Will Ferrell ruined Land of the Lost
Over at Big Hollywood, Mark Corallo explains how and why his 11-year-old son gave the best advice possible to parents who may be considering taking their kids to see the movie version of Land of the Lost, starring Will Ferrell:
Walk out. Don’t go. It’s gratuitously sexualized crap.
Such a shame. We bought the DVDs of the TV series, my kids loved it, and we had been looking forward to the movie.
Hollyweird strikes again.
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I have learned Will Ferrell plus any movie = ruined.
Well, I hate his movies anyway, he is am absolute beating after two minutes. But, you would think he would be able to make a movie like that without the sexual stuff.
Thanks for this! I actually wanted to see this movie….but now will stick to the re-runs of the show on cable.
Whew!
Not in the least surprised.
Never, ever thought he was in the least funny…just plain lame.
Will Ferrell is literally the most unfunny comedic actor I have ever seen. I love comedy, but I seriously do not understand why people think the guy is funny.
I’ve never been able to watch a Will Ferrell movie, though I’ve tried.
I have something like 600 movies on disc, and I really don’t need to waste time with something that is simply an insult to my taste and intelligence.
You needed a review to tell you this?
All I needed was two seconds of the commercials.
Thank God for TiVo so that I don’t have to watch more.
A Will Ferrell movie that isn’t funny? I didn’t know he made any that were.
A Hollywood movie that takes something magical and fun and turns it into filth? Yeah, they never do that.
When I want comedy, I list to “the one” speak without a teleprompter.
How can they sexualize Land of the Lost? First it really wasn’t a comedy originally. Will Ferrel would make it a comedy. . . I get that.
But where is the sex in the Land of the Lost when you are trying not to get eaten by T Rex?
I like sexual content usually. But the problem is that Hollywood gets lazy by using sex to sell movies instead of just making a good movie with a good story. It’s lazy writing.
When I was young I enjoyed the show as the closest thing to real science fiction a kid could find. When I heard they were doing a movie – with Will Ferrell – I decided to avoid it at all costs.
I’m a little shocked that anyone would expect something he stars in to be other than horrible.
The original Saturday morning series was so bad, it was almost fun to watch. The only thing worse was “Three’s Company”.
Oh, there were A LOT of things that were worse, even from Sid and Marty Krofft. “Sigmund and The Sea Monster”? “Lidsville”? “The Bugaloos”? “Land of the Lost” was like Shakespeare by comparison.
I saw the commercial, was interested for about 5 seconds, then I saw Will Ferrell – and I changed the channel very quickly.
Mr. Corallo’s review makes me believe it’s worse than I imagined, and I really dislike Will Farrell’s movies to begin with. Now I’ll lie awake wondering why the T. Rex’s digestive system performed so poorly.
My thoughts exactly.
People named Adam and Owen and sometimes Ben give him serious competition.
A Will Ferrell movie is like a Woody Allen movie. It was cute the first couple of times, Woody.
LOL!! I thought 11 year old boys liked gratuitously sexualized crap. That is kind of a disappointment tho; I was having fun making my 11 year old watch the scifi marathon of the Land of the Lost TV show to gear her up for watching the movie. Child protection services have not been contacted yet, but she has threatened me….
Land of the Lost is a movie? I thought it was a reference to California.
After all, Will Ferrell lives there, and a big chunk of the population is so disoriented they think they’re still in Mexico.
I just can’t figure out how he continues to get work.
I haven’t been to the cinema to see a movie since the second “Lord of the Rings” film, and it’s crap like this that vindicates my not doing so.
I quit going to theatres long ago. What a rip-off. I can wait for the videos– I am sure this lame flik will be in video soon enough but I won’t waste my time watching it.
When I was growing up, it was common to send kids to the theatre, on Saturdays, for the double-feature, newsreels and cartoon, without worry. Hollywood didn’t have to enhance lousy plots with sex, blood and vulgarity. It’s a waste of time now, and insulting. I’d rather wait for the review, if interesting; spoilers help too.
The Bush-hating Ferrell’s 15 minutes are up.
Young people today seem totally nonplussed how films like Casablanca and North By Northwest and They Run At Night and such could’ve enthralled entire generations without explosions and maiming and shootings and gutter words and sexual exercises (or even a kiss!) every five minutes. They’ve truly lost a sense of artistic quality.
