A Look at The Lost World (1925)

[@KianaWolf]

Stop motion is always impressive, since it requires such a profound amount of dedication, patience and finesse to create.

[@HeirofAzaran]

Your mixed of comedy and the intellectual in these videos is always so fun, informative, and inspiring. I'm a proud fan and I can't wait to see what you do next.

[@spacey_432]

Love seeing reviews of films from eras THIS old. Cant forget about stuff like this, no matter how old it gets

[@MrARock001]

Never having seen this movie, it's only dawning on me now that the corny ending of Jurassic Park 2 (the Lost World) where they inexplicably bring the T-rex back to San Diego and it escapes and rampages through the city, was actually an homage to the movie's namesake.

[@KairuHakubi]

I have to wonder now if, at the time King Kong came out, if it wasn't seen as a direct freakin ripoff of this. they just made the apeman as big as the dinosaurs and had him be the one brought back to the city.

[@christopherwall2121]

@@KairuHakubi Considering Kong was made by the same effects guy... probably not

[@KairuHakubi]

@@christopherwall2121 I suppose things were looser back then. it was a lot more acceptable to just do a story that fits a certain format.

[@Aileil]

I've never been a dinosaur movie person, so I am especially grateful to you for bringing this one to my attention. I appreciate the imagination and effort that went into this and you have presented it well.

[@Maniac536]

A bunch of Star Trek alum including John D and Leonard N had an organization called Alien Voices where they did spoken word versions of famous books. The Lost World was one of those books. I remember how great it was to hear them perform it on stage. Apparently this film kept pretty close to the version they did.

[@indianastones6032]

That's tower bridge not london bridge....not that it makes any difference

[@AlexGilmour]

I was just checking before saying similar

[@johnoneil9188]

This randomly made me remember that Lost World TV series from the start of the 2000s. I could have sworn John Rhys Davies had played Dr. Challenger in it but sadly not.

[@videogenics86]

It can't be understated just how ground breaking this film actually is. This movie pioneered the techniques that King Kong would build on and Ray Harihoushan would perfect.

[@thewingedporpoise]

Just to be clear the "2nd Triceratops" is likely an Agathaumas, a now dubious genus of ceratopsian like Triceratops. The design being clearly inspired by Charles Knight's 1897 painting of the genus, which is one of his more famous works. (Not saying much given how many influential works he had, but I'd say it's up there with his Allosaurus feeding)

[@KairuHakubi]

ah yes. i miss when dinosaurs could have cool lizard/croc features visible all over em. Imagine, scutes that big and visible on a 30-foot-long animal, you'd be able to use them as platters, and the dorsal spines as knives.

[@katherinealvarez9216]

Were the dinosaurs not hugged enough as hatchlings?

[@travis7294]

I have to admit, I'm not a huge fan of older cinema like this stuff. I love your reviews and presentations about the films and the history behind it.

[@KianaWolf]

2:55 One can only hope he put so many notches in that he had to get a new rifle.

[@starwarsnerd100]

I often see complaints about the dinos in Jurassic Park sequels acting more like killer monsters than real animals (going after tiny humans when they already have a fresh triceratops there). So it’s fitting to see the great great grand daddy of those films also falls into that “super persistent predator” trope.

[@Scheiblerfunk]

21:22 The tower bridge is NOT London Bridge

[@samwill7259]

The world has been going through a dinosaur phase since we learned dinosaurs existed

[@Clock_70]

Great choice of topics❤

[@TF2CrunchyFrog]

This movie is impressive considering it came out in 1925 during the Silent Film era. It must've been a real Blockbuster back then. Ironic that in 1925, they already had a female main character, who was introduced as a scientist (albeit mostly in the "daughter of the old cooky scientist" role), wore short hair and a pair of trousers instead of a dress!!

[@KairuHakubi]

yeah ironic.. or yknow, completely normal and acceptable at the time.

[@allanolley4874]

Okay clearly the guy playing Challenger is not Brian Blessed, but he really looks like Brian Blessed.

[@Lemon_Inspector]

Remember when they adapted this story into a mystery box schlock TV series that ended up in the post-apocalyptic future after three seasons?

[@kyle857]

No

[@WorthlessWinner]

Claudia black was a major actress in that IIRC

[@Lemon_Inspector]

@@WorthlessWinner She wasn't, but we can pretend she was.

[@allanolley4874]

Yup. I did not watch it all but I watched a number of episodes sort of at random over the years.

[@CMVBrielman]

21:25 Tower Bridge

[@rmod42]

I was about to be the nerdy pedant to point this out, but I see someone has beaten me to it

[@ProfessorH]

@@rmod42 same

[@INDORIPPER]

18:34 Yes it is

[@ohmydinosare]

I hate to be that person but... that's not london bridge, it's tower bridge.

[@EMbrokehp]

nice

[@ThomasRoiloup]

1:20 I didn't know Charlie Sheen was in this movie.

[@AJTalon]

Now let's be fair, who hasn't wanted to beat up a reporter now and again?

[@KairuHakubi]

well at least you won't get any audio strikes for this one :9:30 it's not a pterodactyl either, but at this point the incorrect usage outnumbers the correct 200 to 1, so yknow I'm all for saying anyone can dress in any costume they want, and portray anyone or anything, and i despise people who think otherwise, but... could they not have found a guy with _brown eyes_ at least, to paint him up black?

[@kendracanton3495]

I don’t think that’s an allosaurus that is a giant Tyrannosaurus rex

[@gallendugall8913]

A pterodactyl is not a dinosaur? Learned something!

[@kyle857]

Avemetatarsalia (meaning "bird metatarsals") is a clade of diapsid reptiles containing all archosaurs more closely related to birds than to crocodilians. The two most successful groups of avemetatarsalians were the dinosaurs and pterosaurs.

[@KianaWolf]

As Kyle explained, they're a sister clade to dinosaurs, but not dinosaurs themselves. I really recommend looking up pterosaur evolution, since it's fascinating. I only recently learned just how diverse they were, thanks to some great videos around KZbin. Seriously, I spent weeks diving into the topic and loved the experience.

[@KairuHakubi]

@@KianaWolf and the best part is, when they revise it, you'll get to love the experience all over again

[@nigel_saxon]

The lost world not the Jurassic park sequel

[@henrygvidonas9573]

A _python_ in the Amazon region, huh? I wonder what the anacondas thought about that? Must have escaped from the zoo in Manaus. It happens. Anyway, stop-motion dinos are the best! I'd rather watch any movie from the 1920s on a loop for a week before I'd sit down for a 2020s CGI garbage pile like the "Jurassic World" nonsense.

[@deadpan80]

7:52 so naive

[@TSNeph]

Huh. They replaced all the gay subtext from the book with slapstick comedy. Makes sense for 1925.