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.

skybrick736 The Lost World is incredibly ahead of its time being a mid 20's silent film with loads of creativity and well done animation. I'm still a little baffled as how the creators managed to make these dinosaurs seem so real on grainy footage. There are a ton of fight scenes between different types of dinosaurs that portrayed them pretty well to their potential ancient characters. The storyline was pretty good, dull at times, I just wish they would have added more dialogue and shortened up the duration of the readings. I found most of the characters unlikeable especially Malone and the professor but they weren't bad enough to make me dislike the film. Going into the movie I thought the plot was going to center around the humans and dinosaurs so I found it interesting and kind of cool to see that they added some buffoon type natives and an evil ape creature. I can definitely see how this movie set up for classics like King Kong and Jurassic Park. If you have the patience for an older silent film I really recommend The Lost World.

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.

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.