Netflix greenlights new "Lost in Space"
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Exactly. His use of Smith's catchphrases were injected pretty organically for the most part.
Yeah, the one they did play for a laugh was "The pain..."
Maybe the 90s LiS looked more "contemporary" but now that it's close to 20 years hence, I don't find it has the same timeless appeal of the 60s show. I mean, everything starts to look outdated after a while, and when they do, the timeless stuff can be appreciated as if it's art (rather than speculative technology), whereas the rest just looks...well...dated and dull.
Yeah, the bright colors and styles of the sixties clothing is especially dated. I've watched very little of the LiS TV show, but what I've seen looks incredibly old/cheesy, and not in a good way. The robot is probably the only thing that's not a bad kind of dated.
Lost In Space '98 was a bad movie then and has aged even worse now. At least the '60s TV series has a nostalgic, retro sci-fi, campy fun vibe. I wonder what will be the new series' take.
ah, no it wasn't. It just wasn't what the original fans wanted it to be. A lot of people hated the that the show went "campy" including the stars of the show. It ruined it when it became the clown Dr Smith show.
Undoubtedly the camp got worse and in later seasons it became the "Dr. Smith & Will Show", but it wasn't exactly hard sci-fi to begin with. Although I guess the pilot was pretty serious for the times.
They crash into a planet with a time anomaly and meet an older version of Will who is not Bill Mumy.
Seriously?
They tried to wow and confuse US with future versions of our heroes?
Boooo!
Wow.
I saw Old Will Robinson on The Expanse Last Night.
Trippy.
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I don't think Bill Bumy is a good actor. And Bill Mumy still looks too young to play the Will in the future.
I had no idea that was the same person!I saw Old Will Robinson on The Expanse Last Night.
Trippy.
Of course, it's been quite a while since I've watched the LiS movie.
Bill Mumy was intended to play his older self (along with the other original cast cameos) but something fell through.
He was great in Babylon 5-
He was great in Babylon 5-
IIRC they (the producers) didn't want to confuse the audience.
I watched the 1998 LiS the other night. 75% of it is much better than I remember. I like a lot of the design. I enjoyed Oldman more than I recalled. The rest of the cast was solid. (Will is especially good, I think.)
Having just watched the original TV show on Hulu I was amazed at how much inspiration the movie took from the show. But it still feels like a pilot of a TV show: The first half is setup. The second half is closer to what a normal episode will feel like.
Glorp is terrible. He was terrible then. But the Robot manages to be terrific.
He's worse now. Some of the CG holds up really well. Some of it doesn't.
The model work is gorgeous. The Jupiter 1 transforming into the Jupiter 2 gives me chills.
Jared Harris is SO AWFUL. I thought he was awful in '98 and I had no idea why he wasn't Bill Mumy (who could not possibly have been worse). I didn't even know that Mumy had lobbied for the part. But there is no reason to make "Old Will" if you're not going to have Old Will play him. It just seems obvious. I've since seen Harris in other things and he's pretty terrific. Why is he so terrible here?
So now I'm pretty excited for the Netflix show. I wonder if they have any intention of making this a family friendly show or not?
Having just watched the original TV show on Hulu I was amazed at how much inspiration the movie took from the show. But it still feels like a pilot of a TV show: The first half is setup. The second half is closer to what a normal episode will feel like.
Glorp is terrible. He was terrible then. But the Robot manages to be terrific.
He's worse now. Some of the CG holds up really well. Some of it doesn't.
The model work is gorgeous. The Jupiter 1 transforming into the Jupiter 2 gives me chills.
Jared Harris is SO AWFUL. I thought he was awful in '98 and I had no idea why he wasn't Bill Mumy (who could not possibly have been worse). I didn't even know that Mumy had lobbied for the part. But there is no reason to make "Old Will" if you're not going to have Old Will play him. It just seems obvious. I've since seen Harris in other things and he's pretty terrific. Why is he so terrible here?
So now I'm pretty excited for the Netflix show. I wonder if they have any intention of making this a family friendly show or not?
Yes. It's clear enough that the only reason for the time travel plotline was to justify having Mumy play Old Will. Without it, the time travel just gets in the way. It doesn't make sense for a movie called Lost in Space to be about characters getting lost in time instead. They should've focused the movie on the part about being lost in space, having to survive as castaways on an uncharted planet. Save the time travel for the sequel, if any.
I have a very soft spot for the movie.. I saw it in the theaters and really found myself enjoying it.. I was never really "into" the tv series, so maybe it would have affected me differently if I had been.. .
the only thing that irks me is the CGI spiders and Glorp... THOSE look really dated now.. Otherwise I still like it quite a bit. At the time, Matt LeBlanc was still a fairly hot commodity and they were doing ANYTHING they could to make him a movie star...
the only thing that irks me is the CGI spiders and Glorp... THOSE look really dated now.. Otherwise I still like it quite a bit. At the time, Matt LeBlanc was still a fairly hot commodity and they were doing ANYTHING they could to make him a movie star...
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