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By *ensuallover1000 OP Man
over a year ago

Somewhere In The Ether…

Good folks: Following on from the Luther film thread - the finalised result which clearly divided opinion, can you give me examples of TV series which in your opinion, when given the full length feature film treatment, have been good and conversely, those which have been bad?

To start you off, here’s two examples: Downtown Abbey - I felt that this made the leap to the big screen effortlessly with two brilliant films.

Unfortunately, despite my love of the series, I felt that The X Files films were decidedly underwhelming affairs however (the second one was particularly terrible in fact!)

Over to you now

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By *aitonelMan
over a year ago

Away for Christmas

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By *aitonelMan
over a year ago

Away for Christmas

Firefly - Serenity is good

Now, as for bad. That depends really because so few are actually movies and more like extended episodes. I shall ponder this.

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By *rHotNottsMan
over a year ago

Dubai & Nottingham

Original twin peaks far better than the silly film

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Mission Impossible.

An undeniable success with the transition from TV to cinema.

In my opinion the latter in the series (rogue nation and fallout) are some of the best action films ever made.

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By *ealitybitesMan
over a year ago

Belfast

Crossroads was a pretty crap soap but the movie version with Ralph Macchio was much better with a better soundtrack.

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By *eliWoman
over a year ago

"Firefly - Serenity is good

Now, as for bad. That depends really because so few are actually movies and more like extended episodes. I shall ponder this. "

Serenity is fantastic! Very well written, feels like a suitable continuation without being an extended episode if that makes sense? Not the biggest fan of extended episodes.

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By *ackformore100Man
over a year ago

Tin town

"Good folks: Following on from the Luther film thread - the finalised result which clearly divided opinion, can you give me examples of TV series which in your opinion, when given the full length feature film treatment, have been good and conversely, those which have been bad?

To start you off, here’s two examples: Downtown Abbey - I felt that this made the leap to the big screen effortlessly with two brilliant films.

Unfortunately, despite my love of the series, I felt that The X Files films were decidedly underwhelming affairs however (the second one was particularly terrible in fact!)

Over to you now

Sweeney was pretty good.

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By *ensuallover1000 OP Man
over a year ago

Somewhere In The Ether…

"Crossroads was a pretty crap soap but the movie version with Ralph Macchio was much better with a better soundtrack. "

He outplayed Steve Vai to!

Thank god you didn’t list the Britney Spears film by the same name….

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By *ackformore100Man
over a year ago

Tin town

Sherlock holmes were ok if a bit steven spielberg

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By *ackformore100Man
over a year ago

Tin town

All those superman spiderman batman ones... Some were good some were over long self indulgence

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By *ensuallover1000 OP Man
over a year ago

Somewhere In The Ether…

Three more examples in the ‘Bad’ camp: Bad Education, People Just Do Nothing and Absolutely Fabulous

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By *ebauchedDeviantsPt2Couple
over a year ago

Cumbria

On the Buses, Mutiny on the Buses, Holiday on the Buses.

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By *ackformore100Man
over a year ago

Tin town

Inbetweeners didn't fair so well

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By *aizyWoman
over a year ago

west midlands

Absolutely Fabulous was a truly terrible film.

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By *aitonelMan
over a year ago

Away for Christmas

"Inbetweeners didn't fair so well"

The first one did. Its loved by the vast majority of fans, even none fans.

The second... Not so much. But even then it wasn't terrible. It just went too big. Believed its hype and was sniffing it's own darts and getting praised as exceptional by yes men.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Three more examples in the ‘Bad’ camp: Bad Education, People Just Do Nothing and Absolutely Fabulous

My entires for the ‘should have been left on the small screen’ category are-

Masters of the universe

Starsky and Hutch

Baywatch

Inspector Gadget

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By *itvclaireTV/TS
over a year ago

Birmingham

To start you off, here’s two examples: Downtown Abbey - I felt that this made the leap to the big screen effortlessly with two brilliant films.

Unfortunately, despite my love of the series, I felt that The X Files films were decidedly underwhelming affairs however (the second one was particularly terrible in fact!)

Over to you now

Sweeney was pretty good. "

About to say the same

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By *ackformore100Man
over a year ago

Tin town

To start you off, here’s two examples: Downtown Abbey - I felt that this made the leap to the big screen effortlessly with two brilliant films.

Unfortunately, despite my love of the series, I felt that The X Files films were decidedly underwhelming affairs however (the second one was particularly terrible in fact!)

Over to you now

Sweeney was pretty good.

About to say the same

XX"

We're the sweeney son and we havent had any dinner

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By *ensuallover1000 OP Man
over a year ago

Somewhere In The Ether…

"Three more examples in the ‘Bad’ camp: Bad Education, People Just Do Nothing and Absolutely Fabulous

My entires for the ‘should have been left on the small screen’ category are-

Masters of the universe

Starsky and Hutch

Baywatch

Inspector Gadget

Oh god yes! Inspector Gadget was an especially, absolutely terrible big screen adaptation of the classic animated series

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By *ools and the brainCouple
over a year ago

couple, us we him her.

Mission impossible good.

Star Trek

Good.

The man from uncle absolutely shockingly bad.

Neighbours the movie

Good.

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By *ensuallover1000 OP Man
over a year ago

Somewhere In The Ether…

The Simpsons: Made for a fantastic film.

The Muppets: Generally superb films (bar one or two)

The Naked Gun films - from the series, Police Squad and again very good

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By *asterR and slut mayaMan
over a year ago

Bradford

Flintstones was a waste of time

Prefer the cartoon same goes for yogi bear .

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By *entlemanFoxMan
over a year ago

North East / London

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Sweeney was pretty good.

About to say the same

We're the sweeney son and we havent had any dinner"

Good films, the only misstep was the didn't use the theme tune.

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By *ensuallover1000 OP Man
over a year ago

Somewhere In The Ether…

The A Team…..oh dear

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By *ensuallover1000 OP Man
over a year ago

Somewhere In The Ether…

The Adams Family: Very good films.

Paddington: Absolutely superb big screen outings (especially the second one) starring everyone’s favourite marmalade chomping bear

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Porridge

Steptoe and son

Are you been served

Dads army

All good series turned to films

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By *ensuallover1000 OP Man
over a year ago

Somewhere In The Ether…

The Equaliser: Denzel Washington took up the mantle from the late, Edward Woodward in these highly satisfying actioners.

A third entry is on the way

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By *acktopervMan
over a year ago

Stourport-On-Severn

Probably showing my age here a little bit, but "Tinker Taylor Soldier Spy" was a big disappointment to me. I absolutely loved the original BBC series with Alec Guinness. He completely "owned" the part as George Smiley. I had very high hopes that Gay Oldman would also "own the part" in the 2011 film as well. The thing is though, he just did not convince me he "was" George Smiley. It was still avery good film...............but nothing compared to the original BBC series.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Firefly - Serenity is good

Now, as for bad. That depends really because so few are actually movies and more like extended episodes. I shall ponder this.

Serenity is fantastic! Very well written, feels like a suitable continuation without being an extended episode if that makes sense? Not the biggest fan of extended episodes. "

I don't believe there is a power in the verse that can stop Meli from being cheerful.

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