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Post by peapotmaster on Dec 20, 2010 23:17:42 GMT -5
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Post by james on Dec 21, 2010 9:08:09 GMT -5
Amazing Stories was uneven (the episode about the plant that becomes a screen writer was terrible), but there were some great ones. One of my favorites was the episode (directed by Robert Zemeckis, I think) with Christopher Lloyd as a terrifying high school English teacher subjected to a spell (which goes horribly wrong) by two of his students.
James
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Post by Derrick on Dec 21, 2010 9:18:21 GMT -5
Yeah, one week AMAZING STORIES would blow my socks off and the week afterwards I'd be like "meh". Despite the fact that Steven Spielberg was supernova hot when this originally aired, it never was a big hit (or a hit at all, really) And if it weren't for the fact that Spielberg had negotiated a rock solid contract that guaranteed the show would run for two years, it probably would have been canceled early on.
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Post by james on Dec 21, 2010 12:11:49 GMT -5
Yeah, one week AMAZING STORIES would blow my socks off and the week afterwards I'd be like "meh". Despite the fact that Steven Spielberg was supernova hot when this originally aired, it never was a big hit (or a hit at all, really) And if it weren't for the fact that Spielberg had negotiated a rock solid contract that guaranteed the show would run for two years, it probably would have been canceled early on. Amazing Stories did attract talented directors to television, though, including Zemeckis, Joe Dante, Martin Scorcese, Clint Eastwood(!) and Paul Bartel (and Spielberg himself). It reminds me of the Masters of Horror series on cable television, with the difference that the latter wasn't beholden to ratings in the way a network show like Amazing Stories was.
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Post by peapotmaster on Dec 22, 2010 7:34:55 GMT -5
Like in my post, this series was the start of one Brad Bird, who would do three critical acclaimed animated films for WB and Disney-Pixar.
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Post by Derrick on Dec 22, 2010 14:45:35 GMT -5
Like in my post, this series was the start of one Brad Bird, who would do three critical acclaimed animated films for WB and Disney-Pixar. I'm gonna go out on a limb here and guess you're a fan of Brad Bird.
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Post by peapotmaster on Dec 23, 2010 15:50:13 GMT -5
I'm just saying that Amazing Stories was his start, before he was popular. I do have the complete series of family Dog, but Bird wasn't a part of the series, but the pilot. AS is a great series, and I like the episode where the woman sees her son's favorite storybook creature come to life.
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Post by smang12345 on Dec 23, 2010 19:18:44 GMT -5
Thank you guys for reading my letter on air. You are both still wrong but that's OK as we can agree to disagree.
I think that Amazing Stories was a show 15 years ahead of it's time. If it were done today on the SciFi channel the response would be much better.
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Post by james on Dec 25, 2010 8:23:23 GMT -5
Like in my post, this series was the start of one Brad Bird, who would do three critical acclaimed animated films for WB and Disney-Pixar. If you live in (or near) Manhattan, you can see The Iron Giant this week at Film Forum. It is a great movie. James
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