Post by George Willson on Oct 26, 2005 17:38:16 GMT -5
The is the 1925 silent film based on Arthur Conan Doyle's novel. This film is famous for its dinosaurs which tend to show up as archive footage in a ton of other movies and such. It's dinosaur special effects and the combining of the dinosaurs with the live actors is still very good, so it 1925, it probably blew everyone away. This was one of the first movies that showed that when making a movie, the only limit is your imagination.
Plot wise, it takes off pretty good but once they reach the plateau of the dinosaurs, it really drags. I nearly fell asleep, and that's rare during a film of any kind. Once we got back to London with the dinosaur, the movie picked back up again to a decent finish. The interactions between the dinosaur and the town and people of London was very well executed effects-wise.
It's an iconic movie in film history, and the version I watched had a good 30 minutes of footage restored to it. Still worth watching for the history, but I think they maybe should have left those 30 minutes out.
Plot wise, it takes off pretty good but once they reach the plateau of the dinosaurs, it really drags. I nearly fell asleep, and that's rare during a film of any kind. Once we got back to London with the dinosaur, the movie picked back up again to a decent finish. The interactions between the dinosaur and the town and people of London was very well executed effects-wise.
It's an iconic movie in film history, and the version I watched had a good 30 minutes of footage restored to it. Still worth watching for the history, but I think they maybe should have left those 30 minutes out.