Twilight Zone: The Movie (DVD)

Moronboy, another reviewer on this here site, essentially says in his review of Twilight Zone: The Movie that it is essentially unwatchable. In the spirit of reviewer rivalry, I am going to disagree with almost everything he says. The Landis segment is a disaster, and John Landis took a lot of flack for his decision to keep on keeping on. The plotting of the segment is loosely based around "A Quality Of Mercy", one of my least favourite episodes. An outspoken, bigoted businessman get taught a lesson or two in acceptance through the medium of time travel. The segment is, as I said, a disaster. I am sure you are all familiar with story of how Morrow (the ...  Read the complete review

Sometimes television shows never die,witness if you will "The Twilight Zone". Produced in 1959,the show survived until the mid sixties,before being cancelled. Rod Serling the Zones creater and narrator,then moved over to "Night Gallery"a anothology story that was "The Twilight Zone" in all but name. In the early eighties Spielberg produced "Twilight Zone:The Movie"and then a few short years later,the show returned to tv. All of this illustrates how strong a seller the Zone really is,it also shows that nobody really understood what made the show so very unique when Rod Serling was alive..... ...  Read the complete review

Remembered now solely for the fact that Vic Morrow and two children were killed by a falling helicopter during the John Landis segment, and if any movie would be worth dying for, this one certainly isn't it. Four hot directors (Landis, Steven Spielberg, Joe Dante and George Miller) each remake an episode of 'The Twilight Zone' with big bucks and expensive special effects, but add nothing to the originals. Miller's last segment is the best, with John Lithgow in paranoid mode as a man with a fear of flying becoming convinced that there is something on the wing of the place (he's right). Joe Dante's primary coloured nightmare has some ...  Read the complete review