Eimer's Best Netflix Reviews - The Illustrated Man

I was very disappointed in this movie.

After reading Ray Bradbury's book of the same name, I was expecting so much more from this flick, which highlighted three of the better short stories from the book.

Director Jack Smight completely bastardizes and rewrites two of the vignettes (The Last Day of the World and The Long Rain) and fails to capture the essence of the other (The Veldt).

'Hey man quit comparing the book to the movie,' you might scream. Well, the movie does not stand on its own either. Overacted, over-directed, under-produced, and extremely under budget, there's too much focus on the story of Illustrated Man and not enough on the fascinating stories from Bradbury.

The whole idea of the Illustrated Man was to serve a unique way to deliver his collection of short stories (a' la the Crypt Keeper from TALES FROM THE CRYPT). That's it. Speaking of the stories, they could have been a lot better had they followed the same plot structure as the novel. I will give props to the director for innovatively casting Steiger and Bloom in all three chapters. That's about it. Don't waste your time on this one. Pick up the book instead.

Grade: D-

Watch Your Step, Here's More Bigfoot Shit

Here's some more Bigfoot observations, news and links:

• If you've read this blog before, you'll know my undying wanderlust for any non-blurry evidence of Bigfoot. Well, the movie that started it all, was in a small theater in Moundsville, West Virginia, that my parents took my brother and I to see when we were little. It was called Sasquatch, The Legend of Bigfoot - a psuedo-documentary about a group of scientists and hunters searching for the existence of Bigfoot. In any event, I've been trying to find a good deal on an original movie poster and finally I found one from a guy on Ebay for the low, low price of $20. Not too shabby. Now I've got to find someone to professionally frame it for $80. Oh, and also convince my wife-to-be to hang it in our house somewhere.
  
  
• I found an article today on Slashfilm.com concerning a new Bigfoot film titled Not Your Typical Bigfoot Movie. It's about two guys from Portsmouth, Ohio, who want to make something out of their lives. And that something, my friends, is finding substantiated proof that Bigfoot exists. Sound familiar? I hope not.
  
  
• Speaking of hunting Bigfoot, when (if) the weather breaks, my buddy and I are going to visit one location in Cuyahoga Valley National Park, where a Class A Bigfoot sighting in 1995 was reported to BFRO.net a few years back. I'll have a full story with photographs sometime in the near future. That is, if we survive. Heck, we might even make a movie called Not Your Typical Bigfoot Movie 2: Electric Boogaloo.

Well, that's about it today. How about you? Got any Bigfoot news to share?