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To: Impy; tlb
As a rule of thumb, movie adaptations of TV shows tend to be bad, but that's not always the case.

I consider The Addams Family (1991) and it's sequel (1993), The Fugitive, Get Smart (2008), Maverick, Beavis and Butt-Head Do America, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie, The Naked Gun (based on the TV series Police Squad!), South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut, Star Trek (2009), Transformers (2007), and The Twilight Zone: The Movie to all be good, solidly entertaining films.

I would rank the The Brady Bunch Movie, Popeye (1980), Dragnet (1987), The Flintstones (1995) and its sequel, George of the Jungle, and The Simpsons Movie as guilty pleasures. In the many cases it was because the big-screen actor captured the TV series character spot-on, even if the script sucked.

And Bewitched was such a great TV show, it was a crime the way the movie version gave us a lifeless, faux Bewitched.

I'm suprised they haven't made a live-action Jetsons movie to go along with the live-action Flintstones yet. Gilligan's Island is probably going to make a pretty campy, intentionally stupid film, but if it's done the right way it could at least be entertaining like it's closely related cousin The Brady Bunch. As a favorite cult TV series that everyone knows, at least it makes more sense to adapt it to the big screen than the "what were thinking?" efforts to put stuff Lost In Space and Sgt. Bilko on the big screen.

73 posted on 03/03/2010 5:24:52 PM PST by BillyBoy (Impeach Obama? Yes We Can!)
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To: BillyBoy; fieldmarshaldj

I loved the Addams Family movies. Such a shame Raul Julia died.

I’m glad the long planned “Dallas” movie is apparently dead. It eventually evolved into a “comedy”.


82 posted on 03/04/2010 12:04:31 AM PST by Impy (RED=COMMUNIST, NOT REPUBLICAN | NO "INDIVIDUAL MANDATE"!!!!!!!)
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