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Square One TV (1987)
Classic
I remember watching this show and absolutely loving it. It was thoroughly entertaining. It was so entertaining that you forgot they were trying to teach you math. Mathman (a pacman-like character) and Mathnet were my favorite parts of the show, but it was overall good entertaining math learnin' fun. It should be revived for today's generation. They could use some good entertainment, not to mention the basic math skills they would learn.
What Lies Beneath (2000)
Unoriginal, but nonetheless entertaining.
While the film certainly wasn't original, I found it thoroughly entertaining. In today's films more seems to be,well, more, but this film pays homage to the days of Hitchcock and to me furthers the idea that sometimes less is in fact more. As Julia Ormond said to Harrison Ford's character in the 1995 remake of the film "Sabrina"-- "More isn't always better. Sometimes it's just more." This is a film that proves that to be true. Perhaps this film went relatively underappreciated because we are at a point in film making in which gratuitous violence and bloodshed are the norm and there are very few horror/suspense films made with the idea in mind that more often than not you are more afraid of what you don't see than what you do. The human imagination creates images infinitely more frightening than anything that can be illustrated on the big screen. Hitchcock realized this and toyed with the human imagination to create his most memorable scenes such as the shower scene in "Psycho." There is probably a large number of people out there who do not realize that in the infamous shower scene you never once actually see the knife slice Janet Leigh's skin. "What Lies Beneath" pays homage to this branch of the horror/suspense genre and entrusts the imagination to do some of the work, all the while proving that blood, guts, and gore may shock but it's the imagination that frightens. I viewed this movie in a packed theater and during the intense Hitchcockian moments the entire audience jumped simultaneously-- an occurrence I find to be sadly rare with today's horror films. I urge filmmakers to not pan this film for its unoriginality but rather to improve upon it-- use the idea behind it and bring back the horror/suspense movie that actually frightens rather than attempts to shock a generation of people who are now very much desensitized.