When talking about old movies or series, there’s often a certain sense of pretentiousness, of trying to be “different.” There are several works of this style that I try to recommend to friends and family without being able to completely shake off that feeling. And it often happens that the old is taken as something better, as the superior version of things, when many times it isn’t; well, *The Lost World* is definitely a case in which the old clearly surpasses the new. The 1925 version of *The Lost World* is clearly superior to this one in practically every aspect—a silent, monochrome film barely restored by the community made me take it much more seriously, from its romance to, perhaps more importantly in this film, its dinosaurs and creatures. The romance between Ed and Jennifer in this movie is revealed completely at the end; throughout the film we never see any evidence of attraction between these characters, unlike the 1925 version, where flirting and intimate, tender scenes are constant. On the special effects side, this is undoubtedly the worst part of the film, as the beautiful stop-motion dinosaurs of the 1925 version are replaced in this version by… (drum roll) iguanas with makeup! In every scene with these prehistoric monsters—moments when you should feel tension, awe, or danger—the only thing I can think is, “…It’s just an iguana!” The positive aspect of the film is undoubtedly its characters and some of their interactions (again, the romance is definitely not one of them). The dog is incredible.