Land of the Lost

[stePH]

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. 

[Russell Nash]

stePh calm down, count to ten, and put a picture of Will Ferrell on your dart board.  Save the F-bombs for special occasions.

[Talia]

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.

[Zathras]

I'd be happy if someone just made Will Ferrell go away.  He is NOT funny.

[Russell Nash]

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.

[Anarquistador]

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.

[stePH]

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).

[Russell Nash]

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. 

[lowky]

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.

[Darwinist]

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. 

[lowky]

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.

[Sgarre1]

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.

[Ocicat]

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:


Amazon Link

[lowky]

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:


Amazon Link
drool. 

you bastard you had to go and post a link

[Planish]

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.