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Post by fw91 on Oct 28, 2016 18:35:12 GMT -5
Nickelodeon had some really good ones under the Sports Theater with Shaquille O'Neal series. Unfortunately I don't remember the titles of any of them except "4 points" because I found it on youtube. There was a really good one about segregation in baseball and black boy in Brooklyn dreaming big but got made fun of for it because of racial segregation, movie ends with Jackie Robinson's arrival.
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Post by agent817 on Oct 28, 2016 19:18:10 GMT -5
I remember "Aliens For Breakfast." It had Ben Savage and Sinbad. If only I can watch it again.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 28, 2016 19:40:30 GMT -5
Generation X, based on that X-Men spinoff comic. The only thing I remembered was an arcade machine getting overheated and blowing up because of a mutant's powers.
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Post by ERON on Oct 28, 2016 19:57:50 GMT -5
I remember one that aired on CBS back in the mid-80s called Microcops about a pair of police officers from a planet of flea-sized people who come to Earth in a tiny spaceship and enlist the aid of a normal Earth man to help them catch a fugitive.
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Post by tigermaskxxxvii on Oct 28, 2016 20:54:56 GMT -5
"Night of The Twisters" on The Family Channel and "Tornado!" (starring Bruce Campbell) on Fox. Both before Twister was released theatrically. Which begs the question, what the hell was up with the year 1996 and tornadoes?
I thought the 1994 movie "The Paperboy" was a made for TV movie because I saw it once on the USA Network. But it turns out it's actually a Canadian film. Was it released in theaters up in the true north? Or was it just a made for TV movie up there too?
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Post by El Pollo Guerrera on Oct 28, 2016 23:47:14 GMT -5
I remember some remakes of Disney films that were made into TV movies in the mid-1990s like Freaky Friday (This was before the one with Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis; this one had Gaby Hoffmann and Shelley Long), Escape To Witch Mountain and The Computer That Wore Tennis Shoes (It had Kirk Cameron). The remake starred Kirk Cameron, the original starred Kurt Russell. I'm pretty sure that a bunch of the 60's and 70's movies were released on DVD within the last year, with four movies in each pack. Killdozer (1974) - a construction crew on a Pacific island has their bulldozer taken over by an alien entity. Dozer tries to kill them all. I saw it when I was 9 years old and would love to see it again. I love this movie.
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Post by agent817 on Oct 29, 2016 0:05:56 GMT -5
I remember some remakes of Disney films that were made into TV movies in the mid-1990s like Freaky Friday (This was before the one with Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis; this one had Gaby Hoffmann and Shelley Long), Escape To Witch Mountain and The Computer That Wore Tennis Shoes (It had Kirk Cameron). The remake starred Kirk Cameron, the original starred Kurt Russell. I'm pretty sure that a bunch of the 60's and 70's movies were released on DVD within the last year, with four movies in each pack. I am aware of the original version that starred Kurt Russell.
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Post by wildojinx on Oct 29, 2016 1:04:44 GMT -5
Parental Advisory (2002), about the whole PMRC fracas of 1985. Notable for having Dee Snider play himself.
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Post by unc40 on Oct 29, 2016 1:49:01 GMT -5
The Late Shift(1996) which was a HBO movie about the fight over who would take over for Johnny Carson as host of The Tonight Show.
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Post by Display Name on Oct 29, 2016 2:50:44 GMT -5
I remember one I seen in the 90s and it was about the world ending and how certain people were going out I remember it being interesting but can only remember one specific scene where two straight male friends were talking and one asked the other to have sex with him because before he died, he wanted to know what it felt like to be f***** in the ass Christ. That's some TV movie.
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Post by hossfan on Oct 29, 2016 6:43:44 GMT -5
"Goddess of Love" starring Vanna White. Never saw it, but I remember David Letterman parodying it on his original NBC show.
