BetterButter June 19, 2014 Share June 19, 2014 Lifetime Making ‘Saved By the Bell’ Movie Link to comment
Dejana June 20, 2014 Share June 20, 2014 Not really encouraged by the news that it will be "inspired by" the Dustin Diamond tell-all. I doubt these kids were all super clean-cut but I think there was some embellishing for shock value and Dustin trying to make himself look good/the victim in everything. 7 Link to comment
Scarlett45 June 22, 2014 Share June 22, 2014 I am excited. It should be juicy cheesiness. Link to comment
Kromm June 24, 2014 Share June 24, 2014 Delusion apparently stalks the minor players in the Saved By The Bell Cast. Per TMZ: "Tori Scott" from "Saved by the Bell" says only one actress is worthy of slipping on her leather jacket and roaming Bayside High for a new Lifetime movie -- and she's an Oscar nominee." Yeah, right. Let us know how that wish works out. 2 Link to comment
Jeebus Cripes June 24, 2014 Share June 24, 2014 I will be watching this and hating myself in the morning. 1 Link to comment
aradia22 June 24, 2014 Share June 24, 2014 I expected them to try a little harder to find similar looking actors (I don't know why... relentless optimism?). I think Baby Mario Lopez and Baby Elizabeth Berkeley are probably the worst matches but they're all pretty bad. Link to comment
Jeebus Cripes August 8, 2014 Share August 8, 2014 Ugh. That doesn't look promising at all. Still gonna watch, though. Link to comment
Kromm August 8, 2014 Share August 8, 2014 Wow. Who knew something could make the Growing Up Brady biopic look GOOD in comparison? Link to comment
BatmanBeatles August 9, 2014 Share August 9, 2014 Loved the Bel Biv DeVoe song. The kid playing Mark Paul looks like Collin Farrell in Alexander The Great. Link to comment
Kromm August 9, 2014 Share August 9, 2014 (edited) I know logically he wouldn't be at that photo-shoot, but we GOTTA see what Faux-Mr. Belding looks like! By the way, there's ALREADY a pants load of What The Fuck surrounding Unauthorized use of Saved By The Bell. There's the Musical. National Lampoon's Bayside! The Musical - http://baysidethemusical.com/ Apparently in the past the guy who played Mr. Belding has been there (playing his OWN role), and starting Aug 27th Dustin Diamond (who we know will do anything for money) will be there playing "Dustin Diamond" (I'm guessing they shoehorn his adult-self into the play as a narrator or something). Edited August 9, 2014 by Kromm Link to comment
Dejana August 9, 2014 Share August 9, 2014 (edited) During an interview with Mark-Paul Gosselaar promoting his current show (Franklin & Bash), he was asked about the Unauthorized SBTB movie and his TV co-star Breckin Meyer went off about Dustin Diamond. MPG says he remembers the years at Bayside a lot differently than Dustin. For his part, Dustin is now trying to distance himself from the tell-all book that was a big source of the upcoming movie's material (and also admits to faking his sex tape). Edited August 9, 2014 by Dejana Link to comment
Rick Kitchen August 9, 2014 Share August 9, 2014 The kid playing Mark Paul looks like Collin Farrell in Alexander The Great. He used to be on Degrassi. Link to comment
ramble August 10, 2014 Share August 10, 2014 I'm ashamedly excited to watch this garbage. 1 Link to comment
WendyCR72 August 10, 2014 Share August 10, 2014 Wow, that looked SO bad. Like car wreck bad. I bet it'll give Lifetime a ratings boost. People LOVE cheese, and the stinkier, the better. LOL! 3 Link to comment
aradia22 August 10, 2014 Share August 10, 2014 He used to be on Degrassi. Wait, is that why they killed Campbell ? The spoiler is for Degrassi just so you know. Link to comment
Skittl1321 August 12, 2014 Share August 12, 2014 How do you fake a sex tape? Dustin Diamond is weird. Link to comment
Jeebus Cripes August 13, 2014 Share August 13, 2014 Dustin Diamond is an asshole. Weird is the least of his problems. 10 Link to comment
Jeebus Cripes August 17, 2014 Share August 17, 2014 Really short trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Stoz7Q3oxeY Link to comment
Kromm August 17, 2014 Share August 17, 2014 How do you fake a sex tape? Dustin Diamond is weird. Prosthetics? Body doubles? Fake humping with no close ups on genitals? Link to comment
Rick Kitchen August 17, 2014 Share August 17, 2014 I like that they have Mark Paul Goselaar's character break the fourth wall. 1 Link to comment
WendyCR72 August 17, 2014 Share August 17, 2014 Really short trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Stoz7Q3oxeY <Shakes head and hides in secondhand embarrassment> Link to comment
