Lost In Space was good but belongs in the guilty pleasures thread as the release version is deeply flawed.
Mark Goddard's cameo was great and a good role well played. I met him and he was a nice guy so I was happy to see him get a part with meat. It would have been nice if the father of Matt LeBlanc's Don West had been a photo of Guy Williams.
I feel that LIS had some wasted cameos early on. Like for instance June Lockhart as the school principal, she should have been the grandmother who was not fit enough to make the journey and that they had to say goodbye to. It would have been a nice moment.
Angela Cartwright and Marta Kristen were absolutely wasted having both as reporters at the press conference and would have been much better if at least one of them was a technician on the building of the Jupiter 2.
Now the biggest gripe. There were two cameo opportunities that were totally missed towards the end and that's Billy Mumy and Jonathan Harris who should by rights have been the older versions of Will Robinson and Dr Zachary Smith.
They tried to get Harris to cameo as the guy who sends Oldman on his siditious mission but he said he would accept nothing less than Smith himself. Well this would have been a perfect way to fix that issue.
As it is it's an enjoyable film until you think about what it could have been, and where's the damned sequel already?
On to the politically incorrect version of Dukes Of Hazzard, I hope it is. I'd hate to think that the moral crusaders have won and the 70 percent of us who live in fear of that outspoken 30 percent have lost our right to enjoy whatever the Hell we like just because some sour-mouthed, horn-rimmed glasses wearing spinsters and Jesus-freaks disagree with it.
If they don't like something they can turn away but enough of this 'worrying about upsetting the conservatives' crap.
Rant off.