Finally caught up with the new A&E version of THE LOST WORLD, featuring a perfectly cast Bob Hoskins as Prof. Challenger. The nice thing was that they were running both parts back to back. Commercial interruption frequency is still beyond belief; sometimes as little as seven minutes of the program between commercials. Meanwhile they were already advertising the DVD edition. If A&E keeps this up, then the original airing will serve as simply a preview as to whether to see it on DVD or not. Watch twenty minutes, figure, “Okay, this is worth buying/renting,” and tune in to something else.
With that said, we did watch the whole thing in one shot. Gotta tell ya, it had the fraction of the budget of, say, “Jurassic Park III,” far fewer dinos, and yet (commercials aside) the program itself seemed to fly by as opposed to the endless 90 minutes of JP III. Just reminds you of what a good story and great characters means, as opposed to simply throwing special FX at you.
Definitely check out the vide or DVD. Don’t slog through the commercial-ridden showing, though; I wouldn’t wish that on anybody.
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