methodwriter85 August 18, 2014 Share August 18, 2014 (edited) This looks like a big piece of garbage and I'm SO EXCITED! I really, really want to see an Unauthorized Beverly Hills 90210 story now. Edited August 18, 2014 by methodwriter85 9 Link to comment
Jeebus Cripes August 18, 2014 Share August 18, 2014 This looks like a big piece of garbage and I'm SO EXCITED! I really, really want to see an Unauthorized Beverly Hills 90210 story now. OMG, yes! I was totally thinking how awesome a 90210 film would be earlier today! 2 Link to comment
galax-arena August 18, 2014 Share August 18, 2014 I really, really want to see an Unauthorized Beverly Hills 90210 story now. I was thinking that Glee needs to hurry up and go off air so that we can get an Unauthorized Glee story ten years from now. Really short trailer:[snip] Oh my word, what is that basic ass freeze frame? 1 Link to comment
Rick Kitchen August 18, 2014 Share August 18, 2014 Oh my word, what is that basic ass freeze frame? It's breaking the fourth wall, like Zach did on the show. Link to comment
galax-arena August 18, 2014 Share August 18, 2014 It's breaking the fourth wall, like Zach did on the show. I know, I’m saying that the way they did the freeze frame itself was basic. IIRC, they did the same thing on the actual show, i.e. no post-production special effects manipulation, just people freezing in place. But it somehow comes off SO much worse here, maybe because my eyes are immediately drawn to that piece of paper continuing to flap around crazily. Link to comment
Whimsy August 19, 2014 Share August 19, 2014 I see this promo all the time- it looks cheese-tastically bad. I was a little too old for Saved By the Bell, but I watched it anyway and watched the college years when it was on prime time. That actor in this unauthorized movie doesn't even have a 10th of the charimsa MPG had/has. Same with the actor portraying Slater. I will probably watch this, but grimace through the whole thing. 2 Link to comment
WendyCR72 August 19, 2014 Share August 19, 2014 Is the guy playing MPG/Zack wearing a wig? Because it sure looks like it. 1 Link to comment
aradia22 August 19, 2014 Share August 19, 2014 I was thinking that Glee needs to hurry up and go off air so that we can get an Unauthorized Glee story ten years from now. It would never be as glorious as I would want it to be. They would have to take it seriously for that. Also, with Cory Monteith's issues and passing it would just be too sad. I don't want to let Lifetime run with that. They couldn't even do Flowers in the Attic properly. 1 Link to comment
Jeebus Cripes August 19, 2014 Share August 19, 2014 (edited) That clip of "Dustin Diamond" punching out that guy. Yeah.... right. Edited August 19, 2014 by Jeebus Cripes 3 Link to comment
DkNNy79 August 19, 2014 Share August 19, 2014 I see this promo all the time- it looks cheese-tastically bad. I was a little too old for Saved By the Bell, but I watched it anyway and watched the college years when it was on prime time. That actor in this unauthorized movie doesn't even have a 10th of the charimsa MPG had/has. Same with the actor portraying Slater. I will probably watch this, but grimace through the whole thing. Ditto! MPG was one of my first crushes. The guy they picked is awful. Not cute and he looks really young. Not crush worthy at all. They just did a bad job casting wise all around. 5 Link to comment
methodwriter85 August 19, 2014 Share August 19, 2014 (edited) I seriously hope that if this is successful, they'll do an unauthorized 90210 story. That one should be good. Well, at least during the Shannen Years. Edited August 19, 2014 by methodwriter85 Link to comment
Kromm August 23, 2014 Share August 23, 2014 First 5 Minutes Of Lifetime's 'Saved By The Bell' Movie Are Available To Stream Right Now Link to comment
Starscream August 25, 2014 Share August 25, 2014 (edited) Ditto! MPG was one of my first crushes. The guy they picked is awful. Not cute and he looks really young. Not crush worthy at all. They just did a bad job casting wise all around. He looks like MPG from the Miss Bliss episodes and early Bayside episodes. I have no clue how they're going to pass off that guy for the buff, hunky MPG of the later seasons. The guy playing Dustin Diamond is a version of him that never existed. This guy is like a normal mid-teen, whereas Diamond went from cute little runt to big and goofy overnight. Edited August 25, 2014 by Starscream 1 Link to comment
emma675 August 25, 2014 Share August 25, 2014 I will be watching the hell out of this cheese fest next Monday! After a weekend packed with non-stop college football watching, this will be the perfect dessert. 1 Link to comment
