Ray Bradbury Theater

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Rakshasa		#21	[-]
(04/15/08 9:55 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	Thanks Terry. Any idea if the video quality is the same or better than the old 13 episode sets?
Terry Pace		#22	[-]
(04/15/08 11:24 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	It's comparable to the earlier set, I'd say. Some look better than others. Terry Pace pillaroffire@bellsouth.net "They're going to have to think up a lot of new adjectives when I come back!" -- Carl Denham (Robert Armstrong) in King Kong (1933)
Rakshasa		#23	[-]
(04/16/08 7:50 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	Terry Pace wrote: It's comparable to the earlier set, I'd say. Some look better than others. Hmm, yeah. That sounds like the earlier sets. Thanks.
Hamicus Helen		#24	[-]
(04/22/08 11:57 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	Out of the first 14 episodes I've seen so far, Gotcha and The Playground are the big standouts for me. I'm really liking the series. "You think that when you die you go to heaven. You come to us!"
Rakshasa		#25	[-]
(04/26/08 8:27 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	Those are two of my favorites as well , Helen. In fact, I decided to watch "Gotcha" again after I read your post. The girl in "Gotcha" is Kate Lynch, who I know best as playing Bill Murray's girlfriend Roxanne in 1979's Meatballs. I always liked her. In fact, I think I have a crush on her. The guy, Saul Rubinek, was in Clint Eastwood's The Unforgiven as the writer (along with countless other films and TV shows). I do not have a crush on him. I always assumed that the Laurel & Hardy themes going on in "Gotcha" were inspired by Bradbury's love for the comedy duo. Last Edited By: Rakshasa 04/26/08 8:31 AM. Edited 3 times.
Hamicus Helen		#26	[-]
(05/04/08 11:26 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	Rakshasa wrote: I do not have a crush on him. Great isn't it I didn't think I'd seen any of this show before until the virtual lions episode that was on Friday. I remembered it straight away, another of the better ones. "You think that when you die you go to heaven. You come to us!" Last Edited By: Hamicus Helen 05/04/08 12:00 PM. Edited 2 times.
Hamicus Helen		#27	[-]
(05/04/08 12:11 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	Terry Pace wrote: Each of the HBO episodes also featured a full on-screen narrative introduction by Ray that started with an eerie nocturnal shot of a shadowy figure riding in an elevator (shot at the Bradbury Building in downtown L.A. -- no relation between the names, by the way, although the building was designed by Forry Ackerman's grandfather). The intros continued with a traveling shot of Ray entering his memorabilia-packed office on Wilshire Boulevard (his "magician's toy shop," as he calls it). After the standard introductory remarks ("People ask me, 'Where do you get your ideas ...?' "), Ray would deliver a specific introduction to each story, shot in a different setting each week. By the time the show moved to the lesser regions of the USA lineup, the intro had been shortened to Ray's arrival in the elevator and ended with his voiceover "I'm Ray Bradbury, and this is the Ray Bradbury Theatre" as he's seated behind the typewriter at his desk, glancing around the artifact-cluttered room for a spark of spontaneous inspiration. In the showing of this over here now, they've only just started giving us the full introductions from the 3rd season, much better with them Edit: And now in the 4th season we're back to the bare bones opening again "You think that when you die you go to heaven. You come to us!" Last Edited By: Hamicus Helen 05/08/08 1:03 PM. Edited 2 times.
BijouBob8mm		#28	[-]
(05/04/08 4:44 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	Well, after watching just about all of these, I have to say that it was a prety dull series...A few highlights, but mostly boring and dated (very 1980's, especially the Yamaha DX-7 musical cues). Even when the show was new, I felt it had a very hit-or-miss quality to it, with many of the episodes just not doing the source material justice, in spite of the talent attached to the project. Two or three times I've picked up that nice priced set of the complete series at Best Buy, only to end up putting it back. The introduction with Bradbury, giving us that peek into his office, was sometimes the highlight of the episode. Sad, because this was a series I really want to like. A big fan of the original TWILIGHT ZONE and OUTER LIMITS (along with ONE STEP BEYOND), I always look forward to the debut of any new anthology series...but, for some reason, many of them just don't pack the punch of their predecessors. Even with today's technology and budgets, some old TZ episodes come across with more flourish than current fare.
Hamicus Helen		#29	[-]
(05/13/08 11:07 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	Just got to the end of the 4th series, it wasn't a patch on the first 3 There was only one I really enjoyed, The Toynbee Convector. The one where a man goes back to the past to try and get his younger self to kill his wife. Edit: Just finished off all 65 eps, thank God Apart from 3 or 4 episodes, series 4, 5 and 6 were a real struggle to sit through, surprised I didn't give up "You think that when you die you go to heaven. You come to us!" Last Edited By: Hamicus Helen 05/28/08 12:02 PM. Edited 2 times.
Terry Pace		#30	[-]
(06/01/08 12:43 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	I feel pretty much the same way. The series began with excellent scripts, excellent actors and decent production values. After it moved from HBO over to the USA Network (which wasn't as popular then as it is today), the budgets dropped and much of the production moved to Canada. In most cases they still secured a "name" actor for each episode, and Ray still supplied each and every one of the scripts, but they cut corners everywhere else. As I think I may have mentioned, the classic vampire story "The Man Upstairs," set in Ray's mythical Middle American hamlet during the Depression, lost all of its inherent atmosphere when the producers moved to the story to modern-day Paris! All in all, though, I thought the stories themselves still hold up (except for a full that just don't work at all), even if the execution wasn't up to their imaginative potential. Terry Pace pillaroffire@bellsouth.net P.S. By the way, "The Toynbee Convector" (one of my favorite Bradbury stories) is actually the story of the old time traveler (James Whitmore) visited by a news broadcaster on the 100th anniversary of his "arrival" in the future. The episode I believe you're referring to is "A Touch of Petulance," which starred Eddie Albert as the "time traveler" who confronts his younger self. "They're going to have to think up a lot of new adjectives when I come back!" -- Carl Denham (Robert Armstrong) in King Kong (1933)
voyttbots		#31	[-]
(06/01/08 11:11 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	I`ve never cared for this series. But my favorite episode was THE BANSHEE. There was one episode where a film company comes to a small town to film. A resident is outraged and walks into shots, drops his pants, and stands there in defiance. The film crew eventually gives up and leaves. This was before computer manipulation of film. Another was about a tiny town where it only rains one day a year. The same day every year. So the residents look forward to that day and celebrate it. However, the day arrives and no rain. These are the type of blah stories used later in the series. " I`m here to kill your monsta."
luluthebeast		#32	[-]
(06/01/08 11:32 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	Bradbury's stories always worked better in the imagination than on film. I have all of his books, but have never really liked the film versions.

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