Spoonixel Amateur movie with Big budget

Intcatinfo A Masterpiece!

Sarita Rafferty There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.

Cristal The movie really just wants to entertain people.

Sherparsa So, the Brits, the Germans and the yanks somehow manage to set their differences aside, get together under super tough economical and war conditions, exploit a remote lost land of Neanderthals and plunder their natural resources, including but not limited to oil ...you know, oil! that stinking yet PRECIOUSSSSS Black Gold thingy the civilized world couldn't live without and the obedient taxpaying citizens wouldn't be able to get to their 9~5 jobs because their cars don't run without it, you know ...you know ...the movies is surely as cheesy as its corny special effects, loose plot and everything but if i gave it 5/10 stars it was only because of that oil theme in it ... you know ...ok, i also did like a few of the scenes and background paintings mixed with real surroundings ... but that's about it all ...and btw, Germans, that untrustworthy ruthlessly killing war machine Germans! they may be able to break their promise and leave the INNOCENT Brits and yanks alone and defenseless in hell and run away with free oil ... but God Almighty that loves the latter more than the former, will take their revenge for them! AMEN!

ultramatt2000-1 As you know, I love dinosaurs. I love the trope of creatures from lost worlds and mankind running into their lands. I saw a clip of it on a commercial when I was watching the live-action 70's SPIDERMAN show that starred Nicholas Hammond. The dinosaurs looked believable. A few years later, when I saw it, I was stricken with awe and wonder by the special effects. The dinosaurs looked real, but what I knew that they were puppets. What I didn't know that how the puppets worked. They looked realistic, but they moved in a stiff manner. If this can only be updated then there would be fluid movements. Originally they wanted to use Jim Danforth and his stop-motion skills, but they said it was too expensive and time-consuming. Special effects aside, they story is great and has that Edgar Rice Burroughs adventure-like feel to it. It is incredible and I will never forget the caveman Bo-lu! I keep quoting him until this day. When this movie came out, The New York Times recommended this movie in case JAWS was too scary. If you enjoy DUCKTALES (I know, a reboot is coming out in 2017), then you will enjoy this movie. Bottom line: A must for the dinosaur/monster movie/special effects fan. Even though it got out-shined by JAWS. Rated PG for violence, gore, peril, and some scary scenes.

bowmanblue I used to watch this with my friends when it was on TV in the eighties. I'd seen a fair few war films and, back then, the prospect of Germans and Allied forces teaming up seemed pretty freaky and intriguing to me.The Land That Time Forgot follows the exploits of a German U-boat crew who get overpowered by a lifeboat full of civilians who they actually just sank (no, seriously they do… just go with it – it's worth it). Anyway, the U-boat gets lost and ends up in a secret land of dinosaurs and cavemen. There, they must work together to escape.I'd forgotten how much of the film actually takes place before they arrive on the island. Maybe I only watched the second half with the dinosaurs? But it doesn't matter. It sets the scene perfectly – displaying the tensions between the two crews.Then they get to the island and generally ravaged by dinosaurs. Only they're not really dinosaurs, they're large rubbery monsters. Hey, it was pre-CGI and Jurassic Park – what do you expect? But, again, don't let that put you off. If you can get past the dodgy special effects and just immerse yourself in the story, you'll find that it's actually quite a tight and tense little number.What with all the films of the seventies being remade and Hollywood working its way through the latter end of the eighties and even into the nineties, I'm surprised this one never got the remake treatment. It's probably ripe for one, but, once again, that's not a detraction from the original. If you have a couple of hours to kill and can forgive a little bit of ham, just go with it. There's worse about, even with realistic dinosaurs!http://thewrongtreemoviereviews.blogspot.co.uk/

Spikeopath The Land That Time Forgot is directed by Kevin Connor and adapted to screenplay by Michael Moorcock & James Cawthorn from the Edgar Rice Burroughs novel of the same name. It stars Doug McClure, Keith Barron, John McEnery, Susan Penhaligon, Anthony Ainley and Declan Mulholland. Music is by Douglas Gamley and cinematography by Alan Hume. It is the first of four feature films featuring the pairing of director Kevin Connor and actor Doug McClure. Story is set during World War I and sees an uneasy alliance formed between enemies on board a German U-Boat after it drifts for miles and lands in a lost world of dinosaurs and cavemen.Rationale goes out the window, as does any hope of quality thesping, in the sort of cheese laden creature feature that thrilled many a child back in the mid to late 1970's. Film was enough of a success that it spawned three more films of the same ilk; At the Earth's Core (1976), The People That Time Forgot (1977) and Warlords of Atlantis (1978). Of the four, this is the one that arguably has the most about it in terms of plotting and character development. Certainly it's the biggest budgeted of the four. In fact for the first third of the picture it's distinctly un-child friendly, as story focuses on characters from opposite sides of the war clashing on board the U-Boat after the torpedoing of the ship housing the allies. But once the boat reaches arctic climes and wades thru to the sunnier "other side", it's all prehistoric puppets, fisticuffs and square jawed heroics from McClure. Ultimately a fun boys own adventure without sensible trappings. Not as outrageously fun as At the Earth's Core, but a decent launching pad for the 70's creature feature niche created by Connor and McClure. 6.5/10