TV Shows That Were Better Than the Films They Were Based On

[cornemuse]

Miami Vice. The series is much better than the movie was. Better music too.

 

[BoredSysAdmin]

IT really demands a large screen - i've seen it on regular (pre-large-format) and meh. It also helps that whe I saw it in the theater, I was definitely in an "altered" state of consciousness...

Spice melange?

 

[BoredSysAdmin]

@afterlife2
Yes, This Movie is definitely on my Radarr
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Timothée Chalamet as Paul Atreides, Oscar Isaac as Duke Leto Atreides, and more.

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[John Parks]

Spice melange?

He who controls the spice controls the universe, dude!

 

[highfigh]

Highlander, the TV series beats the snot out of the movies, IMNSHO.

"I am a Spaniard"- Sean Connery, speaking in his normal voice........

 

[BoredSysAdmin]

He who controls the spice controls the universe, dude!

The spice must flow

 

[BoredSysAdmin]

"I am a Spaniard"- Sean Connery, speaking in his normal voice........

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[JerryLove]

Highlander, the TV series beats the snot out of the movies, IMNSHO.

Than the later Highlander movies at least. The original is a flawed classic.

 

[JerryLove]

The Clone Wars

 

[Stereo68]

while I loved the TV show MASH saying it was better than the movie, no way. The movie IS the reason the TV show took off IMO

Agree that the movie made the TV show possible, but I still think the show was better. The OP's comment about character development is one reason. Others are that the show had multiple dimensions, i.e. the movie, while raucously funny, was pretty much a pure anti-Army screed, while the TV show displayed the dual nature of the 4077 situation. Sure, there was Army silliness, but there was also competency and compassion in characters like Hot Lips and the two commanders, Henry Blake and Sherman Potter. In the movie, both Hot Lips and Blake were pretty much idiots. The real-life model for Henry Blake was regular Army, but he let the drafted surgeons have their fun because he both recognized and needed their skills. There was mutual respect. The TV production brought that out.