Dont Eat the Snow is as good as it gets. Where have all the good ideas for television gone? Instead of watching next week's Friends episode try to track down a copy of this movie. If you see it you will end up taping Magnum every day from the A&E channel.
Magnum PI as a series was not as good as it could have been but when all totaled up, it served up about 40 or 50 great episodes that were as dramatic and moving as anything yet done on the subject of the Vietnam war vets and the American life lived once at home. This is the story of aging warriors dealing with a life out of the war setting. A bit timid and unprepared for real civilian life, these four guys settle in Hawaii to be surrounded by jungle fauna and short black-haired Asian people, the war not yet fully out of the rear view mirror.
So when I say that the series was not as good as it could have been I mean to say that this 2-hour pilot movie was so good, set such a high standard that the series had no other chance but to let down. The 2-hour pace, the big budget look and sound of "Snow..." is quite out of the ordinary for any of the three decades I have been taking in TV-movies.
High Art Baby....
Magnum PI as a series was not as good as it could have been but when all totaled up, it served up about 40 or 50 great episodes that were as dramatic and moving as anything yet done on the subject of the Vietnam war vets and the American life lived once at home. This is the story of aging warriors dealing with a life out of the war setting. A bit timid and unprepared for real civilian life, these four guys settle in Hawaii to be surrounded by jungle fauna and short black-haired Asian people, the war not yet fully out of the rear view mirror.
So when I say that the series was not as good as it could have been I mean to say that this 2-hour pilot movie was so good, set such a high standard that the series had no other chance but to let down. The 2-hour pace, the big budget look and sound of "Snow..." is quite out of the ordinary for any of the three decades I have been taking in TV-movies.
High Art Baby....