Episodes 2 and 3 raise the rating from 4 to 7
Four legendary directors come together to pay tribute to the vision of Rod Serling with the anthology film Twilight Zone: The Movie. John Landis, Steven Spielberg, Joe Dante, and George Miller each direct a segment based on an original Twilight Zone episode. However, these adaptations don’t really live up to the original episodes, and they don’t flow together very well. Still, they do some interesting things with the material, and there are some good performances from Burgess Meredith, Dan Aykroyd, Scatman Crothers, and John Lithgow. An entertaining homage to the classic television series, Twilight Zone: The Movie delivers a few chills, but it fails to capture the same sense of the fantastical.
first 3 good, last 3 bad.
4 stories. 1 is OK. 2 and 3 were boring. 4 is good. The deaths tragedy behind the movie is worth looking up. Very sad
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I loved the remake of "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet". It was intense and downright frightening! Lithgow was fantastic and the gremlin was perfect.
I thought "It's A Good Life" was interesting. It's not anything like the original, but I appreciate the new imaginative take on the story (I love the original by the way). Joe Dante's direction and totally cartoonish interpretation of the story was damned creepy.
"The Bigot" was a shocking trip through a hater's nightmare. I thought it was merciless and brutal. Every time I see it I think about how unacceptable it would be to make at the same level today. I don't know if that's a good or a bad thing.
"Kick The Can" was Spielberg-soft and entirely ordinary. It's the only story of the four that I didn't like.
There are so many references to the original TV series that I lost count. Especially during "It's A Good Life" which not only mentions "Cliffordville", "Beaumont" and "Willoughby", it also stars Kevin McCarthy and Patricia Barry.