LAND OF THE LOST Post Release - Page 2

In an attempt to refocus the thread, I'd like to discuss this question from the film:

If you shot a ton of pot at the sun, would it burn up and get everybody high?

I'm not trolling anyone, simply responding to people who feel the need to take issue with my thoughts about this movie. If you don't agree with me, fine, I don't give a fuck, but don't think I won't respond if somebody wants to play

Saw it last night - me and 5 good friends (all of us Ferrell fans, with good recollections of the show) went to happy hour after work, and then the movie after that, being a little buzzed. We were the only ones in the theater, and we all laughed our asses off. It was a real blast.

But yeah, it was fucking weird as shit. I am stunned that a major studio made such a fucked-up and trippy movie as this, and for a summer tent-pole no less.

Yeah thanks, you have no idea what you're on about.

I just got back and loved the shit out of this, laughed my fucking arse off. Most of the time I couldn't quite believe I was watching such a random, surreal, obvious stoner comedy masquerading as a big budget special effect laden family comedy.

I could watch Ferrel and McBride riff off each other for hours, and I was pretty impressed with Jorma Taccone's Chakka, not only was he funny as hell, he was able to hold his own while essentially speaking gibberish.

...and I can't believe no ones mentioned Ferrell on the banjo as the giant mosquito sucks him dry - my missus and I literally couldn't breathe by the end of that scene.

So Devin, thanks for your review, which switched this from "catch eventually on dvd" to "watch as soon as I can at the cinema".

Fucked up, surreal and funny as fuck.

We disagree with you. Don't get your right-wing panties in a bunch.

Saw this last night. Laughed a lot - thanks for the headsup, Devin.

I enjoyed the film. Was quite surprised by all the drug references and adult jokes (You should sit on this holly!) but I just wish Will Ferrel would go away. His man-child blowhard shtick got old a few years ago. Outside of anchorman and Step brothers (which was worked inspite of him), the man has been churning out shit for a while now. He's tolerable in this film, but just barely.

Danny Mcbride was fun, and Anna Friels tits are being googled as I type this. Mainly, I really dug the dinosaur stuff. Grumpy was great, the compy's using the raft as the fun trampoline made me laugh and I don't think I'll ever forget the frozen exploding Allosaurus.

Saw it today and loved it. Lots of bored and/or befuddled children in the theater with their parents laughing their asses off. Lots of fun. I'm surprised at how good the special effects and production design was. They really spent some bucks on this (which they sadly will not get back).

Ferrell and McBride can make 20 more movies together as far as I'm concerned. Their timing and chemistry is fucking gold.

Honestly I don't get this logic, what did you expect going in? Ferrell does what Ferrell does, if you don't like it why would you see 'A Will Ferrell Comedy'?

Case in point; outside of Happy Gilmore and Billy Madison, I find Adam Sandlers schtick incredibly grating, as a consequence, I would never spend $15 to go and see a movie he was starring in at the cinema where it was obviously full of his schtick - I don't see how that's so hard.

Prior to Land of the Lost I had only seen Will Ferrell in Melinda and Melinda, so his shtick was fresh to me (yes I've gone through life never having seen Anchorman et al. Since everyone around me has repeated catch phrases from that move ad nauseum I don't feel I need to actually watch the movie)

Ina way I wish they'd gone even farther with the adult humor. This was never going to appeal to a broad audience.

Now, I do agree that the source material could have made for an epic adventure, and maybe someday we'll get a Ron Moore like revamp (actually Moore would be just the guy to do this). But that's not the movie we got.

I finally got some time away from child rearing to go see this last night. The sound was fucked in the theatre. I went and complained and the popcorn monkey said he'd look into it. When I complained again 10 minutes later, the SAME popcorn monkey said the cinema had been having trouble for days.

I saw up until they got in the raft before I got a refund and went home.

So yeah, that sucks.

I have a friend who's seen this four times by himself on shrooms. I'm not sure if that says something about the movie or my friend, but now I'm intrigued to see this.

I watched it for Danny mcbride, the dinosaurs and some of the campy sci fi stuff. In that regard, I wasn't disappointed. Free movie voucher well spent. I haven't recommened the movie to anyone else though.

