Mother, May I Sleep With Danger? (2016 Lifetime) - General Discussion

[Tara Ariano]

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A mother's caught off guard when her daughter introduces the family to her new female love interest, and although she tries to embrace the modern romance, she soon makes a discovery about her daughter's girlfriend that could put her in serious danger.

Premieres on Lifetime Saturday, June 18, at 8 PM ET.

[ShadowHunter]

I will be watching. Have to get the snacks ready lol.

The Original Classic will be on LMN at 8 tonight and on Lifetime Sat at noon.

[kickedinthehead]

The first one was entertaining enough, but this.looks.AWFUL. It doesn't help that I kind of can't stand James Franco.

That being said, I have an embarrassing addiction to Lifetime movies and so will probably end up watching this at some point. I'm prepared to hate it, but maybe it will surprise me and turn out to be so-bad-it's-good. (Doubtful, but you never know...)

[bref]

I for SURE can't stand him, so I won't be watching, but let me know how it was if you succumb. :)

[dalek]

A lesbian vampire adaptation of Mother May I Sleep With Danger should have been a lot more fun and campy than this was.

Tori Spelling's mom character was a total moron.  Let your daughter date the nice lesbian vampire photographer.  Stop pushing the evil date rapist at her.

[Primetimer]

The actor/director/troll's latest work is a lot of things, but one thing it's not is a remake of the one with Tori Spelling.

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[WhosThatGirl]

This was bad. And not in a fun bad way. I wanted better fun bad. That is what I come to lifetime for. 

Edited June 19, 2016 by WhosThatGirl

[LexieLily]

So basically this movie used the name Mother May I Sleep With Danger but had nothing remotely to do with the original.

[frogprof]

Oh, thank God. I thought I was the only one who realized that Emperor Franco has no clothes.

[ShadowHunter]

I actually thought the 1996 movie was better then this and Ivan Sergei was still creepier and crazier then these Vampires were.

[WhosThatGirl]

Yeah, I wish the vampire angle had been removed. Vampires are so overplayed at this point (I'm sure in a few years, like the cycle that is pop culture they will come back again, they always seem to, but let's rest it for a little). Don't get me wrong; I didn't want a play by play of the same movie only a decade later, but why bring in this angle? 

[Almost 3000]

I'm not up on the Franco hate but I get it. Tori looked really good but her acting was bad and not in a campy good way. It took a second scene for me to pick up on the teacher being the abuser from the first film. Do'h. All that said, I like the idea of re-doing some of the Lifetime classics but this one was a watch once and done whereas I've seen the original several times.

[c8h10n4o2]

I did like that they used Occidental for the college, which was also used as California University in the original 90210. So Tori's daughter was going to her mom's alma mater!

But yeah. As someone who owns the original on DVD, I'm one and done with this.

[emjohnson03]

I read the synopsis and thought, that is nothing like the original! I watched the original again yesterday afternoon and it was quite terrifying but it wasn't so campy. It actually made sense, crazy dude falls in love with normal girl.

I'm not planning on watching it now since it had nothing to do with the original at all! Just remake it.

And it's a shame James Franco is so weird because I just finished watching 11.22.63 on hulu (excellent and would recommend!) and I thought he was good in in (not great but very good). 

[editorgrrl]

12 hours ago, PreviouslyTV said:

The actor/director/troll's latest work is a lot of things, but one thing it's not is a remake of the one with Tori Spelling.

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My favorite line of the review: "It's a reimagining in the way Game Of Thrones is a reimagining of Flowers In The Attic: both feature humping siblings, but that's about all they have in common."

[Mabinogia]

That was...terrible. And not fun terrible like Flowers in the Attic. I think, though I can't be sure because it was so boring and poorly done, that it was meant to be a parody maybe? Was it supposed to have some deep social commentary? I feel like the classroom scenes were meant to make us read a deeper meaning into it all, but again, so poorly done I couldn't be buggered trying to think about it all. I feel like the blatent lesbian visuals meant something, like, why did main girl who wanted to play Machbeth have that one vampire chick (who she didn't yet know was a vampire) basically molesting her while she gave her monolog? Was it supposed to stimulate Franco's director so much he would hire her for the job just because Little Franco gave them a standing ovation?

I spent most of the movie 1) trying to decide if the teacher was the boyfriend from the first movie. Once I did I focused on 2) where I had seen Pearl before (I figured it out, My Soul to Take) then 3) I was fascinated by the fact that Tori Spellings nose looks like a chuck of it was shaved off of one side. So I didn't really hear a word she said the whole time. That is one odd looking human being.

I think the show should have made either Tori or Ivan's character the character from the original movie, just to, you know, make the two movies have ANYTHING in common. Because really the original was about a possessive guy who kills people while this one was about a vampire trying to find true love before killing her. Oh, wait, was this Franco trying to subvert the trope? FAIL!

[TattleTeeny]

You know, it's not like I expected a cinematic masterpiece, but something that made sense--even in the "so bad that its awesome" way--would have been nice! Not that I couldn't follow (because what kind of fool would I be?!) but feel like things were left or cut out. Like this Bob, for instance--he knows the chick well enough to have her MOM'S cell phone number, but not well enough to know she's in a relationship? And did "The Craft 2016" actually go to that school?

[tv-is-addicting]

Best.Recap.Ever. 'Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going to jump in my canoe and row away from this ironic piece of shit as fast as I can.' - funniest line ever written. Thank you Alex

[violetr]

Huh. I get this weird feeling that you don't like James Franco? Not sure why.

[phoenix780]

Was that serious? Or was it an elaborate mockery of Art by way of infusing its ridiculous elements into low culture?  

Whatever it was, I need to make better choices. 

[Dr.OO7]

As terrible as this was, I appreciate the Accidental Aesop that same sex relationships can be just as prone to domestic violence as their opposite sex counterparts.