James Greenidge
Queens, NY
I am proud to say I have never seen a Will Ferrell movie (on purpose), other than stumbling across a few minutes of “Anchorman” one night and waiting to laugh.
I took my boy at 5 (5 summers ago) to see the live-action version of one of our combined faves, “Thunderbirds” (hence my screen name). Besides some hand-holding between the two teen heroes, the worst sly “adult” joke was a character needing to use the underwire from her bra to pick a lock. They didn’t have to bespoil my best memories of the show. (It wasn’t by any means a great movie, but it sure sounds better than “LOTL.”)
As a parent, I’m also a little concerned at how some recent intense superhero/adventure flicks (”Batman Begins,” “Dark Knight,” “Iron Man” and the new “Terminator”) all have toy lines when the movies themselves are simply too intense for younger viewers. Good marketing for them, but it necessitates more vigilant parenting.
With the exception of Harry Potter, I stopped going…period!
This movie was indeed funny, but certainly not for young children. (No, I am not a Will Ferrell fan or apologist; I just like the movie.)
I, too, have fond memories of the old Saturday morning show. Some cable channel just showed a marathon of episodes last week. I rewatched a couple and realized the original show is just awful, but that didn’t stop the good feelings of nostalgia. The fella who played Rick Marshall actually was acting, but the writing was very Lucasian in style. (Star Wars critics know what I mean.)
Anyway, the good members of IMDB do a pretty good job of keeping up a parent’s guide for movies. You can find it on the left-hand column under “Awards & Reviews”. It’ll pretty much spell out anything remotely offensive about the movie. I check it before taking my children to see something questionable.
Since the kid in the link left at the 45 minute mark, he did miss something that many conservatives, and every Christian, would find offensive. During a scene where the “boys” of the movie are drunk/high on some fruit juice, Dr. Rick Marshall (Ferrell) announces his man-love for Chaka. Not bad, not uncommon behavior for an uninhibited release of fraternal feelings when one is not of sound mind, but, Marshall uses a simile of feeling a “billion times more love” than Christ felt for all humanity while he was on the cross. This drew more than a few sounds of people being completely taken aback, who, seconds earlier, were laughing. Certainly a daring moment in the script. It didn’t work to say the least, yet the writers were trying to use the ultimate example of love, and that was the metaphor they chose. Most writers wouldn’t do that, simply because it would not have occurred to them.
Other than that, the movie was a silly psychedelic send-up of action movies (a lot of shots at the Jurassic Park series) and the junkiness of America’s disposable culture. It wasn’t trying to be anything more than that, I believe.
What is unfortunate is that they use the name of the original show, the premise of the original show, and then give us something that, while paying homage to the show, most certainly isn’t a Saturday morning kiddie romp. That’s why most people are disappointed or even angry at this movie. They failed to manage and then failed to meet our expectations.
An 11 year old using words like “gratuitously”? Smart kid.
My parents and I were talking recently, after we watched a forties film noir on TCM, about how there were no movies made for adults anymore. And I don’t mean porn. Apparently, Hollywood ran out of stories years ago. Fortunately, you can still find good books written for adults.
Agreed. TCM is a joy.
If you can in your area, go see “Moon” starring Sam Rockwell. A thoughtful, compelling movie, for adults, that won’t make any money because there aren’t any action or sex sequences.
If capitalism has one downfall, just one, it is that sometimes the market can be pretty stupid. That means that in order to deliver something wonderful, the creator/inventor might have to suffer through being ignored by the masses. Not many blockbusters are works of art, and few works of art become blockbusters, in any medium.
When it does happen it is special. I’m hoping Moon is one of those times, but I have my doubts.
Totally agree! I don’t know who finds this guy entertaining, and why he keeps ruining movies!
Perhaps his movies do well in France.
The last time my wife and I went to a theater was to see Facing the Giants, a good movie. We usually rent DVDs.
I’m still waiting for a sequel to the Disney/Pixar movie Cars.
Will Ferrrell puts a lingering stink on a movie about the same as Adam Sandler did. I never thought Ferrell particularly funny. So I wont be watching this trash even when it hits Encore channel.
As he did Ron Burgundy and Talledega Nights. I bailed on those after about 20 minutes. Ferrell is one of those guys who tries so hard to be funny he comes off as stupid. You need talent to be funny.