I didn't always dislike Will ferrell. Just kinda hoped he would be doing something more, y'know? I liked what I saw in the trailers with the interplay he had with the rest of the cast and the T.Rex. Ferrell can be okay if he's surrounded by a talented cast (again: see Anchorman and Step-brothers) I was kinda hoping some of that Danny mcbride charm might rub off on him and make him funny. It didn't, I complained. And I moved on. Won't be suckered into another Ferrel movie unless it has two or three exploding dinosaurs.

What about Stranger Than Fiction and Winter Passing, jmub?

Land of the Lost ruled.

This makes a lot of sense. I think it says equally as much about your friend AND the movie

Caught it last week and loved it. No way I was going to miss it, but I'm glad I screened it before blindly taking my daughter. My wife, brother, and his girfriend, and I were quoting it all week.

One thing is strange, how come I can't find any merch for this?

haven't seen any merch except for the free poster the theater gave me when I saw it. there were so few other people seeing the movie they gave me a bunch of the posters. so now I don't need to buy anybody any Xmas gifts

Devin's right - in a year or so you'll be able to walk into any Hot Topic and buy a Chaka shirt. I suspect it's going to be an Austin Powers thing. No merch for an underperforming theatrical, then an avalanche of merch when college kids start mainlining it on dvd.

There's a couple of very funny parts, but if it weren't for the wonderful art design (the sets, the special effects, all look very fake in a very specific lovely way) and extremely laidback tone, this would have been a slog to get through.

I was surprised how not kid-friendly this was, though.

Watched it with the family and must say it was average. The direction and art design were wonderful, but who edited this thing? There is a better film in there; somewhere between the good jokes that ran too long and the bad jokes that for some reason never made it to the cutting room floor.

Yeah, but doesn't that stuff usually come out when (or before) the film debuts? I'm guessing the studio didn't have any faith in it. I'd totally wear a "Fuck you, Chaka" shirt.

You hit the nail on the head. I suspect the studio marketers wrote this one off, and that they did so in much the way the first Powers movie was written off. They looked at what they had and decided to hold off on the Chaka shirts until they were assured that the movie's audience would want them.

Look at Nightmare Before Christmas as a comparative merch example: That film had a ton of marketable characters, but Disney had no real faith in the film's ability to move ancillary product. It was considered too scary for kids and too weird for their target adult audience, similar to how LotL is too trippy and 'adult' for kids, and too goofy/weird for the 'family' crowd. I distinctly remember going into a Disney Store at the time of Nightmare's release and finding two or three merch options, all of them ties.

After the film became a cult hit, Disney churned out the merch for fans. You can't throw a figurative stone now in a comic store without hitting something Nightmare related.

I fully expect to see a Chaka shirt hanging on the Forbidden Planet display wall sooner rather than later, but it'll be because the film's cult audience demands it, not because the marketers want to supply it.

I saw it and liked it. I don't know why so many critics decided to savage it.

The other thing that bugs me is people complaining that Will Ferrell does the same thing here as he does in other movies. Of course he does. He's a comedian. He has several comedic personas he plays, like pretty much any movie comedian, and he repeats them ad nauseum. Does Bill Murray or Eddie Murphy really distinctly change their comic persona more than once in a long while?

That said, I wish he'd do more Stranger Than Fiction like stuff. I really enjoyed that one.

Saw it again last night with a date, and about 10 other people in the theater. The movie KILLED. My date almost passed out laughing during the "Believe" scene with the auto-tune voices.

I want a "You're a little bastard, Cha-Ka!" shirt.

Sucks so hard that it bombed. I honestly have no idea why the critics didn't like this.

I'm gonna come down firmly in the PRO- side of this movie. I saw it tonight at a second-run theater to a half-full audience who seemed to mostly dig it.

It's certainly weird. It certainly has a laid back tone. And it's definitely funny.

I'm gonna be watching this again, for sure. And I suspect all the suspicion about this movie getting a lot of play in college dorm rooms in a few years is right on the money.

