Richard Matheson

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Richard Matheson

Postby Thumper » Tue Jun 25, 2013 10:13 pm

Wow, really surprised no one mentioned this yet.

Responsible for3 versions of Legend (or something similar), some Star Trek TOS's, and some Twilight Zones, esp, "There's a Man on the Wing!"
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Re: Richard Matheson

Postby SciFiFisher » Wed Jun 26, 2013 3:04 am

"Nightmare at 20,000 feet" is one of my favorite Twilight Zone episodes. But, I think my favorite movie adaptation of his work was "The Last Man on Earth". It starred Vincent Price. Although its a tough choice between that one and the other two adaptations. Each of them has an essential element of "who is the monster really?" that was well developed in the movie(s).

He was a very interesting author.
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Re: Richard Matheson

Postby Thumper » Wed Jun 26, 2013 11:29 am

The Twilight Zone movie did a remake of Nightmare. I liked that movie, despite its tragedies and controversies. I heard in a radio interview, that he didn't care for the Vincent Price rendition and took his name off of it. I totally agree with you with the juxtaposition of who is the monster.
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Re: Richard Matheson

Postby FZR1KG » Wed Jun 26, 2013 2:18 pm

I really didn't like the Vincent Price version either.
Tried to watch it now and its just plain boring and dumb.

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Re: Richard Matheson

Postby SciFiFisher » Wed Jun 26, 2013 3:56 pm

FZR1KG wrote:I really didn't like the Vincent Price version either.
Tried to watch it now and its just plain boring and dumb.

No offense Fisher. :P



kids these days. You want the high speed car chases and things blowing up. :tap:
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Re: Richard Matheson

Postby Thumper » Wed Jun 26, 2013 5:09 pm

SciFiFisher wrote:
FZR1KG wrote:I really didn't like the Vincent Price version either.
Tried to watch it now and its just plain boring and dumb.

No offense Fisher. :P



kids these days. You want the high speed car chases and things blowing up. :tap:
Ha! The Kid has been reading and watching Sherlock Holmes stuff recently. She's enjoyed some books and the Cumberbatch version. Grabbed the Robert Downey Jr. movie from the library and didn't like it: "It's awful violent, lots of stuff blowing up." Yea, maybe there's hope for her.
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