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the leading man is my tpye
Konterr
Brilliant and touching
Robert Joyner
The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one
Benemon
Rod Serling´s Twilight Zone is probably one of the best, acclaimed and most well known TV Shows of the old Days. Even after Decades it will fascinate and suprise Audiences. A shame if i wouldn´t give Twilight Zone a 10/10.
George Redding
The unforgettable zone was definitely what this was as well as anything else you could say about it. Sometimes you could laugh at the far-fetchedness of this five-year-lasting program and there were times you would be frightened by it, so much so you would have to watch a program following it just to go to avoid a possible nightmare. In one particular episode a baseball player, who was actually a robot, one dressed in a baseball uniform, could pitch so hard he could literally burn a catcher's glove, but later the manager of the team read that the player would have to have a heart. (Something new!?)Another time a couple in Las Vegas, or maybe Reno, was being chased by a gambling machine. Then there was occasionally "good 'ole western action", which Rod Serling must have loved. Occasionally some characters encountered giants, and one of that type I saw was one of the scariest things I've ever seen in my whole life! There was one episode which was actually touching, and bordered on the spiritual. In it a young man in maybe his twenties was injured in Vietnam, (and this particular episode was filmed when that was the real conflict there in southeast Asia), and he wasn't given much time to live. At the same time his not-so-good drunk father (played very well by Jack Klugman) learned of this. Naturally, there was the surreal aspect of the episode, in which his son, just a young boy here, was wandering in an amusement park(?), and in so many words the boy said he could have been a better father to him. After the surreal had taken place, this particular dark night the father made what may have sounded like an almost irreverent prayer, but it was very sincere. He said to God that if he would take him the sorry self he was, just save his son; this was actually the way it did happen, and at the end the soldier in his twenties had survived, and we were left to believe that the son felt his father did love him. Unforgettable. The series provided an opportunity for big-time stars to appear, such (again) Klugman, Earl Holliman, Carol Burnett, Cliff Robertson, Bob Cummings, Dana Andrews, Dennis Weaver, Mickey Rooney, Janice Rule, Lee Marvin, Inger Stevens, Donna Douglas, and Buddy Ebsen, just to mention a few, and Jerry Goldsmith provided a haunting-yet-fitting music score. Also, as I heard it once said, it was a big overflow of the creator Rod Serling's imagination, and that was definitely the case for sure. It also, again, provided a diversity of different types of drama. In addition to all else about it, this is most likely why it has been a mind-sticker for over fifty years, since it lasted from 1959 to 1964.
Mark Turner
"The following is a review of the complete series released on disc by CBS" Growing up in the fifties and sixties gave fans of science fiction and mystery the best years available when it came to TV series. Anthology shows were the norm rather than the exception and the eerie made its way to television screens weekly with shows like THRILLER and ONE STEP BEYOND. But the granddaddy of them all was written by a man named Rod Serling, one of the best screenwriters of all time, who appeared at the beginning of his series each week to take us to…the Twilight Zone.The name itself has become synonymous with the odd and out of place, a location where time stands still and dreams come true. As Serling said each week "There is a fifth dimension beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition, and it lies between the pit of man's fears and the summit of his knowledge. This is the dimension of imagination. It is an area which we call…the Twilight Zone." Rarely is prose like this found on TV today.For most THE TWILIGHT ZONE is nothing more than a marathon shown on the SyFy network every so often. One episode after another for three days straight. For fans it's a gift, for those unfamiliar with the show it's a novelty and for those who don't give it a chance it's a tedious chore to watch. Unlike series today with quick cuts, fast moving shots and locations and plot lines that have to be understood in nanoseconds rather than take the time to play out, THE TWILIGHT ZONE took the time to tell stories, to take new ideas as well as the works of famous authors to be shown each week.Serling chose the best of the best from stories that drifted from science fiction to fantasy to eerie tales to downright mysteries. Many are well remembered and some forgotten, but once seen they are difficult to forget. Consider "Time Enough At Last", the story of a henpecked man who loves to read and does so by escaping to a vault on his lunch break. When the apocalypse arrives and wipes out mankind, he now has all the time he wants to read. SPOILER. And then he drops and breaks his glasses. It was twists like this that made the series must see TV.Or how about "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street" where a group of neighbors display their deepest fears about each other when it appears one of them might indeed be an alien from outer space. As they try and determine who it is the paranoia can be sliced with a knife. "A Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" tells the tale of a man who looks out the window of the airplane he is on to see a creature tearing the plane apart in mid-flight but who can't convince anyone else of what he is seeing. These are some of the more notable episodes that people have discussed for years.So why talk about this series now? Because it is finally available at a decent price in the best transfer possible. Individual seasons of the show previously released on blu-ray ran anywhere from $40-56 each. At that price being able to afford the entire 5 year series was a bit pricey. But now you can find THE TWILIGHT ZONE: THE COMPLETE SERIES on blu-ray for just $84-180 depending on the sales going on. That might still be higher than most would pay for a recording of their favorite show but when you consider you get all 5 seasons, all 156 episodes of the now classic series, it's honestly a bargain.No longer will the fan have to wait until SyFy runs a marathon, staying up until the wee hours of the morning to get a glimpse of that favorite episode. Watch it whenever you want and in the best format possible. In addition to the episodes you also get the original pilot, interviews with cast and crew, isolated music scores, audio commentary by author Marc Scott Zicree, radio dramas and more. This makes the greatest gift possible for that hard to find person, the one who loves this series but has held off on buying it.Fans of the series will delight to find this item under the Christmas tree. Once again it will take them to that fifth dimension, the dimension of the imagination, a dimension knowns as the Twilight Zone. And with any luck while watching, a new generation will have the chance to discover some of the best TV has ever had to offer.
gilligan1965
This TV show came out in 1959; I've been watching it since the early 1970s when I was a child, and, I'm still watching it into my '50s...now, when it's on the Sci-Fi channel.Many of these stories, although 'technically' outdated, STILL APPLY to today's society and people in general - if for some reason there 'is' a "DIFFERENT" dimension where there exists aliens, monsters, and, 'different plains.' I can't get enough of it! It's so creative and so imaginative! With writers like Rod Serling (the screenplays for "Planet of the Apes;" "Seven Days in May;" and, many more); Richard Matheson (the novels "I Am Legend;" "Stir of Echoes;" and, many more); Earl Hamner ("The Waltons"); Charles Beaumont; and, so many more great writers! This TV show, in a way (I believe), is much like the ORIGINAL "Star Trek" series, where, indeed, it lasted all-too-shortly on TV...but, it lasts forever in our minds!To me...that's PERFECTION! :) They made their lasting point!