I’d go to a will ferrel movie if I had free tickets, popcorn and a sleeper berth at the theater.
Geraldo on O’reilly one night defending ferrel on one of those stupid foul mouth little kid skits said he was “the funniest man on the planet” lol, thats a standing joke around here.
ferrel, funny, not.
More than a joy. In this age, a godsend.
ajmontana – you sound like the business men in A Christmas Carol. They’d only go to Scrooge’s funeral if a lunch were provided. I might go to a Will Ferrell movie if they fed me too
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Will Ferrell = Juvenile Behavior.
Same goes for Jack Black.
So that’s why the dinosaurs all died out, it was because they were all gay! I knew it! I knew it!
With everyone, re Woody Allen, Adam Sandler, Jack Black, Will Ferrell, & others named; and the vast majority of movies made over the last 40-50 years, etc.: agree, agree, agree, agree,…!!
Sad commentary of our society that this putz has a fan base. Ditto granite on those other examples of yours. I don’t spend a plug nickel to see any of them. Stupidity is “in.”
I’ve always thought Will Ferrel was either hit or miss. The family and I loved elf and it’s now a “Christmas Classic” at our house.
It’s a shame about this movie, I was a big fan of the series as a kid, even had my kids watching the LoL marathon on the SciFi channel to prep them to see the movie……bummer.
Hollyweird ruins everything it touches. Much like the dimrat party.
(Case in point: Pearl Harbor. The only good thing worth watching in that flick was Jon Voight.)
Stupidity is running the country, reporting the news, teaching our children, etc. The adults have been locked out and the juvenile delinquent asylum has taken over.
That’s pretty much all I watch now. I can’t get enough of John Wayne, Cary Grant, Humphrey Bogart, and Jimmy Cagney. They were real men… not this froo-froo, metrosexual, pretty-boy crap Hollyweird spews out.
Just watch the last 20 minutes of J. Wayne in Stagecoach, and you’ll understand what I’m talking about…
We’ll pass on Land of the Lost.
Which by the way… would be a good name for Hollywood.
Yeah, Tanker, I like that one too. As for Jack Black, I like School of Rock.
Throw in DC as well.
My rule of thumb is avoid all movies based on TV shows. If they’re just copying a plot from a TV show, the writers aren’t even trying.
It says something about people who grew up in the 70s. They can’t even come up with something original. They can only get nostalgic about bad TV shows.
So true. Look at how they butchered Charlies Angels, Bewitched and Starsky and Hutch. They can’t just leave well enough alone; they have to bleed things completely dry.
Truth be told, there were more drugs going around than in the sixties. Or maybe I was too young in the sixties.
Well, folks have pretty well summed up the utter lack of talent demonstrated by Ferrell and those like him. I figured it out years ago watching his doltish behavior on SNL. He wasn’t funny then and he isn’t funny now.
I don’t think I have ever paid to see one of his movies and I won’t be starting any time soon. Like most SNL skits, Ferrell just doesn’t know when to stop.
Love Anchorman. The Elf movie was OK, but everything else he’s done sucks.
I hope they don’t ruin the remake of “My Mother, The Car”! Jerry Van Dyke was so underrated!
Bingo!!!
Your guys are so cute! You live to be enraged at something. If it’s a slow news day and there’s nothing Democratic to distort, you get your dander up over a bad movie.
The funny thing is, you could find almost the same post at a liberal site like feministing.com. They too would take exception to gratuitous sex in a kids’ movie. When a movie is really bad, everybody knows it.
What, not even the cheerleader skits????
O Gad! I only caught that movie on a neighbor’s DVD but what a letdown! It’s like a Roger Moore take on a sterling Ian Fleming novel! I was HOPING that they’d play TB straight, not for kiddies, like some of those ’50s Air Force rescue flicks (like those Yul Brenner and Big John ones) or even that old “Emergency” TV show! When at summer school in England I recall how the Brit air show bands LOVED playing the TB theme! I’d love them to take another whack at TB — and do it straight — or adapted for technical reality; I always wondered if you actually had real engineers design IR, how would all that stuff look like?
FAB!
James Greenidge
Queens, NY
I thought even his Bush impersonations were sort of funny, but I read a review of his off-Broadway full length Bush skit, and heard he somehow felt he had to go fully and hatefully negative on Bush.
