― m coleman, Sunday, 18 March 2007 17:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 18 March 2007 17:23 (seventeen years ago) link
― m coleman, Sunday, 18 March 2007 17:24 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 18 March 2007 17:26 (seventeen years ago) link
Rest in Peace. A true master.
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 24 June 2013 22:02 (ten years ago) link
some sorta genius.
― scott seward, Monday, 24 June 2013 23:52 (ten years ago) link
that original twilight zone writers room is all gone now. rip
― i wanna be a gabbneb baby (Hungry4Ass), Tuesday, 25 June 2013 00:16 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bp3iHjGBfT4
― Milton Parker, Tuesday, 25 June 2013 01:51 (ten years ago) link
R.I.P.
― how's life, Tuesday, 25 June 2013 11:46 (ten years ago) link
RIP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uh-3b3idka4
― Brad C., Tuesday, 25 June 2013 13:44 (ten years ago) link
If not for Matheson, Steven Spielberg might never have had a feature film career. RIP.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnHjfGaN3kw
― This amigurumi Jamaican octopus is ready to chill with you (Phil D.), Tuesday, 25 June 2013 13:48 (ten years ago) link
^a ridiculous statement
RIP, enjoyed reading I Am Legend a couple years back. And he wrote the Good/Evil Kirk episode of Star Trek.
― playwright Greg Marlowe, secretly in love with Mary (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 25 June 2013 14:05 (ten years ago) link
Oh, quiet, you. It was obviously hyperbole. But all tyro directors should be so lucky as to get a shot at a Matheson story & screenplay right out of the gate.
Also, everyone should read "Born of Man & Woman." I think you can find it on the interwebz. (And it inspired a great Simpsons "Treehouse of Horror" segment.)
― This amigurumi Jamaican octopus is ready to chill with you (Phil D.), Tuesday, 25 June 2013 14:11 (ten years ago) link
But it wasn't superbole.
film-related roundup (forgot he did a numer of the Corman Poe scripts):
http://www.fandor.com/blog/daily-richard-matheson-1926-2013
― playwright Greg Marlowe, secretly in love with Mary (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 25 June 2013 14:15 (ten years ago) link
the incredible shrinking man [inc.SPOILERS]:
i) this film took an unexpected turn already explained by the film's title -- he just never stops shrinking! he ends up leaning right into the bit!! get used to it, he has!!! ii) when his death is incorrectly announced by the media the very serious newsman explains that he was known to all (lol) "civilised' men and women as "the incredible shrinking man" when i feel simply knowing him as "the shrinking man" would do the needful work and not sound a bit over-amped every time you happen to mention him -- aren't you meant to be "civilised' (lol)?
anyway it's great, especially the realisation that the set designer's job was almost entirely making a new slightly bigger chair every two days of filming
― mark s, Monday, 13 January 2020 11:40 (four years ago) link
incredible shrinking man on euphonium...
(they played Bonzo Dog's Intro and Outro on Late Junction and that contained the above line)
― koogs, Tuesday, 14 January 2020 13:26 (four years ago) link
It really is one of the best '50s sci-fi fillums. Anyone familiar with Gastr Del Sol's 'Our Exquisite Replica of Eternity' will, like me, perk all the way up when the theme music swells over the opening credits.
I was on a somewhat unintentional Matheson film binge late last year, watching House of Usher, Pit and the Pendulum, The Legend of Hell House, The Night Stalker, episodes of Circle of Fear, and OG ST's 'The Enemy Within' over the course of a couple months. Dude was solid.
― Pizza is Really Yummy for Me (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 14 January 2020 13:35 (four years ago) link