Why are Lifetime movies so terrible these days?

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Anonymous wrote:Ugh they are updating "Mother May I Sleep with Danger?" and it has a lesbian vampire theme. No. Just no.

And James Franco directed it. Like a lot of stuff he dies, I can't tell if it's serious or a parody. I'm leaning in the latter direction (hopefully).

Speaking of which, did anyone see the Lifetime parody Lifetime movie with Kristen Wiig and Will Ferrell?

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Anonymous wrote:I havent really watched a lifetime movie in years but just so happens I watched 2 in the past week and they were both really good. One was about a newly married couple that moves back to his hometown into a home he inherited from his prior wife. The maid who has always worked in the house is super weird and was a big fan of the first wife so she wants the new wife gone.

The other one was about 3 high school girls who try to get revenge on another girl for sleeping with one of their boyfriends. They take her to this remote location to scare her and end up accidentally killing her.

Wait -- isn't that almost exactly the same plot as Hitchcock's "Rebecca"? Are they ripping off plots from much better movies?

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Anonymous wrote:Lifetime and Hallmark christmAs movies are the best. and I'm Jewish.

Agree. I can watch marathons of them!

Both my Jewish mother-in-law and my priest uncle have DVRs full of these movies.

OMG, I love them all. And also ABC Family channel. I love when they do their 25 days of Christmas. My family thinks I'm totally weird because we do not even celebrate Christmas. lol

We don't celebrate Christmas either, and I think it's better that way. Christmas is something you can imagine to be completely wonderful, instead of having to deal with reality.

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Anonymous wrote:I havent really watched a lifetime movie in years but just so happens I watched 2 in the past week and they were both really good. One was about a newly married couple that moves back to his hometown into a home he inherited from his prior wife. The maid who has always worked in the house is super weird and was a big fan of the first wife so she wants the new wife gone.

The other one was about 3 high school girls who try to get revenge on another girl for sleeping with one of their boyfriends. They take her to this remote location to scare her and end up accidentally killing her.

Wait -- isn't that almost exactly the same plot as Hitchcock's "Rebecca"? Are they ripping off plots from much better movies?

No idea, never saw Hitchcock's "Rebecca."

[Anonymous]

Oh yeah, the one where Hailey Duff is married to this man & they have a son.
They live on a nice home by the snow and seemingly have the perfect life.

(By the way, all the houses on Lifetime movies are so beautiful!)

The husband travels A LOT for "business."
Turns out his "business" is another wife + house.

I also like the movie where a woman lives w/her elderly father who is in a wheelchair.
Many people detest him since he did a Ponzi scheme and a lot of people lost everything because of his unethical actions.
Unlike Madoff, he got away w/it.

Anyway his daughter gets married then puts her honeymoon off a year so she can care for her father.
Her husband finally convinced her to go & hire a caregiver to care for her dad, a seemingly drab, frumpy girl.

Well when she comes back from her trip, the caregiver is dressed more provocative and her father is on Cloud 9, turns out they got married during their short time together.

Since her father is filthy rich, she realizes his new wife just had to be a gold-digger.

In typical Lifetime movie fashion the father is found murdered, then the wife later on.

Turns out the daughter's husband did it all out of revenge for what her dad did to his own parents.
They were victims of his Ponzi scheme, lost all their life savings & ended up committing suicide soon after!

The man was out for pure revenge.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They're so bad and it's great. I wandered in half way through a movie the other day about some guy who was obsessed with the 50's and kept kidnapping women and locking them up in his perfect 50's bunker.

Haha, loved this one!

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Anonymous wrote:Oh yeah, the one where Hailey Duff is married to this man & they have a son.
They live on a nice home by the snow and seemingly have the perfect life.

(By the way, all the houses on Lifetime movies are so beautiful!)

The husband travels A LOT for "business."
Turns out his "business" is another wife + house.

I also like the movie where a woman lives w/her elderly father who is in a wheelchair.
Many people detest him since he did a Ponzi scheme and a lot of people lost everything because of his unethical actions.
Unlike Madoff, he got away w/it.

Anyway his daughter gets married then puts her honeymoon off a year so she can care for her father.
Her husband finally convinced her to go & hire a caregiver to care for her dad, a seemingly drab, frumpy girl.

Well when she comes back from her trip, the caregiver is dressed more provocative and her father is on Cloud 9, turns out they got married during their short time together.

Since her father is filthy rich, she realizes his new wife just had to be a gold-digger.

In typical Lifetime movie fashion the father is found murdered, then the wife later on.

Turns out the daughter's husband did it all out of revenge for what her dad did to his own parents.
They were victims of his Ponzi scheme, lost all their life savings & ended up committing suicide soon after!

The man was out for pure revenge.

Oooh, both of these sound good!

[Anonymous]

23:00 - i need to see that one!!!

[Anonymous]

They're almost always terrible, and that's what makes them awesome. I like to have them on in the background when I'm working from home and not doing anything too terribly complicated. I also love Hallmark Channel movies for the same reason, though those tend to be cheesy in a different direction - everyone falls in love, nobody dies (except early in the movie so that someone can be widowed and then fall in love.)

I am also a huge fan of the Sharknado franchise and terrible horror movies.

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Anonymous wrote:Ugh they are updating "Mother May I Sleep with Danger?" and it has a lesbian vampire theme. No. Just no.

And James Franco directed it. Like a lot of stuff he dies, I can't tell if it's serious or a parody. I'm leaning in the latter direction (hopefully).

Speaking of which, did anyone see the Lifetime parody Lifetime movie with Kristen Wiig and Will Ferrell?

No, what was that one called?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Lifetime and Hallmark christmAs movies are the best. and I'm Jewish.

So excited that's it's almost their Christmas in July marathon time!!

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Both Lifetime channels are an insult to one's
intelligence. The acting is so bad. I hadn't seen one in a long
time until last night. It was the worst and I was cursing myself for staying up to watch it. I wish I could just block that cable channel. What a waste of money making these jokes of a movie. The actors need some acting lessons.

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Anonymous wrote:Ugh they are updating "Mother May I Sleep with Danger?" and it has a lesbian vampire theme. No. Just no.

This sounds awesome!!

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Anonymous wrote:They're so bad and it's great. I wandered in half way through a movie the other day about some guy who was obsessed with the 50's and kept kidnapping women and locking them up in his perfect 50's bunker.

Haha, loved this one!

LOL - I saw this one too!

[Anonymous]

Nothing will ever top "A Woman Scorned: The Betty Broderick Story," starring Meredith Baxter. That used to air regularly on Lifetime.