Sort of on topic, Bush may have had low popularity ratings late last year, but I suspect the more Obamanations we experience, the fonder we will be of GWB. Yes, I know his ‘compassionate conservative’ reach across the aisle stuff did him no good, he missed his chance to deal with either Iran or North Korea and had to no Obama wouldn’t care, and he accepted the idea of TARP that has us on the road to a fascist or at best Euro-socialist state where the government owns the majority of the economy, but he meant well, and he took big hits in his popularity keeping us safe after 9-11.
I don’t think Obama means well. I think he is a narcissist, and a mean spirited one at that. And has no trouble flat out lying.
Loved watching “Land of the Lost” with my daughter on Saturday mornings. Was looking forward to the movie till I read this review. Guess they took the “passing gas” joke, now prevalent in the new Disney movies, to a new sickening level. I will “pass” on this movie.
RE:
Charlie’s Angels.
Cameron Diaz is good looking, but never did much for me.
Lucy Liu is a babe.
And despite the childhood cocaine and alcohol abuse, I think Drew Barrymore isn’t bad looking at all.
No worse than the twerps on your side going into spastic hyperventilation over anything-Palin.
Flake off.
Comparing everything that hits the theaters today with TCM is hardly a fair comparison. TCM, as its name proclaims, is about showing the good films from the past. Hollywood has turned out plenty of tripe from the silent era to present day, but no cable channel interested in having an audience is going to show the vast majority of films from older times, because, like today, most of them sucked.
So, lament the sad state of society and Hollywood today, but remember that the “greatest year” in movie history, 1939, also brought us Torture Ship and various other equally bad movies.
Every year, every decade has its trash and exploitation. TCM will be showing today’s best movies in 20 years and there’ll be a cadre of people who decry the latest lame attempts at shocks or humor.
There’s nothing particularly different about today’s movies collectively when compared to other times, except maybe the the improvements in image clarity, sound and effects.
Good stories, well told, will always be welcome. But that isn’t all that Hollywood produced in bygone days.
I don’t think anyone here is enraged. Disappointed maybe, waxing nostalgic perhaps.
Are you always sour grapes? Is it natural or is it a schtick that you pull out. I’ll bet you’re a bundle of laughs at parties.
You are spot on. An example of his sneeky, sleeze at work check out:
http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/06/09/world/worldwatch/entry5076128.shtml
This is reminscant of the subtle middle finger placed on his face during the campaign when debating Hillary, etc. He’s so dang tricky, isn’t he?
Adam Sandler was great in BedTime Stories, very clean, great kids movie… I used to like Ferrell, but won’t watch him know, it’s good to know it isn’t kid friendly, my 13 year old wants to see it.
You have to wonder when all these so called “movie stars” say that they don’t let their kids watch movies/TV.. They put the crap out AND won’t let their kids watch it.. Very telling.
OT re: Obama.. http://hotair.com/archives/2009/06/10/big-labor-insolvent/
Ferrell is one of the most singularly unappealing characters in all modern-day “entertainment” culture, thus explaining exactly why he is so popular amongst its mindless drones.
The actual deep mystery is why the Idiot American Electorate votes for the clowns it does.
Yeah, I remember that. And he did it to McCain during one of his campaign speeches. I remember thinking at the time, “Oh, yeah, that middle finger thing is REALLY gonna scare the pants off our enemies…”
Although I generally don’t find him funny…I Did get a laugh from his character “Ron Burgundy-Anchorman”. I forget the name of the movie…silly stupid kinda movie….but that’s why it was funny.
Let’s face it the majority of hollywood heavies are jackasses…plain and simple…they live in another world.
…and completely energize the Democrat voting base. They have no morals.
Just for the record, it isn’t “Democratic,” it is liberal (or socialist or the laughable “progressive,” but not “Democratic.) It is the Democrat Party, not Democratic Party. It is not a party of “Democratics” is it?
So do you post at these sites, claiming that they are in needlessly “enraged?
And “cute?” I think your panties are showing.
Liberalism IS a mental disorder.
I think you answered your own question!
All remakes = fail.
Hollywood is totally useless and it get virtually zero of my dollars and attention — and I live there.
