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Escape Pod => Science Fiction Discussion => Topic started by: stePH on May 29, 2009, 04:12:35 PM
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I remember watching and enjoying the Sid & Marty Croft classic Land of the Lost on teevee as a small sprog. I'm sure it could make a good movie, or series of movies, in the right hands.
Whose stupid frakking idea was it to turn it into a screwball comedy? >:(
Fuck you, Will Ferrell. Fuck you up your stupid, not-funny ass. >:( >:(
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stePh calm down, count to ten, and put a picture of Will Ferrell on your dart board. Save the F-bombs for special occasions.
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I don't know. Ive not seen the original, but judging from the previews, this movie is sufficiently mind bogglingly stupid it deserves a few four letter words.
And then everyone involved with it should be taken out and shot.
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I'd be happy if someone just made Will Ferrell go away. He is NOT funny.
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I'd be happy if someone just made Will Ferrell go away. He is NOT funny.
Most accurate statement of the decade.
Edited for word choice.
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Meh. I have the same reaction to this as I did to the Transformers movie: indifference. It was based on a crappy kids show designed to sell me toys; my expectations are too low to disappoint.
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Meh. I have the same reaction to this as I did to the Transformers movie: indifference. It was based on a crappy kids show designed to sell me toys; my expectations are too low to disappoint.
Except that there were never any Land of the Lost toys that I saw. In fact, no Kroft show ever had toy tie-ins that I was aware of. They were back in the days before children's shows were being produced with toy marketing in mind (I think He-Man and the Masters of the Universe was the first of those).
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He-Man was the first show that was produced to sell tie-ins. Before that they produced the shows and then thought about the tie-ins. Before that they didn't do tie-ins unless the show was insanely popular. Kroft shows would be a prime example of shows that were never worthy of tie-ins.
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He-Man was the first show that was produced to sell tie-ins. Before that they produced the shows and then thought about the tie-ins. Before that they didn't do tie-ins unless the show was insanely popular. Kroft shows would be a prime example of shows that were never worthy of tie-ins.
If i could have had sigmund and the sea monsters action figures and the like as a child I would have been all over that. I probably still would. The main one I don't believe is Sid and Marty insisting their shows weren't about/fueled by drugs. Lidsville, H. R. Puffnstuff? come on. If those shows weren't made on and about drugs, then neither were Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas or Naked Lunch.
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The usually shitty SciFi Channel had a Land of the Lost marathon on during the US Memorial Day. I watched a few episodes because I loved it as a kid. I forgot how weird it was. Man, some of the stuff was out there. In one episode Marshall was hallucinating and saw Will as a Civil War era soldier and Holly as some dame in an old timey dress speaking in a British accent. I forgot all about the weird light being that lived in the swamp, too. And he had some type of star ship. Crazy stuff.
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The usually shitty SciFi Channel had a Land of the Lost marathon on during the US Memorial Day. I watched a few episodes because I loved it as a kid. I forgot how weird it was. Man, some of the stuff was out there. In one episode Marshall was hallucinating and saw Will as a Civil War era soldier and Holly as some dame in an old timey dress speaking in a British accent. I forgot all about the weird light being that lived in the swamp, too. And he had some type of star ship. Crazy stuff.
See I told you that Sid and Marty Kroft were on drugs during all of their shows.
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Say what you will about it, but LAND OF THE LOST was not made to sell toys to kids - you don't hire DC Fontana to help you devise some disposable kid/toy crap show. Kids had to wait a little longer for the wave of that type of stuff: HE-MAN, GI-JOE, TRANSFORMERS et. al.
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If i could have had sigmund and the sea monsters action figures and the like as a child I would have been all over that. I probably still would.
You know you want it:
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51bgMC2DfrL._SS500_.jpg)
Amazon Link (http://www.amazon.com/Superstars-Sigmund-Monster-Distressed-Packaging/dp/B0026BVK96/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=toys-and-games&qid=1243992225&sr=8-2/escapepod-20)
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If i could have had sigmund and the sea monsters action figures and the like as a child I would have been all over that. I probably still would.
You know you want it:
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51bgMC2DfrL._SS500_.jpg)
Amazon Link (http://www.amazon.com/Superstars-Sigmund-Monster-Distressed-Packaging/dp/B0026BVK96/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=toys-and-games&qid=1243992225&sr=8-2/escapepod-20)
drool.
you bastard you had to go and post a link
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I was never a "Land of the Lost" fan, but I still think stePH has the right of it in the original post, on the basis of seeing the TV ads.