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Post by James Fabiano on Oct 29, 2016 8:36:24 GMT -5
I remember some remakes of Disney films that were made into TV movies in the mid-1990s like Freaky Friday (This was before the one with Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis; this one had Gaby Hoffmann and Shelley Long), Escape To Witch Mountain and The Computer That Wore Tennis Shoes (It had Kirk Cameron). I was just thinking of one of these movies earlier today. They remade "The Absent-Minded Professor" with Harry Anderson as the star character in 1988. Well before the Robin Williams version, "Flubber". I remember when "Flubber" came out I was telling people they had already remade the movie before but nobody knew what I was talking about. Which reminds me...a couple years ago when they threatened an It's A Wonderful Life sequel, I remembered "Clarence" on the Family Channel in the early '90s. Over on HBO there's this film that keeps escaping me...it's about a guy with Down's syndrome who wants to be a radio DJ, and there's cutaways with him talking to a Kermit the Frog doll.
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Post by wildojinx on Oct 29, 2016 9:56:07 GMT -5
The Late Shift(1996) which was a HBO movie about the fight over who would take over for Johnny Carson as host of The Tonight Show. Good movie, Kathy Bates as Helen Kuchnick steals the show. They could have gotten a better guy to play Leno though.
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Post by arrogantmodel on Oct 29, 2016 16:59:39 GMT -5
I don't think Parental Advisory and The Late Shift are obscure. VH1 and HBO hyped the shit out of them.
I liked both of these. Cool seeing Dee, Denver, and Zappa go against Tipper Gore.
I was excited to watch The Late Shift too, I was fascinated by that story.
And Generation X had Max Headroom himself, Matt Frewer, as the villain.
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on Oct 29, 2016 23:47:54 GMT -5
The Late Shift(1996) which was a HBO movie about the fight over who would take over for Johnny Carson as host of The Tonight Show. Good movie, Kathy Bates as Helen Kuchnick steals the show. They could have gotten a better guy to play Leno though. I'd have not chosen a redhead to play Letterman. I know he hated the actor they selected. Never heard him argue the facts, just hated the actor they chose.
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Post by ThereIsNoAbsurdistOnlyZuul on Oct 30, 2016 0:36:51 GMT -5
White Dwarf, from Fox, mid-90s
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Post by Urethra Franklin on Oct 30, 2016 0:43:13 GMT -5
Maybe somebody can help me out because I've never been able to figure out what the movie was.
This would have been around 1987-1990, give or take.
ABC used to show (potentially Disney-made) TV movies on Sunday nights. I remember a movie about a child ghost and/or ghosts. That's all I remember about it, but I remember the kids in school being fascinated by it.
Anybody have any idea what I might be thinking of?
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Post by El Pollo Guerrera on Oct 30, 2016 1:14:06 GMT -5
Just thought of another... "Winter Kill", a movie about a serial killer in a ski resort town starring Andy Griffith. I've seen the first ten minutes of the movie at least three times on TV and never saw the rest.
I also remember the pilot for Griffith's TV series "Salvage 1", where he runs a salvage operation and builds a homemade rocket, flies to the Moon and salvages one of the Apollo landing sites. I'm pretty sure I saw more than one episode because I vaguely remember him flying the rocket to the Antarctic as well... I hear the series is available through Warner Archive but I can't order it in Canada.
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Post by arrogantmodel on Oct 30, 2016 2:30:56 GMT -5
Ok, who remembers Mr. Boogedy? I feel like this movie (and sequel) are very obscure.
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Post by Jiren on Oct 30, 2016 10:02:42 GMT -5
For the life of me I can't remember what it's called but it was a 2 part thing and the first part involved a couple who got married but the woman was abusive to her kids and they divorced
second part was set years later and the ex wife's new bf killed the ex husbands family, the climax was the ex wife kidnapped the kids and had a car chase with the cops and while they were driving the new bf blew up their own car.
I saw it when I was a kid but can never remember the name of it
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