Land of the Lost Trailer

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The teaser trailer for Land of the Lost debuted during last week’s Super Bowl, and now the first full length trailer has arrived. I don’t have a lot of memory of the original television show, but it’s fairly evident that the updated movie doesn’t hew particularly close to the original’s premise. The original was about a park ranger and his two kids who slipped into a time warp during a rafting trip and wound up in a world of dinosaurs. Here, Will Ferrell still plays a park ranger, but he also appears to be a scientist of some sort, and he apparently swapped his two kids for some colleagues (the luminous Anna Friel and the not-so-luminous Danny McBride). Basically, it looks like Ferrell has swapped out afros, basketballs, race cars, ice skates, and soccer balls for dinosaurs, which is to say: It looks like every other Will Ferrell movie, which is also to say: It’ll make eleventy cajillion dollars and probably spawn a sequel. Fortunately, few — if any folks — have a particular attachment to the television show, which means we have no real memories available for roofies. It’s just a creepy, inappropriate touching of our childhoods.

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wow.

Posted by: Stella at February 10, 2009 10:37 AM

What amazes me about the trailer is that usually these films put the only four funny scenes into the trailer and yet there isn't one funny scene in the trailer, so what does that say about the rest of the film?

Posted by: PaddyDog at February 10, 2009 10:44 AM

It's not the worst idea, really. Try to improve on what we knew was crap even then.

Of course one could also call that "turd polishing".

Either way, no hard feelings and no interest, so they can have at it.

Posted by: Jay at February 10, 2009 10:45 AM

DR, There's a Pittsburgh radio station in some deep shit because one of the on-air guys told his audience that the 13th caller would win $1 million. He claims he was obviously joking and that nobody could take him seriously, but the 13th caller and the (I think) FCC were not so amused. The figure I saw as a fine for this stunt was $6,000.

So ... who wins the zombie DVD? Just askin' ...

(Back to the usual Will Ferrell douchezombieness ...)

Posted by: bucdaddy at February 10, 2009 10:45 AM

what does that say about the rest of the film?

My guess would be that the movie's not sure what it is.

Posted by: Jay at February 10, 2009 10:47 AM

Mythbusters proved that it was, in fact, possible to polish a turd. Cut to six months later and this trailer comes out. Way to go Adam and Jamie.

Posted by: Nimue at February 10, 2009 11:02 AM

What's the consensus on Farrell? Is he talented but lazy actor too addicted to the money he earns on crap to risk stretching himself or was he propped up by the writing on SNL(?!) and never really that good in the first place?

Posted by: Tracer Bullet at February 10, 2009 11:03 AM

The odd thing is, Jay, when you polish dirt long enough you get a dorodango, and those are beautiful.

You polish Will Ferrell and you just get a shinier Will Ferrell.

Dirt > Will Ferrell (for instances of Will Ferrell that are not 'Stranger than Fiction')

Posted by: twig at February 10, 2009 11:03 AM

FUCK WILL FERRELL!

That was my first reaction at the news that he'd made this movie. Then I realized that I don't have any memories of the tv show, and doubted that many people would care or even know there was an original...

And then I caught myself - see, it isn't just that he's made this potentially craptistic effigy. No, it's also the fact that we'll be pummeled into submission by months and months of trailers and promos and ads as the marketeers endeavour to make this the only movie we'll have any knowledge of until we cave in and drag our comatose, brainwashed children to see it!

And for THAT I say, "FUCK WILL FERRELL!!!"

Posted by: malikvlc at February 10, 2009 11:15 AM

Oh, I did fuck Will Ferrell once.

Then I rinsed my vagina out with bleach.

Posted by: Janey at February 10, 2009 11:20 AM

He was good in "Stranger than Fiction". That was a good movie in which he appeared, anyway.

And I'm still in favor of more Matt Lauer jokes. He is an extraordinary nut sack douchebag.

Posted by: hater from siloam springs at February 10, 2009 11:29 AM

How many sequels are there to Old School, Kicking and Screaming, Semi-Pro, Blades of Glory, Anchorman, Elf, etc.? You might be right about the eleventy cajillion dollars but there is no evidence to suggest that it will spawn a sequel.

As far as re-makes go, I agree that this is the least offensive type. There is a very slim likelihood that this is going to rape anyone's childhood.

