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That was one of my favorite episodes. Anne Francis was so exquiste looking. You could imagine her as a flawless mannequin.
It was so scary when she was alone in the department store and she kept hearing, "Marsha, Marsha..." Gave me goosebumps.
I wonder who Marsha's "mother" was though! lol She came to the department store to buy her mother a thimble. Just all in her imagination? Who knows how mannequins think.
Yeah, it's "March Madness". I think college basketball was on.
Oh I forgot about Jim Carrey! A lot of people thought he would've made a better Darrin. I agree.
You mean the late Nora Ephron. I did enjoy some of her movies such as Heartburn and Sleepless in Seattle. It definitely would have been better if the person who wrote the screenplay actually liked the show!
I didn't see this in the theater. When I saw it on TV I thought it was funny and interesting at first. But after a while the story seemed to flop all over the place. As Siskel and Ebert used to say about a lot of movies, "It lacked focus. The writers didn't seem to know what direction to take the film."
Eye of the Beholder--- Good choice. But I think I would tell the man who came to pick her up, Walter Smith (played by the handsome Edson Stroll) , that I could overlook his 'hideous' face and love him for himself!
Well I feel a little embarrassed when I get scared in movie theaters! lol
But it's true that different people are afraid of different things. When we were kids, my sisters and I often watched Chiller Theater and Mad theater on Saturday afternoons. But then, my one sister would be afraid to go upstairs alone to go to the bathroom!
Movies like Silence of the Lambs are extra scary to me because they portray REAL monsters. People like Jame Gumb do exist. I've read many of Ann Rule's true crime novels. These people are scary enough when you read about them, but to see them in a movie is worse.
Of course some people are bigger chickens than I am. Years ago we rented Scream. My husband (now my ex) was too afraid to watch the rest of the movie. He went to bed! Of course he wouldn't watch the rest of Mel Gibson's Hamlet because he didn't understand it. lol
He bought a copy of Night of the Living Dead. I told him how much it scared me when I saw it. I didn't go into any details but I told him how scary it was. He never watched it! Big baby! lol
You went to see Alien while pregnant? Don't you know what could have happened to your baby? My grandmother had an old wives tale about things like that. When my mom was expecting me, she and my dad went to see some weird scary movie called "Invasion of the Mole People." I think that was the title.
My grandmother told my mom not to go see that type of movie because it will scare the baby. He or she will be born weird or deformed. Happy to say that I'm not THAT weird looking!
Stormcloud---- LOL That is TOO true. I was curious about what the IMDB posters would have to say here, so I kept checking on all the posts and it was just a bunch of lefties congratulating each other on their twisted opinions. No discussion at all, just a leftard echo chamber!
Shouldn't use that word though. Hester posted that it was so "offensive". Interesting, coming from a bunch of people who call the President a moron, an orange clown, etc. My favorite is when they can't even bring themselves to call him President Trump but resort to a number "45".
A "real discussion" though? What does the left discuss? They only agree with fake news, lies and stupidity in general. I hope they all found a great place to "discuss", maybe a playground???
I loved parts of it! I was disappointed in the last part of it.
I thought it was clever to have a woman who WAS a witch play a character in a TV show who was a witch. It was an interesting concept. Nicole Kidman was charming. Michael Caine was excellent as always.
Never understood why the character played by Will Farrell would choose that TV show to star in. Clearly the main character is Samantha, but he wanted to be the star of the show.
The first half of the movie was funny. But the second half lost me. It seemed unfocused and all over the place as if the writers didn't know what to do with the concept that they created.
Not a bad movie though. I don't hate it.
Well it's embarrassing, but I saw Silence when I was an adult! And it still scared me. As a child I always watched the Saturday TV shows like Chiller Theater. Nothing like that scared me when it was on TV. But I have always had a problem seeing any type of scary or violent films in the theater. There's just something about being surrounded by all that darkness and the huge screen. It overwhelms me.
When I was a kid I used to go to the movies with my cousin when we'd visit her family on weekends. They had a theater in their town that showed older, second run films. She loved to go see horror movies. I'd try to be a good sport and go with her, but they scared me. And they were nothing like the horror/slasher films that came out later. But there were just some movies I refused to see.
To this day she likes to tease me about some of the films she missed because of my cowardice, such as 'The Screaming Skull', I didn't need to see that! lol
I could watch Pet Sematary on TV but I could NEVER go see it in the theater. Alien is one of my all time favorite films but I was too afraid to go see it in the theater.
Oh yeah, Fred Gwynne, great in Pet Sematary! He had one of the scariest lines in the film, spoken in that New England accent- "Sometimes dead is betta."
Oh, Mary Sues? I guess I'm talking like a Trekkie. lol Years ago some fans would write their own stories, fan fiction. Maybe you've heard of it? Some fans, especially females, would place themselves in the story. The character that they would create would be super smart, beautiful, alluring,etc. She would be as smart or smarter than the crew and solve the dilemma. The character that the writer loved whether it was Kirk or Spock, etc., would fall in love with the 'Mary Sue' character.
