A boy’s best friend is his mother. Mother – what’s the phrase? She isn’t quite herself today

Ok another item delivered to the post office and I’m doing blogs and things like that…not exactly exciting but it keeps m out of trouble for a minute or two at least. Allergies crazy this time of year–One of those few people that like President Obama and Michelle Obama is such a beautiful first lady. How did you like the Mad Max rant yesterday. Can somebody but stupid spammers send me a comment am so tired of those stupid people.

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IT’S TERRIABLE when your only salvation is the Devil himself. Outlander has only one show and that is to be on 5/30……then it’s back to a count down to the next season. no Wentworth is here.

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Yesterday I looked at remakes and the reason for same in moviedom—today I’m looking at an even worse remake medium–TV.

I’m sorry but taking a movie about a sick mother and son relationship and making it into a pre-quell (which technically isn’t a remake but since this is my blog and I’m making the rules it’s close enough) still doesn’t save it from being just weird (and not in the same way —as in it’s worth watching–as Hitch’s classic Psycho which showed you could have a good thriller with no actual scenes of carnage). TV has long been with it’s lesser budgets and shorter shooting times etc. a poor attempt to imitate it’s betters. Some of this has shown some changes and improvements with the pay-for-view original offerings, this unfortunately isn’t one of them and poor Mrs. Bates must be turning over in her grave—they did take her out of the chair didn’t they?

There was also a made for TV movie spin off in 1987. Also Anthony Perkins also did two more Psycho movies (theater), and needless to say none of them were worth the effort or the viewings.

There have been a lot of why even bother Beyond WestWorld—from a movie that wasn’t really worth the effort.

and of course the ones where they add “the series” as if the TV audience can’t tell the difference from hoo-hum TV and a really hot movie Blade (there were 3 blades of which I liked the first and 3rd better than 2nd). It always amazes me that they take a movie like this and try to put it into the restrictions of TV censoring, though this is not so severe as it use to be and currently you have the cable options like Starz and Home Box Office movie making which gives you almost a free rein. Grief Outlander just did full frontal male nudity the other night. And violence if not required is certainly a plus. But this movie vampire (well half at least) just didn’t make it so well on the little boob tube.

And the classic remake of Casablanca, or in the case of this 1983 series, a prequel (TV loves prequels doesn’t it.) This actually the 2nd time the film was attempted on TV:

This being the first. As in the case of Psycho remakes and/or prequels we continue to beat the horse, expecting first rate results from a script that doesn’t lend well to prequels and/or lower budgets as well as lesser sets and less talented actors or at least more appropriate, not to mention the publics expectations of the piece and their forever having certain actors or at least types in their minds for the rolls (i.e. Boggie) making failure almost a foregone conclusion.

Fargo was not a big budget movie and while it was quite good I don’t think you have any of the fan base and expectation that you’d find in some of the previous movies or the character identification either so while I question the need to remake ad nauseum I think this one actually makes more sense.

I note London Burning as it started as a made for TV movie remake and was so popular it went on to be a TV series. How’s that for covering all the bases.

Interestingly enough more movies have came to TV as an animated feature than those that have been remade live-action. Of note here is Police Academy that not only did an animated feature based on the movie, but also a live action TV show to cover all the bases.

Then there’s the TV shows to movie route—the most classic is Star Trek which only lasted a few years on the little screen but then went on to do several movies for the Theater —their spin off also made a movie for the cinema. Now we’re on a new generation of movies with a new cast and new stars reprising the roles…this is to my knowledge unprecedented and an amazing story of Hollywood making a decision and the fans changing it all with their loyal adherence to the show that they wouldn’t let die.

Other movies with multiple spin off movies but not the same cast as the TV show (unlike Star Trek movies which kept the same cast as the TV show) included The A Team (1), 21 Jump Street (2), as well as The Adams Family (3)

I list Batman under Other–while there was a TV show there also were cartoons, radio and other media that carried this duo long before they appeared on TV so I don’t think spin off or based on counts in their case.

The movie that became its own thing. The 3 women and Boz with their mysterious Charlie became a thing when on TV and were ever so much more so on the movie (2) circuit again with a new cast. The names and themes have become part of our fables.

I blame Dark Shadows for giving us the abundance of vampire books, movies and on and on—that we have today—he was the first “good” vampire–a sad, victim of fate that lives forever and is dark, dangerous and utterly desirable. There were two movies made by the crew of the show and most recently the Johnny Depp version which, while using the same characters, has little or nothing to do with the original show’s theme itself but is rather another wonderful vehicle for Depp’s insane talent.

While a lot of TV Cartoons went to movies (with the original cast) one that stand out is Dudley Do-Right who on TV was a dumb Mountie, but went on to the movies with a very live (and equally dumb only in this movie, well and kinda Tarzan–but smart in the mummy trio) Brandon Fraser and cast. A good example of how silly real actors can be if given a chance.

While I use to watch The Fugitive it was no match for the movie with Harrison Ford as Richard Kimble and the show stealer Tommy Lee Jones as the US Marshal (who went on to do a second movie with this character and without Dr. Kimble) who was hunting him down. The movie, while keeping the frame work of the original show, went on to make a wonderfully plotted and fresh story line. I think this is one of the best of the TV to movie genre.

One must assume that the reason that we do these remakes is for the same reason that we remake movies–the presence of an existing script or at least story idea which is a bird in the hand and a very great reduced budget…then there exists a ready made market–those of us who watched some of these shows, sometime from our youth, made great audiences to watch one or even multiple sequences by pre-programing if nothing else. They were good enough for us then and we’ll watch them now.

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