Finally, although Ferrell movies are clearly redundant, for some reason I don't feel the disgust that I do when I get the wet fart in the face that is a Paul Blart, Larry the Cable Guy, Mike Meyers, Movie Movie, or Steve Martin 2.0. In fact, I can still laugh at Ferrell. So as far as current comedies go, this land of the lost remake is actually not all that offensive to me.

Posted by: Handel at February 10, 2009 11:36 AM

Who do you mean when you say we have very few memories of it? I'm assuming anyone born in the 80s has no memory of it. But some of us watched it every Saturday morning and loved the crap out of it. The Sleestacks scared me pissless.

And most of us are pissed Will Ferrell is in the movie adaptation. And that there even IS a movie adaptation. That was one memory better left in the 70s. So there I'll agree with you. But there ARE people who remember this show vividly. They're in their 30s and 40s now. Ug.

Posted by: Anastasia Beaverhausen at February 10, 2009 12:44 PM

No, I did watch it all the time. I just thought it was silly junk. But what else was I gonna watch?

Posted by: Jay at February 10, 2009 1:08 PM

Apologies, Anna, was rambling and typing faster than was thinking. Land of the Lost barely made it to Bermuda (we only had two channels for ages, an ABC affiliate and a CBS affiliate - horrors)... My memories of Saturday morning tv in the 70's were filled with Loony Tunes, Ark II, and immeasurable gobs of cartoons. Should have said not many people here would care...

Posted by: malikvlc at February 10, 2009 1:39 PM

While the original show was a bit campy (mostly with the kids and Chaka), it was also, bizarrely, written by some of the best and brightest science fiction authors of its day.

Larry Niven, Theodore Sturgeon, and Ben Bova all wrote episodes.

It was a darker, stranger show than we tend to remember, because a hell of a lot of it went right over the heads of the kids watching it. Anybody who was the right age to be watching it and claims the Sleestaks and their god-in-a-pit didn't scare them at least a little is a liar.

I'm glad at least that the movie is picking up on the time/space strangeness and not just the goofy dinosaurs and Chaka.

That said, it's probably going to suck.

Posted by: RudeMorgue at February 10, 2009 1:51 PM

Soooo, basically, we're looking at Bewitched, but with Dinosaurs and a leading lady that can show emotion. Aw nurtz.

I'm assuming anyone born in the 80s has no memory of it.

Anastasia Beaverhausen take it back! The played the hell out of that show Saturday mornings on Nickelodeon (you must remember that this was during the days of the company where they cared not for "educational" programming and regularly had shows with gnomes and characters called Donkey Lips) and my brother and I used to watch the marathons when they were on. Good Sleestak times. Oh well. Poor Anna Friel, first Pushing Daisies dies and then this lives. This is some fucked up shit.

Posted by: Kayanne at February 10, 2009 4:27 PM

I remember the TV show, but I never warmed up to it. All I really remember are the crappy special effects that looked cheesy even then, and Chaka. I always preferred Loony Tunes/Bugs Bunny/Road Runner cartoons for my Saturday junk food viewing.

And this movie looks like it blows big time.

Posted by: rlr260 at February 10, 2009 6:02 PM

Good to see they fixed up that Microsoft Movie Magic special effect at the end there with the dinosaur. Seriously, cajlions of dollars spent on a movie in 2008/9, and they can't get better special effects than Jurassic Park which came out in 1994?

Posted by: Chumplunt at February 11, 2009 1:08 AM

Man, this tv show was awesome. The theme song was great. I forgot all about it.

Posted by: kayla at February 11, 2009 1:24 PM

Will Ferrell gets a lifetime pass from me for being near perfect in "Stranger Than Fiction".

Posted by: Melissa at February 12, 2009 9:47 PM

I'm disappointed that it's going to be a comedy. I'd much prefer to see a mature take on the Land of the Lost concept. I love the old TV show for it's sci-fi underpinnings and melodrama, not the goofiness that occasionally crept in.

If you're interested in Land of the Lost, you might want to visit my fan site with coverage of both versions of the TV series and the latest news on the upcoming movie.

http://personal.linkline.com/enik1138/

Posted by: Enik at March 2, 2009 11:41 PM

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