Monster of the Day #3669

Updated on January 27, 2025 By Ken Begg 17 Comments

Friday’s Watch Party was 1974’s The land that Time Forgot (although Amazon has it under The People that Time Forgot!), a film I saw as a ten year old at the Pickwick theater. Still love it, and it really holds up. Great Boy’s Adventure film, up there with 1961’s Mysterious Island. The dinosaurs are great, every shot of the U-Boat is great, the non-dinosaur stuff is great. It’s pretty good, is what I’m saying.

B-Fest is Friday, and Basement Fest is the week after. So expect spotty MotD appearances the next two weeks. The next Watch Party will be in three weeks.

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  • Gamera977

    Not a very pleasing plesiosaur…

    Sorry I missed the watch party but I think I have this film on DVD somewhere. If not I'll hit Amazon Prime sometime this week.

  • It's worth the watch. The movie runs at a brisk pace with nary a slow moment, and the dinosaurs are some of the best looking non-stop motion FX dinosaurs I've seen. While watching, see if you can spot out a regular Doctor Who villain among the cast. Despite over forty years a fan I didn't realize who he was until the end credits mentioned his name. (It might have popped up in the opening credits, but I was trying to sync play with a second monitor. Either Kast needs an upgrade or I'd do; either way I never get rid of the stuttering while watching through it.)

  • Gamera977

    Oh, oh, oh, I remember now, Robert Delgardo or Anthony Ainley or some master-ful actor!

  • Anthony Ainley. Delgado I would not have missed.

  • Ken_Begg

    Yes, Delgado shows up (mostly in the background) of The Assassination Bureau, and with nary a line, and you still immediately recognize him.

    Of course, he wore that beard all the time. Ainley here doesn't have it.

  • I sync play it too, same reason, so it isn't just you.

  • The Rev.

    Another one here who's taken to doing that. Strangely, my other watch party does not have the stuttering issue, for whatever reason.

  • The Rev.

    I didn't get the joy of seeing it in a theater, but I did see it on TV at an even younger age. Our local ABC affiliate would play genre films at 10:30 pm on Saturdays after the news, and I saw (albeit edited for content) this, At the Earth's Core, Red Sonya, and Piranha II: The Spawning for certain (still have the VHS copies around somewhere, ads and all, for most of 'em). This one definitely holds up the best as a genuinely good (sometimes great) film. Like the best of the Godzilla films, the "filler" between the "good stuff" easily holds your interest, and the model work is simply marvelous. The U-boat in particular gets some simply gorgeous shots — sinking into the frozen cave, emerging in Caprona, during the finale…just dynamite. If you somehow haven't seen it, please rectify that oversight.

  • The man was a legend. Taken way too soon.

  • The best part about doing it, at least for me, is that Prime now has commercials. So not only do I have to wait through seven commercials to start syncing, but somewhere at midpoint there's another set of commercials, so I can go through the whole process again. Such fun.

  • Eric Hinkle

    This film has a sorta cheap look to it, but I love it more than many a multi-million dollar big screen extravaganza. It's just got something to it that rises above so many rival films.

    Plus, it's got some great weird looking dinosaurs.

  • Gamera977

    I dunno, I was a dinosaur kid back in the '70s. This is pretty much how I imagined them to look back then.

  • Gamera977

    Actually if Ainley had been allowed to play the Master like his character here I think he'd worked out a lot better. I remember him complaining, seems he wanted to play the Master as more threatening but kept being told to camp it up.
    Funny that in the last episode 'Survival' he was actually allowed to play a less silly Master. It wasn't that great an episode IMHO but I liked the more dangerous Master.

  • Ken_Begg

    Chad R has suggested Discord. I thought I'd talk it over with him and Jeff W when they are in town for Basement Fest next week. Does anyone have issues with Discord? I know literally nothing about it.

  • Ken_Begg

    Yes! For me it was Land Unknown, but this was close behind.

  • KeithB

    Just checked on Wikipedia, I had not realized that Doug McClure passed away in '95 at 59. Way too young.

    Also, check out the poster on Wikipedia for TLTTF, a swimming T-Rex!

  • The Rev.

    I'm already on Discord, not that that makes me an expert by any means. Not sure how you'd show the movie on it, for example. But I'd have no problem with it.