Well, I've been watching quite a few things but freshest in my mind at this moment is a double feature stand up that I wrapped up the night with. The first was John Hodgman: Ragnarok. Pretty bloody funny, it was a stand-up night he did on December 21, 2012, the last day of the Mayan calendar, talking about... well, geeky stuff, as well as how unrealistic is moustache looks and how someone pointed out it makes him look like the fellow on the Pringles can, and how after the apocalypse you should raise goats (since their unholy faces means you won't feel guilty about killing them) and rabbits (because they're easy meat and one rabbit in every warren has the gift of prophecy-- and his audience GOT the reference! They got REAL obscure references all through the night and Hodgman was genuinely surprised).
The other one was Bobcat Goldthwait... I think it was just called "Bobcat" but I've known this dude was funny for a long time, not just for Police Academy but also his stand-up, one bit he did about a guy getting eaten by a polar bear was on Shorties Watching Shorties so it was all over Comedy Central when I was in college). Quite funny, and just vulgar and politically incorrect enough. Totally worth a watch for sure, I feel bad for skipping over it as often as I had.
Checking my discs, I watched The Twilight Zone Movie last night. Of course I don't remember watching it because it's not that good. I'm happy to hear I'm not the only one, it was... I don't want to say weak, but it didn't get me like the original series did. I can totally understand why it was made, but there are whole segments I don't care for (the Vic Morrow one, of course, since it was sadly never finished). What's funny is that now it feels like a TV show since TV has gotten so cinematic in the meantimes (and that widescreen HD on the blu-ray... it really feels like this is what HDTV would have looked like 30 years ago). The Spielberg sequence honestly felt like an episode of Amazing Stories.
My fave part? Probably the cold open with Albert Brooks and Dan Aykroyd, it lulls you into a false sense of security, but that cut to the demon mask with the terrible dubbed bobcat howl... that still takes me out. I mean, today it would be like a CGI morph and I'm sure I'd feel the same, I have no idea how to make that TRULY horrific and surprising (I can totally imagine the fangs going right through a fake Albert Brooks head). I still think, to this day, that Aykroyd's character was also the banshee on the wing of the plane, how great would it be if THAT'S the head he turned into at the start? He just picks some random schlub to torture to death.
I'm sure it's no secret what a fan of the original Twilight Zone I am (there are a few remake episodes that I like, including the credit card episode) so I was always thinking how to remake the movie.... my first thought would be to get someone like Jon Hamm as the narrator and stick him in a foggy desert. Then I was thinking there'd be a Rush Limbaugh character who spews hate on the radio and it either becomes "he's Alive!" or the one where the guy shrinks... the ONE plot element I think for sure should happen is the last piece would be the broken glasses, so that Burgess Meredith character should pop up in little cameos in all the stories leading up to that, you think he's going to survive, and of course he gets the final and most famous ending. It's the ultimate denouement.
You could even build up to that, if that's the "big d" as I call it (so I don't have to try to say or spell "denouement"), then before you have the nuclear war moment, then every story before that leads up to it. The whole movie could be about this small town where the residents fall into the zone as the world's about to come to an end. That could be cool.
I also think that Andrew Niccol would be an immediate go-to for the direction, he's got that classical style to it. Gattaca looked like a Twilight Zone movie to me, get him and some bad-@ss writers and you've got my money.