Cathardincu Surprisingly incoherent and boring

AutCuddly Great movie! If you want to be entertained and have a few good laughs, see this movie. The music is also very good,

Fairaher The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

Marva It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

JLRVancouver Based on the novel by Arthur Conan Doyle (of Sherlock Holmes fame), "The Lost World" follows the exploits of Professor Challenger (Wallace Beery) as he leads a team to an isolated South American plateau on which prehistoric creatures have survived. Although their often frenetic or overly melodramatic styles of silent acting dates the film, the human cast is fine but the real stars of "The Lost World" are the animated dinosaurs created by Willis O'Brien, who less than a decade later brought King Kong to life. I can't imagine what original audiences felt the first time they saw a brontosaurus walk across the screen or witnessed the iconic fight between a vicious and agile allosaurus and a heavily armoured triceratops - contemporary reviews suggest that they were astounded and impressed. Well worth watching as an entertaining, albeit implausible, adventure, or as a piece of cinematic history, or both.

Preston Simpson I wrote this at age 19, and I am 20 now that I am re-posting it. Here is my review of it: This film was quite interesting. I was impressed with the use of footage of humans and the stop-motion dinosaurs. However, there are many things that I need to mention. In elementary school, I was en expert in modern biology and prehistoric life. I, like everyone else, also understand basic geography. In the note of basic geography and modern biology, I noticed that the film is set in South America, yet African chimpanzees make several appearances. I also should mention that the main characters are British, but the characters occasionally use Southern American grammar. Now, the subject of prehistoric creatures, which dominate this film. The antagonist of the film is not the Tyrannosaurus Rex, as most dinosaur films they usually are. Neither is the Allosaurus, which appears the most throughout this film. Instead, a "long-neck" is the greatest villain. This Brontosaurus, (now known as an Apatosaurus) is wounded in a fight with an Allosaurus, and almost dies. Still alive, the heroes take it to London, but this "leaf eater" viciously attacks the town and swims away. The T-Rex is shown being able to use it's arms to catch prey. However, this isn't possible because it's arm's only have 2 fingers and are the size of an average man's arm. The T-Rex and Allosaurids are shown standing vertically, when they really would have stood horizontally. Knowing all of this by age 9, I found this film to be utterly hilarious being 10 years older (now). Without this film, there would have never been the beautiful 2005 version of King Kong. The Bronto/Apatosaurus is comparable to the great ape and his captivity in New York. I still enjoyed this historic piece of film. Possibly due to all of these excessive inaccuracies. The 1925 version of "The Lost World" is a film that should never go missing from our classic monster film library.

swedzin I love silent films, and I have really enjoyed this one. But, that's not the point. Now, I was a really small fragments of this film as a kid, and I keep asked myself, "where can I find this film?" thanks to internet, I found it, and it was really a pleasure. The film is based upon Arthur Conan Doyle's famous novel, which was adapted more than once, but I think this version is the best. I also think that it presents a complete realization about a subject that is acceptable and attractive even today.It is a story about an island, past this world, a large plateau in South America that is filled with dinosaurs and all other prehistoric things. And it was founded by fierce professor Challenger (played by brilliant Wallace Beery), who returns with the expedition to do research and document.From my perspective, the movie ending is very significant in the history of cinema. Challenger brought a large Brontosaurus in London which escapes and started a riot in the town. And remember, this was before King Kong and Godzilla. King Kong and Godzilla, eat your heart out, Brontosaurus beat you to it! The special effects, for which I think that they were of great importance, were very good, that stop motion was always cool. Oh, and there's also the first usage of combination of animated and live-motion picture material. Awesome... Now, today there are not a lot of people who would watch silent films, but for those who are fans and who enjoy it, don't miss this.

Redcitykev If 'King Kong' is seen as the Daddy of all monster films, then the earlier - 1925 - Willis H O'Brian creation 'The Lost World' must surely be seen as the Grandaddy of them all. Although not the first time that stop-motion photography had been used in cinema history (I think that award goes to a long forgotten, and rarely seen, series of animations about Gertie the Dinosaur), this was certainly the first time that such a technique featured in a major feature film. This film is now doing the rounds of the West of England with a new score composed by JJ Garden of The Scissor Sisters, and I caught a showing of it at my local cinema, The Curzon in Clevedon, tonight.The film has undoubtedly dated, and has a plot line through which a full sized T-Rex could be driven (although this has more to do with the fact that the film has been so chopped and messed about with over the years that it, I would imagine, bares little resemblance to the original released version all those years back). There are character that seem to appear from nowhere - including what appears to be a blacked-up native in the Brazilian section (not the apeman, although he/it seems an odd addition to the film!), and some of the acting - most notably Bessie Love - definitely belongs to another era. Having said all that the effects still impress at times, and the influence this film had on all subsequent monster films, from the aforementioned King Kong through the monster films of the 1950s right up and beyond Jurassic Park etc can be seen in every jagged movement the dinosaurs make! At one point a dinosaur sticks his tongue out and my thoughts immediately went to the Alien series of films - I would doubt that any film before or since has such a lasting influence on the history of cinema.One point on the music. JJ Garden has composed a score consisting of electronic keyboard effects etc, which sounds amazing inside the auditorium, and occasionally illuminates the film to a degree, but personally I found it rather grating after a while and I wished for a little more variety and humour. Still, a small price to pay to be able to see such an important piece of cinema history in the way it was meant to be seen, on a big screen with a large crowd etc!