It's sort of a fantasy fiction where the author puts herself in the story. I've read several fanzine stories like that. Some of them were actually pretty good. A lot of fans had great imaginations.
I don't really have to worry about the books I store in the attic. Now the basement, that's another story. I sadly had some books, including Trek novels, ruined by the dampness in the basement. My attic is pretty dry. It hasn't been humid here for a while. We just had a snowstorm last week that dumped about two feet of snow in us!
Let me know when your Spock marathon starts!
Well it's not a film about the supernatural but Silence of the Lambs really scared me! I actually think it traumatized me a little!
I have this ability to recognize faces of actors after I've seen them once. I have recognized actors who played Klingons or other aliens when I see them without their make-up.
Now the character of Jame Gumb in Silence of the Lambs...several years later the actor who played him, Ted Levine, played Capt. Stottlemeyer on Monk. I watched the show for several years and didn't recognize him from the film. It was only when it was pointed out to me did I realize it was the same actor!
I really think that the character was so evil and scary that I blocked out his face in my memory.
Pet Sematary was pretty darned scary too. I was watching it alone one night and one of my cats was sitting across the room, staring at me. I kept thinking that if his eyes started glowing in the dark like the cat in the movie, Church, I am OUTTA here! lol
Yeah I see what you're saying now about Gerry. The yellow dress and bow had an innocence about them. The pink chiffon dress was more grown up looking. I just did not get why Gerry was chasing Darrin to begin with! And if Gerry went upstairs to change and redo her hair, I find it odd that Darrin would just sit in the living room without calling out to Sam or going into the kitchen to see what she was doing.
Gerry admitted to Samantha that there was a curse on Darrin. Sam travelled in the past to undo what happened. I know it was a lighthearted show, so Gerry wouldn't come right out and be specific about her intentions. But I don't think they were good ones! lol I thought she came to see to Darrin's demise, not to seduce him. I guess that was somehowpart of her plan though.
But I don't get the point of her seduction routine. I must be missing something. Was she just trying to break up their marriage?
Yes, Samantha did wear that brown dress on several occasions. I was watching some episodes from season three back to back and she has a number of outfits that she repeats. It's only natural. Women don't usually have an endless supply of clothes. About the white shoes, Sam wore white heels a number of times with darker dresses. My mom often wore white heels in the summer. It seemed to be a style thing back then.
She wore white heels when she wore that pink dress ( I loved that dress) in the episode when she was volunteering at the church bazaar and Serena, unbeknownst to Sam, was "filling in " for her at home. It may have been that Elizabeth Montgomery didn't like dark shoes.
Don't know if you ever saw Vertigo. Hitchcock had a definite idea for how Kim Novack's character would be dressed when she first appeared. It was a grey suit and black heels. Kim Novack told the designer for the film, Edith Head, that she wouldn't wear grey clothes or black shoes. For some odd reason she thought black heels made her legs look bad. Hitchcock got his way in the end though!
Anyway, Sam's style and clothing choices from the earlier seasons were a lot classier and elegant compared to some of the things she wore in the last season. imo I know styles change but the show went overboard on being too trendy. I specifically remember her mini skirts and knee socks. I read where someone asked why was Samantha dressing like Marcia Brady? lol
Well it's always fun to talk about the clothes on the show. Most guys usually have no interest in women's fashions or they don't even notice anyway!
Young Man's Fancy-- I found that episode to be more eerie than depressing. Yes that woman did waste a lot of years on a mama's boy. But she was still young and attractive. She was able to get away from that guy and hopefully start over.
When it comes to relationships I thought 'The Chaser' had a depressing ending for the man who used a love potion on the woman he loved. He tried to win her over but she was indifferent. She falls in love because of the potion but she goes way overboard with her affection. By the end of the episode he couldn't stand her because she was sticking to him like glue. He got the antitdote for the love potion but she showed him the booties she was knitting!! So now, he's stuck with her.
In comparing the situations, I'd much rather be in a position to leave someone who turned out to be wrong for me than be stuck with them forever because of a love potion!
Glad you're going to read that last one! I couldn't put it down.
There are a number of ST novels which feature Spock. The Entropy Effect was excellent. It has more time travel for Mr. Spock. It was written by Vonda N. McIntyre. She's one of my favorite Trek writers. I consider her one of the best.
Killing Time by Della van Hise is also excellent. It involves the Romulans and a time tampering project of theirs called Second History.
Some novels take place on Vulcan such as The I.D.IC. Epidemic and The Vulcan Academy Murders,both by Jean Lorrah.
Well that should keep you busy for a while. lol All this talk of those old novels is making me want to go and reread some of them. I have boxes of them stored up in my attic. Haven't read them in years.
