UNCUT REACTION - The Twilight Zone S5E3 - Nightmare at 20,000 Feet (Starring William Shatner)
Added 2024-07-03 14:15:10 +0000 UTC
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Fun to watch it with you even though I have seen this many times always enjoyable. Kirk doing his standard unhinged person routine that we see in TOS
AzoriusMage
2024-07-09 14:01:15 +0000 UTCHow many people realize William Shatner was in the same movie ("Judgment at Nuremberg") as Judy Garland?
Anthony Bernacchi
2024-07-06 13:12:25 +0000 UTCJudgement at Nuremberg - great film.
Collin Freeman
2024-07-05 03:22:34 +0000 UTCYeah but you're not reading a book. You're watching a performance. The actor's delivery is supposed to add something, but it can't if you talk over them. And it's a suspense show. You can't experience suspense if you're talking.
Artribution
2024-07-05 03:00:18 +0000 UTCI also agree. I think this is a rare case where the remake was better.
David Wayne Fox
2024-07-04 16:03:52 +0000 UTCTwo lesser-known Shatner performances you might check out: he has a small role in Judgment at Nuremberg (1961), an excellent drama with an all-star cast --- and if you can find it, there is a hilarious movie called Free Enterprise (1998) where he plays a VERY funny send-up of himself and befriends a couple of Star Trek fans, one of them played by a pre - Will and Grace Eric McCormack.
David Wayne Fox
2024-07-04 16:02:42 +0000 UTCI'm an aircraft mechanic/avionics technician. I've worked on just about every make and model of private general aviation aircraft, business jets, airliners, some military...as of today I specialize in business jets. So you can 100% believe me when I say that GREMLINS ARE REAL.
Monty Crawford
2024-07-04 15:14:54 +0000 UTCSubtitles were on.
Josh (Target Audience)
2024-07-04 07:07:20 +0000 UTCI've never liked this episode quite as much as many people do. Shatner's performance as a character very different from what would become his most famous one is impressive, but the episode is so famous that it's always seemed like a cliche to me, even when I first saw it. Also, unlike most of the effects in TOS, I find it difficult to look past the goofiness of the gremlin suit. Like most TV shows, the original "Twilight Zone" eventually jumped the shark, but it did so unusually late relative to the length of its run. "Number 12 Looks Just Like You" is episode 17 out of 36 in Season 5, and there are other good episodes even later than that. Like TOS, "The Twilight Zone" frequently relied on stock music cues. This is one reason this episode's score sounds so typical of "Twilight Zone": some of the cues, such as the one that begins when Shatner realizes the flight engineer is humoring him, are also heard in many other episodes. Christine White (Julia Wilson, the wife of Shatner's character) had previously appeared in the Season 2 "Twilight Zone" episode "The Prime Mover." Ed Kemmer (the flight engineer) was a World War II fighter pilot and POW. He was the star of the early 1950s sci-fi TV series "Space Patrol," and also starred as an astronaut in the short-lived daytime soap opera "The Clear Horizon." Actor and stunt performer Nick Cravat went uncredited in the role of the goblin. Richard Donner's involvement with the "Superman" films is an extremely complicated story. The first two films with Christopher Reeve were originally planned to be shot together in one long filming block, like the later "Lord of the Rings" films, with Donner directing both. Due to production delays, the producers instructed Donner partway through shooting to concentrate on the first film in order to get it into theaters, and the shooting schedule ended with "Superman II" unfinished. Donner's relationship with the producers had deteriorated during production, so, when the first "Superman" became a massive hit, they did not bring him back to complete "Superman II," giving that assignment to director Richard Lester, who received sole screen credit on the released film. Gene Hackman was unhappy with Donner being replaced and refused to return for the remounted shooting, so every scene of Hackman in the Lester version of "Superman II" is Donner footage except for a few shots with an obvious body double. (There has been speculation that, if Hackman had agreed to return, the producers would have had Lester reshoot the entire film and eliminate Donner's footage entirely.) The acrimony over this situation was so intense that Sarah Douglas was the only actor the studio could send out to TV talk shows to promote "Superman II" because she was the only cast member who had remained impartial. Many years later, Donner created "Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut" for DVD and Blu-ray release. This version of the film is significantly different from the Lester version, incorporating scenes Donner had filmed that Lester dropped and using audition footage for a crucial scene that Donner never filmed. Unfortunately, Donner also had no choice but to include extensive Lester footage for the story to make sense, although he trimmed some of the scenes' comedic excesses. The finished product, while fascinating, remains the ruin of a masterpiece, rather like "Greed" or "The Magnificent Ambersons." (Donner also directed all of the "Lethal Weapon" films.)