luckyroll3 August 26, 2014 Share August 26, 2014 So glad that MPG was on Watch What Happens Live and this was brought up or I would have never known about it and missed it. So excited, although I agree that the casting is horrendous. Link to comment
GHScorpiosRule August 27, 2014 Share August 27, 2014 I don't want to let Lifetime run with that. They couldn't even do Flowers in the Attic properly. Did you really think they (Lifetime) could do Flowers properly? Not being snarky here. Seriously, they should have tried to have HBO or some other premium or cable channel try to do it. I'm still traumatized about their reimagination of Lizzie Borden. Link to comment
kia112 August 28, 2014 Share August 28, 2014 My people. I'm with you in that this movie looks TERRIBLE and with Dustin Diamond as an executive producer, who even know what garbage will be spewed. But I'm still watching it. The only thing giving me hope are the little sprinkles of the Mark-Paul/Lark dating situation. In the first promo picture, the actress playing Lark had her arms around the one playing Mark-Paul. Then in the first promo, "Elizabeth" mentions "Lark"'s crush on "Mark-Paul" and in this most recent one, they're holding hands. The fact that Zack and Lisa dated for one episode and they were never mentioned again while Mark-Paul and Lark were simultaneously in a "long term" relationship has annoyed me for decades. I'll take resolution anyway I can find it. Link to comment
Rick Kitchen August 28, 2014 Share August 28, 2014 It amuses me how much traction this thread is getting. :) 2 Link to comment
loriro August 29, 2014 Share August 29, 2014 (edited) National Lampoon's Bayside! The Musical - http://baysidethemusical.com/ Saw it in NYC. It's so bad it's good! This looks like a big piece of garbage and I'm SO EXCITED! "...I'm so excited! I'm so... SCARED!!!" (someone had to! ;) ) God this movie looks like such a train wreck. But who am I kidding... I'll probably still watch it. And I'm a fan of the original cast members (well...some of them. Dustin Diamond, notsomuch). I enjoy seeing Tiffany Thiessen on "White Collar", and have been an MPG fan for a long time. I remember seeing him in NYPD Blue in one of his first real "Adult roles" after SBTB: TCY. And I was pleasantly surprised by how good he was. And how hot he was...! Edited August 29, 2014 by loriro 3 Link to comment
DkNNy79 August 29, 2014 Share August 29, 2014 My people. I'm with you in that this movie looks TERRIBLE and with Dustin Diamond as an executive producer, who even know what garbage will be spewed. But I'm still watching it. The only thing giving me hope are the little sprinkles of the Mark-Paul/Lark dating situation. In the first promo picture, the actress playing Lark had her arms around the one playing Mark-Paul. Then in the first promo, "Elizabeth" mentions "Lark"'s crush on "Mark-Paul" and in this most recent one, they're holding hands. The fact that Zack and Lisa dated for one episode and they were never mentioned again while Mark-Paul and Lark were simultaneously in a "long term" relationship has annoyed me for decades. I'll take resolution anyway I can find it. YES. I want to know what went on with Lark and MPG. I've always been curious about those two. I think they make a really cute couple. I might have to watch just for that. Link to comment
BoogieBurns September 1, 2014 Share September 1, 2014 I would love to know if any of you will be tweeting while you watch tonight. I need to know the hashtag! This is gonna be such a bad movie :-) Link to comment
kia112 September 1, 2014 Share September 1, 2014 Ooh. Good call. Should the hashtag be PT specific? Otherwise, Livetime keeps hashtagging Unauthorized in their tweets, which I think is hilarious. Link to comment
BoogieBurns September 1, 2014 Share September 1, 2014 #UnauthorizedSBTB maybe? I'm sure Lifetime will tell us what to call it during the show. Link to comment
Primetimer September 1, 2014 Share September 1, 2014 Join us as we liveblog this monumentous* television event. Read the story 2 Link to comment
Kay September 1, 2014 Share September 1, 2014 I'm only excited because of the live tweeting. Under no circumstances would I be watching otherwise.<br /><br />Was that believable? Link to comment
Milaxx September 2, 2014 Share September 2, 2014 (edited) My Saved By the Bell confession: I started watching the show because first season had Hayley Mills as their teacher, Miss Bliss. I loved the show Nanny & the Professor as a child and as a result watched pretty much anything with Hayley Mills in it. Edited September 2, 2014 by Milaxx 2 Link to comment
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