LoathedVermin72 wrote:Favorite episode? I think mine is “Nick of Time”.
Oh wow. Just thinking. Was that the one where the guy stops time just as a nuke is about to hit? That episode fuckin haunts me.
Nick of time was when Shatner and his wife wind up in a small town because their vehicle crapped out on them, and he (Shatner) winds up getting addicted to the ambiguous answers that the fortune teller machine is giving him in the diner
Ah right. What’s the one I’m thinking of I wonder
Re: The Twilight Zone
Posted: Sat May 05, 2018 3:12 pm
by Balki
dimejinky99 wrote:
Balki wrote:
dimejinky99 wrote:
LoathedVermin72 wrote:Favorite episode? I think mine is “Nick of Time”.
Oh wow. Just thinking. Was that the one where the guy stops time just as a nuke is about to hit? That episode fuckin haunts me.
Nick of time was when Shatner and his wife wind up in a small town because their vehicle crapped out on them, and he (Shatner) winds up getting addicted to the ambiguous answers that the fortune teller machine is giving him in the diner
Ah right. What’s the one I’m thinking of I wonder
I think you're getting 2 eps confused. There's "Time Enough At Last" (bookworm bank worker who everyone hates goes into the vault to read on his lunch break and the world is destroyed, leaving only him and an endless supply of books, but then he breaks his glasses)
Also "A Kind Of Stopwatch" (a blabbermouth office worker gets a stopwatch that can stop time. he ends up using it for nefarious purposes, but then ends up breaking it while time is stopped, leaving him alone in silence for forever)
I don’t think so cos I saw the one I mean as a really young boy. It freaked me out. The world around him was frozen and there was a nuclear missle up over the city and he couldn’t restart time because of it.
Might not have been twilight sone but I think it was. We had a show here called tales of the unexpected. It could have possibly been on that.
Re: The Twilight Zone
Posted: Sat May 05, 2018 6:27 pm
by VinylGuy
This ride in Disney is so fucking glorious. I was so fucking scared when the music of the series came and that elevator dropped..man, its so violent.
Re: The Twilight Zone
Posted: Sat May 05, 2018 8:58 pm
by run2death
The Disneyland Tower of Terror was replaced by some shitty Marvel ride.
Re: The Twilight Zone
Posted: Sun May 06, 2018 12:09 am
by VinylGuy
run2death wrote:The Disneyland Tower of Terror was replaced by some shitty Marvel ride.
Only in LA.
Re: The Twilight Zone
Posted: Sun May 06, 2018 3:05 am
by daft twat
5 characters in search of an exit is my personal favorite.
Re: The Twilight Zone
Posted: Sun May 06, 2018 1:30 pm
by bada
The Bewitchin' Pool is my favorite.
Re: The Twilight Zone
Posted: Tue May 15, 2018 2:17 am
by run2death
I love this show, but it does suffer from that particular brand of stiff 50s/60s TV acting.
Re: The Twilight Zone
Posted: Tue May 15, 2018 2:19 am
by run2death
Probably my biggest complaint with Alfred Hitchcock Presents as well.
Re: The Twilight Zone
Posted: Tue May 15, 2018 2:30 am
by run2death
That being said, The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street lives up to the hype.
Crazy good.
Re: The Twilight Zone
Posted: Tue May 15, 2018 2:36 am
by tragabigzanda
Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
Re: The Twilight Zone
Posted: Tue May 15, 2018 12:15 pm
by Peeps
the only twighlight zone that matters
Re: The Twilight Zone
Posted: Tue May 15, 2018 1:13 pm
by Balki
run2death wrote:I love this show, but it does suffer from that particular brand of stiff 50s/60s TV acting.
Fair point, but some of the finest moments of the series could've have taken place without the tenseness/stiffness of some of the acting. It kinda "worked"
Re: The Twilight Zone
Posted: Tue May 15, 2018 1:44 pm
by run2death
Balki wrote:
run2death wrote:I love this show, but it does suffer from that particular brand of stiff 50s/60s TV acting.
Fair point, but some of the finest moments of the series could've have taken place without the tenseness/stiffness of some of the acting. It kinda "worked"
Yeah, sometimes.
When depicting "clean American living" and the dangers that lurk underneath (like the aforementioned Maple Street episode), it helped illustrate the point.
Re: The Twilight Zone
Posted: Tue May 15, 2018 1:52 pm
by Balki
run2death wrote:
Balki wrote:
run2death wrote:I love this show, but it does suffer from that particular brand of stiff 50s/60s TV acting.
Fair point, but some of the finest moments of the series could've have taken place without the tenseness/stiffness of some of the acting. It kinda "worked"
Yeah, sometimes.
When depicting "clean American living" and the dangers that lurk underneath (like the aforementioned Maple Street episode), it helped illustrate the point.
Of the fear of NUKES in 3rd From The Sun
Re: The Twilight Zone
Posted: Fri May 18, 2018 2:15 pm
by Balki
Watching "The After Hours" on the DVR on a slow work morning. Another one of my "top" eps. The mood they set in the department store after everyone goes home is so perfect.
Marsha...Marsha...Maaaarsha? Who do you think you're fooling, Marsha?
Come on dear, climb off it.
Re: The Twilight Zone
Posted: Mon May 28, 2018 1:27 pm
by Balki
Enjoying a lazy Memorial Day morning with a pot of French Press and some TZ.
Watching "The Man In The Bottle" right now. A store owner and his wife, nearing bankruptcy, stumble upon a genie in a bottle that grants them 4 wishes. Each wish obviously turns out to bite them in the ass, and at the end of it, they prefer to leave their lives as is. Hokey ep, but hokey TZ's are still awesome.
Re: The Twilight Zone
Posted: Tue May 29, 2018 11:38 am
by CopperTom
run2death wrote:
Balki wrote:
run2death wrote:I love this show, but it does suffer from that particular brand of stiff 50s/60s TV acting.
Fair point, but some of the finest moments of the series could've have taken place without the tenseness/stiffness of some of the acting. It kinda "worked"
Yeah, sometimes.
When depicting "clean American living" and the dangers that lurk underneath (like the aforementioned Maple Street episode), it helped illustrate the point.
The seriousness and investment of the acting is one trait that made TZ great.
