Today’s VHS pick is Lost in Space (1998)—one of those 90s Hollywood stabs at turning 60s TV shows into blockbuster spectacles.
The cast is stacked: Gary Oldman, William Hurt, Matt LeBlanc, Mimi Rogers, Heather Graham. For a movie this goofy, it’s still wild that they roped in so much star power.
Critics trashed it at release, but over time it’s carved out a cult following.
Iirc, Irwin Allen was being lobbied with complaints about the first season being too scary. So he decided to spite the complaints and pivoted hard into camp, rather than merely toning down the sci-fi horror.
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