Twilight Zone - The Movie
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Movie Reviews of Twilight Zone - The Movie
Movie Review: A lost opportunity
Summary: 3 Stars
Hard to believe a movie that is over 25 years old is only just been released on DVD. Anyone would think that Warner Bros were hanging on to it for a special DVD release because it was so good. Ha! This movie adapation of the classic TV series is a lost opportunity which could have been a fantastic movie if only it had better direction. The public assumed that because Spielberg was on board that it would mean a good film. His contribution about the retirement village was extremely boring and spoilt the overall feel of the film. What also affected this film was the appalling story about the boy in the house who controls all his visitors. The other segments are much better I am happy to say with the standout being the introduction with Albert Brookes and Dan Akroyd - this is pretty scary indeed. The story with Vic Morrow is also engaging and thought provoking, while the final story about a man scared of flying is both funny and scary.
Despite some good stories, the movie adaptation was a lost opportunity to truly present a collection worth seeing. It received mix reviews in 1983. Now that it has been released on DVD, it would have been good to include some special features to make it more attractive.
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Movie Review: Warner Bros Changed the LOGO again, So so film.
Summary: 3 Stars
I can't say I enjoyed this film so much, The first sequence could have been more promising (yes I know about the deaths involved), still doesn't make up for the fact that the storyline is not very interesting. The second sequence of Kick the Can is not bad but again feels empty, The movie does get better as it moves along however. I do appreciate the special effects in this film done today everything would be CGI and I think the CGI ruins the fun of on set effects. So maybe we are lucky it was made in the 80's. My one real disspointment more so than no EXTRAS!is the fact that WARNER BROS keeps on editing out the original WB logos that open their films from the 70's and 80's to replace them with the new logo while the new one looks sharp and clear unfortunatly it never fits the film it is showing so to speak. It ruins the nostalgia of watching the film the way it was originally presented. Really big pet peeve. I wish Warner BROS would realize it is more work to replace the log only to wasting time ruining the overal viewing of the film.Movie Review: Hard to recreate magic twice.
Summary: 3 Stars
The Twilight Zone - The Movie was a film I liked as a little kid but watching it now on DVD, it feels like a disappointment. The four segments are not equally good, the only segment that stands out is the final one with John Lithgow. He is such a brilliant and intense actor, only he can pull off that classic William Shatner episode. Kick the Can and It's a Good Life are pretty outrageous and lame. Sorry to say this film doesn't stand the test of time, buy the t.v. show instead.Movie Review: Twilight Zone-The Movie
Summary: 3 Stars
"Let the Midnight Special shine a Light on me..." The only good parts of the movie is the very start of the movie on the highway and the last story in the airplane.Otherwise it is downright silly not even scary,I did like the story of the elderly people but it does not belong in a Twilight Zone story.
Movie Review: 80's Ruined It
Summary: 2 Stars
When I was a teenager, I stumbled upon The Twilight Zone at some odd "Classics" hour and station. It had me hooked: the psychological torment, the mental twists and horrors, the feeling that someone is crazy, you're just not sure who. The shining hallmarks of the series were many: a good social message, creating monsters of the mind, and most importantly warning about the evils of humanity. The Twilight Zone series created this terror by not using special effects, not resorting to cheap pop-out scares, not by making digital or plastic monsters, but by horrifying us with the monsters inside ourselves.
The movie ignored all of this in some ridiculous attempt to make a good thing better. It was proud of new 80's technology with plastic masks and puppets, and overused them. The tasmanian air devil, the shushing gremlin, the giant rabbit were all silly-looking up close. The gremlin was great when it was just a shadow in the distance, it was ridiculous when you could stare at it for minutes on end. It made the monster the focus of the horror, instead of the people.
Furthermore, the movie carried only a very faint glimmer of a social monster. Ridiculously racist for no good reason? You will get hurled back into ancestors of the people you denigrate. Which is a nice bit of poetic justice, I suppose, except for the implication that good people went through all that torture at the hands of even more evil racists who got no such torment themselves. Kick the Can, while overly saccharine, had the best social message (becoming young again when you are old would really suck, think about going through that stuff again), the message was lost with all the sappiness.
The evil child episode was the worst, with an ill-fitting beginning and ending, over-done special effects (the mouth was pretty cool, though), and the most clear bastardization of the original. Gone is the horror of a world where a child is all-powerful, instead we have a misunderstood child who simply wants to be told what to do. The worst part, after the overdone effects, was the ridiculously long monologue by the sister who was already targeted for destruction; just driving home the fact that they didn't think the horror would stand on its own if they weren't bashing it over your heads.