The Land That Time Forgot Movie
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Shipwrecked castaways stumble upon the mysterious island of Caprona in the Bermuda Triangle, confronting man-eating dinosaurs and a stranded German U-Boat crew while trying to escape.
| C. Thomas Howell | Frost Michaels |
| Timothy Bottoms | Captain Burroughs |
| Lindsey McKeon | Lindsey Stevens |
| Darren Dalton | Cole Stevens |
| Stephen Blackehart | Lonzo |
| Christopher Showerman | Stack |
| Patrick Gorman | Conrad |
| Scott Subiono | Zander |
| Anya Benton | Karen Michaels |
| David Stevens | Jude |
| Christian Stoehr | Lukas |
| Lew Knopp | Cooper |
| Jonathan Sanders | Oliver |
| C. Thomas Howell |
3.30 out of 10 (592 votes)
Visitor Reviews
I'd rather watch Barney.
posted on 31 Aug 2009Half way through this movie, my 12-year old daughter said, "I'd rather watch Barney." It fails even as a B-movie because it tries too hard . The plot is lame in it's predictability and the acting is forgettable. Some of the best parts of the original novel were left out. The redeeming feature is that it did not have a comedic ending.
Not Enough Monsters,Except for Nazis ?
posted on 31 Aug 2009Starring: Timothy Bottoms and C. Thomas Howell.
Very solid script by Darren Dalton and Directed by C. Thomas Howell.
Not too many creatures,But what is here is very ,very menacing.
The "Land" intrigues us because is it Catalina Island or any California beach shot VERY carefully.
Acting is well rehearsed and unknowns carry alot of the weight to fill out story,Oh...They are marooned Nazis from a submarine that think VERY logically about survival.
One of those picky things is,Obviously this is headed to SyFy channel by lack of bad language and female glimpses.
Solid action and some moments derived from Gilligans Island and Lost.
Too many goofs to name......but here's my list....enjoy!
posted on 29 Aug 2009This movie is simply pathetic. Words can not express how poorly this movie was made. I watched it with my teenage daughter. Here are some of the things we noticed as we laughed through it.1. The Island contains roads. Who built them? 2. Why are the T-Rex's always hiding in the same place? 3. The male character in the blue shirt is always freshly shaved, therest of the men, including the Germans are scruffy. 4. When the team of men went into the cave, their torch apparently lititself. 5. The dinosaurs do not leave footprints, nor do they kick up dirt/dustas they walk. 6. When the first man dies, you can clearly see he is bloody before hehits the ground from his fall. 7. When the skipper fills the water jug, you can see water spilling outof it as he runs. When he stops running, the bottle is corked. 8. The blonde woman speaks about ten words after she is rescued. 9. When the men were hiding in the cave, they had several minutes torescue the blonde women who was tied up. For whatever reason, theywaited behind cover for her captures to return before making their move. 10.The brunette actress has perfect make-up, hair and clothes throughthe entire movie. Everyone else looks dirty. 11.The crew used Christmas lights to test the generator. Where did theycome from? 12.The man in the blue and white stripped shirt was eaten by a T-Rex,and cut in half, though there was no blood during his death scene. 13.The submarine had enough power (in reverse) to un-beach itself and return to the water.That movie was 90 minutes of my life I'll never get back.
I would prefer to be eaten by a dinosaur than watch 1 minute of this movie!
posted on 27 Aug 2009When i think back at the 27 minutes of my life wasted on this movie....so many words come to mind....- Disappointment - Disbelief - Amazement - Shock....Someone financed and paid for this movie! What were they thinking? Who read the script and agreed to make this? If you have a limited budget, go out and make Blaire Witch 3, don't attempt to make a CGI extravaganza!!I love the post by Mark Ross. In my 27 minutes of viewing time, i did love the fact that the guy who fell off the cliff was covered in blood before he even hit the ground! For those who don't want to sit through the whole 27 minutes, just check out the first 5. Watch the people on board look amazed as they wake up from the storm to blue skies and calm oceans. Watch their faces as they scour the waterline for a small slice of hope before one cries out...there is land!! As the camera pans in on their profile as they talk, the island keeps moving. In one shot it is over their left shoulder, and then in the next it is over their right. I guess if you can believe that it has dinosaurs on it, you can also believe in an island that continually hops all over the place. The icing on the cake is the next shot has the boat about 30 meters from the island bearing down on them. I guess their engine was broken and it is easier for things to just happen rather than trying to explain them with some type of 'story line'.Ahhhh a lot can happen in 27 minutes. Watching any part of this movie isn't a wise use of it.
