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Some things I just don't get.
Lost in Space should have been a perfect family-film answer to the geek-heaven Star Trek movie franchise. No one expected it to be great, just to provide some dumb space opera action every two years. Fun shallow plots, colorful characters, neat special effects - What could go wrong? Plenty, obviously.
Watching the flick again the other day I found myself alternately giggling unintentionally and face-palming. It starts poorly, with too much family strife (was Lacy Chabert denied an acting coach?). Yes, we get that such an undertaking might be rough on a family. Does this unfortunate fact need to dominte every opening scene? Where's the fun?
Thankfully the momentum of the botched launch pulls the film out of it's kamikaze nose dive, and the episode on the abandoned spaceship - while far from perfect - most closely represents what the franchise could have been, until the daddy issues finally (inevitably) take over and sink the ship. What in the world were the people in charge of this project thinking?
I tried to come up with some parallells. The original "Conan the Barbarian" was great, but the franchise's potential was destroyed by the ridiculous second film. At least we got one good film out if that.
Lost in Space should have been a perfect family-film answer to the geek-heaven Star Trek movie franchise. No one expected it to be great, just to provide some dumb space opera action every two years. Fun shallow plots, colorful characters, neat special effects - What could go wrong? Plenty, obviously.
Watching the flick again the other day I found myself alternately giggling unintentionally and face-palming. It starts poorly, with too much family strife (was Lacy Chabert denied an acting coach?). Yes, we get that such an undertaking might be rough on a family. Does this unfortunate fact need to dominte every opening scene? Where's the fun?
Thankfully the momentum of the botched launch pulls the film out of it's kamikaze nose dive, and the episode on the abandoned spaceship - while far from perfect - most closely represents what the franchise could have been, until the daddy issues finally (inevitably) take over and sink the ship. What in the world were the people in charge of this project thinking?
I tried to come up with some parallells. The original "Conan the Barbarian" was great, but the franchise's potential was destroyed by the ridiculous second film. At least we got one good film out if that.