What are you currently watching?

EvilHippyEmperor wrote:

My favourite was always the first series of Blackadder. I liked his absolute lack of redeeming features.

This is the first Blackadder series I ever see, so I may now watch that one...


Currently watching Hellboy: Sword of Storms with my godson

What's funny about that is I thought that was the movie Gilliam did. I remembered he was doing something like that and for some reason my little brain convinced me it was Magorium...wasn't till the begining credits started that I realized Whoops, it wasn't.

KittyKat wrote:

What's funny about that is I thought that was the movie Gilliam did. I remembered he was doing something like that and for some reason my little brain convinced me it was Magorium...wasn't till the begining credits started that I realized Whoops, it wasn't.

I wasn't sure if that was Gilliam's (I was right in my first thought it hasn't been premiered yet) but I had to check on Wikipedia to be sure.

EvilHippyEmperor wrote:

My favourite was always the first series of Blackadder. I liked his absolute lack of redeeming features.

My faves were two and three. Two was great with Miranda Richardson as the best Queen Elizabeth ever and three had the always entertaining Hugh Laurie.

Currently, watching Night Gallery season 2. Heh, anyone else heard of it?

Revenant wrote:

EvilHippyEmperor wrote:

My favourite was always the first series of Blackadder. I liked his absolute lack of redeeming features.

My faves were two and three. Two was great with Miranda Richardson as the best Queen Elizabeth ever and three had the always entertaining Hugh Laurie.

Currently, watching Night Gallery season 2. Heh, anyone else heard of it?

Sure, Rod Sterling's show in the 70's. They used to show it on TCM here on weekends; it was fine but I still prefer Twilight Zone.

I'm impressed. You're the first person that hasn't been totally clueless when I've mentioned the show. It's not all that great a show, I first watched it when it originally aired, I was like five at the time and it used to scare the crap out of me. Now mostly, I'm just getting a good laugh while watching it.

Revenant wrote:

I'm impressed. You're the first person that hasn't been totally clueless when I've mentioned the show. It's not all that great a show, I first watched it when it originally aired, I was like five at the time and it used to scare the crap out of me. Now mostly, I'm just getting a good laugh while watching it.

Did you see the one with the Druid statue chasing his modern time descendent burning women and small kittens? That couldn't be more convoluted...

The beauty of Twilight Zone was the writing, the plot twisting to the unexpected, the humanity of the characters, while The Outer Limits centered on The Monster of the Week... I suspect Night Gallery was trying to get younger, more sci-fi knowing audience with the monsters and whatnot.

Night Gallery and Twilight Zone are soo beyond classic. You watch them today and shake your head at what was considered creepy back then but at the same time they were so brilliant.
Every time I think of them now I have the Futurama parody of THe Scary Door run through my head

KittyKat wrote:

Night Gallery and Twilight Zone are soo beyond classic. You watch them today and shake your head at what was considered creepy back then but at the same time they were so brilliant.
Every time I think of them now I have the Futurama parody of THe Scary Door run through my head

"No this is an airplane, and you're Adolf Hitler!"

Bender: "Saw it coming"

Maxmordon wrote:

Did you see the one with the Druid statue chasing his modern time descendent burning women and small kittens? That couldn't be more convoluted...

The beauty of Twilight Zone was the writing, the plot twisting to the unexpected, the humanity of the characters, while The Outer Limits centered on The Monster of the Week... I suspect Night Gallery was trying to get younger, more sci-fi knowing audience with the monsters and whatnot.

Was there an episode of Night Gallery about an ex-Nazi who is hiding out in South America that gets pulled into a painting of the Holocaust or am I thinking of some other show?

Apocalypse wrote:

Maxmordon wrote:

Did you see the one with the Druid statue chasing his modern time descendent burning women and small kittens? That couldn't be more convoluted...

The beauty of Twilight Zone was the writing, the plot twisting to the unexpected, the humanity of the characters, while The Outer Limits centered on The Monster of the Week... I suspect Night Gallery was trying to get younger, more sci-fi knowing audience with the monsters and whatnot.

Was there an episode of Night Gallery about an ex-Nazi who is hiding out in South America that gets pulled into a painting of the Holocaust or am I thinking of some other show?

Can't remember. I remember one of Nazi plans being foiled by Dracula and minions, though. That's the only one I recall with Nazis in it.

Apocalypse:

The nazi one you're talking about was in the pilot movie. There were three short movies, one of them was directed by a new director at the time- Steven Spielberg - who had the daunting task of directing Joan Crawford. Bet that taught him a lot.

Maxmordon:

I haven't gotten to the druid one yet. Sounds like one to look forward to-haha