Favorite movie continuation of a TV series?
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Certainly NOT Dead Like Me. Still salty about that one.
Serenity and Star Trek as others have said are proabbly my actual favorites. The original Naked Gun movies were based on the short-lived Police Squad show and are as close to maintaining continuity as anything ZAZ could be. Then, the original Transformers animated movie gets more credit than it deserves due to nostalgia and not being a Michael Bay mess, but it had no business being even as good as it was.
Strong agree on Dead Like Me! I've rarely met anyone else who's seen the show. It's not perfect, but some moments were absolutely adorable. The plot of the movie wasn't bad, but the recasting was awful, because Mandy Patikin was half of the heart of the show.
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I recently heard someone say that a movie spin-off or continuation of a TV show never works. It works as a bit of nostalgia maybe, but it's usually a bad film. So, is it true?
Specifically I'm thinking movies that are set in the same universe or canon as the TV series that came before it. So something like Mission Impossible wouldn't count since the show and the films are different universes.
Also sometimes a film comes out during a TV series run, that's fine, it doesn't need to be after the series is over. I can also think of at least one example of a film kicking off a TV series, so that counts too.
(Also if there are absolutely terrible ones, let's talk about those too.)
The movie El Camino completes a part of the Breakong Bad storyline.
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The movie El Camino completes a part of the Breakong Bad storyline.
It really is impressive that we can have a perfect ending to Breaking Bad, and then a second perfect ending with El Camino.
I also wonder if the streaming movie has a different audience expectation and is more likely to work. Does a theatrical film have too narrow of an audience to be successful? And as such whatever story gets told appeals to no one?
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I recently heard someone say that a movie spin-off or continuation of a TV show never works. It works as a bit of nostalgia maybe, but it's usually a bad film. So, is it true?
Specifically I'm thinking movies that are set in the same universe or canon as the TV series that came before it. So something like Mission Impossible wouldn't count since the show and the films are different universes.
Also sometimes a film comes out during a TV series run, that's fine, it doesn't need to be after the series is over. I can also think of at least one example of a film kicking off a TV series, so that counts too.
(Also if there are absolutely terrible ones, let's talk about those too.)
I think the X-files movies were pretty good overall and did a good job with some of the storylines that they started on the show.
I wanted to say Pee Wee's Big Adventure but that's not really the same universe I suppose.
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I’m quite fond of the TV continuation of the Big Hero 6 movie.
Another similar thing happened with Tangled. It got a series that takes place after the film and is insanely good. I listen to the songs all the time and they go just as hard as the film's songs.
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I recently heard someone say that a movie spin-off or continuation of a TV show never works. It works as a bit of nostalgia maybe, but it's usually a bad film. So, is it true?
Specifically I'm thinking movies that are set in the same universe or canon as the TV series that came before it. So something like Mission Impossible wouldn't count since the show and the films are different universes.
Also sometimes a film comes out during a TV series run, that's fine, it doesn't need to be after the series is over. I can also think of at least one example of a film kicking off a TV series, so that counts too.
(Also if there are absolutely terrible ones, let's talk about those too.)
Came to say Serenity (it's just a great end, tying up a main plot point and a small background plot point, with a fantastically emotional end) but since that is already top of the list I will go with a terrible one.
Sense8.
Started out as pretty great series, I absolutely adored the first series. I felt the quality was there even if super cheesy at parts. Then the 2nd series happened and soon after, news it was cancelled. The quality had dropped quite a lot but still not terrible. Then they were given the opportunity to do a 2 n a half hr special to tie up loose ends.
It was massively rushed, the quality was completely gone, some of the characters just acted so different from how they had been previously and some were barely in it.
To be honest, I think I am still grateful, at least we got a resolution but sometimes i remember how sucky it was, i think perhaps they should have just left it on a high (even though it had already started to falter in the 2nd series)
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I recently heard someone say that a movie spin-off or continuation of a TV show never works. It works as a bit of nostalgia maybe, but it's usually a bad film. So, is it true?
Specifically I'm thinking movies that are set in the same universe or canon as the TV series that came before it. So something like Mission Impossible wouldn't count since the show and the films are different universes.
