Always thought 28 days later would have been a brilliant tv series: every week on the road in the taxi, meeting new people, encountering new danger?
V for Vendetta, was cut far too thin to make into a film.
NO!
Slightly off-topic, but I've never fully understood the ire directed towards the movie of V for Vendetta. It wasn't a great film by any stretch, but it did a pretty good job of adapting the GN.
I'm not sure what they left out that they could've included, really - Finch's LSD trip notwithstanding. And all the stuff they changed - the Benny Hill skit, the masks being shipped to everyone, etc - were (I thought) rather neat (if oh-so-Hollywood) solutions to the parts of the GN that were either outdated or non-filmic.
Shame about the bullet-time knife chucking, but still.
loved the gn, is the film worth seeing?
The Thing - Great film.
On TV you could do a 24 style show with them trying to figure out whos the thing, whos had their head ripped off, etc until the rescue arrives and theyre all dead.
Cue series 2.
Watchmen
I also enjoyed the film, I just think a tv series would have allowed more room for the stuff to breath. Not a great big American style series, just a nice mini series.
I love V for Vendetta as it is whist a little fantastic plot wise some of the best work Moore has ever done
I heard all the Moore Hard core loonies bitch like whining children about it and all the other Moore films that have been made (as they cant just bitch about one)
And I heard all the people who liked it say "no really cool modernisation of the story blah blah blah"
So I though "Bollox to the lot of them I will keep an open mind and figure it out for my self"
So I refused to take to any one about it and waited till I got the DVD and sat down with a nice round of cheese on toast and a blinding cup of cwoffee
After 20 minuets of watching it I turned it off in utter disgust. I was actually angry. I vowed that to not ever dismiss Alan Moore as a very talented but moody flake but forever regard him as some one who REALLY understands comics (this was supported by his interview in THE END IS NIGH")
I also realise that the Wachowski Bros made such a good movie as the Matrix BY COMPLETE BLOODY FLUKE!
V for Vendetta. The Movie
Utter, UTTER, shite.
If V is utter utter shite where does 'Daddy Day Camp' fit in to the scheme of things?
If you watch V as a standalone action thriller you can't be disappointed. If however you have way too much invested in the graphic novel it'll never meet your expectations.
I really like the GN and thought the film was excellent. But we have been over this before.
Back on topic,'Holiday on the Buses' was great why no TV spin off with further holiday park themed sexual harassment?
The first OTB film was indescribably horrific.
Well, I'm happy to admit that I thoroughly enjoyed V for Vendetta The Movie. It wasn't a classic, but was a sight better than Equilibrium. Cut me down if you will, but I've never read the comic and it seemed like the parts of the film that didn't work (specifically V's dialogue) were probably the most faithful bits.
Oh, sorry, the topic!
The Naked Gun would make a pretty good series.
The Naked Gun would make a pretty good series.
That would be Police Squad.
"Cut me down if you will, but I've never read the comic and it seemed like the parts of the film that didn't work (specifically V's dialogue) were probably the most faithful bits."
Actually, it's the opposite, most of V's dialogue, especially the opening V monologue, were all creations by the Wachowskis. You're right the dialogue is pants and the opening V monologue actually destroyed V for most of the audience because the Wachowskis felt like showing off how many words they could fit in beginning with V. The intro of V in the comic is much better and actually more visual and cinematically adaptable. I mean since "film" works more exclusively as a visual medium, why did they make it more wordy than the actual book?
Don't get me started on the rest of that film's laziness.
There is now a sequel to Daddy Day Care, imaginatively titled Daddy Day Camp, and it has Cuba Gooding Jr. This is possibly an even bigger step down for CGJ than that one where he goes on a gay cruise.
Zodiac would have been better as a TV series as the film was so boring.
Also Mr Nanny with Hulk travelling from family to family on Knightboat.
I'm with Spurrier on the 'V' movie - it was a fine adaption of the GN and nothing for Moore to get upset about, I thought.
