remember it. I mostly watched it in reruns in the later 70s and early 80s. So with so many programs I remember from the early part of my life, whenever they've announced a movie/new series was being made, it turned out to be horrible (Brady Bunch, Dukes of Hazzard, Wild, Wild West, Knight Rider, Bionic Woman, etc.). Please, don't misunderestimate my meaning here, the show wasn't good. Most of the shows I love from my childhood weren't. They just create these movies hoping that we'll go see them out of nostalgia. Hollywood is just playing with our emotions (although, I am looking forward to the GI Joe movie).
A big part of the show were the cheesy special effects and even cheesier Sleestak costumes and plotlines. Also, while the show was funny, it wasn't exactly comedic. I just can't imagine a Land of the Lost film starring Will Farrell, and I don't want to. It was what it was, a Sid and Marty Krofft production.
Recommendation: I normally don't like making these calls without seeing a film, but I'm going to make an exception. If a friend suggest going to see this, unless he/she is HOT and you have half a chance of it leading somewhere, run away as fast as you can.
7 comments:
Agree, agree, agree. Anti-Will Farrell fan, but I loved land of the lost. Oh well.
I'm also getting tired of the nostalgiasploitation films. Yeah, I just made that up. Yes, I'm excited to see GI Joe on the big screen, but if it were like Brady Bunch and Dukes of Hazzard, basically a parody of the original, they could keep it.
Wild, Wild West was the one I was thinking of. I loved that show and really, really hate the movie. And I'm a huge Will Smith and Kevin Kline fan.
Again - I agree with you. I loved the Wild West - hated the movie. However, I watched the Transformers and loved the movie, and I am hoping that GI Joe is the same way.
Don't get me started on Transformers. I've haven't made it all the way through it yet. It's just not a Transformers movie. It's a Shia & Megan Fox movie. Oh, by the way, there are some giant robots who guest star. Or at least that's the way it worked up to the point I usually stop watching.
The special effects are beyond awesome and Michael Bay makes things go boom like no one else.
Another thing on Transformers. Optimus Prime shouldn't have a mouth. It's just not the way it should be.
I thought the movie was about the Camero.
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