Also sometimes a film comes out during a TV series run, that's fine, it doesn't need to be after the series is over. I can also think of at least one example of a film kicking off a TV series, so that counts too.
(Also if there are absolutely terrible ones, let's talk about those too.)
Now that multiple people have mentioned Serenity I feel I need to mention Peacekeeper Wars as the wrap-up for Farscape. It was basically two seasons crammed into three hours, so it was somewhat rushed, but it wrapped up the show nicely and is a great watch!
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Came to say Serenity (it's just a great end, tying up a main plot point and a small background plot point, with a fantastically emotional end) but since that is already top of the list I will go with a terrible one.
Sense8.
Started out as pretty great series, I absolutely adored the first series. I felt the quality was there even if super cheesy at parts. Then the 2nd series happened and soon after, news it was cancelled. The quality had dropped quite a lot but still not terrible. Then they were given the opportunity to do a 2 n a half hr special to tie up loose ends.
It was massively rushed, the quality was completely gone, some of the characters just acted so different from how they had been previously and some were barely in it.
To be honest, I think I am still grateful, at least we got a resolution but sometimes i remember how sucky it was, i think perhaps they should have just left it on a high (even though it had already started to falter in the 2nd series)
While my personal opinion is that the ending was very silly lol, I would still highly recommend Sense8 overall (original idea was just awesome). I thought it was just such a lovely show at times, could make you laugh and cry. Really highlights how empathy is fundamental.
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It really is impressive that we can have a perfect ending to Breaking Bad, and then a second perfect ending with El Camino.
I also wonder if the streaming movie has a different audience expectation and is more likely to work. Does a theatrical film have too narrow of an audience to be successful? And as such whatever story gets told appeals to no one?
Don't forget the third perfect ending with BCS
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My vote has to be the Star Trek films as the best. Which Star Trek films? So many bad, so many good, but the winner has to be First Contact.
We get our full TNG crew together, fancy new ship, fighting the Borg, time travel, tons of lore, THE LINE MUST BE DRAWN HERE! Just brilliant.
yes the old trek movies, even if the movies were bad it gives some closure continuation of the series which it came from.
NUTREK however isnt good in anyway.
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I recently heard someone say that a movie spin-off or continuation of a TV show never works. It works as a bit of nostalgia maybe, but it's usually a bad film. So, is it true?
Specifically I'm thinking movies that are set in the same universe or canon as the TV series that came before it. So something like Mission Impossible wouldn't count since the show and the films are different universes.
Also sometimes a film comes out during a TV series run, that's fine, it doesn't need to be after the series is over. I can also think of at least one example of a film kicking off a TV series, so that counts too.
(Also if there are absolutely terrible ones, let's talk about those too.)
sg1 2 movies, however they were kinda forced to do so by the networks in favor of a new series.
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I think the X-files movies were pretty good overall and did a good job with some of the storylines that they started on the show.
I wanted to say Pee Wee's Big Adventure but that's not really the same universe I suppose.
I haven't seen the Pee-wee films since I was a kid, but it's the same character... But everything else is different. So it kinda counts, especially as a spin-off of the show.
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yes the old trek movies, even if the movies were bad it gives some closure continuation of the series which it came from.
NUTREK however isnt good in anyway.
The Kelvin timeline has some moments, but I agree that overall they don't hold up. I gave them all a rewatch last year and apart from spectacle, there isn't much there.
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I recently heard someone say that a movie spin-off or continuation of a TV show never works. It works as a bit of nostalgia maybe, but it's usually a bad film. So, is it true?
Specifically I'm thinking movies that are set in the same universe or canon as the TV series that came before it. So something like Mission Impossible wouldn't count since the show and the films are different universes.
Also sometimes a film comes out during a TV series run, that's fine, it doesn't need to be after the series is over. I can also think of at least one example of a film kicking off a TV series, so that counts too.
(Also if there are absolutely terrible ones, let's talk about those too.)
