The unnecessary reboot/remake of the week thread

[DarrenTR1970]

I hated that Miami Vice movie compared to the tv show.

I remember going to see it in the theater with my brother for my birthday. I got so ill from the hand held camera work that I had to leave the auditorium 1/3 of the way into it and go to the bathroom and be sick. I've never seen the movie all the way through.

 

[Jayson1]

I liked the Miami Vice movie but didn't love it. It wasn't boring but not exactly something I ever feel a desire to re-watch. You know when it gets down to it I think my most favorite tv show to movies might be "The Brady Bunch " movies tied with the "Naked Gun" movies. Loved the comedy in those movies. Well not counting "Wrath of Khan" of course. I'm a Trekkie so it almost feels like cheating to list it.

 

[Aragorn]

TV shows based off movies lose the star power and the budget. Something like Minority Report or Training Day were doomed from the start.

 

[Jayson1]

Granted these days that doesn't have to be the case. Say what you will about the quality of the series bur Rings of Power on Amazon does have a budget that you would think help make the series at least look really good.

 

[wayoung]

I used to automatically write off tv shows based on movies as cheap, crappy cash grabs but then in the last fifteen years we got Fargo, 12 Monkeys, Bates Motel, Ash vs the Living Dead, Westworld, What We Do In The Shadows, The Exorcist...

 

[Set Harth]

I liked the Miami Vice movie but didn't love it. It wasn't boring but not exactly something I ever feel a desire to re-watch.

It won me over eventually once I got used to various things about it that bothered me at first, especially the cast.

 

[SithHappens]

Stargate SG1. Great show based on a movie.

 

[SithHappens]

Kids from fame was a good TV show from a movie too

 

[wayoung]

Stargate SG1. Great show based on a movie.

Yeah but that's from the 90's. Most of the 90's movie to tv shows were crappy cash ins. Stargate is an exception.

The 2010's most of the TV adaptations sounded terrible but then ended up being great (for at least a couple seasons). The cheap crappy cash ins were the exception

 

[Jayson1]

I actually liked the "Weird Science" tv show on the USA Network better than the movie.

 

[Kai "the spy"]

Buffy, the Vampire Slayer
The Odd Couple
The Real Ghostbusters
M*A*S*H
Alien Nation

 

[Jayson1]

Several Marvel and SW shows can make the list. Along with Peacemaker starring John Cena.

 

[Kai "the spy"]

Highlander
War of the Worlds (1988)
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
Daktari
The Dukes of Hazzard
Flipper
Lassie
The Life & Times of Grizzly Adams
The Magnificent Seven (1998)
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea

 

[Captaindemotion]

Baywatch reboot (how many is that now, including Baywatch Nights and the movie?) to air on Fox. https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/baywatch-reboot-fox-fremantle-1235871572/?

 

[Jayson1]

Waste of time. We don't need Baywatch to masturbate to anymore. We got the internet.

 

[UssGlenn]

The Dukes of Hazzard

Huh, I had no idea. Called "Moonrunners".

 

[Captaindemotion]

Huh, I had no idea. Called "Moonrunners".

This was the first I heard of it too. I always just assumed it was a general cash-in on the likes of Smokey and the Bandit, rather than a specific lift or whatever from any particular film.

 

[UssGlenn]

This was the first I heard of it too. I always just assumed it was a general cash-in on the likes of Smokey and the Bandit, rather than a specific lift or whatever from any particular film.

more loosely inspired than some of the others on the list, but still definite connective tissue.

 

[the G-man]

This was the first I heard of it too. I always just assumed it was a general cash-in on the likes of Smokey and the Bandit, rather than a specific lift or whatever from any particular film.

It was basically both. They needed a Smokey cash in and this existing property was there. Waylon played the same part in each. Theme song was definitely better in the Dukes version.

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[The Wormhole]

Waste of time. We don't need Baywatch to masturbate to anymore. We got the internet.

All that being true, I'll at least withhold an opinion until they announce casting.

Because reasons.