The only thing worth watching would be a Disney/ Pixar movie such as “Up” — and those come by once every year or two. Maybe I’ll muster up some initiative and rent the DVD when it comes out, if I happen to be in the same general area of a video store.
Mike Judge and the South Park creators are the only others doing anything decent (although the latter goes a bit too far on vulgarity). I think most of the posters here should watch Mike Judge’s “Idiocracy” to see where Will Ferrell and his ilk are taking our society to.
On June 10th, 2009 at 9:57 am, lgm said:
Well, looks like the students are at it again -
Sybil makes a nonsupportable statement and then floats on.
Who is enraged here?
Anybody here sound like his dander is up?
This poster supplies an infinite amount of foolishness – just more, and more, and more, and…, with each and every post.
Remarkable, in a way.
I think the movie would’ve been a lot better with more cowbell…
The guy in the article should have gone and gotten his money back. It’s the only way to tell the theater how you feel about the craptastic movies they keep running.
Is this guy seriously complaining about taking his 11 year old to a PG-13 movie, when he didn’t even check to see what it was rated?
Even still, if you want to say “the movies these days,” you have to realize that what we watched when we were kids was WAY raunchier than what passes for kids entertainment today. Remember the original Bad News Bears? The one where the coach was always drunk and called his kids Jews, spics, wops, and the ‘n’ word? That was PG.
The Walter Matthau character used the “n” word that rhymes with “trigger” in the first ‘Bad News Bears” movie?
I don’t remember that, and I almost think you pulled that from your butt, but if you care to provide some proof, I’m all eyes/ears/
Just helping you connect the dots.
homo
“when we were kids….” YOU ARE a kid!
I’ve never seen any of Ferrel’s movies,the trailers were all it took to convince me that he is a talentless waste of time.I used to watch the T.V. show with my kids,and enjoyed it.They shouldn’t take what were really good childrens’ shows and turn them into such trash.
Did anyone see David Duchovny on The Tonight Show this week? What a pervert. You could tell that Conan was creeped out by him, too. You’d think he would be a little reticent to talk about such things, after what he’s been through.
The movies started very well, though, not really kid friendly, then just kinda walked through to the end. Shame, because the potential for a good remake of the tv show was readily available.
That reminds me, I need to give Tia Leoni a call, see what she’s up to.
Another classic property ruined by Hollywood.
I saw what they did to Dukes of Hazzard! Didn’t even bother to see Bewitched.
This does not bode well for movie versions of Knight Rider and The A-Team that are being planned! So far the casting of A-Team seems acceptable, so far.
Hollywood doesn’t seem to understand why these properties were popular in the first place.
I also dislike Ben Stiller, who ruined Starsky and Hutch, but Night at The Museum does look good.
Corallo admits he didn’t bother to look at the movie’s rating or summaries of what’s in it. Exhibit A in parental malpractice As I noted in my review of the movie, it’s not only full of four-letter words and sexual crap, it’s just a stupid movie a three year old could have written.
I haven’t been over to look, but has anyone over there objected to Letterman making a joke about Palin’s 14 year old and a baseball player? Have you objected?
Actually, “Land of the Lost” was a bad show in almost every way.
Hollywood has remade (and ruined) so much of the good stuff that it now has to resort to remaking (and ruining) the bad.
Will Ferrell is OK, as long as he’s administered in very small doses.
In Idiocracy, all mankind becomes like him by 2525 AD.
Sounds like you folks should go to church instead of the movies.
While you’re at it, you should read your bibles instead of watching tv, or surfing the net.
Calling Zager & Evans?
Will Ferrell seems to play the same part no matter the movie or the plot. In my view, he’s single dimensional and not very talented.
Well, I did like Ferrell in Blades of Glory which was an adult movie but also very funny. It is true that he has left his Elf days far behind, which is a shame, but the failure of Land of the Lost, the movie, was the result of many contributors. Just look through the reviews in RottenTomatoes.com.
In any event, there are good movies out there. Clint Eastwood’s Gran Torino early this year was one of the best. Please check it out when you have time. Currently Up is quite good and for the whole family as well — though it suffer’s from Pixar’s half-movie syndrome, the first half is great, then in the second devolves into cliche action adventure.
What can I say? Times are tough, even in the movie business. You just have to search out the good stuff.
TCM. The only thing Ted Turner did right.