Rated PG.
― shivers me timber (sic), Thursday, 14 January 2021 01:51 (three years ago) link
Folks were hardier back then.
― "what are you DOING to fleetwood mac??" (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 14 January 2021 02:03 (three years ago) link
They toned things down for the sequel, presumably to make it more accessible.
https://i.imgur.com/kCxA1ik.jpeg
― shivers me timber (sic), Thursday, 14 January 2021 03:03 (three years ago) link
(The Daring Dobermans, 1973)
― shivers me timber (sic), Thursday, 14 January 2021 03:04 (three years ago) link
tbqh i was not really expecting the dobermans to be running for office
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 14 January 2021 12:58 (three years ago) link
maybe they do that in the first one
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51pszbJ-KTL._AC_.jpg
― Two Meter Peter (Ste), Thursday, 14 January 2021 13:29 (three years ago) link
In 1976, one of two posters leaned away from both (human) caricature and carnage, in order to focus more heavily on amazing doberman action.
https://i.imgur.com/d0B86qh.jpeg
https://i.imgur.com/vU4TDmN.jpeg
Evidently this didn't work, as they re-released it two years later under a new title that disregarded dogs completely.
― shivers me timber (sic), Thursday, 14 January 2021 18:15 (three years ago) link
These doberman movies are fucking me up. It was doberman mania in the 70s I guess.
― Boring United Methodist Church (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, 14 January 2021 18:19 (three years ago) link
there was a tv movie sequel as well!
― visiting, Thursday, 14 January 2021 19:01 (three years ago) link
oddly this franchise never quite seemed to win over americans' hearts like Benji.
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 14 January 2021 19:08 (three years ago) link
four flicks ain't bad tbh
plus from C.H.O.M.P.S upthread
'(Joe) Barbera recalled that (Z.) Arkoff's son Louis suggested that rather than a Doberman, the dog would have to be a non-threatening dog in the Benji mold. Barbera attributes this change in focus in the story to the film's lackluster performance at the box office. In his autobiography, Barbera wrote that the film "did okay... but it never made the splash it should have." Because of this, the future film deals between Hanna-Barbera and AIP were canceled.'Also from wikipedia, it was originally released as a PG film in American summer, then edited for dog profanity and reissued as a G at Christmas.
Also from wikipedia, it was originally released as a PG film in American summer, then edited for dog profanity and reissued as a G at Christmas.
― shivers me timber (sic), Thursday, 14 January 2021 19:11 (three years ago) link
No way am I not taking that new-DN bait.
― dog profanity (cryptosicko), Thursday, 14 January 2021 19:13 (three years ago) link
Better still...
― edited for dog profanity (cryptosicko), Thursday, 14 January 2021 19:14 (three years ago) link
Ok, I'm in.
https://i.imgur.com/JoXN3QL.jpg
― pplains, Thursday, 14 January 2021 19:23 (three years ago) link
The dogs look much friendlier there than on the posters
― shivers me timber (sic), Thursday, 14 January 2021 20:08 (three years ago) link
Fred Astaire: can't sing, can't act, can dance a little hold on to three dobermans.
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Thursday, 14 January 2021 20:17 (three years ago) link
does anybody remember laughter?
https://i.imgur.com/5JQ4JMp.jpg
Please Sir!, 1971
(full movie)
https://i.imgur.com/gQffGxE.jpg
Father, Dear Father, 1973
https://i.imgur.com/uhF4tAa.jpg
Love Thy Neighbour, 1973
― shivers me timber (sic), Thursday, 14 January 2021 20:39 (three years ago) link
before we leave Dobermania behind, i just want to note my disapproval of the spelling on the blurb for The Daring Dobermans, declaring "the hip-est heist in history."
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 14 January 2021 21:20 (three years ago) link
sorry Doc, get on the bus or get left behind!!
https://i.imgur.com/3Wi8p6H.jpg
On The Buses, 1971
https://i.imgur.com/iwT3xvU.jpg
Mutiny On The Buses, 1972
https://i.imgur.com/5nCsS9n.jpg
Holiday On The Buses, 1973. Great variation on the theme here tbh.
― shivers me timber (sic), Thursday, 14 January 2021 22:41 (three years ago) link
The artist clearly used the same photo ref for Blakey on both caricatures. Also, bring back age ratings as genial as that on Mutiny imo.
