Land of The Lost
Posted by spankingbeaarthur on June 3, 2009
Swanner: I’m thinking the title refers to where your money goes when you see this film. Land of the Lost is the latest movie from star Will Ferrell and if there is a god then it should be his last. Ferrell plays Dr. Rick Marshall, a scientist who has found a way to travel to other dimensions. I can’t believe that someone green lighted this rumored $100 million dollar mess.
Judd: I liked it! No, I didn’t. I will say it was better than I expected. Of course, I expected to want to throw circular saw blades at the screen or gouge my own eyes out with a grapefruit spoon. I didn’t want to do either, so I was delightfully surprised.
Swanner: Delightfully surprised? You disgust me. If Will Ferrell hadn’t mentioned a Mama’s Family marathon you would have hated the movie. $100 million dollars for that thing? Really? You’re okay with that? Mediocre special effects and a horrible script with Will Ferrell doing anything he wants to and for as long as he wants .
Judd: I said it was better than expected. Like the difference between expecting to die tomorrow from nut cancer and being told I’m going to live, but they’re going to have to replace them with marbles. In that case, a person would be delightfully surprised to have glass balls. I would ask the have them replaced with shooter marbles, or better yet paper weights. Big ol’ clackers.
Swanner: That is your argument?? What I didn’t like about the movie was that it was much more adult then the original series. What about the children who think it’s like the series? It was a horrible script and the director or the editor let Ferrell ramble…not being funny. The storyline was dumb and the acting was surprisingly not good. I did like that when Ferrell gets bitten by the mosquito, his face starts to go gray as the blood is drained from his body. That was good and the scenes with Matt Lauer so I liked about 5 minutes of the film.
Judd: Since you’re forcing me to talk about the movie, I didn’t think it was good. I was actually surprised at how adult oriented the humor was. The original show was a Saturday morning show for kids, and this version included sex jokes, drug jokes, and the language was about as course as a PG-13 movie can be. I wouldn’t recommend anyone to go to the theatre to see this movie – however, I can think of select few that I would recommend to give the movie a rent, to watch at home and under the influence.
Swanner: Well hip hip hooray. I thought you had lost your mind. I’m not saying that the movie is unwatchable, there is an audience for this film. I think stoners are the target audience for the film not children. I still can’t figure how they spent $100 million dollars filming a movie in the desert. One good thing about all this is I have another movie to add to my worst picture list…so there is a silver lining.
Judd: I’m totally indifferent about the movie. I didn’t think it was good, but I’ve seen worse movies that have affected me more. A colleague of our left the theatre fuming mad she had to sit through such a steaming pile. I’m blasé about it. I don’t think it even comes close to the crap we’re going to see in August and September.
Swanner: 1 ½ Stars (for Matt Lauer)
Judd: 1 ¾ Stars