The first ST novel I read was called Spock Must Die! It really got me hooked on the Trek novels. It's one of the older novels published by Bantam books. James Blish wrote it. It was published way back in 1970. I didn't even know there WERE Trek novels back then! I think I found a copy of it around 1988
If you want to read "Mary Sue" type novels, pick up one by Sondra Marshak and Myrna Culbreath. They were a writing team that I swear was in love with Spock! You can tell by the way they treat the character and the female in the story falls in love with him. Triangle is one of their novels. I hesitate to say that it was bad because it was pretty entertaining. But it was quite farfetched and a bit over the top in the way the authors have both Kirk and Spock behaving.
Well I guess that's enough titles for now!
Well maybe not a continuity error, but strange! To me both dresses seemed to be at the same level of dressiness. But at least you took the time to check out the episode.
And from their point of view Samantha was only "in the kitchen" briefly. When people time travel to the past, they may be there for what seems like hours, days or weeks. But from the perspective of people in the present, they only seem to be gone a few minutes. I learned all THAT from watching Star Trek! LOL I know you're not a Trekkie though.
Yeah I've noted that Sam will often change from her casual housework attire into something dressier for dinner or even to go shopping. Lucy Ricardo used to change her clothes a lot too.
There is a continuity error (at least that's what I'm calling it!) in the episode when the Queen of the Witches wants to abdicate and picks Sam as her replacement. Samantha is dressed casually in a green slack set and sandals.
She and Endora get the Queen settled in the guest bedroom and then go into Sam's bedroom to talk. Samantha is now wearing tan colored flat shoes. Okay, did she change shoes in the hallway? lol And Samantha had so much on her mind about not wanting to be Queen. She didn't think she'd have the time OR Darrin's approval. You wouldn't think shoes would be on her mind.
I'm just guessing they filmed that scene the next day and someone in wadrobe misplaced Samantha's sandals!
You DON'T watch Bewitched for realism??? LOL
That was my first thought about Willoughby. Gart's life was depressing owing to his job and his shrew of a wife, but in the end he found happiness...wherever that was.
I thought 'The Lateness of the Hour' was depressing for Jana (Inger Stevens) when she realized that she was not really the couple's "daughter". She was just another robot programmed by the man she thought was her father.
There are a few others that ended on a depressing note, but I have to look up the titles of the episodes.
Yes. one of the worst. What were the writers thinking? Or smoking? lol
Bio-memetic materials could create warp drive, could create the memories and personalities of the Voyager crew? Beyond stupid and silly. I hope their paychecks bounced for writing this episode!
Are you referring to Yesterday's Son by A.C. Crispin? That was the novel based on the episode All Our Yesterdays when Spock encountered Zarabeth in her planet's past . Really good novel. I believe it was the first Trek novel to make the top ten list.
The sequel, Time for Yesterday, was even better. Great book.
I read so may classic Trek novels that I stopped counting when I got to number forty! I have boxes of those books. I also read a lot of TNG, DS9 and Voyager novels.
We should take this discussion over to the Trek boards!
One of the most frightening films ever made, imo. And since they were working on a shoestring budget, in b&w, it had the feeling of a REAL documentary, not a movie.
I was in college and a local channel was playing it one Saturday night. What was especially scary for me is that I was in Pittsburgh and the movie was filmed in western PA. The director made use of local TV personalities including Bill Cardille who hosted a Saturday night chiller theater movie as Chilly Billy.
So there I was , watching what looked like a real newscast with Chilly Billy talking about "strange murders" in the area.
It was so freaky. Like this was really happening. I actually got so scared that I turned it off. Couldn't watch the end. I saw the end years later when I was older and braver. Boy! This was one scary movie!
Oh, NO WAY would I think badly of you because you liked the first TOS movie. I'd just think you had bad taste! LOL LOL Actually I went to the theater twice to see that film. It had a lot of potential, but they seemed more interested in showing the fans, "Look we have a big budget for FX now!"
Did you ever read the novelization of the first film? It was great! It fleshed out the story and it was (to me) way more interesting than all the flashy FX of the movie.
It all comes down to a matter of what we like or don't like. Star Trek 5 was pretty good but Spock's brother really came out of nowhere. I enjoyed the movie. But not the best Trek film on my list.
Lost in Space! Good film. I can't understand why some other deplorable TV remakes got a sequel but not that one.
Even though I loved Kirk, I also was a huge fan of Mr. Spock. The episodes that featured him were some of the best.
I saw all the TOS films but I never went to the theater to see the TNG films. I saw parts of them when they aired on TV. It seemed to me that they rushed the whole thing. After the original series we had ten years of missing it, so everyone was eager to see a film, even though the first Trek film was pretty bad! lol
With TNG, the word was out that they were making a film just as the series ended. I needed some time and "space" to miss the crew before I wanted to rush off to see a movie.
DS 9 was the most layered of all the series, imo. It gave all the characters a chance to shine. The story arcs were well developed.
And yeah! Go watch some Bewitched so you can comment on it or at least ask some questions. The "oldtimers" on that board have a lot of info to share.