TiminPhoenix

I just watched this two part episode this morning and felt honored to have been able to see something this excellent.

It was better than 95% of anything Hollywood has put out in the decades since.

Incredible acting, direction, the whole deal was so advanced for the time and frankly more advanced than most things out today.

This has to rank in any honest top ten list of the best episodes of any series ever filmed.

From what I read, ABC spent over $300,000 on this one episode, a great deal of money in the mid 60s for a TV series.

It was an investment that should be remembered. ABC should consider running this again, in prime time as a movie.

What a horrible movie. It was just above a community college level film. The acting was horrible. Why can't Bruce Campbell get some projects worthy of him?

As to the premise that had JFK lived, things would have been wonderful, I simply had to gag. Kennedy is perhaps the most overrated person in history.

Only Lady Diana approaches the level of a person being elevated to veneration when in real life they were next to worthless.

The old slur against Hoover is brought out again. There is nothing aside from the last minute allegation of a convicted felon against Hoover to support the contention he was a transvestite. But the liberal community in Hollywood as agreed to run it again and again until it becomes accepted as truth. When you see any film doing this, it lets you know what a joke it is.

Additionally the acting here was sad. Ralph Waite's performance as the time traveler bordered on being so saccharine that I had to check my blood sugar.

Jackie Kennedy is shown as this wonderful paragon of virtue when most comment now on her actual vapidness. I wonder what trophy wife Onassis picked up in the alternate timeline.

This movie was terrible.

I think some people have certain deadspots as it relates to certain actors. Steve McQueen is one of my own deadspots.

Aside from a furrowed eyebrow and smiling now and then, I really don't see any risk of McQueen being mistaken for a great actor.

As to plot problems with Bullet, what immediately strikes me, from the prespective of a former police officer is the security or lack there of.

It basically goes like this, "Officer, there is a suspect that the mafia with all its resources wants to kill, you have to protect him for a couple of days." "Will do, I'll drop one guy off and go out and grab some dinner at the club."

I mean you leave one officer to protect this guy in a location that you didn't choose, and have no clue how many people might know where you are. They didn't even bother to push anything up against the door. They relied on that really solid 1/4 inch chain and a few screws.

As with a lot of movies, it's mainly remembered for one standout scene, something that captures the public's imagination and becomes a national icon. Without the car chase, who could really see Bullet as anything special?