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UPDATE: $33 TWILIGHT ZONE!! SciFi & Cartoon Bundlage!!Herc’s Season-Box DVD Vault!!
SPOILER ALERT !!
TWILIGHT ZONE: THE COMPLETE SERIES!!
$164.99!!
That works out to $33 Per Season!!
The extras-crammed Definitive Editions!!
Individual seasons cost $69.99 New; $50 used!!
They were going for close to $100/season not too long ago!
(The discount presumably celebrates the release of the “Twilight Zone” movie in HD, so don’t expect it to last ...)
I am – Hercules!!
The Film Crew: Giant of Marathon is the fourth and last of the scheduled Film Crew releases masterminded by “Mystery Science Theater 3000” vet Mike Nelson, Kevin Murphy and Bill Corbett. It is not a TV show, but I love it anyway.
1959’s “La Battaglie di Maratona” is a historical actioner about, among other things, 100 Greek warriors who must defeat the entire Persian army. It stars Steve Reeves, the former Mr. Universe who had just found stardom with the budget Euro-actioner, 1958’s “Le Fatiche di Ercole,” a.k.a. “The Toils of Hercules” a.k.a. “Hercules.” (“Maratona” is presented here letterboxed! Did they ever do that on “MST3K”?)
Those mocked in the boys’ aftermarket “commentary track” include Dan Haggerty, Dracula, Sylvester Stallone, Star Trek, The Joker, Chris Kattan, Phil Spector, Ben Hur, Creatine, Rod McKuen, Spinal Tap, Michael Stipe, Oliver Reed, Woodstock ’99, the Keebler Elves, CSPAN, Jeff Lynne, Mr. Peabody, Tiger Balm, the Planet of the Apes, Steve Martin, Maria Shriver, Mr. Ed, tuna, s’mores, slaves, notaries public, Celine Dion and Michael Bay, among many others.
Bonus features include an apology to ancient Persians from Mike Nelson (2:53) and a commentary by “retired electrician and Korean War vet Walter S. Ferguson,” who claims to have been a (very versatile) extra in “La Battaglie di Maratona.” (7:30).
ABC’s 1977 “Roots” miniseries was an unprecedented rating phenomenon (its finale is still the third-highest-rated TV show ever), which necessitated the creation of 1979’s “Roots: The Next Generations,” which followed the Kinte family from the abolition of slavery to the civil rights movement, and even included a nice chunk of “Roots” author Alex Haley’s “The Autobiography of Malcolm X” for good measure.
The original “Roots” cast included Yaphet Kotto, Brion James, Tracey Gold, Yvonne DeCarlo, Chuck Connors, Todd Bridges, Burl Ives, Lloyd Bridges, Richard Roundtree, Ian McShane, George Hamilton, Scatman Crothers, Carolyn Jones, Roxie Roker, Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs, Sandy Duncan, Vic Morrow, Lynda Day George, Lorne Greene, Robert Reed, Louis Gossett, O.J. Simpson, Ed Asner, Ji-Tu Cumbuka and Maya Angelou.
The “Next Generations” cast trumped the original by getting a post-“Godfather” Marlon Brando to play American Nazi Party leader George Lincoln Rockwell. It was Brando’s first and only TV role since 1949, and he won an Emmy for his seven seated minutes onscreen. He flings around the n-word, sings race-baiting ditties and sprays James Earl Jones (as Haley) with what looks like air freshener.
Besides Jones, Brando’s co-stars in “Generations” include “Apocalypse Now” co-star Albert Hall, as well as James Earl Jones (as Haley), Gerald McRaney, J.A. Preston, Henry Fonda, Andy Griffith, Ernie Hudson, Kim Fields, Harold E. Rollins, Bobby Short, Norman Fell, James Broderick, Paul Winfield, Robert Culp, Rosey Grier, Bernie Casey, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Irene Cara, Harry Morgan, Greg Morris, Olivia de Havilland and Marc “Beastmaster” Singer.