NB that the first On The Buses film was cracked out in between a 13-episode Series 4 and a 15-episode Series 5, in 13 months. The two creator/writer/producers finally got a bit peaked and had another pair write the last two episodes. The next series started seven weeks later and ran seven eps, all written by those guests and another two-man team; the second film was out two months after that, less than a year after the first. 35 eps and two hit feature films in twenty months total. (Probably twenty laughs total across the lot of 'em.)
while we're riding, here's a clearer version of The Big Bus than previously posted itt
― shivers me timber (sic), Thursday, 14 January 2021 22:45 (three years ago) link
https://i2.wp.com/moviesandmania.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/rottweiler-dogs-of-hell-1982-greek-vhs-cover.jpg?resize=308%2C505&ssl=1
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 14 January 2021 22:50 (three years ago) link
Wow, between the doberman and bus cinematic universes this has been a banner day for you, sic, and for this thread.
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 15 January 2021 01:59 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z82WA-Xk408
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Friday, 15 January 2021 04:12 (three years ago) link
Now that's what I call a DOG Day Afternoon!
― pplains, Friday, 15 January 2021 14:18 (three years ago) link
Rising Damp: The Movie (1980)https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/aa/%22Rising_Damp%22_%28film%29.jpg
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Friday, 15 January 2021 15:08 (three years ago) link
Porridge (1979)https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/716J11VLyqL._AC_SL1500_.jpg
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Friday, 15 January 2021 15:10 (three years ago) link
wow can't believe both those can't miss titles had never been used before - obvious box-office magnets both
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 15 January 2021 15:37 (three years ago) link
I am all for a thread on the shitty, pointless movie versions of classic British sitcoms tbh. Were there any that were any good? Not sure I can face Rising Damp without Richard Beckinsale, and I'm sure all suffer for the lack of a laugh track.
― Ray Cooney as "Crotch" (stevie), Friday, 15 January 2021 15:46 (three years ago) link
Would rep for the Porridge movie, was on just before Christmas and despite it’s extended length didn’t waste any of it.
Can’t say I’ve seen Rising Damp, but yes, no Beckinsale must affec5 it.
― Dan Worsley, Friday, 15 January 2021 15:52 (three years ago) link
The Ritz is kinda... good? many xps
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Friday, 15 January 2021 15:53 (three years ago) link
Don’t want to derail thread, but this may be of interest https://www2.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/news-bfi/features/great-british-cinematic-sitcom
― Dan Worsley, Friday, 15 January 2021 15:56 (three years ago) link
mutiny on the buses poster has strong cover connection vibes with this:https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/90/Miles_Davis_On_The_Corner.jpg
both came out in 1972 with the miles record a few months after the film
― joygoat, Friday, 15 January 2021 18:28 (three years ago) link
Porridge movie is totally up to par iirc (from one TV watch in the 80s): directed by Clement as well as being written (like all the episodes) by Clement & La Frenais. Also, curiously, is a mid-quel: came out in 1979, over a year after the Porridge TV sequel Going Straight, and jumps back to Fletch in prison, set in 1976 - the series had only aired a Christmas special that year.
always love Doc Casino being bemused that these adaptations of sitcoms were successful despite using the title and stars of the sitcoms :)
but FPing snoball for using some shitty sub-sub-Tom-Sharpe-paperback 21st century DVD cover.
https://i.imgur.com/JZ8KhDM.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/0eJ2n7n.jpg
especially when this double-feature existed:
https://i.imgur.com/x6EXkEH.jpg
― shivers me timber (sic), Friday, 15 January 2021 20:33 (three years ago) link
The yellow poster appears to be a Canadian distributor's attempt to lol-up the grimy shot-in-a-real-prison vibe btw
― shivers me timber (sic), Friday, 15 January 2021 20:37 (three years ago) link
another vote from me for the Porridge movie. Can't say I ever caught the Rising Damp one though.
