http://thistooismeaningless.com/2009/09/the-lost-world-1960-review/ Tim Irwin's movie reviews, ranging from the obscure and inane to the recently released. Sat, 12 May 2012 22:38:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://thistooismeaningless.com/2009/09/the-lost-world-1960-review/comment-page-1/#comment-1747 This Too Is Meaningless » Blog Archive » Jurassic Park Sun, 04 Apr 2010 13:57:49 +0000 http://thistooismeaningless.com/?p=509#comment-1747 [...] When we were in America one year, for sixth grade, I wanted desperately to see Spielberg’s new movie, The Lost World: Jurassic Park.  There was a copy at the library and I can recall sitting down with my dad to watch it.  The story turned out to be different than I had expected from reading the novel, and somewhat more jerky and black-and-white.  It was still engaging, even if it turned out to be the 1925 adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Lost World (it’s a good thing it wasn’t the 1960 atrocity bearing the same title [review here]). [...] [...] When we were in America one year, for sixth grade, I wanted desperately to see Spielberg’s new movie, The Lost World: Jurassic Park.  There was a copy at the library and I can recall sitting down with my dad to watch it.  The story turned out to be different than I had expected from reading the novel, and somewhat more jerky and black-and-white.  It was still engaging, even if it turned out to be the 1925 adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Lost World (it’s a good thing it wasn’t the 1960 atrocity bearing the same title [review here]). [...]

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