leeper@mtgzz.UUCP (m.r.leeper) (10/28/85)
Ok, I'll admit it. I liked the AMAZING STORIES done on 10/27. It was a pretty good sendup of the old Universal horror films. For once the humor was really funny. Mark Leeper ...ihnp4!mtgzz!leeper
karn@petrus.UUCP (Phil R. Karn) (10/28/85)
> Ok, I'll admit it. I liked the AMAZING STORIES done on 10/27.
Me too. It was a good night for NBC; I also liked the Hitchcock episode
that followed. You *knew* that she was going to get buried alive, but
the *reason* was totally unexpected. I had assumed that the old man
would find out he'd been tricked (or that he could really see all along)
and would simply leave her there.
Philplace@uiucdcs.CS.UIUC.EDU (10/28/85)
Why not post this to net.tv where it belongs? Denise University of Illinois The Super Computing Illini
jsl@potomac.UUCP (John Labovitz) (10/30/85)
> > Ok, I'll admit it. I liked the AMAZING STORIES done on 10/27.
Did anyone realize that the first redneck (the guy watching TV) was Miller
from the film `Repo Man'? And that the `tough guy' redneck was one of the
Replicants from `Blade Runner'? Does anyone know their real names, and what
else they've done?
Did anyone who has seen `Repo Man' and `Blade Runner' notice that the two
characters acted very similarly to their respective characters in the
Amazing Stories show? I almost expected the first guy to say `You got
it...time machines!' and the other guy to say `Ever had an itch you can't
scratch?' (for the unknowing, some of the best lines of each movie).
--
John Labovitz ..!{rlgvax,seismo}!bdmrrr!potomac!jsl
--
When they told her, ``You're pregnant''
She threw up her hands
And thousands of fingers grew out of the sand... -- Robyn Hitchcockshuju@videovax.UUCP (Shuju Burgess) (10/30/85)
> > Ok, I'll admit it. I liked the AMAZING STORIES done on 10/27. > > Me too. It was a good night for NBC; I also liked the Hitchcock episode > that followed. You *knew* that she was going to get buried alive, but > the *reason* was totally unexpected. I had assumed that the old man > would find out he'd been tricked (or that he could really see all along) > and would simply leave her there. > > Phil OK, if we're going to allow TV-talk in net.movies, I'll put in my $.02 too. I've seen the new Hitchcock Presents 3 times, and all three times I had the ending figured out about 15 minutes into the show, and this includes the episode mentioned above. I haven't seen any Amazing Stories except for the first one, but it wasn't nearly as good as I had hoped. Needless to say, I am pretty disappointed at both of those shows. Shu-Ju
tim@k.cs.cmu.edu (Tim Maroney) (10/30/85)
I liked the mummy episode as well. It was a pleasure to see Spielberg drop
his obsession with modern middle-class white America for a little while. Of
course, the cute kid was still there -- I think it's in the contract with
the network -- but he was introduced to parody Westerns, not just to provide
us with that back-porch remote-control-TV atmosphere.
Of course, I'm a sucker for good parodies, and this one managed to lambaste
both Westerns and monster movies within a half hour!
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Tim Maroney, CMU Center for Art and Technology
Tim.Maroney@k.cs.cmu.edu uucp: {seismo,decwrl,etc.}!k.cs.cmu.edu!tim
CompuServe: 74176,1360 Religion is a branch of psychology.tw8023@pyuxii.UUCP (T Wheeler) (11/04/85)
Gee, folks, don't you remember? The whole premise of the Hitchcock shows was that the viewer was able to figure out the ending by accumulating the clues. Sure the ending can be figured out, that's the whole idea. I find it fun to try and predict the ending. T. C. Wheeler