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
but FPing snoball for using some shitty sub-sub-Tom-Sharpe-paperback 21st century DVD cover.
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
"Hey, can't wait for scouting to get a taste of the same medicine they gave the police and the army"
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BODVhNjIwMTItZjJhOC00NzE0LThmMTUtNTRhZWI4MmMxNDkwL2ltYWdlL2ltYWdlXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNzc5MjA3OA@@._V1_FMjpg_UX1000_.jpg
The Kinky Coaches and the Pom Pom Pussycats AKA Heartbreak High (1981)
― visiting, Monday, 18 January 2021 18:46 (three years ago) link
Wrong Guys is an impressively late entry, and also makes me wish Hard Ticket To Hawaii had one of these. (the Kinky Coaches have been here before, linking to the exact same file, to give credit to Grisso)
― shivers me timber (sic), Monday, 18 January 2021 22:23 (three years ago) link
One last (early) Galton/Simpson joint, with a different approach to busy and caricature, just because it's charming:
https://i.imgur.com/5SLnMB1.jpg
The Wrong Arm Of The Law, 1963
― shivers me timber (sic), Tuesday, 19 January 2021 09:34 (three years ago) link
whoops
the Kinky Coaches have been here before ... sorry, i usually search but i was sure i hadn't seen that one here before.
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BNDU3ZDQ0YWQtNGMzZS00MmE3LWJiMWEtMWM0ZTc2NjA2N2RkL2ltYWdlL2ltYWdlXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNzc5MjA3OA@@._V1_FMjpg_UX1000_.jpg
Gus (1976)
― visiting, Tuesday, 19 January 2021 13:38 (three years ago) link
there are more disney ones in this style... especially claustrophobic:
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BNjY3MTE1YzEtODI4My00NGI1LTk2Y2QtMTE1MjBmMjE0ZDMxXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNzc5MjA3OA@@._V1_FMjpg_UX1000_.jpg
The Horse in the Gray Flannel Suit (1968)
― visiting, Tuesday, 19 January 2021 13:45 (three years ago) link
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BZTBjYjliNmItZDk5My00MWZiLWFkYzMtOTI2MzVkMzA0MzE4XkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMDMxMjQwMw@@._V1_UY1200_CR62,0,630,1200_AL_.jpg
Irish Whiskey Rebellion, 1972
― "what are you DOING to fleetwood mac??" (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 19 January 2021 19:12 (three years ago) link
Sorry, horse in a grey flannel suit, I will only join in on a 60% fun-in
― shivers me timber (sic), Tuesday, 19 January 2021 20:04 (three years ago) link
https://dangerousminds.net/content/uploads/images/made/content/uploads/images/cinderella2000_465_690_int.jpg
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 20 January 2021 00:01 (three years ago) link
Style is naggingly familiar. Looks a bit like Fastner & Larson, with Ron Embleton's colour approach?
A couple of alternate posters here, at least one apparently by Gray Morrow:
http://weirdposters.blogspot.com/2008/04/cinderella-2000-1977-usa.html
― shivers me timber (sic), Wednesday, 20 January 2021 00:22 (three years ago) link
https://thumbs.worthpoint.com/zoom/images1/375/0810/26/night-robbed-big-berthas-pressbook-75_375_3e8054d98b78f2b5a377d4e0559428dc.jpg
The Night They Robbed Big Bertha's, 1975
― "what are you DOING to fleetwood mac??" (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 20 January 2021 03:32 (three years ago) link
Cinderella 2000 wasn't the only sexy Cinderella released in 1977
https://i.imgur.com/8c6pmIt.jpg
Cinderella (1977)
which, to avoid and/or create further confusion, was re-released as
https://i.imgur.com/egksOWQ.jpg
The Other Cinderella (1977)
― shivers me timber (sic), Wednesday, 20 January 2021 04:29 (three years ago) link
Cinderella of Sexness
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 20 January 2021 13:12 (three years ago) link
At the ball, the Prince indulges in a blindfolded orgy with every willing woman in his kingdom, but finds himself bored by them all until he encounters Cinderella's magical vagina. He falls instantly in love with her, but before he can learn her true identity, the clock strikes midnight, and the Fairy Godmother rushes Cinderella away with the full court in pursuit ("Oh, A Snapper!").The following day, the Prince must have sex with every woman in the land in order to identify his beloved. By the time he reaches Cinderella's house, he is so exhausted that he must be brought in on a stretcher, and Cinderella must approach him cowgirl style. Recognizing "the snapper," the Prince declares Cinderella to be the girl he loves, and the two depart for the palace.
