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Post by lune7000 on Nov 4, 2022 22:03:05 GMT
I've been going back and forth on this for a while
What's good about movies:
Story has more options to end in different ways- main characters can be killed or change radically
There is a sense of completion at the end- a story has been told
More effort/expense can be generally allotted to FX/music/casting etc.
What's good about TV series:
More time can be devoted to developing a complex set of characters and cast- less rushed
Continuous storylines allow extended plots that arc over many episodes/years
Allows for long term bonding with characters due to the volume of hours spent watching them
In general, the good points of one medium tend to be the bad points of the other. An ideal balance sometimes happens when a hybrid TV series is created that has a planned ending from its inception (ex: Breaking Bad) but this doesn't happen often. Also, movies that continually get sequels that continue the story fit into the hybrid model (Ex: Lucas Star Wars films)
What say you?
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Post by Isapop on Nov 4, 2022 22:23:06 GMT
There was a time, decades past, when it would have been no contest - movies better. But since writers don't have the TV censors to worry about anymore and they have the freedom to create stories having as many (or as few) episodes as their story requires, the best writers are willing to work in TV. That will attract top quality directors and actors to the medium.
So, I'd say that TV has caught up. And I wouldn't proclaim one better than the other.
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Post by marshamae on Nov 5, 2022 1:28:21 GMT
There are a few TV shows that started as movies but far surpassed the film.
One is the Odd Couple. I know Lemmon and Matthau were lauded and I enjoyed the film. However I always found Lemmon’s Felix annoying rather than funny. When Tony Randall and Jack Klugman took on Felix and Oscar, Randall maintained Felix’s standing as an Olympic quality neurotic, but found a way to make him funnier, easier to live with. Since the relationship had to last longer than 2 hours this was a good thing.
The other TV show I found much better than the film was MASH. Here the difference was not the acting, but the writing. Again l I enjoyed the film but the character of Frank Burns was troubling. He was a hypocrite, and insensitive, but his main sin was that he was a Christian. . Again the long run of the tv show required a butt of the jokes that would not burn out so fast. Making him nerdy and a bad surgeon made him a much more acceptable patsy. Same thing with Hot Lips. In the tv show there was more room to fill out her character and make her rigidity more understandable.
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Post by Feologild Oakes on Nov 5, 2022 1:48:19 GMT
I have always preferred tv shows over movies, so for me tv shows.
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Post by Captain Spencer on Nov 5, 2022 2:42:21 GMT
There was a time, decades past, when it would have been no contest - movies better. But since writers don't have the TV censors to worry about anymore and they have the freedom to create stories having as many (or as few) episodes as their story requires, the best writers are willing to work in TV. That will attract top quality directors and actors to the medium. So, I'd say that TV has caught up. And I wouldn't proclaim one better than the other. I agree. There was a time when I would have picked movies over TV easily, but during these past ten years or so I find that TV is delivering better entertainment value.
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Post by lune7000 on Nov 5, 2022 18:20:13 GMT
I have also been leaning to TV the last decade. I think the more time devoted to a set of characters allows the writers to really get to know those characters and develop good depth. Movies just don't allow enough time for extended character development.
Movies are a gamble, if a movie bombs then the studio loses a lot of money. Theaters have fixed expenses and want something guaranteed to generate revenue. The result is that most movies are made according to a strict plot formula that is all too predictable. Last week I watched about 20 films put out in the last 3 years and they were, for the most part, very formula and boring.
I think movies have worked the formula plots so often that they have a low chance of creating anything interesting now. Its seems like a dying genre that is trapped by its own economic model.
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Post by Nick91 on Nov 9, 2022 13:37:30 GMT
I wonder why film serials (the closest thing you got to TV series before the 1950s) didn't really become popular during the Golden Age of Hollywood. I guess budget was one major reason, but there was so much potential in captivating audiences with interesting stories, characters, and cliffhangers. It would have led to a big and loyal audience. Instead, we got those boring low-budget Westerns.
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