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The Outer Limits: Monster (1998)
Poor ripoff of Forbidden Planet
Do yourself a favor and watch the movie and skip this episode
UFO: The Sound of Silence (1971)
Booooooring!
This episode is incredibly boring. Very little more than nothing actually happens.
The Untouchables: Bird in the Hand (1962)
Bad start to a never-aired series
This episode is clearly a promotional episode for a new series that never aired. The major problem with this, is the complete unlikeability of the two major stars. Dane Clark and John Gabriel are the two doctors starring in the episode, and neither one of them is remotely likeable. Unlikable characters is the fastest way to make sure your show is cancelled and this episode accomplish this in spades.
I could barely sit through the episode even though the untouchables make an appearance. This episode, without The untouchables, would be the most unwatchable thing I have ever seen in my entire life, and I've seen the Gilligan's island movie
The Untouchables: The Maggie Storm Story (1962)
Poor episode
In most untouchables episodes we are watching the mob terrorize innocent people while The untouchables try to gather enough evidence to shut them down. Even in those episodes where the only people we see are gangsters in The untouchables, at least the gangsters are colorful and entertaining enough to carry the show.
This episode has no sympathetic characters at all. Patricia Neal plays a nightclub owner involved in selling any and all things illegal. we are apparently supposed to feel sorry for her when the mob moves in and takes over. Her incessant whining and crying over the matter are just irritating and annoying. What exactly did she expect in the first place?
Vic Morrow plays a mob hatchet man who is trying so hard to act tough he actually comes off silly. The untouchables have nothing to do in this episode besides continuously harassed people to confess and rat out their friends. We see no investigations, no raids, no fights, nothing except hanging around the fringes asking people to turn themselves in. This episode is awful.
Highway West (1941)
Arthur Kennedy is good. That is all.
I dislike crime dramas that feel the need to interrupt the action every 2 minutes with some stupid "comic relief". I dislike it intensely. This movie went back and forth between gun battle and Looney tunes cartoon action for the last 15 minutes of the movie and in so doing, destroyed any suspense that they might have built up. Sad. It's just bad movie making.
Racket Busters (1938)
Government propaganda at its best (worst)
This movie illustrates very well that the differences between gangsters racketeers and the US government is subtle at best. Both use intimidation to get what they want from the little guy. While the gangsters may beat you up, the government will throw you in jail. There's very little difference in the methodology. I honestly don't know which person was more despicable, the gang leader or the special prosecutor. Both used and abused their power and squeezed the poor hard-working truck drivers in order to get what they wanted. Both were disgusting.
Magnum P.I. (2018)
Absolute garbage!
That scrawny little greaseball Puerto Rican is supposed to be magnum? Ugh...I think I'm going to vomit. Hollywood , you suck.
Thriller (1973)
BOOOOOOORING!!!!
If you have trouble sleeping, this is the cure you're looking for. There is nothing at all spooky or "thrilling" about this show. At all. Having filmed it on video makes it look like a soap opera and the "actors" are so British and staid that they convey zero suspense. Just awful.
One Step Beyond: Night of the Kill (1959)
Don't read this unless you've seen the episode
Why were they so intent on killing the creature? He had done nothing to warrant that kind of hatred and fear. I am often appalled at the low regard humans have for life.
The Saint: The Pearls of Peace (1962)
Not the best
But showcases one of the most despicable characters ever portrayed: Joss Hendry. This lowlife would steal the change from a blind beggar's cup and then complain that it still wasn't enough for her Starbucks coffee. Truly horrible.
Naked City: One, Two, Three, Rita Rakahowski (1963)
The most unlikable characters assembled in one place.
Not a single character in this episode is even remotely likeable. Even the cops are beyond stupid and pathetic. Who writes garbage like this?
Mutiny on the Bounty (1962)
Meh
I never understood the whole "Brando is the greatest actor the world as ever seen" bs that permeates reviews and consumed Hollywood. He's decent. Just decent. Trevor Howard was far superior. In fact, most of the other actors were far superior to Brando's wooden lack of all emotion. Visually beautiful. Waaaaay too long and anyone with an interest in the true story should avoid this movie at all costs.