Al Freeman Jr. plays Malcolm X, and it’s fascinating to compare his mannered, low-key approach to the one favored by Spike Lee and Denzel Washington.
Twilight Zone: The Movie hits Blu-ray and HD-DVD for the first time today. The movie is an indispensable part of any collection because 1) it put “Mad Max” mastermind George Miller to work directing John Lithgow in “Terror at 30,000 Feet,” and 2) its six-minute prologue featured comedy ubergenius Albert Brooks at his hands-down funniest, trying to scare Dan Aykroyd with gravel-beds and headlights (“There could be nuns up there; we wouldn’t seem ‘em!”), making up lyrics to the “National Geographic” theme song and explaining why he bought a second pair of glasses.
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49% Savings on that TV Sci-Fi bundle. SD-quality, which stands for "Super-Definition"!!! It's a bargain, grab it while you still can!
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Wonder Showzen for 10 bucks. I think I'll throw mine away so I can buy it again.
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I must know! I'd rebuy the whole thing just to have Cash unedited.
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Ackroyd gets to do the "punchline", but that's about it.
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"You're anorexic, your boyfriend beats you up, and your mom's an alcholic. Most people would be in therapy for just one of those things!"
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Oh,dear. I heard about this one last week. I probably watched some of that when I was a kid. I'm sure it's just as cheesy as the Brady Bunch Variety Hour and the Donnie and Marie Show. Bring it on! Love Will Keep Us Together, indeed. hehe
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Twinkie porn without the actual sex. Mmm-boy, where do I NOT sign up?
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HAHAHA OH WOW.
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Those vampires want to suck something...and it is not your blood.
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This next box set has Parts: The CLonus Horror on it. FUCKING ROCK N ROLL!
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Ackroyd and Brooks made a marvelous pair. I could've listened to those two for another hour, and sorta resented the monster for...er, taking a bow.
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When did this site start promoting the sale of what looks to by gay vampire porn?
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Oct 09, 2007 8:49:36 PM CDT
With no access to certain OOP earlier volumes, why buy MST:3K?
by gruntybear
Seriously, I have no impetus to buy future volumes since I know I can't complete a full back-catalog set without paying an arm and a leg for - say VOL. 10(!!) - on FeeBay.
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The biggest problem with House last season was predictability. The first three eps this season have been anything but.
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...I was like "Someone's GOT to have commented on the Fang Bang thing already, right?" You guys never let me down. Seriously, I love this site's talkbacks.
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...but I couldn't pass up the complete Twilight Zone series for $165. That's an awesome price.
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I know that I am the 3rd person to chime in about this but.......WTF?!?! When did this happen? Is this on Lifetime or something? This is perhaps the gayest thing I have seen since playing counter-strike.
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Oct 10, 2007 1:31:12 AM CDT
Ive been waiting all summer to watch Twilight Zone the movie in
by levidtinker
To bad its no where to be found.
None of the stores in Los Angeles County (including Frys which usually has every hd title on both formats) have either the hd dvd or bluray versions of this.
and all the online websites have it listed as on back order.
this is happening all to often now with wb titles on both formats.
Iam not getting my hopes up of finding the kuberik hd
titles in 2 weeks on the day they are suppose to out now,
so that way i wont be disapointed when i cant find them.
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The jokes write themselves!!! I bet Herc put that one in there as a joke. Unless we start getting weekly talkbacks about it, that is. Now that I think about it, I wonder how many gay men look at AICN regularly.
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http://youtube.com/watch?v=VysVxz2_rQg
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There goes $164 I really didn't need to spend. I am such a sucker, but I've finally got the only Twilight Zone worth watching.
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...how about a talkback for the season finale in two weeks, Herc? Do you watch? If not, catch up...started a bit slow but it's really hitting its stride with these final episodes.
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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0958611/
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Deepdiscount.com's 20% off sale this past November. One of the best deals I've ever gotten. $27 a season--can't beat that with a stick.
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