Follow Friday #88 – TV Show or Movie?

Posted 22 August, 2014 by Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms in Feature and Follow, Memes / 31 Comments

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Feature and Follow #88 – TV Show or Movie?

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What book / series do you feel would make a better TV show than movie?

Since I mostly stay away from movies based on books I love, I don’t really know… I love that Outlander is a TV show, though, mostly because those books are so long a movie could never, ever do them justice! So I guess my actual answer is any series where the books are over 550 pages should rather be TV shows than movies.

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31 responses to “Follow Friday #88 – TV Show or Movie?

  1. I haven’t read the Outlander books, nor have I watched more than the first episode (I don’t have Starz, hoping it will come to Netflix). But with long books, I agree that that TV shows are the way to go, because you can get 12-13 hours in a season, versus 2-3 hours in a movie. Once again, I haven’t read the Game of Thrones books, but I have seen those shows and I can’t imagine trying to tell that story in a movie. Great post.

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    • I have read all the Outlander books that have already been released, and I finally was able to watch the first episode of the show last weekend. I loved it! Even if at first I thought: ‘those people are NOT Jamie and Claire…’ I quickly changed my mind, and I loved how close to the books it was 🙂
      I haven’t read Game of Thrones, nor seen the show, but I have heard good things about both )

      Thanks for stopping by, Melanie.

  2. Yeah, it was hard for me to come up with an answer and I was like you pretty much anything that is two large to put all the good stuff into a two hour movie needs to be a TV show or as I said also a mini-series which to me is a longer movie..lol. I also think long running series would make for good TV shows like (Sookie Stackhouse series) 🙂

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    • I don’t watch much TV shows based on books, nor movies based on books… so I thought about what I’d ideally enjoyD
      Thanks for stopping by, Stormi!

  3. Ideally, readers would be in charge of movie adaptations. I feel like (more like know) that studios are not really looking to stay true to the books, but are looking to make money. *sigh* It is a sad truth. Have a lovely weekend.
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    • I actually don’t think readers would even agree on things, starting with which actors should play what parts 🙂 But in an ideal world, the content should be in agreement with what readers though 🙂

      Thanks for stopping by, Alicia! Have a wonderful weekend, too.

    • Oh yes! Morganville 🙂 I would love to see that on the screen, actually. I love the characters in this series so much.
      Oh, and Fever… *sighs* Barrons!!
      Thanks for stopping by Kirsty 🙂

    • Yes, I’ve watched the first episode, Brandee, and I was a very happy viewer 😀 As you know, I’m a huge fan of the Outlander series, but those books could never be transformed into a single movie per book – too many pages/characters/timelines etc…
      Thanks for stopping by, my dear *BIG HUGS*

    • That’s it, exactly. And if I love a book, I want all of its awesomeness on screen 🙂
      Thanks for stopping by, Jennifer.

    • I guess they wanted to make a Hobbit movie because the LotR was such a huge success…
      Thanks for stopping by, Kate.

  4. Hi, I’m a new GFC follower and it’s my first time participating in FF. I agree that longer books would be better as TV shows. Some of the movies just feel rushed and they cut so much out.

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