Looks like a Sci-Fi channel original movie
posted on 27 Aug 2009I can't say I got too far into this movie. If you've ever seen a Sci-Fi original movie, that should give you some idea of what you're in for.The CGI dinosaurs are laughable; they all look like cartoon cut-outs, which is unforgivable considering the current state of CGI technology. The characters are cliché. The blood looks like raspberry jam. This wreaks of a low-budget production all around, and worse, it wreaks of low effort. The acting was better than the film's other aspects, but could not possibly hope to redeem it.I don't like writing bad reviews when I feel a genuine effort has been made, and/or that there was care for the material, but this feels entirely derivative (even keeping in mind that it's a remake) and hastily slapped together, like a cheap TV movie to fill an empty time slot.Just to be clear, no, this isn't a fun B movie that's aware of itself. It seems to want you to take it seriously, as ridiculous as that request may seem to the viewer. I give it 3 stars to offer the benefit of the doubt, as I was too bored to watch very much of it.
Ouch!
posted on 25 Aug 2009I really wanted to like this -I've enjoyed this story since I was a child, and was looking forward to a more modern telling of it. Sadly, the acting was so forced, so deplorable, that it was actually painful to sit through this. Perhaps the movie actually improved toward the end -I'll never know. I wasn't able to handle watching this sad excuse for shovelware of a movie. I didn't go into this expecting a special-effects extravaganza. I just expected competent acting. I mean REALLY, when they insist on remaking movies, shouldn't they actually try to improve the performances? Sigh. I couldn't give it anything less than a 3 because the story itself is a timeless classic -the writing didn't fail here, the acting did. Not really worth the time. Thats about all I can really say.
Sweet Jesus this was bad
posted on 23 Aug 2009This movie fails on almost every possible level:Bad acting: check. Poor direction: check. Hackneyed script: check.Painfully bad CG: check. Odd pacing: check. Timothy Bottoms looking embarrassed and wondering when he can go home and start drinking: check.Run screaming, tripping and flailing away from this sad attempt at a movie.
One of the most boring and ridiculous movies I ever had the pleasure to watch
posted on 23 Aug 2009I don't have a problem with low budget movies. Cheap movies can be fun. This one however was ever so predictably and ridiculously brain dead that it made me write my first IMDb comment ever: Be warned. You will not be thrilled. You will not be entertained. You will hardly laugh about a few really stupid, endlessly repeated T Rex attacks. The effects are hardly existent. The scenery is made mostly of stock material cut together in the worst possible way. And the actor's lines sound like they are computer generated. If you should speak German or are a German and watch it in the original version you might have a laugh or two about the stupid Eastern European accent of the German soldiers later in the movie, but believe me, this isn't worth it. Stay away from this crap or you will throw away 90 minutes of your life time. One of the worst and most boring movies of all time!!!
Jurassic Park gone bad
posted on 19 Aug 2009"The Land That Time Forgot", 2009, a new movie. I liked the sound of the title and the fact that it only came out this year made me anxious for an epic story. I didn't know what to expect else that it would be a adventure film. But oh my, what was I disappointed. At the moment that I'm writing this I'm still watching the movie, for about 25 minutes now. After the first 5 minutes I already saw the most horrible, forced acting I'd ever see. There is no suspense, no build-up to the plot. You're just thrown in between crappy plastic dinosaurs.This movie could've been great, it could've been the modern Jurassic Park if it weren't for a crappy script, even crappier acting and éven worse effects. And looking above my comment you'd see I'm not the only one who thinks this.So to sum it up, we have horrible acting, effects, dialogues and script. But there are two, no three things I can be positive about in this film; 1 - The camera quality is well done This means the quality of the screens, I do not mention the camera work like composition and capturing, those are as lame and uninspiring as can be.2 - The sound is nicely done Though the music is not very memorable, the sound effects of the dinosaurs etcetera are very well done. Really massive.. Too bad they come out of plastic children-toys dinosaurs..3 - The movie ends sometime, and I will never-ever have to watch it again! Woohoo!
