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Started by Johnny Z, January 07, 2004, 08:32:53 PM

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Johnny Z

January 07, 2004, 08:32:53 PM
What bad movies were made into even worse tv shows?

If it's on Cinemax past midnight, it has to be bad.

Neon Noodle

#1
January 07, 2004, 09:01:52 PM
My Big Fat Greek Life
Mortal Kombat the Series; Live Action
Friday the 13th the Series (Hot chick with the red hair was nice....)
Nightmare on Elm Street the Series (wanted to be cool, it was just bad....)

That;s all that comes to mind off the top of my head without checking DVD box sets on Amazon.com

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While on a journey, Chuang Tzu found an old skull, dry and parched.
With sorrow, he questioned and lamented the end of all things.
When he finished speaking, he dragged the skull over and, using it for a pillow, lay down to sleep.
In the night, the skull came to his dreams and said, 'You are a fool to rejoice in the entanglements of life.'
Chuang Tzu couldn`t believe this and asked, 'If I could return you to your life, you would want that, wouldn`t you?'
Stunned by Chuang Tzu`s foolishness, the skull replied, 'How do you know that it is bad to be dead?'

-From The Matrix: The Path of Neo

I luv dolma

#2
January 07, 2004, 09:53:22 PM
There was a Nightmare on Elm Street series on tv? Was this with Freddy or was it something totally different like the Friday the 13th series.


btw MY BIG FAT GREEK LIFE is horrible! I liked the movie though :) I also love the first Mortal Kombat movie, but barely watched a few minutes of the tv series. It seemed to be only on at 12 midnight on TNT, I believe.

Pumaman1138

#3
January 07, 2004, 11:27:13 PM
Freddy was in it ... check out this listing at imdb.com

http://imdb.com/title/tt0094466/combined

You don't have to be mad to work here, in fact we ask you to complete a medical questionnaire to ensure that you are not.  ---- David Brent (Ricky Gervais), The Office

Neon Noodle

#4
January 07, 2004, 11:29:05 PM
I luv dolma wrote:

> There was a Nightmare on Elm Street series on tv? Was this with
> Freddy or was it something totally different like the Friday
> the 13th series.
>
>
The pilot was about Freddy and the events leading up to his "death", but the other ones played off like Tales From The Crypt episodes with Freddy narrating.

The only one besides the pilot that comes to mind was a kid who wanted to go to college but kept having nightmares about his mom and dad forcing him to work in their company, the "Beefy Boy" burger company or something like that. He dreamed he was chomping into a huge hamburger while mom and dad sang the God-awful company jingle over and over again:

"Chew me, Eat me, You can't beat me!"

Awful stuff. You're better off having missed it....

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While on a journey, Chuang Tzu found an old skull, dry and parched.
With sorrow, he questioned and lamented the end of all things.
When he finished speaking, he dragged the skull over and, using it for a pillow, lay down to sleep.
In the night, the skull came to his dreams and said, 'You are a fool to rejoice in the entanglements of life.'
Chuang Tzu couldn`t believe this and asked, 'If I could return you to your life, you would want that, wouldn`t you?'
Stunned by Chuang Tzu`s foolishness, the skull replied, 'How do you know that it is bad to be dead?'

-From The Matrix: The Path of Neo

JohnL

#5
January 08, 2004, 12:06:24 AM
Most of the Freddy's Nightmares were pretty bad. Also, the first several episodes had this annoying habit of completely changing the story at the halfway point. Like a guy could be having nightmares about something and then at the halfway point it switches to being about his best friend.

As for movies into TV shows, I don't consider them bad, but the following films spawned pretty bad TV shows;

Animal House > Delta House
Fast Times at Ridgemont High > Fast Times
Blue Thunder > Blue Thunder
Westworld > Beyond Westworld

ulthar

#6
January 08, 2004, 12:18:55 AM
Private Benjamin -> Private Benjamin

The movie was 'ok,' but, well the tv show was, uh, not so good.

