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Successful Movie Adaptation of TV Shows?

  • 29-05-2009 11:30am
    #1
    Fran Costello
    Closed Accounts Posts: 29 ✭


    I can only think of Police Squad - Naked Gun

    Any thoughts?

    The bad ones are too obvious...need to stay positive...


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  • #2
    grumpytrousers
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    Brady Bunch Movie. Slightly tongue in cheek, but very good.


  • #3
    matrim
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,518 ✭✭✭matrim


    Firefly to Serenity


  • #4
    plissken
    Closed Accounts Posts: 252 ✭✭plissken


    double post


  • #5
    redapple
    Closed Accounts Posts: 42 ✭redapple


    matrim wrote: »
    Firefly to Serenity

    Oh I loved both of them. Great watching


  • #6
    jor el
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,713 ✭✭✭✭jor el


    There haven't been many (successful), but Star Trek springs to mind, with two separate series spawning a series of quite successful movies.
    Fran Costello wrote: »
    The bad ones are too obvious...need to stay positive...

    This would be a much bigger, and better thread, if we allowed the bad ones. Aw :(


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  • #7
    Basq
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    Sacha Baron Cohen characters surely count..?

    Borat, Ali G, Bruno etc.


  • #8
    L31mr0d
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,067 ✭✭✭L31mr0d


    The Addams Family?

    S.W.A.T was also good imo.

    My personal favourite though is Dragnet with Dan Aykroyd

    EDIT: Found this http://www.ducksoftware.com/movies/tv.html


  • #9
    Orion
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,807 ✭✭✭✭Orion


    Didn't know the Untouchables was a series - great film.

    Blues Brothers - classic.

    The Simpsons Movie :D


  • #10
    Dexterm99
    Registered Users Posts: 330 ✭✭Dexterm99


    Porridge
    Steptoe and Son


  • #11
    mobius42
    Closed Accounts Posts: 909 ✭✭✭mobius42


    Fran Costello wrote: »
    I can only think of Police Squad - Naked Gun

    Those adaptations were so successful that most people aren't even aware that there was a TV show!


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  • #12
    TonyDub
    Registered Users Posts: 20 ✭TonyDub


    I kind of liked State of Play, though the BBC version was much better.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_of_Play_(film)


  • #13
    Mr.Nice Guy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 45,630 ✭✭✭✭Mr.Nice Guy


    The Mission Impossible movies were very successful. I also happen to like The Fugitive with Harrison Ford.


  • #14
    Leaderbored
    Closed Accounts Posts: 329 ✭✭Leaderbored


    Taking "successful" to mean critically or commercially acclaimed :


    Successful and Enjoyable:

    Beavis & Butt head do America
    Dad's Army
    The Muppet Movie
    MST3K
    Waynes World
    The Blues Brothers
    South Park
    Maverick (Just about scrapes in)

    Successful but not very good movies :

    Charlies angels
    Sex and the City
    Mr Bean
    Jackass
    The X Files movie
    Dukes of Hazzard
    The Flinstones
    Get Smart
    Inspector Gadget
    The Saint
    Scooby Doo


    Not "Successful" but quite good, in a "guilty pleasure" sort of way:

    Dragnet
    Twin Peaks Fire walk with me
    S.W.A.T.
    Josie & The pussycats
    The X Files - I want to believe
    I Spy
    Pennies from Heaven
    The Ladies man


    Not Successful, and rubbish:

    Mr Magoo
    Son of the Pink Panther
    The Mod Squad
    It's Pat
    Whoops Apocalypse
    Popye
    Wild Wild West
    Reno 911
    Sgt Bilko


  • #15
    JP Liz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,588 ✭✭✭JP Liz


    matrim wrote: »
    Firefly to Serenity

    one of the best ever


  • #16
    Elmo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,641 ✭✭✭✭Elmo


    JP Liz wrote: »
    one of the best ever

    Told to watch this by boards, total rubbish, I am sure the show is even worse :)

    I can be blunt when I want.


  • #17
    mobius42
    Closed Accounts Posts: 909 ✭✭✭mobius42


    Have to agree with you Elmo, I thought it was okay but totally over-rated.


  • #18
    enniscorthy
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    transformers simply wonderful 42 years of age and delighted to see them making the films cant wait for the next 1


  • #19
    Seperate
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 774 ✭✭✭Seperate


    Can we go the other way?

    The 'Friday Night Lights' movie was turned into a fantastic TV show.


  • #20
    callmescratch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 316 ✭✭callmescratch


    Leaderbored wrote: »
    MST3K

    MST3K doesn't really fit in here


  • #21
    Leaderbored
    Closed Accounts Posts: 329 ✭✭Leaderbored


    callmescratch wrote: »
    MST3K doesn't really fit in here

    As a movie adaptation of a TV show?

    Why not?


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  • #22
    JP Liz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,588 ✭✭✭JP Liz


    Sex and the City


  • #23
    soccymonster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,553 ✭✭✭soccymonster


    Ill prob get shot for this but hannah montana :P


  • #24
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    matrim wrote: »
    Firefly to Serenity

    Yep - without a shadow of a doubt.
    And I'm not just saying that because the cast are friends of the wife and I.


  • #25
    Dman001
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,534 ✭✭✭Dman001


    Elmo wrote: »
    Told to watch this by boards, total rubbish, I am sure the show is even worse :)

    I can be blunt when I want.
    Watched about 10 minutes of it and hated it. I have come to the conclusion that I hate any TV Show and movie with the word "Ship" in it or is based in a ship, like Star Wars, Star Trek, Stargate and of course Firefly/Serenity.


  • #26
    ziedth
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,081 ✭✭✭ziedth


    Dman001 wrote: »
    Watched about 10 minutes of it and hated it. I have come to the conclusion that I hate any TV Show and movie with the word "Ship" in it or is based in a ship, like Star Wars, Star Trek, Stargate and of course Firefly/Serenity.

    Or si-fi as its more commonly known as :)

    Try battlestar galactica, i only started watching pretty much due to posts here amd i thinkots deadly but very different in the first 8 episodes anyway from any other "ship" tv show.


  • #27
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    There was a Blues Brothers TV series? I never knew! Might check it out.


  • #28
    Dr Sinnott
    Closed Accounts Posts: 37 ✭Dr Sinnott


    The Fugitive was a great film.


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