Patrick said it earlier: the set design is kind of gorgeous and wonderful and very psychedelic. I dug the shit out of it. And I'm not even a psychedelic type of guy.

In a lot of ways, this movie played like the scifi/fantasy movies I liked a lot as a kid, but aimed at an older crowd. This movie will get replayed in 30 years at repertory houses. Not for greatness, but because it'll be one of those hidden little gems most people don't know about.

I'd like to pile on with the "Thank you, Devin!" comments. Glad I got to check this out. Some really good Ferrell and McBride moments. And Dre has a very good point about the look of the film -- some beautiful stuff here, and I like the shaky, handheld work done for a lot of the action.

Probably would have skipped it too, were it not for the buzz about its subversiveness. Caught a matinee yesterday and had a good time with it.

I loved all the slightly adult stuff, especially "Fuck You, Chaka" and the tripping balls sequence ("He is hilarious! His joke's are so dirty!"). But the bit that really made me laugh, and I coudn't even tell you why, was McBride enticing Ferell into a Cher singalong.

Also: Friel is looking real nice these days, but her accent was all over the place and I found it annoying. I kind of wish she'd gone for a Queen's English accent, being from Cambridge and all that and her Mancunian accent slipping in every now and then made me cringe.

Movie's weird as it gets. You just never know where it will take you (except Will staying, called that the second they go in). Some really good jokes in there, but overall it didn't quite click.

Chaka was the worst thing to endure. Best bit was Drugged McBride asking Chaka if he was a cop.

But holy shit did they spend money on this. The effects were great and it looked epic, while at the same time looking cheap as fuck. Weird combo.

Finally saw this. I would comment that from a comedy standpoint, this movie didn't surprise me at all. It's hard for me to believe that most people would expect a Will Ferrell movie would be "family friendly," property and marketing notwithstanding. Ferrell is essentially doing the same "two idiots perfectly in sync" thing with McBride that he's done twice with John C. Reilly now, which occasionally works but is a little old at this point. There are a couple of great laughs (I laughed a little harder at the mannequin gag then I'd care to admit) but overall the film feels pretty average for a Ferrell comedy. Perhaps it'll grow on me.
As others have noted, the film's real strength is how well the concept is executed. Everything we see has a weirdly beautiful retro style that does not come across as cheap or satiric of the original show, even moreso than "Star Trek." That combined with the reasonable faithfully reproduced series mythology definitely makes for a very weird kind of movie.
One thing I don't get: the Land of the Lost is supposed to be an alternate universe, not the distant past, right? So what's up with the fossil of Marshall's lighter? How did Holly get it?

Holy crap is the BD for this gorgeous. I enjoyed the movie a lot, but got the feeling the studio didn't know at all what it had on its hands. Subversive and they got away with quite a bit. Echoing the love for the McBride's "Are you a cop?" to Chaka. I have a feeling this will be quoted to the point of exhaustion as more people discover it on DVD/Cable.

I finally watched this the other night. I loved it. I remember Devin talking about it gaining cult status in the future and I was intrigued but missed it in theaters. Seeing it now i could not agree more. The drug scene was incredible and strange. Me and my buddy lost it when McBride is squeezing a giant lemon on the giant crab leg

Some of Danny McBride's riffs (the cave tour, the casino/hotel) cracked me up. Ferrel's riff on Hadrosaur urine still had me cracking up a couple of days after seeing the film. The way he gets the urine in his mouth, puts his fist on his lips, and tries to chug it back, only to vomit it out and say "Don't do that." is just perfect.

The last third totally lost my attention. I guess the plot got in the way, for me.

Overall, I was left wanting a film in which MrBride and Ferrel just get to riff, with plot taking a firm backseat to their creativity. The improv feel of the movie works that well.

EDIT:
McBride squeezing a giant lemon over a giant crab leg.
Using alien technology to auto-tune Cher.

The deleted scenes are terrible, but this movie holds up. The last third has Ferrell sliding down the dinosaur and McBride commenting on it. Best thing Silbering has ever done or will ever do.

I think I laughed harder at the auto-tune crystal scene than I've ever done in a theater before.

