I heard the new "TZ" movie is going to be one story instead of an anthology
How the hell is that going to work? I'll hazard a guess and imagine about as well as the last time they thought making "TZ" episodes longer was a good idea.
shareI know nothing about it, but if we're sitting through 90 minutes or more of one plot, it had better have one heck of a twist ending.
shareWhile it wasn't perfect I liked that "Twilight Zone: The Movie" included four stories -- a parable ("Time Out"), a horror story ("Nightmare At Twenty Thousand Feet"), a dark fantasy ("It's A Good Life"), and one for the sentimentalists ("Kick The Can," though, jeez, they really short-changed us on the bleakness of the original) -- roughly all the kinds of stories you'll likely come across in the fifth dimension (well, there wasn't a comedy -- except, that is, if you count the Dan Akroyd/Albert Brooks prologue, which I suppose you could). This seems like the best way to approach the material. "TZ" is all about telling short, punchy stories you watch on New Year's during Halftime. You mess with that format you mess with Mr. Serling's original intent. But Hollywood knows best -- I mean, they fill our multiplexes with so much quality work after all ...
shareThe twist might be that we expect it to be good, but instead they ruin it.
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