I am trying to think of movies that are not straight remakes. The Fugitive is great but is a complete remake. Here are good movies that are based on TV shows that are more continuations:
- Monty Python and the Holy Grail
- Various Muppet Movies
- Reno 911: Miami (omfg this show and movie the more you think about the gags the funnier they gets.
- The Brady Bunch
- Waynes World 1 and 2
- The Blues Brothers
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I recently heard someone say that a movie spin-off or continuation of a TV show never works. It works as a bit of nostalgia maybe, but it's usually a bad film. So, is it true?
Specifically I'm thinking movies that are set in the same universe or canon as the TV series that came before it. So something like Mission Impossible wouldn't count since the show and the films are different universes.
Also sometimes a film comes out during a TV series run, that's fine, it doesn't need to be after the series is over. I can also think of at least one example of a film kicking off a TV series, so that counts too.
(Also if there are absolutely terrible ones, let's talk about those too.)
Here is my list of terrible movie adaptations:
- Chips. I loved the show as a kid. The movie was an utter mess. None of the gags worked, there was a joke about eating ass that the movie kept doing call backs too that just got more and more cringey.
On a side note, I have checked out some Chips episodes as an adult and OOOF nostalgia really has rose colored glasses.
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The Mod Squad: The show was a precurser to 21 Jump Street and very much a counter culture cop show. It was just so so cool. The movie adaptation was a flaming bag of shit that just made no sense. The casting was spot on, but there just nothing for them to do other than look cool.
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The Avengers. No, not the Vanilla ice cream that is the Marvel stuff. The Avengers was a show about British spy Duo John Steed and Emma Peel. It had cool spy gadgets, stiff suits, Diana Rigg (Peel) in sexy outfits and was a ton of fun. The movie had none of the above. The movie was devoid of charm, fun, laughs in fact it is fair to say the movie failed in everyway a movie can.
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Aeon Flux: In the early days of Adult Swim, it had a really cool bunch of shorts about a superspy infiltrating various “fortresses of solitude” and having shootouts with loads of bad guys. It was great for the five minute shorts. It absolutely was a dull boring train wreck as a movie. The most impressive thing the movie did was make Charlize Theron look dumpy in skin tight clothing.
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I haven't seen the Pee-wee films since I was a kid, but it's the same character... But everything else is different. So it kinda counts, especially as a spin-off of the show.
Oh you should definitely do a rewatch of the movies at least then there's a lot of stuff you don't notice when you're a kid haha.
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I recently heard someone say that a movie spin-off or continuation of a TV show never works. It works as a bit of nostalgia maybe, but it's usually a bad film. So, is it true?
Specifically I'm thinking movies that are set in the same universe or canon as the TV series that came before it. So something like Mission Impossible wouldn't count since the show and the films are different universes.
Also sometimes a film comes out during a TV series run, that's fine, it doesn't need to be after the series is over. I can also think of at least one example of a film kicking off a TV series, so that counts too.
(Also if there are absolutely terrible ones, let's talk about those too.)
I remember thinking Burn Notice: The Fall of Sam Axe wasn't too bad, but I am quite partial to Bruce Campbell
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Now that multiple people have mentioned Serenity I feel I need to mention Peacekeeper Wars as the wrap-up for Farscape. It was basically two seasons crammed into three hours, so it was somewhat rushed, but it wrapped up the show nicely and is a great watch!
I had completely forgotten about that! Man, I really need to do a full rewatch.
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Serenity as the finish for the firefly show.
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I recently heard someone say that a movie spin-off or continuation of a TV show never works. It works as a bit of nostalgia maybe, but it's usually a bad film. So, is it true?
Specifically I'm thinking movies that are set in the same universe or canon as the TV series that came before it. So something like Mission Impossible wouldn't count since the show and the films are different universes.
Also sometimes a film comes out during a TV series run, that's fine, it doesn't need to be after the series is over. I can also think of at least one example of a film kicking off a TV series, so that counts too.
(Also if there are absolutely terrible ones, let's talk about those too.)
The Veronica Mars movie was a great continuation of the original series.
It’s a real shame that the revival series ended the way that it did (avoiding any spoilers), it really killed off fans’ desire for more.
