Hellen I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

Redwarmin This movie is the proof that the world is becoming a sick and dumb place

Philippa All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

Fleur Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

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.

gavin6942 The first film adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic novel about a land where prehistoric creatures still roam.This early film is a great blend of humor and science fiction. On the one hand we have a pretty good humorous romance (I do not want to say "romantic comedy") of a young woman who wants her suitor to do something daring... and we shall see how this leads to some wild escapades.But the movie is much better known as the work of Willis O'Brien, who also created King Kong. The talent is evident here, especially once we see the T-Rex loose in the city. If O'Brien had a successor, it was of course Ray Harryhausen. And even more than in "King Kong", we can see here the sort of thing that Harryhausen would make famous decades later.

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!

Neil Welch Even through the distance of nearly 100 years, and cinematic developments which include sound, colour, and CGI, it is easy to see the impact which the 1922 The Lost World would have had on the movie-going public.The whole phenomenon of moving pictures was still new and, without warning, the genius of Willis O'Brien puts on screen moving dinosaurs - living, breathing creatures which have been extinct for millions of years. How can this be? We know the answer to that now, and we also know that O'Brien's art has almost been squeezed out by the greater photographic reality of the computer. But, d'you know, O'Brien's work still stacks up.One has to look at it in the context of its era, of course - a monochrome silent film from 1922 - but it is masterful artistry, and groundbreaking technically. For anyone who purports to have a yen for special effects movies, this is compulsory viewing.