[2010-09-07] "Lost In Space" Blu-ray of 1998 movie (Warner)

Linda · **Posted:** Tue Jun 15, 2010 3:13 pm

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Packed with more than 750 dazzling visual effects, this $70 million adventure does more (and less) than give the 1965-68 TV series a state-of-the-art face-lift. Aimed at an audience that wasn't born when the series originally aired, the sci-fi extravaganza doesn't even require familiarity, despite cameo appearances by several of the TV show's original cast members. Instead it's a high-tech hybrid of the original premise with enough sensory overload to qualify as a spectacular big-screen video game, supported by a time-travel premise that's adequately clever but hardly original. It's certainly never boring, and visually it's an occasionally awesome demonstration of special effects technology. But in its attempt to be all things to all demographics, the movie's more of a marketing ploy than a satisfying adventure, thankfully dispensing with the TV show's cheesy camp but otherwise squandering a promising cast in favor of eye-candy and ephemeral storytelling. --Jeff Shannon

Product Description
The family Robinson is in hiber-sleep, soaring into deep space. Their mission: establish a colony that will become home for a dying Earth’s inhabitants. But sabotage jolts the Robinsons awake, sending them--and an often troublesome robot--off course and into amazing adventures where the question is not just where they are, but also when. A fine cast (Gary Oldman, William Hurt, Matt LeBlanc, Heather Graham and more) sets just the right tone of heroism and fun in an imaginative sci-fi voyage based on the ’60s TV series and featuring cameos by some of the TV stars. “Danger, Will Robinson!” And amazement too.

Special Features

Two Commentaries:
- Director Stephen Hopkins and Screenwriter Akiva Goldsman
- Visual Effects Supervisors Angus Bickerton and Lauren Ritchie, Director of Photography Peter Levy, Editor Ray Lovejoy and Producer Carla Foy
Additional Scenes
Two Featurettes:
- Building the Special Effects
- The Future of Space Travel
Apollo Four Forty Lost in Space Music Video
Theatrical Trailer

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0024FA9IM/?tag=imwan-20

Glenn S. · 30 Oct 2006

During the DVD boom there was a point where you could not buy a new DVD player without getting a free copy of this movie. I think it was a law or something.

RobertSwanderson · 01 Jan 2007

Glenn S. wrote:

During the DVD boom there was a point where you could not buy a new DVD player without getting a free copy of this movie. I think it was a law or something.

In the days of 8mm projectors it was Abbot & Costello's Keystone Cops.

[2010-09-07] "Lost In Space" Blu-ray of 1998 movie (Warner)

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