LoneSage said:
Hey, was The Outer Limits revival in the 90s any good?
I saw like one episode that I liked from that series...
It's a bit spotty, and the special effects aren't that special in light of what you'll find today, but some of the writing was damn good. Not Rod Serling good, mind you, but pretty good. One episode followed a man in a future where everyone was connected to 'the Net' or something through their minds, and he was considered disabled because he wasn't connected to it. Then what happens when the net goes down!?!?
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Twilight Zone episodes from the golden Serling-era are going to be great- in my opinion, it was some of the greatest storytelling of that time. Some favorites (may contain "spoilers"):
-The one where a man finds himself in a old monastery run by monks who tell him that they've trapped Satan in a room, and that is why the world is at peace. But the voice behind the door appears to be an innocent man who pleads for the wayward man to release him from his unjustified imprisonment...
-The classic episode of the woman who has one last-ditch procedure of reconstructive surgery so that she can lead a normal life.
-The episode where a large-scale capitalist, jaded and spoiled by excess and a lifetime of unmitigated exploitation, decides to strike a deal with the devil to go back in time with the knowledge he's gained.
-And, provided there was enough time, this list would go on and on and on and on...
That said, I can't speak for the 80s remake. The one at the turn of the previous century was by and large rather abysmal. The Forrest Whitaker intros are decent, but that's usually where most of the charm ends. The only one that I remember to this day as being half-way decent was one starring Lou Diamond Phillips as (again, "spoiler") a convicted murder who had to relive the final moments of all of the people he killed. Over and over again.