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Surprised that I'd never seen this, pretty sure I read the book as a kid. The 1925 film adaptation of H.G. Wells' "The Lost World".
A silent movie, now in the open domain, the reconstruction in sepia and black and white, no shortage of claymation dinosaurs, and, for the time, remarkably well done.
The animator (special effects guru) was Willis O'Brien, who later worked on "King Kong".
Perhaps most remarkable is how precisely the plot is recycled for every single dinosaur movie since - the "Jurassic Park" franchise especially comes to mind.
Worthwhile.
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File this under "Nostalgia Porn". I loved the first of the trilogy, despised the second, never saw the third.
But for some reason I was persuaded - How? Why? To watch this.
Briefly - cheesy beyond belief, but - somehow, for some reason, I liked.
Now - to be clear - it was unnecessary, bad, irrelevant, or relevant only to those maybe that saw the original and wanted to relive a few memories that would better have been lived by seeing the original again. My "liking" in this is no endorsement, it brings nothing new to the series, it does for the original idea what Disney has done for Star Wars, a pure - unabashed - cash grab. So - I liked it - but - I also watched the entire "Mandalorian" series, and I smoke Pall Mall cigarettes and drink Smirnoff Vodka. SO - in review, utter garbage, but for some reason I got on the "Keanu" train and turned my brain off for an evening and it wasn't the worse thing in the world, but I can't in good conscience recommend it.
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THE 25 BEST FILMS OF 2021: A Video Countdown from david ehrlich on Vimeo.
I was surprised by how many I'd seen - and how long ago it seems. But - it appears there still are a few excellent ones left ...
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Apparently one of the top movies of 2021.
Good, but -
Well, not precisely my thing. More like a "Movies made for Oscars" than "Movies made for People", if you get my drift.
There are more challenging films out there.
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The reviews were so-so, trying to be kind, not too damning, but I wanted to see it nonetheless, it was filmed in Fort MacLeod, Drumheller, the badlands, I wanted to visit if only in film. And for that it was good - it was interesting seeing how they rebranded all the local businesses (in reality, like the butcher downstairs - or digitally? I would hope digitally given the abundance of special effects.)
But the movie - well, 0 stars is generous. And I get that there's really not a lot of plot to this - but - basically I could sum it up with "Ghosts - Celebrity Cameos". And by the time the old crew did their obligatory cameos it had the same awkwardness of seeing Brad Pitt or Angelina Jolie in an adult diaper commercial - I don't care what they paid you, but just don't. And I understood why Bill Murray didn't want to do this - Really - but in the end he did and I'm pretty sure in those final moments I could see his regret.