I was very excited to see the American Reunion movie. I saw American Pie just after college and remembered it was quite funny.
Jim, Michelle, Oz, Heather, Stifler reunite for their high school...
I recommend the Mike Wallace interview if you can find it on youtube. It explains how his frustration with network censors led to the creation of his Twilight Zone soapbox.
I intend on sending the Sy Fy channel a very angry email considering that they replaced the annual 4th of July 20 or so hours of Twilight Zone eps. for 20 or so hours of......The Greatest American Hero!! WTF!!!! The best thing about the Fourth of July holiday just went out the fuckin door. Sad day America.
The Twilight Zone is my most beloved TV show. When you look back at TV during that era, it's mindblowing that a show of such quality could have been produced at the time. I really miss anthology shows. Back in the 80's there were lots of them but now it's all serialized with overarching plotlines. The thing that made TZ better then The Outer Limits was that it was a half and hour, with the exception of the fourth season. The half hour format was superior because it let them set up the premise, play it through and have a twist at the end. My problem with TOL was that every single episode felt like a slog and was padded with such mind numbing filler. I also hated that show because it focused on the stupid looking monsters. Sure, TZ had its fair share of dumb ass looking aliens but, for some reason, they always seemed to fit in a weird way.
But what made TZ special was Rod Serling and his focus on the human condition. His overwhelming love for humanity and insight into it's faults is what gave TZ that extra kick. I'd say that my top three episodes would be Nothing in the Dark (about the old lady afraid of death), The Lonely (about a man imprisoned on an asteroid with a robot in the shape of a woman) and Walking Distance (about a man who travels back in time to when he was a boy in his old home town).
Walking Distance hold's more weight with me now that I'm a month away from turning 33. I'd like to share with all of you the ending, if I may.
I also wish that some had the brains to turn TZ into a series of feature length movies based on various novels that would fit. I just posted about watching The Dead Zone and how it felt like a great TZ movie. Then there was Miracle Mile which was actually in development as a feature length TZ film back in the 80's. There must be dozens of great books out there that could work as TZ flicks.