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Professor Hathaway:  I noticed you stopped stuttering.
Bodie:      I've been giving myself shock treatments.
Professor Hathaway: Up the voltage.

--Real Genius

Eirik

#7
January 08, 2004, 12:45:45 AM
While MASH is one of my favorite movies, I abhor the TV show and am dumbfounded it ran so long.  They took all of the movie's teeth out and replaced them with Alan Alda doing Groucho Marx impersonations, Jamie Farr in a dress, and Mako as the only TV show regular in history to play a different character in every episode.

Colt M1991A1

#8
January 08, 2004, 09:11:50 AM
I have to agree, My Big Fat Greek Life was pretty bad- it's like they all suddenly forgot to act or were possessed by Aliens from the planet EdWood....

jmc

#9
January 08, 2004, 03:48:16 PM
I always thought THE GREEN MILE ripped off one of the episodes of Friday the 13th.  A guy finds a glove which allows him to heal people, but for each person he heals he has to touch another person and cause them to die.

Neon Noodle

#10
January 08, 2004, 09:22:27 PM
jmc wrote:

> I always thought THE GREEN MILE ripped off one of the episodes
> of Friday the 13th.  A guy finds a glove which allows him to
> heal people, but for each person he heals he has to touch
> another person and cause them to die.


Pretty much every episode of Friday the 13th were like this. The Chinese kid who gets incredible luck at the expense of someone else dying. The radio that could make you travel back in time by using the blood of a recently deceased victim. And so on and so on....

The formula never really strayed far from Some-cursed-object-that-does-something-really-cool-but-someone-else-has-to-die-to-make-it-work.



Post Edited (01-08-04 20:41)
____________________________________________________________
While on a journey, Chuang Tzu found an old skull, dry and parched.
With sorrow, he questioned and lamented the end of all things.
When he finished speaking, he dragged the skull over and, using it for a pillow, lay down to sleep.
In the night, the skull came to his dreams and said, 'You are a fool to rejoice in the entanglements of life.'
Chuang Tzu couldn`t believe this and asked, 'If I could return you to your life, you would want that, wouldn`t you?'
Stunned by Chuang Tzu`s foolishness, the skull replied, 'How do you know that it is bad to be dead?'

-From The Matrix: The Path of Neo

ulthar

#11
January 08, 2004, 11:13:33 PM
Yeah, the big draw to that show was the chick....

Some of the stories were pretty cool.  I remember the one with the watch that had thirteen hours on it.  Time would stop while the owner of the watch got an extra hour.

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Professor Hathaway:  I noticed you stopped stuttering.
Bodie:      I've been giving myself shock treatments.
Professor Hathaway: Up the voltage.

--Real Genius

Timothy, the talking duck

#12
January 08, 2004, 11:20:55 PM
What was Friday the 13th series about? And who was the hot red head chick?

JohnL

#13
January 08, 2004, 11:47:07 PM
>What was Friday the 13th series about? And who was the hot red head chick?

The owner of an antique shop made a deal with the devil to sell cursed antiques, but he broke the pact and the devil killed him. His niece and nephew, who haven't seen each other in years, inherit the store and decide to sell everything and split the money. It's not until after their big sale that they learn the truth. Together with an older man who had dealings with their uncle and knows about the occult, they have to try and get all the antiques back and lock then in the vault in the basement. Each week was about a different antique with a different power. The only thing they had in common was that each item would give its owner something in return for them killing someone.

They travelled back in time at least 3 times, faced vampires, wax figures brought to life, psychos, demons etc.

The hot red head chick was Lousie Robey, AKA Robey



Post Edited (01-08-04 22:47)

The Burgomaster

#14
January 09, 2004, 10:39:07 AM
FUTUREWORLD.  The movie was fair (not nearly as good as WESTWORLD), but the TV series (which was canceled very quickly) was terrible.

"Do not walk behind me, for I may not lead. Do not walk ahead of me, for I may not follow. Do not walk beside me either. Just pretty much leave me the hell alone."
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