"Lost in Space" was in fact worse
than "The Avengers."
I saw the Avengers as a goof, because I heard
how awful it was and wanted to see just how bad bad could be. It
was awful, and unexpectedly amateurish, considering that it was a
"major release." For example, Ray Fiennes flubbed a
line which went uncorrected, and Uma Thuman's stunt double was --
I kid you not -- about five-foot two and one hundred and ninety
pounds. I kept wondering, "Are they doing this on purpose?
Are they trying to make a Benny Hill style joke about obvious
stunt doubles?"
Just baffling.
On the plus side, it was only 84 minutes long.
It also was, at least, "off-beat" (though in a cliched
and awful way), whereas Lost in Space just took three or four
ancient sci-fi concepts (the Ghost Ship in space, dimensional
gates, and paradoxes created by interfering with past events in
time) and just stuck them together, without rhyme or reason, like
mismatched modular furniture.
Oh yeah. And it really, really sucked, to boot.
The Avengers had a martial artist
leather-clad cloned Uma Thurman.
LIS had no such mitigating factor."
I disagree. LIS had Mimi Rodgers AND Heather
Graham in tight, form-fitting neoleather (or whatever the hell
those space suits were supposed to be made of).
And I hate Uma Thurman, anyway.