Come back Doug McClure, all is forgiven!
posted on 19 Aug 2009Most Sci-Fi fans are prepared to tolerate a movies more notable deficiencies provided that the film has an interesting plot with state-of-the-art CGI. That the quality of the special effects were little better than 1975 movie means that this film has nothing to commend it whatsoever. The 1 point is for the women. They looked good even if they weren't called upon to act. What is the point in Hollywood making films like this with a budget so small that the movie appeared to have been made in one afternoon. Indeed frequent shots of the submarine showed the same seagulls unmoved! If Burroughs weren't already dead I think seeing this film might have killed him anyway. Not even Tarzan in super-CGI could have saved this turkey.
What the F*%k
posted on 15 Aug 2009Do not see this movie, this has got to be the worst movie I have ever seen. Who are the 14 who voted for this movie and give it a 10???? They must have screen this movie at the academy for the blind or they worked on the movie set!!! Even the plot sucks: "Shipwrecked castaways stumble upon the mysterious island of Caprona in the Bermuda Triangle, confronting man-eating dinosaurs and a stranded German U-Boat crew while trying to escape." German U-Boat???? in what era. THIS, WHAT-EVER IT IS SUCKED! I really have no more time for this movie, even in writing but I am required 10 lines so how goes, you can stop reading now. zxcvbnm, ./asdfghjkl;' qwerty op[]\ zxcvbnm ,./asdfg heckle;'ewe Rte op[]1234 567890-zx cvbnm,./Assad kl;' q wetly p[] 123456 7890 -=z xciv BM,./aside kl;'QWERTY p [ ]12345678 90 -=z xciv BM, ./asdfg H kl ;' QWERTY Io p[ ]123456 7890-= xxv BM,./ sad f kl ;' Q Er Tupi op [ ] 123456 789 0- =zx CCTV vivify Viva Viva This was just like watch this movie!
The film that I forgot... (after 2 days, thank god)
posted on 11 Aug 2009The dinosaur in this was that good, Ray Harryhausen would be proud of it. Usually, I prefer to review films that I really like and feel the need to recommend. Here's the thing, I recommend you turn off the TV when this is on and go do something more productive like slamming your head in the door. Okay, the film is for kids and adolescents... but this will just make them mad and want to smash up a telephone box. BAD BAD BAD. AWFUL. TERRIBLE. I wasted an hour of my life watching this, (I was asleep for some of the film, so it wasn't all bad).Screenplay 1/10, Acting 1/10, Plastic Dinosaur 2/10.AVOID.
Not great
posted on 05 Aug 2009I really wanted to like this movie as I have always liked C. Thomas Howell but unfortunately I can't say that I liked it. I can say that I watched it, but that's about it.I was able to sit through it and that may be the best that Howell can hope for. The dialog was a bit unimportant and even somewhat silly at times. The whole thing seemed like a compromise - which I am sure to some degree (as with anything under budget constraints) it was.There was no effort exhausted in building characters that you could care about or for that matter knew anything about. When someone got killed you just did not care - at all.The more fascinating and cerebral aspects of this story were completely glossed over or avoided altogether; although I did find it interesting that there was a brief discussion on the details of refining petroleum. which I had expected would be ignored (okay in movies I guess).Overall, it barely held my attention and came off as another lame Sci-Fi channel, low budget, bad CG feature.Don't get me wrong, there were some things to like, but I think in this case, Howell probably had his hands tied as far as time/money are concerned and more money/time could have been invested in script, effects and filming.
The title's misleading
posted on 31 Aug 2009I'm giving this four stars because as Asylum Movies go it's one of their best.
However it is not an updated take on the novel The Land That Time Forgot: A Tale of Fort Dinosaur which was disappointing. Whether read as one complete novel or in it's trilogy release As The Land That Time Forgot, The People That Time Forgot and Out of Times Abyss The story of Caprona contains an evolution based mystery and a love story. It is not about time traveling via the Bermuda triangle. This screenplay isn't even loosly based on the previous movies The Land That Time Forgot/The People That Time Forgot which contained FX of mediocre laughable quality. Those however in hindsight at least made an attempt to use the source material. This resembles a low budget attempt at something like Time Spike more than anything in the ERB book.
If you liked what Asylum's Take on Journey to the Center of the Earth , which ironically contained an earth driller right out of Edgar Rice Burroughs' At the Earth's Core (Pellucidar Series) (Bk. 1) , you'll enjoy this.
However their T-Rex is becoming almost as overused as their dragon
Also of note , pun intended, the set up for a The People That Time Forgot sequel using the note in a bottle is appropriate.