Phantom from Space (1953)
Most annoying dog in any movie
Not a bad movie. Extremely cheap but interesting. I only with the phantom would have silenced that stupid mutt once and for all.
The Neptune Factor (1973)
Watch Voyage to the Bottom of he Sea instead.
Any episode of the aforementioned TV show is better than this cardboard poster of a movie. Even Walter Pigeon is wasted.
The Untouchables (1987)
Sorry fanboys, it's just not good.
Watch the TV version starring Robert stack. Every single episode of that show is better than this rambling boring mess. There is no suspense, no character development, and no story. Just... blech.
The Twilight Zone: A Game of Pool (1989)
Not even close to being as good as the original.
Esai morales is terrible. Every line he speaks comes out as a snear, a snarl, or a squint. His over acting spoils the mood and shows that his Jesse Cardiff has no humility or subtly. He's just angry. All the time. In the original, you rooted for Jack klugman. In the awful mess, I wanted nothing more than to watch morales lose, and lose big. He's an unlikable jerk. Much of the original dialog is missing, taking with it a lot of the depth and subtlety of the story, leaving just a thin shadow of the original that is barely watchable. Major disappointment.
The Twilight Zone: Welcome to Winfield/Quarantine (1986)
Wow is this bad
The first segment is just plain stupid. The second is beyond irritating. It contains the worst acting you can imagine, and any "scifi" story that has actors mispronouncing "nuclear" as "nookyoolar" instantly loses all credibility. When this show was bad, it had no parallel.
The Twilight Zone: Kick the Can (1962)
Some people are just negative
Contrary to the pompous blowhard that rates this episode a 3, this is a decent episode that I rate a 10 just to offset his rating. Some people feel obligated to hand out low ratings because, in his mind, the rest of us are too stupid to be fair. Thank goodness we have such an unreproachable critic to correct us all.
The Sixth Sense (1999)
Not bad but stolen from Twilight Zone
The episode was A Passade For Trumpet. The only differencs is the kid. Too bad Shyamalan never gave credit where it was due: at Rod Serlings feet.
Night Gallery (1969)
Very uneven
Some episodes are fantastic. Most are dull, boring and go nowhere. Then there are those that so unbelievably stupid and obnoxious, it's hard to understand how they made it into this anthology in the first place. These are the "funny" episodes which were the hallmark of Jack laird's utter and complete incompetence. These steaming piles of dog excrement were so bad that they would not make the cut in a Junior High School talent show. The truly baffling part of all this is that this show had access to a huge amount of the most talented writers directors and actors available at the time.
WKRP in Cincinnati: Real Families (1980)
Dumbest idea yet.
Let's take a great ensemble comedy show and concentrate an entire episode on its most annoying character. Here's another awesome idea: let's have Johnny water ski jump over a shark tank! That would be awesome! Who writes this garbage?
The Twilight Zone: Her Pilgrim Soul/I of Newton (1985)
Sentimental garbage
If you like the original Twilight Zone avoid this episode at all cost. This is nothing more then a modern soap opera. Romantic drivel at his best. Absolute garbage
Columbo: Murder with Too Many Notes (2001)
Just awful!
One of the most poorly written, directed and acted television episodes I have ever seen in my life. This piece of dog excrement makes any episode of The Love Boat seem like Shakespeare by comparison. Avoid at all costs.
Star Trek: The Galileo Seven (1967)
Good episode, despite Boma
Boma is a dick, and incredibly insubordinate. Spock should have left him behind on principle alone.
Columbo: Strange Bedfellows (1995)
Awful episode from the creator of Murder She Wrote
Bill of Rights? Who needs it! Miranda? Nah! Assault, coercion, threat of violence and murder, conspiracy, accessory before and after the fact of several counts of violent crime, Columbo's having a hell of a day! Too bad that none of the evidence gathered during the final scene would be admissible in any Court not to mention would probably cost Columbo his badge. This is an astonishly bad Columbo episode and if it were not for Rod Steiger it would be 100% flushable.