Lithgow is no Shatner seeing monsters on the plane wing (1983) TZ Movie - The Twilight Zone (1959) Discussion

[–] VincentPriceIzRight 8 years ago

Seconded even though I find the Shatner ep to be overrated IMO...Nick of Time much better.

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[–] elliedivito 8 years ago

Nick of Time is much better.

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[–] VincentPriceIzRight 8 years ago

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[–] Slaterson14 8 years ago

Yeah Nick of time actually has a creep vibe to it while the plane episode is just "so bad its good" type of entertainment, you can see the "creature" is a guy wearing pretty much those pajamas you wore as a baby that were all one piece and had the feet built into them haha.

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[–] richspenc 8 years ago

Yeh, the creature was wearing babyjamas. Lol

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[–] steely3000 8 years ago

Yeah I saw that myself, and always wonder why movie makers do this sort of stuff.

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[–] DoctorJuliaHoffman 8 years ago

"Twilight Zone: The Movie" was an ill-conceived disappointment. For me, the only horror film that was a bigger letdown was 1979's dreadful "The Amityville Horror". I've never walked out on a movie, but I came very close to doing so when I saw the latter film back in the summer of 1979.

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[–] hachmom-1 8 years ago

I agree for the most part. LIthgow was good in his episode, but I don't like the episode as a whole. The only episode I really do like is the remake of Kick the Can. Scatman Carruthers was walking magic, plus the changes made to the end of the episode actually improves it. Oh and Spielberg directing material that was perfect for him.

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[–] Slaterson14 8 years ago

The movie is pretty bad for sure, especially that dumb intro with Dan Akroyd magically turning into some pasty faced ghoul WTF was that. The movie does give me a creep vibe though which of course has nothing to do with the movie and everything to do with the gruesome death of Vic Morrow and those two poor kids, screw John Landis I heard that douche was trying to even promote the movie as he spoke as morrows funeral but I take that with a grain of salt but if true hes a true bastard.

Every time I see this movie on and watch it for a bit I feel so bad seeing Vic, its is really creepy like your watching this guy who is just doing what to him is a job and has no idea the horrible fate that awaits him. I read Spielberg was going to make a creepy episode at first but changed it to the lighthearted "kick the can". I think if he wanted to be respectful that you don't release the movie at all, it also was speculated that Spielberg was indeed on location when the accident happened and as soon as it did a limo pulled up very swiftly and he jumped in and was hastily drove off and claimed he was never there to begin with. Its so needless too, Landis insists on using real children instead of dummies for "realism" but then in the scene the idiot doesn't ever once push the camera in close enough for you to even tell that they are real kids, a dummy would looked exactly the same if shot like that.

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[–] [email protected] (6247) 8 years ago

The Vic Morrow segment should have been deleted from the movie just out of basic decency and respect. However, they would have had to film another segment or redo it with another actor. It was probably not in their budget to do so.

The whole movie was a disappointment. I know a few people who liked it, but I didn't. The old TZ filmed in black and white had a special, spooky, other wordly feel to it. Also, I think they should have written a whole new script for the film instead of recycling a few old episodes.

John Lithgow, wonderful actor, but he can't compete with a screaming, over the top William Shatner! I remember reading that he was the male Fay Wray of television. LOL

Don't mean this as a criticism. I am a huge Shatner fan, Captain Kirk was my favorite Star Trek Captain. He does get a lot of crap for his screaming and "over emoting." However, he did it so well! In my opinion, NO ONE can overact as well as William Shatner.

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[–] shannongr 8 years ago

I concur, but the monster in the remake was much better than the Monchichi in TZ.

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[–] PussyCrusher_Principal 8 years ago

Flashback to a different time, when we couldn't just bring up You Tube or pop a DVD in:

I've loved TZ ever since seeing episodes shown on New York tv (I'm in South Jersey) when cable tv was pretty new, but of course I'd actually only ever seen very few episodes by the time the TZ movie came out in '83. Saw it in a theater... So the film's interpretations of those classic eps were the first time I'd ever seen them in any form, in fact I didn't even know that the segments were remakes of actual classic eps at all (except the Vic Morrow sequence of course). You can't imagine my joy when I finally discovered the original episodes of Nightmare at 20,000 Feet, Kick The Can and It's a Good Life!

I still say the original Good Life is way freakier than the (admittedly, freaky) movie version!

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[–] MsLadybird99 8 years ago

It's a Good Life was way better in the series than this awful movie, but I actually prefer the John Lithgow version.

Vic Morrow (Jennifer Jason Leigh's dad) was killed along with two young children making the war segment of the TZ movie.

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[–] elliedivito 8 years ago

I'm a New Tork tv-influenced Jerseyan also, Hugh. I remember watching marathons when WPIX-11 did them & taped them!