DVD : Twilight Zone - The Movie
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Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 0012569816695
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: October 09, 2007
Running Time: 101 minutes
Sales Rank: 4778
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: June 24, 1983
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Four short horrorific tales are anthologized in this film as a tributeto rod serling and his popular tv series.
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A highly anticipated release for fantasy fans in the summer of 1983, Twilight Zone: The Movie presents three adaptations of classic episodes (and one original story) from Rod Serling's anthology series by a quartet of the biggest directors in Hollywood. With Stephen Spielberg (also the film's co-producer), John Landis, George Miller (The Road Warrior, Happy Feet), and Joe Dante behind the camera for this portmanteau feature, one might expect Serling's episodes to positively gleam with star power, but the truth is that Twilight Zone: The Movie is a hit-and-miss affair. Landis opens with an amusing nod to the original series' pop-culture appeal with Dan Aykroyd and Albert Brooks riffing on their favorite episodes before a hair-raising shock finale; unfortunately, his second offering is a bland morality plan about racial tolerance that will forever be overshadowed by the accident that claimed the lives of star Vic Morrow and two child actors during shooting. Spielberg's take on George Clayton Johnson's "Kick the Can" looks lovely and is well performed by its cast (especially Scatman Crothers), but it struggles to bear up under the weight of treacley sentiment so common to the director's films at the time. Dante's version of Jerome Bixby's "It's A Good Life" (about a boy with monstrous powers) is rife with his trademark energy and black humor (and his cast of regular players, including Kevin McCarthy and William Schallert, strike the right balance of terror and comedy). But it's Miller's revamp of Richard Matheson's legendary "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" that delivers the biggest payoff, thanks to John Lithgow's super-charged turn as a nervous airline passenger who's convinced he's seen a monster tampering with the plane's wing. Burgess Meredith (himself a veteran of the original TZ) provides narration; the widescreen DVD features no extras save for the original trailer and a remastered digital transfer. --Paul Gaita
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Loved the remakes of the twilight zone episodes...shipment was fast and the product was in excellent condition.
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TWILIGHT ZONE - THE MOVIE made headlines long before it opened when actor Vic Morrow and two Asian child actors were killed in a horrific accident during filming.
The scandal, the trial, and the resulting publicity cast a dark shadow on what is otherwise a harmlessly sentimental trip into the Twilight Zone.
The opening with Dan Aykroyd and Albert Brooks is pure John Landis, more of the same laugh/fright effect that worked so well in AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON. But Landis' contribution to the tales, an original story not from the Zone canon, isn't up to Rod Serling standards. The comeuppance of bigot Vic Morrow get repititious and--honestly--problematic when you consider that the US soldier is lumped with the Nazis and the Ku Klux Klan.
Spielberg's choice is the lamest: cute elderly people get to become cute little kids for a night. Any otherworldly wonder is lost under a heavy flow of Speilberg syrup.
Joe Dante has fun with his tale but his sappy ending--far different than the original TV version!--could've been directed by Spielberg.
This is THE TWILIGHT ZONE, people, not THE GOONIES.
Only the last time, my personal favorite of all Twilight Zone episodes (the original starred William Shatner, hilariously lampooned in the second ACE VENTURE movie), reaches the Zone. John Lithgow is brilliant as a spazzing passenger in Richard Matheson's "Nightmare at Thirty Thousand Feet." George Miller (THE ... Read More
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The movie that was long overdue. It doesn't make the original series look better or worse. And in some cases, an improvement. The gremlin in "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" was far better than the one depicted on the TV version and John Lithgow starts at paranoid and rakes it up. He doesn't start calm and build. Very difficult to do and I admire that.
"It's a Good Life" has so many in-jokes it is not funny. Watch for star cameos, named of towns and references to the original show.
"Kick the Can" is superbly filmed. Spielberg took his time and did this one with love.
I also suggest you buy "The Twilight Zone: Unlocking the Door to a Television Classic" because the 800 plus page book is a P-E-R-F-E-C-T companion to the DVD. You'll learn about the behind-the-scenes filming and that means far more than casual vieweing. It requires multiple viewings. The behind-the-scenes stuff is fun. Both are available on Amazon.
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I tip my hat to the following directors; John Landis, Stephen Speilberg, Joe Dante, George Miller. A FANTASIC AND STRANGE MOVIE!
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The Twilight Zone"The Movie" is more than fun, it's a trip into a world of the mind & you'll see thing that will trick your thoughts.Four short stories into the otherside, the best one in the story of the older poeple,finding they never need to grow old & learn to keep their youth in their hearts. It's just one of four short stories. Another is about a man & his fear of flying & thing go mad in his mind or are they real. Well you just have to find out for yourself. So pick up the Twilight Zone"The Movie" & catch a mind ride to the otherside, It's fun trip'enjoy.Great movie fun.
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starring: Dan Aykroyd, Albert Brooks, Vic Morrow, Doug McGrath, Charles Hallahan
directed by: Joe Dante, Steven Spielberg, George Miller (II)
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Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 0012569816695
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: October 09, 2007
Running Time: 101 minutes
Sales Rank: 4778
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: June 24, 1983
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