― Two Meter Peter (Ste), Friday, 15 January 2021 20:43 (three years ago) link
https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/583c906ebe659429d1106265/1610144103944-JGYO5C723KRFWUNO8D6B/ke17ZwdGBToddI8pDm48kEnSoHYDKc1Vb9Qqmmey2VkUqsxRUqqbr1mOJYKfIPR7LoDQ9mXPOjoJoqy81S2I8GRo6ASst2s6pLvNAu_PZdJA-hHPFKvWHM3688Ee3tjINDaQYaMWp0yx7wQKbhGMduisrcZzh-9kib3P9MhVpjo/tumblr_o70xc35BsJ1tqyfuro1_1280.jpg?format=750w
Sheena Queen of the Jungle, 1985
(RIP Tanya Roberts)
― edited for dog profanity (cryptosicko), Friday, 15 January 2021 21:37 (three years ago) link
ty for link Dan W - Not only structurally but also economically, the sitcom is a format that, despite a few notable American examples, rarely translates.
idk if I can think of any US sitcom conversions at all, let alone successful ones (not counting parodies or reboots like Brady Bunch or Addams Fam. wait! The Nude Bomb, which sucks.) I have already been trying to imagine an Inbetweeners movie poster with painted big heads / tiny bodies, but had forgotten it was at the tail end of a renewed boom in sitcom flicks post-Bean.
the Miles cover actually connects to the Love Thy Neighbour cover better imo. white women restrain their friend's husbands from punching their own husband over being called a "nig-nog" like this.
― shivers me timber (sic), Saturday, 16 January 2021 09:21 (three years ago) link
idk if I can think of any US sitcom conversions at all, let alone successful ones
https://www.monkeeslivealmanac.com/uploads/7/8/9/5/7895731/criterionposter2_orig.jpg
― "what are you DOING to fleetwood mac??" (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 16 January 2021 15:47 (three years ago) link
The DVD cover / Canadian poster fits the 'busy/claustrophobic caricature style' of this thread better.
The Porridge movie is really good, mainly because it's written by Clement & La Frenais as more or less an extended episode of the TV series, nearly all the regular cast reprise their roles, and they're all on top form.
The Rising Damp movie is shit. It's worse than the Steptoe & Son movies. Actually I think it might be even worse than the Are You Being Served? movie (which I saw one rainy holiday afternoon on TV in the 80s).
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Saturday, 16 January 2021 15:59 (three years ago) link
XP
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61TFLwp5PgL._AC_.jpg
― "what are you DOING to fleetwood mac??" (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 16 January 2021 16:21 (three years ago) link
Thought about Batman (great movie conversion, not a sitcom rly), Monkees might count - are there settings or premises that exist in both, though?
― shivers me timber (sic), Saturday, 16 January 2021 19:44 (three years ago) link
The Steptoe And Son movie posters are a bit caricaturey and busy, and by the last one here are adopting that bobblehead/chibi style to fit in with their peers. (1972, 1973)
https://i.imgur.com/31nUvN0.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/W1JH8gs.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/ftGk9CD.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/L0p5ipP.jpg
― shivers me timber (sic), Saturday, 16 January 2021 19:54 (three years ago) link
Although it turns out an early Galton/Simpson might have invented both that and the "photo-head-on-cartoon-body" variant of other Britsitflicks, as seen here and then further modifed here
― shivers me timber (sic), Saturday, 16 January 2021 20:28 (three years ago) link
Not fitting any of these patterns, but worth being bemused by their design choices: the two Death Us big-screeners.
― shivers me timber (sic), Saturday, 16 January 2021 21:11 (three years ago) link
HEAD, being an acid film, is likely fairly unique among tv to movie adaptations in basically all respects. nothing really to do with the in-universe premise of their show but everything to do with the real-world premise of making the show. and if it has a plot, it's an allegory for them making the movie and escaping the show.
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 17 January 2021 04:27 (three years ago) link
i mean maybe true of "Rising Damp" as well, haven't seen it
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 17 January 2021 04:28 (three years ago) link
Is it just a combo of printing quality and jpg compression, or does it look like this Galton/Simpson joint was repainted for different territories?
https://i.imgur.com/X6BvqBb.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/heKLBhQ.jpg https://i.imgur.com/Aqo0ikt.jpg
The Spy with a Cold Nose, 1966
― shivers me timber (sic), Sunday, 17 January 2021 07:44 (three years ago) link
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BY2MxNjI1MzMtMjE1NS00NmQ5LTg5YTctOGFiNDFhODM2ZDBjXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMzU0NzkwMDg@._V1_FMjpg_UX1000_.jpg
The Wrong Guys (1988)
― visiting, Monday, 18 January 2021 18:08 (three years ago) link
the movie that had to be made
― Ray Cooney as "Crotch" (stevie), Monday, 18 January 2021 18:27 (three years ago) link