The Lost World (1925)

I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

hyped garbage

Blistering performances.

The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.

This version greatly improves upon the previous Image Entertainment DVD release. Not only is it a new HD film scan masterfully done by Lobster Films in Paris, but there are many special features, including a new stereo orchestral score by Robert Israel, deleted scenes, a couple of short films directed by special effects master Willis O'Brien, an image gallery and a booklet chronicling the restoration of this important film that made the classic King Kong possible.

Due to Jeff Goldblum's smugness and a very poor script, The Lost World is one of Stephen Spielberg's weakest movies, featuring action sequences that last too long, too many characters to mention, and an underused Arliss Howard. Luckily someone in 1925 made a great film also called The Lost World, so you should probably watch that one instead.In what I think is the British Natural History museum, a professor has announced that he's found a hard to access plateaux that still holds a full eco-system of dinosaurs. Fed up with everyone pointing and laughing at him, the professor states that he's heading back there to rescue someone he had to leave behind. He recruits the daughter of the missing man, a cynical scientist, a big game hunter, a guy in blacked up make up called, worryingly, Zambo, and very reluctantly, a journalist (after the two of them have a good old punch up). They also have some other guy and a monkey tag along too.They get to the plateaux pretty quickly, and just in time to see a Pteradactyl flying around, so they know they're at the right place. There's also some kind of monkey man up there who doesn't like the look of these strangers and tries to crush them with a rock (the make up for this guy is top class, considering the age of this film). Eventually, they do get up there, only for a Brontosaurus to come along and ruin their only route out.What follows thereafter is a brilliant parade of stop motion dinosaurs chowing down on each other and trying to eat the cast, while the cast are stalked by monkey man and try and figure out how to escape. For example, an Allosaur attacks a Tricerotops and gets gored for his trouble, only for another Allosaur to come along, attack the Tricerotops, then grab a Pteradactyl out of the sky and eat that too! That's good stuff right there man. There's also a post-volcanic eruption scene full of dinosaurs that must have been some spectacle back in the day.It's a very short film (just over an hour, although now I see that I've watched an edited version) and worth a look for those interested in the old dinosaur movies, or to see what a special effects extravaganza from the twenties looks like. I liked it immensely. You might too. The stop motion stuff isn't too far from what Brett Piper does these days to be honest. Also, the professor reminded me of Brian Blessed.Or you can go watch the Hunger Games or whatever. I don't care.

The Lost World is incredibly ahead of its time being a mid 20's silent film with loads of creativity and well done animation. I'm still a little baffled as how the creators managed to make these dinosaurs seem so real on grainy footage. There are a ton of fight scenes between different types of dinosaurs that portrayed them pretty well to their potential ancient characters. The storyline was pretty good, dull at times, I just wish they would have added more dialogue and shortened up the duration of the readings. I found most of the characters unlikeable especially Malone and the professor but they weren't bad enough to make me dislike the film. Going into the movie I thought the plot was going to center around the humans and dinosaurs so I found it interesting and kind of cool to see that they added some buffoon type natives and an evil ape creature. I can definitely see how this movie set up for classics like King Kong and Jurassic Park. If you have the patience for an older silent film I really recommend The Lost World.

Last weekend I attended a screening of Harry Hoyt's THE LOST WORLD that offered the one- hour version. The quality of the image was great and the score was performed live. And I only had the obvious reference of it: Willis H. O'Brien, who was responsible for the special effects in KING KONG (the original 1933 version certainly), worked here, doing the stop-motion material as well. I'm pretty sure I'll write *King Kong* a whole lot more in this commentary since this is similar to "Kong" in many ways. I was actually very surprised because of that fact; I, certainly, expected similarity to "Kong" but really nothing more than something technical oriented. Actually, I would say THE LOST WORLD is pretty much KING KONG. It doesn't have, however, a very iconic character (nor a sad ending); after all, it isn't titled after the name of a specific creature (here we have dinosaurs of all kinds). But don't let this confuse you dear reader since "Lost World" does features iconic scenes. In other words, the dinosaur here (the one that suffers a similar denouement to the one Kong had) doesn't climbs a famous London building, equivalent to New York's Empire State (yes, this film, or better said, the last part of it is set in London, England), but we do enjoy a really wonderful scene featuring the dinosaur at a London landmark. Needless to say, this was made eight years before "Kong". THE LOST WORLD is one of those films that are worth watching not just because they were influential. I mean, this is so much FUN! Unlike many films of this kind, it never hesitates when it comes to show you its main attraction (the dinosaurs of course) – we get to watch lots of fights between them (great and fun material) and some heart as well (there's a crazy ape- man too). I'm willing to seek the DVD of it and hopefully I get to watch the full (or just longer) version. Meanwhile, this one-hour piece was a blast and a perfect Saturday night movie! Watch it, even if it's the online version that IMDb is offering now for free. *Watched it on 25 August, 2012