The Deconstructionist: A Misplaced, Perhaps Even Lost Affection

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 It’s a big-screen adaptation of a 1970’s sci-fi tv show! Don’t look at it, Marion!
 
If you are someone who watches a lot of movies, it may be inevitable that you develop a list of films that you feel certain affection for, even if those films have no redeeming qualities. It might be ‘Beastmaster’, or ‘Dreamscape’ or even ‘Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins,’ but most of us have a celluloid skeleton in our closets, a film we can’t possibly defend but we try to anyway.
 
For me, ‘Lost in Space’ is just such a film. I had seen it once years ago when I first came out on video, just a curiosity, as I never much cared for the original series. The film didn’t leave much of a mark on me then but now that it is available as part of my cable company’s on demand menu, I’ve watched it three times.

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