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   From: arthur@alum.calberkeley.org   
      
   On 12/22/2025 10:57 AM, anim8rfsk wrote:   
   > Arthur Lipscomb  wrote:   
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   >>   
   >> This is a multiday catch up.  Over the last few days I watched:   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> The Dead Zone (4K disc) 1983 sci-fi movie directed by David Cronenberg   
   >> and based on the Stephen King book.  The movie stars Christopher Walken   
   >> as a school teacher who is hit by a tanker truck and wakes up from a   
   >> coma 5 years later with the ability to see the past, present, or future   
   >> of anyone he touches.  After using his ability to help the local police   
   >> stop a serial killer, he touches the hand of a Presidential candidate   
   >> (Martin Sheen) and discovers if elected the candidate will start a   
   >> nuclear war.   
   >   
   > And that’s the way The West Wing should have ended!   
   >   
   >>   
      
   That would have been cool.  Particular if Bartlet said something about   
   having to change his name after that scandal involving the school   
   teacher who claimed to be a psychic.  LOL   
      
   >>   
   >> The Fly (blu-ray) 1958 horror movie about a Canadian scientist who   
   >> invents a teleportation device that is accidentally merged with a fly.   
   >> I watched this with a commentary track with the star of the movie.  On   
   >> the commentary they were bemused how Vincent Price took his role as a   
   >> side character in this and turned it into making Price a horror movie icon.   
   >>   
   >   
   > Starring Al Hedison, together again for the first time with the Seaview   
   > computer from Desk Set!   
   >   
   >> Return of the Fly (blu-ray) 1959 sequel which follows the son of the   
   >> inventor who because of ridiculous plot reasons intentionally gets   
   >> merged with a fly.  Vincent Price returns as the character's uncle.   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> Curse of the Fly (blu-ray)  1965 sequel which follows the descendants of   
   >> the original inventor who have inherited a genetic trait (fly genes)   
   >> that causes them to need constant injections to stay alive.  The plot is   
   >> too convoluted to try and summarize, but I did notice a lot of the plot   
   >> elements of this movie got reused in the 80s sequel, including using the   
   >> telepods to fuse multiple people into one body.   
   >>   
   >   
   > I’ve never understood how anybody from the first movie could have passed on   
   > fly genes.   
   >   
      
   The son from the second movie acquired fly genes separately, then passed   
   them down.   
      
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