The Land of the Lost

Once upon a time I was very bored so I decided to go see a funny movie...That movie was “The Land of the Lost”. The Land of the Lost is loosely based on a children’s TV series back in the 70’s, it’s an unusual basis for a movie but it works. Dr. Rick Marshall a.k.a Will Ferrel is a scientist famous for being a complete nut job. After a rather sour interview with Matt Lower Marshall’s secret admirer convinces him to test the “Takyon Amplifier”, a machine that doesn’t send you forwards or backwards in time but sideways. The experiment is a success but the team find themselves trapped in “The Land of the Lost”. The story lacks substance but it doesn’t really matter. It’s defiantly not Will Ferrell’s funniest movie, compared to Stranger than Fiction or Anchorman Land of Lost falls a little short. It’s like comparing a delicious three course feast to an Egg Mcmuffin. There we were living our dreary worker day lives when came along Anchorman and swept us right off our feet and took us on an amazing ride going through rings of blue fire. The thing that made Anchorman and Stranger fiction great was because this was a side of Will Ferrel we’d never seen before, it was a brand new experience. Rick Marshall is a little too much like Will Ferrell’s past roles like Ricky Bobby from Talladega Nights. I enjoyed Land of the Lost, but if you really want see a great Will Ferrell movie here’s a reliable list of good ones:

Stranger than Fiction

Blades of Glory

The Doomsday Book

Doomsday Book is an interesting read, the plot follows a very linear progression from start to finish.

Sure there’s some surprises along the way but for a book that spans 578 pages in small print the plot is very straight forward. Not that it is necessarily a bad thing, it’s just worth noting.

The Doomsday book is set in the not too distant future probably the year 2020, which back in 1992 sounded like a long ways off.

In the future not much has changed, we still drive the same cars, wear the same clothing, eat the same crappy food, but we can, however send people back in time.

Kivrin Engle, a young historian uses the time machine to travel back to the 1320’s to do research; trouble is that she was accidently sent to 1348, the same time the Black Plague reared it’s ugly head. And to top that off a bad case of influenza breaks out in modern day England.

It’s an interesting take on the pulpy “Back to the future” theme and seems real in a sense.

That’s pretty much all there is to say about the story, it’s clever and it’s well written that’s all that need be said. The tale can seem very dark at times, The Doomsday book is a very convincing account of a serf in a plague-ridden town.


In closing The Doomsday book is a good science fiction that can be enjoyed by both young and old.....and the fat.