The SciFi Channel is premeiring a made for TV movie called "Mansquito." Seriously. Mansquito?!? I'd be embarrassed to be the person who came up with that title.
Mansquito?
Hey, "The Fly" was clever for its time, and the re-make added heaps and heaps of disgusting gore. But enough with the human-insect movies!
I've been laughing at this all night. But I felt like too much of a geek to post about it.
Posted by: Dylan | March 04, 2005 at 09:22 PM
But I felt like too much of a geek to post about it.
Yes, well, I'm thirtysomething, married, with baby, and I stay home Friday nights (and every other night) and watch TV. I think I'm impervious to the shame of being seen as geeky.
Posted by: Tung Yin | March 04, 2005 at 09:25 PM
Couldn't be any worse than Manimal, a show I remember from the early 1980s. I can't remember the details, but it was about a crime fighting sleuth who could turn himself into an animal, or something like that. Just horrible. It was on NBC back in the Fred Silverman era, along with other such disasters as SuperTrain and Buck Rogers. I give Fred credit, though--he did get Cheers and Hill Street Blues right.
Posted by: tom | March 07, 2005 at 06:54 AM
Should I be embarrassed to admit that my brother and I used to look forward to "Manimal"? Or that I even know that the Maminal character showed up in an episode of "NightMan"?
Posted by: Tung Yin | March 07, 2005 at 08:09 AM
Yes. Deeply.
Posted by: tom | March 07, 2005 at 11:03 AM
God, these people have no shame. This ground was thoroughly exhausted (in two hours, no less!) in 1994's Mosquito. Mosquito absolutely sucked beyond belief. I'll bet it turns out to be better than Mansquito, though, for merciful brevity if nothing else.
Posted by: Matt | March 08, 2005 at 06:42 AM
Make that "in ninety minutes, no less!"
Posted by: Matt | March 08, 2005 at 07:37 AM