tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12380553.post4920505874506087190..comments2024-03-27T10:27:59.266-04:00Comments on John Kenneth Muir's Reflections on Cult Movies and Classic TV: Room for One More, Honey: The 7 Cult-TV Flights You Don't Want to BoardJohn Kenneth Muirhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15629979615332893780noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12380553.post-86907948910514878692017-03-03T16:09:33.853-05:002017-03-03T16:09:33.853-05:00Flight 22 sounds like a direct copy of one of the ...Flight 22 sounds like a direct copy of one of the stories from Dead of Night (1945) based on "The Bus-Conductor", a short story by E. F. Benson (apparantly :) )Red_Cardinalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12119321537913665046noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12380553.post-351647165322400772017-02-10T16:53:51.002-05:002017-02-10T16:53:51.002-05:00John,
These lists are always fun! How interesting...John,<br />These lists are always fun! How interesting that I happen to be wearing this Twilight Zone t-shirt today:<br />http://www.yourwdwstore.net/Disney-ADULT-Long-Sleeve-Shirt--Tower-of-Terror--Your-Room-Is-Ready_p_30465.html<br />"Twenty-two" is one of my favorite TZ episodes of all time. It's a classic because it weaves in so many elements of the show's greatness: the thin line between dreams and reality, prognostication, suspense, a wonderful score (recycled from the earlier episode "Elegy"), and that memorable line which you quoted but bears repeating, "Room for one more, Honey!"<br />I've read the Richard Matheson short story from which "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" was adapted, and the episode was practically a beat-for-beat recreation of the story; however, the creature as described is more accurately represented by Steven Spielberg's "Twilight Zone - The Movie" sequence featuring John Lithgow.<br />Kudos for mentioning sub-orbital flight 603 from "Land of the Giants." Fun fact - the ship wasn't named in early scripts or production materials. It was Kurt Kazner, who played Alexander Fitzugh, who came up with the name "Spindrift," which is the foam an ocean liner produces as it sails through the water. The cast adapted the name, ad-libbing it in their dialogue, and shortly thereafter the writers began adding it into the scripts. I'm currently re-reading Murray Leinster's novels based on the show. In these, the Spindrift has a re-chargeable atomic drive, which allows the ship to fly back and forth across the planet many times. Can you imagine having to strap in every few hours, take off and crash land, repeatedly? Probably better that you didn't, but that's what happening in the novels.<br />Lost's first season is, in my mind, one of the finest years of television ever produced, although I'm envious of those who checked out before it reached its controversial conclusion. I'd heard a story, perhaps apocryphal, that J.J. Abrams pitched his idea, including its ending, to ABC, and the day after the pilot aired, fans had figured out the ending on the internet. Even Howard Stern had guessed it on his show! Seven years later, it turned out they had all surmised correctly. Even though I wasn't too thrilled with its denouement, Lost has made me wonder if we're all trapped in Purgatory or Naraka due to our current political climate! As long as we still have shows like The Twilight Zone, I guess it isn't all bad.<br />SteveAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13101722769411384962noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12380553.post-46847293153590777112017-02-10T12:08:54.687-05:002017-02-10T12:08:54.687-05:00John, frightening subject for those that already h...John, frightening subject for those that already have fear to fly. "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" gremlin was probably to flying what the JAWS shark was to swimming in the ocean for us all in '75.<br /><br />SGBSGBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07137406272001346149noreply@blogger.com