Anthony Bernacchi
2024-07-04 04:02:35 +0000 UTCBack when Sci Fi first started these marathon 4th of July showings, during the first 2 years, all of Tucson completely sold out of blank VHS tapes! Not only that, tapes weren't at a discount price yet. They weren't still hat their mid 80s price of $20 each or anything, but I think they may have been around $6.99.
Brina Blue
2024-07-04 02:45:29 +0000 UTCI have Kingdom of the Spiders on dvd. It’s surprisingly good for a B movie and not overwhelmingly stupid or campy.
Leo Greenwood
2024-07-04 02:24:55 +0000 UTCHad to stop watching. You were talking over everything, including all dialogue. No fun watching a reaction video if you're not gonna give it a chance.
Artribution
2024-07-04 01:37:55 +0000 UTCYes, it definitely had Bill Shatner's thumbprint on his performance. I bet he was quite thankful when Star Trek TMP finally came along.
Collin Freeman
2024-07-03 23:54:56 +0000 UTCI've seen a sequence from it it was pretty Shatnery lol.
Angelaina Marie
2024-07-03 23:10:27 +0000 UTCHave you guys ever watched THEM! It's about giant ants found in the New Mexico desert. (Leonard Nimoy shows up in a bit part).
Michael Figueroa
2024-07-03 23:05:48 +0000 UTCThe film you're trying to think of is Kingdom of the Spiders. B-horror film from the late 70s. I seem to recall that it is okay. His then-wife Marcy Lafferty is also in it.
Collin Freeman
2024-07-03 21:48:59 +0000 UTCThey remade this a few years back and added 10,000 feet.
Ken R
2024-07-03 18:49:24 +0000 UTCAnother Richard Matheson classic. He was great at horror and mixing it with other genres, like the Jekyll & Hyde "The Enemy Within" episode for Star Trek TOS. Check out his I Am Legend novel from 1954.
Collin Freeman
2024-07-03 17:57:48 +0000 UTCI agree.
Collin Freeman
2024-07-03 17:56:00 +0000 UTCForgot to mention that Mariette Hartley, Zarabeth in the TOS episode All Our Yesterdays, was not only in one episode of the original TZ, she also did one of the radio dramas.
KatWithAttitude
2024-07-03 17:08:25 +0000 UTCI was the one who told you the title "Number 12 Looks Just Like You", which is probably the episode I've watched the most. These are both pretty good, too. I have the DVDs but instead of looking for them I just streamed these on Amazon Prime. The sync was decent. Between 2002 and 2012 almost all the original TZ episodes were redone as radio shows, with the permission of Rod Serling's widow and estate. I have all of them and I think most if not all are on YT and the Internet Archive site. Some are also bonus features on the DVDs and Blu-rays. In the radio version of this one the Shatner role was played by former Dukes of Hazzard star John Schneider. In the other episode his role was played by Marshall Allman. Stacy Keach was the narrator. Many actors who were well known at the time contributed and you may have heard of them. For example, Jason Alexander of Seinfeld fame did several episodes. They also did a few scripts that were originally written for TZ but were not produced, and also a couple of episodes especially written for the radio show. There is a Wikepedia page here https://shrtn.escalar.pt/ReA6 if you want to check it out.
KatWithAttitude
2024-07-03 16:44:09 +0000 UTCOn my to do list.
danzthename
2024-07-03 16:25:44 +0000 UTCYou should see the movie.
Mark Chrisco
2024-07-03 16:00:02 +0000 UTCIconic. It's both freaky and hilarious. I never realized before that this was written by Richard Mattheson. I just finished reading his novel Hell House, which thoroughly creeped me out.
danzthename
2024-07-03 15:26:31 +0000 UTCin 3rd Rock from the Sun a character played by William Shatner says his flight was horrible because he "saw something on the wing". The other character (played by John Lithgow) is shocked and says "The same thing happens to me!"
Kyle Stewart
2024-07-03 14:42:50 +0000 UTCDirected by Richard Donner (as far as I remember). As much as I love Shatner in this, John Lithgow (directed by George Miller and with Jerry Goldsmith's manic music) manages to even outshine Shatner.
Numinous2019
2024-07-03 14:20:26 +0000 UTC