It's even better at home.

"This is a doughnut stuffed with M&Ms. That way when you're finished with the doughnut you don't have to eat any M&Ms."

"I have made the determination that, if need be, if faced with starvation, we will cook and eat Cha-Ka...if you slow roast the little guy I'm sure that Cha-Ka meat would just fall right off the bone."

Funny but not hysterical. Enjoyed the look of the film. Pretty much had the same impression as Ripoll. Chaka's only really surprising moment was his song. Loved the bug-bite after the exploding mosquito gag. Too many of the gags were set-up, punchline. Like the walnut for instance. "Never trust a guy in a tunic."

"Do you be-LEEEEEIVE in life after luuuUUUUUV!?"

So funny.

I'm not that great with overly laid back comedies. Some of this movie tried my patience. But once I got into its groove, it was really enjoyable. Loved the use of animatronics. Just seeing those sleestaks trying to lipsync their dialogue makes me laugh.

I've been randomly chanting, "God I hope I get it! I hope I get it!" to myself all day.

I can't understand how more people don't like this movie. I genuinely cannot understand it. It's HILARIOUS.

And I'm not even being sarcastic. An article in a recent NY Times said two execs at Universal were fired as a direct result of LotL bombing.

Apparently, you can judge which movie from the Will Ferrell Club is good by if it bombed or not.

Great / Good:

Semi-Pro ($33,479,698)
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story ($18,317,151) (in the Club by proxy)
Land of the Lost ($49,438,370)
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy ($85,288,303) (way better than Ricky Bobby)


Mediocre / Bad:

Blades of Glory ($118,594,548)
Step Brothers ($100,468,793)
Kicking and Screaming ($52,842,724) (way more than it deserved)
Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby ($148,213,377)

The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard barely made $15 million, so I'm guessing I'm gonna like it a whole bunch.

I wouldn't say that Semi-Pro is better than Blades of Glory, Step Brothers or Talladega NIghts.

Talladega Nights is overrated.

Semi-Pro was way better than I expected.

"It's like the Titanic, but with bears!"

Chaka just reminds me of that creepy gif of all those furry Gary Buseys coming out of caves. Similar teeth.

I'm not sure if I'd call Anchorman a bomb, but I'm happy to see I'm not alone in liking Semi-Pro. Also, this movie is great, but I can definitely see why it bombed. The commercials seemed to aim it at families, and I'm not sure how big of a following the tv show has at this point. None of this takes away from the joy of watching Will Ferrell wrestle a Sleestak. This movie makes me wish that I smoked pot.

It wasn't a bomb per se, but it was way better than Blades, Brothers and Nights.

I love this movie with a fiery passion. Then again, I'm one of the remaining few who think Ferrell is pretty much hilarious in anything he does (except Semi-Pro, no, never Semi-Pro... well, maybe a little). I won't rehash all of the excellent moments folks have already mentioned. I will say, however, that McBride's lines when he realized that Ferrell had been excreted by Grumpy had me on the floor:

"You were deuced out by a dinosaur. That is incredibly cool."
*suddenly introspective*
"I have seen things... I have seen things."

Finally saw this about two weeks ago, and yup, it's fucking funny. I'm totally down on myself now for not seeing it in the theater.

"Is that A Chorus Line? "

"It's left over data from the drive. What a piece of crap! The machine, I mean, not A Chorus Line. I love showtunes, they really tell the story of the human condition."

"It's a bit gay."

"It IS great."

God, I love being late to the party. I really liked this. Had to stop and double check the rating as I was watching, because I could have sworn it was PG or PG-13. Well, it is, yet there's McBride telling Anna Friel that she's going to get wet on that ride.

"And when everything's complete, I will turn the tip of this golden tee pee into my personal lair. And I will take a mate, and live the rest of my life with her up here. And when we fight, and she pisses me off, I will banish her to this tip, where she will be kept as a prisoner and a slave."

"I got the gloves on, the hat, the pageantry."

Also, the giant walnut gag really cracked me up. The idea of the dinosaur getting his feelings hurt and carrying a grudge just killed me.