Twilight Zone The Movie (1983)
One thing I learnt after watching the film is that nostalgic memories should be confined only to the .avi and jpg files. We should not try to recreate the beautiful memories and spoil it. We can only pleasure ourselves by reminiscing the thoughts which seem so heavenly at that moment of time and space.The reasons I decided to watch this flick is twofold, the first being it is a Twilight Zone Movie - the black and white series that we enjoyed so much in RRF days and the second being Vic Morrow (again in RRF, we used to enjoy Combat! where he used to act with Rick Jason) is acting in it. Unfortunately, he died during the shooting of the film.
TZTM comprise 4 segments- One original whilst three remakes of the stories of the original TZ.
#1. Vic Morrow is angry for losing a promotion which was given to Jew instead. He meets up with in a bar and makes derogatory remarks about blacks, Jews, Orientals, Arabs and everybody for taking away his chances, a true blue American. He leaves the bar and lands into the heart of Deutschland in middle of WW2. He is hunted, chased, shot at and yo yos into midst of KKK lynching where he is a black victim and also into Vietnam War where he is the hunted. He returns to the WW2 scene, he is branded as Jew and is shoved into a train which would send him to a concentration camp. Through the cracks of the train, he can see his friends coming out of the bar they were in earlier. His screams and call for help fell into deaf ears.
#2. Is a scene in a retirement home. In comes a cheerful man who suggests that they should relive the childhood days by playing 'Kick the Can' after midnight. During the game, the inmates of the retirement home actually relive their childhood days literally. They become children! After playing and reminiscing all the things that happened in their lives, they realized that living life again also means also going through all the sad moments all over again. They concluded that they should think young, rather than be young.
#3. Is a remake of the classic TZ series 'It's a good life' starring Billy Mumy (of Lost in Space) where a young cute boy controls adults through his mind reading ability. Of course it fell flat here.
#4. Another remake of TZ of a claustrophobic in a flight creating havoc in the plane because he keeps seeing a creature on the wing of the plane trying to destroy the engine. John Lithgow (of '3rd Rock from the Sun') gives a promising rendition of psychologically disturbed passenger.
TZTM comprise 4 segments- One original whilst three remakes of the stories of the original TZ.
#1. Vic Morrow is angry for losing a promotion which was given to Jew instead. He meets up with in a bar and makes derogatory remarks about blacks, Jews, Orientals, Arabs and everybody for taking away his chances, a true blue American. He leaves the bar and lands into the heart of Deutschland in middle of WW2. He is hunted, chased, shot at and yo yos into midst of KKK lynching where he is a black victim and also into Vietnam War where he is the hunted. He returns to the WW2 scene, he is branded as Jew and is shoved into a train which would send him to a concentration camp. Through the cracks of the train, he can see his friends coming out of the bar they were in earlier. His screams and call for help fell into deaf ears.
#2. Is a scene in a retirement home. In comes a cheerful man who suggests that they should relive the childhood days by playing 'Kick the Can' after midnight. During the game, the inmates of the retirement home actually relive their childhood days literally. They become children! After playing and reminiscing all the things that happened in their lives, they realized that living life again also means also going through all the sad moments all over again. They concluded that they should think young, rather than be young.#3. Is a remake of the classic TZ series 'It's a good life' starring Billy Mumy (of Lost in Space) where a young cute boy controls adults through his mind reading ability. Of course it fell flat here.
#4. Another remake of TZ of a claustrophobic in a flight creating havoc in the plane because he keeps seeing a creature on the wing of the plane trying to destroy the engine. John Lithgow (of '3rd Rock from the Sun') gives a promising rendition of psychologically disturbed passenger.
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