land of the lost

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Today is the Super Bowl, which means that big entertainment studios (among many other companies) will be dropping unconscionable amounts of coin on measly 30-second spots to shill for movies, some of which won’t even be coming out ’til August. And thanks to the glorious wonder of the Internet, we can take a gander at them several hours before they air.

This first spot is for Disney and Pixar’s Up. I know some folks who have seen advance footage of this one, and they cannot stop raving about how good it’s already looking. Go to Disney’s website to see the commercial in much higher resolution. This will definitely be on my “must see” list this summer…

The next one is for J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek, due out in May. Another one that I’m eagerly anticipating, for one reason because this looks totally unlike anything that has been ...

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Props to Cinematical for scoring the first look at the teaser poster for this summer’s Land of the Lost, starring Will Ferrell and based on the television show from thirty years ago…

Friday night I watched Elf for the first time. It’s a very funny movie! And it reinforced what I said a year ago when I first reported on this movie: that given a serious treatment of the plot, Ferrell could expand on the perception most folks have of him, ‘cuz he would prove that he’s capable of being a legitimate action star. Though from what I’m hearing Land of the Lost is still being produced as a comedy… which the original TV show was anything but.

Nice poster. I like the giant carved Sleestak especially. But color me “overly cautious” about this for the time being....

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This sucks donkeys balls to no end.

Yeah you read that right: I did dare to use my personal “worst epithet ever” for this. Because everything about this project (with the possible exception of Will Ferrell which I’ll get to later) screams out “wrong” in every way possible.

I was 5 years old and in kindergarten when WFMY out of Greensboro started showing Land of the Lost on weekday afternoons at 3:30. Land of the Lost, even before I ever saw a Star Wars movie, was my first serious exposure to what I would come to appreciate as epic storytelling within a broad mythology. The weird landscape, the dinosaurs, the Sleestaks, the Lost City, the Pylons, the Civil War soldier, the ape dudes, the spaceship… and Rick Marshall and his two kids trying to get home: I ate it all up and wanted more. Here’s the first season’s opening ...

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