Back to the original post; do you mean films that would have been better off being TV series or films that were good and which would also make good tv series?
If it's the latter, I would say The Godfather (although I gather Sopranos was very good), and...ummm, can't think of any others right now.
The Dredd movie, whilst awful, would make a fine TV series
"If it's the latter, I would say The Godfather (although I gather Sopranos was very good), and...ummm, can't think of any others right now. "
Floyd I don't know if you're aware of this but when the BBC used to show Godfather 1 & 2 they would split them up into chunks and cut them into chronological order, it was like a mini series. This is how I first saw these as a teenager. It worked really well IMO.
there was also many extra scenes shot that were put into the BBC minseries version of the G'father that weren't in the movies. I'm surprised this version hasn't been releasd on DVD.
not a film,but "the walking dead" comics would make a smashing series.Somewhat in line with your idea but with no taxi.
Judge Dredd was a film and should have ben made into series. Perhaps better backdropping, dialoge and actors though.
'Enter the Dragon' Maybe another lee to carry the family tradition or perhaps that's nopt such wise idea considering what's happened to father and son.
'Lethal Weapon'
'Alien/s' For example The Alines have reached Earth and are slowing doing what they do best.
'Predator'
'Aliens Vs the Predator'
'The Dark Crystal'
'DragonSlayer' That old Walt disney movie with Biscuit from the 'Ally Macbeal' television show.
Apart from that I can only think of televsion series that should have been made into movies.
'Happy Days'
'Mork and Mindy'
'Xena and Hercules'
"You're right the dialogue is pants and the opening V monologue actually destroyed V for most of the audience because the Wachowskis felt like showing off how many words they could fit in beginning with V"
Like i said: "After 20 minuets of watching it I turned it off in utter disgust."
I thought V was great. Strange thing with Alan Moore's stuff is that by the time I reach it it has been hyped so much that I don't enjoy it. I think I enjoyed the V film more than the original. I'm also not a big fan of Watchmen. I probably enjoyed the mess that was the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen film more than the novel. While not Moore, this was also the case for A History of Violence. In fact, I'm amazed that got made into a film.
However From Hell the book is fantastic (but the film's so-so).
Someone lent me Top Ten last year and I found it thoroughly entertaining. Let's see them make that into a film.
Speaking of the work of Wachowskis Brothers, has anybody mentioned making the 'Enter the Matrix' into a series.
Not a film, but a comic - Y The Last Man would make a great TV series; the last man on earth trying to get to Australia to find his girlfriend whilst keeping his identity secret from female foreign agents?
It SO wants to be made into a series like The Incredible Hulk, Kung Fu, Planet of the Apes, and any other 70s/80s wandering nomad show you can think of
Comic wise,The Walking Dead would be a far better TV series than film. The whole point of it is that it's what happens next, after the zombie film ends. I'd pay good money to see that. Or download it for nowt.
I'd second Watchmen as a TV series, but it would quite probably loose out to the more contemporary 'Heroes'.
If'n we're on to comics as TV series, Sandman Mystery Theatre would be brilliant.
Back to films, though, I think that many book adaptations would work better on TV than on film. The Harry Potter films would have been better off done this way, though LotR suited it's film format, just because of it's epic scale.
I'll agree Y Lat Man would make a top series, you could have a babe of the week each week. Dune would make a good series but they've already done that(both with the Lynch film split into a mini series of three parts I think for UK T.V. and the newer MIni-series)
There are more than enough Aliens books to do a decent series(as long as its ignores movie 4).
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Y The Last Man seconded.
..though I'm not entirely sure about the "Babe Of The Week" concept.
It just conjures up a mental image of slow-mo interludes with scant-clad women bounding through *insert location here* a la Baywatch.
Well you've sold it to me.
Even if it was set in Lutterworth? :s
bingo, um thats just what I was thinking with the whole babe of the week thing would p[lay out, it'll get the average non-comic reading geek in, you know the ones that actually think Starbuck is hot :)
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