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they just don't make tv movies like this anymore.

posted 15 years ago by iamcuriousyellowca
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Is it just me or were the TV movies from the the 1970's and 1980's vastly superior to the (to be nice) "time fillers" on TV in the past 20 years. Just a few of the really good TV movies from those decades. Including A Long Way Home there was Crowhaven Farm; Larry; Bill; Don't Be Afraid of the Dark; Right To Kill; and The Burning Bed. To my knowledge and in my opinion not one tv movie since has come close to the quality of the movies I listed. What movies do we have now? Movies about locusts and asteroids and meteors and who cares, they're all boring. They just don't make TV movies like they used to.

[–] janscronce 15 years ago

I totally agree with you. I used to beg my mom to rent this every week back in the early '80s. Absolutley loved it and haven't watched it in over 20 years.
My other favorites: "Don't Go To Sleep", "I Saw What You Did", "Bill", "A Summer To Remember", "Face of Evil". Of course I haven't seen any of these movies in years, so it's possible they'd suck in retrospect. Lifetime Channel has completely screwed up any chance of their being decent TV movies.

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