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Post by Malibu Stacy on Oct 30, 2016 14:42:19 GMT -5
This was a long time ago, probably late 90's, so my memory is a little fuzzy. I'm not sure if it was a city-wide thing, or because my parents were super late to getting cable television, but every night, midnight til 4am, the channel that aired NBC would air UPN primetime t.v. Saturday nights, they'd air these neat scifi movies. I can't recall a single one of their names, but I remember three of the basic story lines:
1)A young scientist used his pregnant girlfriend as a test subject, it causes accelerated growth in the baby, so the birth kills the mother ("she was gutted from the inside out!"). The child goes through an entire life cycle in one day. Her name was Jasmine.
2)In the future, men are not allowed to legally exist, as it is believed all aggression is due to men. A scientist creates an "artificial" male, Adam, who has been altered to exist without the genes that supposedly make males aggressive. Corrupt politics get the law rewritten to include artificial males (it's an election year). Both scientist and experiment become fugitives. As a fail safe, Adam only was created with a lifespan of about a month, but before he dies, he and the scientist do the horizontal tango. Unsurprisingly, the movie ends with the scientist revealing she is pregnant with a boy. I also remember a side story about how since everyone was a woman, lesbianism was the norm, and heterosexuality was this vile, disgusting thing, though of course there were taboo corners where one could scratch that itch. One such heterosexual was a teen girl, I think she got busted for illegal contraband, magazines of sexy dudes.
and my favorite, I legit cried at this one
3)Alien escapes government facility. It's a small blob, that "eats" people, then assumes their form. It assumes the form of a young woman, ends up at a coffee shop. A human woman who knows there is an alien about (forgot how), befriends it. Alien explains it is hungry, human says her ex is coming by to pick up some of his things, eat him. Human and alien (in her ex's body) fall in love. I forgot exactly how it ended, other than the alien eating a couple other people or so, but I cried at the end.
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Post by KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! on Oct 30, 2016 18:34:04 GMT -5
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 Are you sure that wasn't an episode of Goosebumps?
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Post by No One on Oct 30, 2016 19:13:57 GMT -5
Also, I remember one where the mom from Growing Pains and her family get a home invasion and she gets raped in front of her husband or something like that. Maybe that was a gritty reboot of 'Growing Pains'.
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Post by Brandon Walsh is Insane. on Oct 30, 2016 19:32:59 GMT -5
Doing Time on Maple Drive. Jim Carrey alcoholic movie
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Post by Mozenrath on Oct 30, 2016 19:55:57 GMT -5
Ok, who remembers Mr. Boogedy? I feel like this movie (and sequel) are very obscure. I loved that as a kid. I swear, they had to have filmed that for like 200 bucks.
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Post by Urethra Franklin on Oct 31, 2016 2:58:01 GMT -5
Ok, who remembers Mr. Boogedy? I feel like this movie (and sequel) are very obscure. I think this is the movie I was thinking of.
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Post by Long A, Short A on Oct 31, 2016 3:25:50 GMT -5
"Goddess of Love" starring Vanna White. Never saw it, but I remember David Letterman parodying it on his original NBC show. I saw that shit one day on cable. Ms. White is no actress. Does anyone remember Jailbait from MTV? The movie was about this dude that had sex behind his girlfriend's back because she wouldn't let him do anything. So, she got him charged with statutory rape when the other girl got pregnant. Speaking of sex: Breast Men was a good HBO flick about the men that invented/revolutionized breast implants.
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Oct 31, 2016 6:33:41 GMT -5
Another one comes to mind.
Susie Q, about a guy (Justin Whalin) who becomes friends with the ghost of a 1950s teenager (Amy Jo Johnson) and saves her parents' from being evicted from their home.
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Post by icansleep on Oct 31, 2016 9:41:21 GMT -5
I Know My First Name Is Steven.
I think it initially was a mini-series but can remember watching it straight through one lazy afternoon when I was about 11. It was a horrifying true story about a young boy (Steven Stayner) who is kidnapped by pedophiles and held captive for years. When the pedophiles kidnap another little boy years later, Steven realizes they both need to escape and ultimately gets both himself and the other boy free and reunited with their respective families. Definitely one of those movies that you couldn't shake after seeing it initially. Awful stuff.
