I should also add that I’ve never seen a Will Farrel movie. His SNL skits were painful enough to sit through; I can’t imagine having to endure an hour and a half of him.
Early to mid 90’s, It came on Sundays in my neck of the woods. I used to watch this and Bill Nye with my oldest son.
It aired Saturday mornings on ABC. I used to watch it, but I couldn’t for the life of me (even as a punk 10-year old) figure out why Land of the Lost was so revered. The show just seemed dumb and I didn’t think the remake could be that far off from the original. Although I’ve never seen the original.
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And according to Wikipedia, it looks like the movie has the blessing of Sid and Marty Kroftt.
The Sleestaks are revealed!
And they look just the same.
The original theme is much better than the 90s version. Here’s the cover of the original theme by Everclear (I know! Art must’ve been a fan as a kid, such as I). They must’ve been approached to make this for the movie/soundtrack.
What made LOTL work (admittedly for a child audience), was that it actually took the plot and mythology seriously. There was and is something eerie about the show. I doubt that it’ll hold over when the 2009 movie comes out. It’ll be another self-aware comedy, like The Brady Bunch movie. Crap!
Wow, there seems to be a lot of difference of opinion on both LOTL and Will Ferrell’s body of work. I liked LOTL when I was a kid, but like every Sid and Marty Kroft show, it walked a thin line between camp and just totally bizarre.
This thread got me thinking about how I would do a movie remake of this show. I think I’d have the Marshall character play it straight, and just be buffeted around the strange things happening around him. I’d play it for laughs, but not farce. That is, the weird stuff put out there would be exciting, mysterious and yet seen as theater of the bizarre, also hysterically funny. It would pay tribute to the original show, while also acknowledging its quirks. I could see Will Ferrell pulling that off.
How would you do the remake?
Will Ferrell. F-E-R-R-E-L-L. If you misspell somebody’s name, either deliberately or through apathy, when you know better, it makes me discount your opinion about him. Embracing ignorance, even in the small things, is a slippery slope, my friends. Leads to hairy palms and destroyed ecosystems. (Hell, in another thread I just corrected the spelling of a three-letter word.)
I remember very little about “Land of the Lost”. Were they in an alternate universe? On another planet? Time travel? I do recall that the main characters were lost in some strange land.
Are you following me around just to correct my spelling? The spelling of the actor’s name has already been covered early in the thread when it was first posted weeks ago and frankly I don’t care if misspelling his name onces makes you discount my opinion of him. If you don’t like him will you suddenly decide to like him after all because myself and several other people here misspelled his name? Or will you decide to dislike him, when you once liked him, because he apparently inspires people to misspell his name? Oh, and the three-letter word you corrected me on in another thread was not wrong according to my usage and sources other than yourself.
It isn’t embracing ignorance to not take a second to check the spelling of a name when you are in a hurry and excited, angry or frustrated about something, or to use a common spelling of a word that everyone else in the English speaking world uses in spite of you not agreeing with the spelling. I know there are a few ana… perfect people here who never make mistakes in spelling or grammar but the rest of us are human and occasionally make mistakes so those few perfect people, such as yourself, should just learn to accept some errors as just plain old mistakes and typos instead of correcting every incident, just for their own health and mental well-being. Think of your blood pressure.
Now back to the topic. The sleestaks look cool, I think they should just make it a movie about sleestaks. All sleestaks all the time. No Will Ferrell ever.
Yea! So, can you answer my question?
I believe the intent was that it was actually another dimension/universe. Even though there were dinosaurs there were other things unlikely to have been part of Earth’s past, such as the sleestaks (unfortunately).
Of course, even though we have found no fossil evidence of sleestaks on this planet that does not mean that they could not have been here at one time.
It was always my understanding that the LotL was a pocket universe- finite, but unbounded (as evidenced by the time they followed the river to its end… and found themselves at its source). I got the feeling that it was basically where things “lost” in places like the Bermuda Triangle go to, and that it wasn’t necessarily just an Earth thing.