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Post by AKIMan64 on Oct 31, 2016 18:07:12 GMT -5
Another one comes to mind. Susie Q, about a guy (Justin Whalin) who becomes friends with the ghost of a 1950s teenager (Amy Jo Johnson) and saves her parents' from being evicted from their home. I remember Disney Channel used to play that movie a lot in the late 1990s. It's been a long time since I've seen it. This was, if I'm not mistaken, sometime after Amy Jo left Power Rangers, and teleplayed by Shuki Levy. Speaking of Disney, I do remember another made-for TV movie with Tony Danza as a garbage man who ends up playing for the Philadelphia Eagles. I used to watch that with my dad but it took me years to remember the name (I think it was called the Garbage Picking, Field Goal Kicking, Philadelphia Phenomenon or something like that).
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Oct 31, 2016 18:19:39 GMT -5
Another one comes to mind. Susie Q, about a guy (Justin Whalin) who becomes friends with the ghost of a 1950s teenager (Amy Jo Johnson) and saves her parents' from being evicted from their home. I remember Disney Channel used to play that movie a lot in the late 1990s. It's been a long time since I've seen it. This was, if I'm not mistaken, sometime after Amy Jo left Power Rangers, and teleplayed by Shuki Levy. Yeah, it was a Disney Channel mainstay until about 2002, and IIRC hasn't been broadcast by Disney since, nor has it ever been released on DVD.
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Post by KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! on Nov 15, 2016 8:18:18 GMT -5
Ok, who remembers Mr. Boogedy? I feel like this movie (and sequel) are very obscure. I think this is the movie I was thinking of. Wish, I could find this and the sequel. They sound fun
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Post by karl100589 on Nov 15, 2016 8:33:19 GMT -5
Anyone remember the awful made for TV movie about Prince William and Kate Middleton?
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Post by StuntGranny® on Nov 15, 2016 11:56:23 GMT -5
There was a TV movie I remember watching as a kid and I've been trying to find the name of it for years.
It was one of those "Based on a true story!" specials of the week. I think it was about kids that were kidnapped, parents try to get them back, kids end up blowing up with the kidnappers at the end of the movie.
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Post by Sephiroth on Nov 15, 2016 12:11:19 GMT -5
The Beast. Really crappy amid 90's NBC adaptation of an whisky crappy Peter Benchley book.
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Post by Shai on Nov 15, 2016 12:55:24 GMT -5
Does any remember a series of I think Disney movies where Kirk Cameron was an android?...Not Quite Human I think
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Post by BlackoutCreature on Nov 15, 2016 19:18:47 GMT -5
Does any remember a series of I think Disney movies where Kirk Cameron was an android?...Not Quite Human I think I'm familiar with Not Quite Human (and its sequels). That wasn't Kirk Cameron. "Chip" was played by Jay Underwood. You might be confused because Cameron's Growing Pains father Alan Thicke played Chip's father/creator. I was gonna say Mr. Boogedy but a lot of people beat me to it. I don't know how obscure it is, but I recall a Gulliver's Travels TV movie from the 90's starring Ted Danson as Gulliver. I think it might've gotten a commercial VHS release that I may have in my Dad's house somewhere.
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Post by Shai on Nov 15, 2016 19:32:40 GMT -5
Does any remember a series of I think Disney movies where Kirk Cameron was an android?...Not Quite Human I think I'm familiar with Not Quite Human (and its sequels). That wasn't Kirk Cameron. "Chip" was played by Jay Underwood. You might be confused because Cameron's Growing Pains father Alan Thicke played Chip's father/creator. I was gonna say Mr. Boogedy but a lot of people beat me to it. I don't know how obscure it is, but I recall a Gulliver's Travels TV movie from the 90's starring Ted Danson as Gulliver. I think it might've gotten a commercial VHS release that I may have in my Dad's house somewhere. Okay, that makes sense I was like 7 at the time.
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Post by King Boo on Nov 15, 2016 19:37:53 GMT -5
I think this is the movie I was thinking of. Wish, I could find this and the sequel. They sound fun :) You can find both movies on YouTube. I may or may not have been amped to see them there.
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Post by Brandon Walsh is Insane. on Nov 15, 2016 23:01:55 GMT -5
Does any remember a series of I think Disney movies where Kirk Cameron was an android?...Not Quite Human I think Computer wore tennis shoes?!!
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