The following day, the Prince must have sex with every woman in the land in order to identify his beloved. By the time he reaches Cinderella's house, he is so exhausted that he must be brought in on a stretcher, and Cinderella must approach him cowgirl style. Recognizing "the snapper," the Prince declares Cinderella to be the girl he loves, and the two depart for the palace.
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Wednesday, 20 January 2021 17:47 (three years ago) link
um spoilers much?!???!!
― shivers me timber (sic), Wednesday, 20 January 2021 18:29 (three years ago) link
my partner collects tapes and we're always on the lookout for these but mostly it's the same crap from the format's peak years in the late 90s. best chance sadly is really long-established video stores that never updated their stock doing going out of business sales. ive posted abt this before but I once got really wistful at one of these finding an ollld, pre-clamshell disney tape, think it was a herbie movie. yellowed cream background, always-yellow 70s font, still frame of the movie. what my childhood looked like.― Gorefest Frump (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, September 29, 2015 2:20 PM (five years ago)
― Gorefest Frump (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, September 29, 2015 2:20 PM (five years ago)
https://i.imgur.com/qGsM9M3.jpg
a herbie movie, 1968
― shivers me timber (sic), Wednesday, 20 January 2021 23:54 (three years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/ypydetB.jpg
This re-release poster for The Love Bug was less busy and made the claustrophobia more confusing
― shivers me timber (sic), Thursday, 21 January 2021 00:06 (three years ago) link
Betting that the punctuation was a late note to the designer here.
https://i.imgur.com/lP5tYJe.jpg
Herbie Rides Again, 1974
This seems to have had a whole series of non-caricature but delightful cartoony posters
― shivers me timber (sic), Thursday, 21 January 2021 19:59 (three years ago) link
https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0057/3728/3618/products/6e55ba84678ec20a0985e5fe4185162a_2f4d466d-1bbc-4bef-af0e-11ffcbd6cb62_480x.progressive.jpg?v=1573591502
What a cast
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 21 January 2021 20:04 (three years ago) link
Unfortunately, they are in a terrible movie
― shivers me timber (sic), Thursday, 21 January 2021 20:23 (three years ago) link
A movie that would be bad even if Peter Sellers wasn't in yellowface.
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Thursday, 21 January 2021 20:55 (three years ago) link
DID YOU KNOW
(because I didn't)
that the first two Herbies are from the same writer / director pairing as
https://i.imgur.com/HO4IapH.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/TVAh0mk.jpg https://i.imgur.com/3CZ2IUs.jpg
The Absent-Minded Professor, 1961
― shivers me timber (sic), Thursday, 21 January 2021 21:57 (three years ago) link
AND THAT Herbie Rides Again is a sequel to both that, and to The Love Bug, and to
https://i.imgur.com/iFGKT0B.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/ndvyouo.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/L0r5QEi.jpg
Son Of Flubber, 1963. Which was Disney's first sequel ever, and apparently also inaugurated a previously unheralded FLUBBER CINEMATIC UNIVERSE?
― shivers me timber (sic), Thursday, 21 January 2021 21:59 (three years ago) link
(same regular writer & director there too)
What the heck, have two more examples from the similarly expansive Son Of Flubber Poster Universe
― shivers me timber (sic), Thursday, 21 January 2021 22:23 (three years ago) link
The pit crew was changed for the next herbie movie, but the policy of making multiple posters for the same flick wasn't.
https://i.imgur.com/F7CD02y.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/17EuTBp.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/8rR3wvx.jpg
Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo, 1977
and another version of the first, in paste-up - the flag dude falling over the railing looks to be a different version here, even if the other painted elements are just rearranged?
https://i.imgur.com/uWWBl25.jpg
― shivers me timber (sic), Friday, 22 January 2021 20:13 (three years ago) link
https://www.pastposters.com/cw3/assets/product_full/JamieF-AST/apple-dumpling-gang-cinema-quad-movie-poster-(1).jpg
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 22 January 2021 20:49 (three years ago) link
two years ago: post movie posters done in a busy/claustrophobic caricature style from the 70s and 80s
(in response to an even better one above.)
― shivers me timber (sic), Friday, 22 January 2021 22:42 (three years ago) link
Seventeen years between Herbie Goes Bananas (1980) and the Peyton Reed / Bruce Campbell remakequel of The Love Bug. Eight years between that one and Herbie: Hot, Ready & Legal. Next year will be another seventeen years, and filming through a car windscreen is covid-safe: Disney, please bring people back to cinemas in 2022 with your most venerable cinematic franchise.
https://i.imgur.com/xpMW3Cn.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/sbbyIaR.jpg
(Here's a fruiter version of that second one.)
― shivers me timber (sic), Saturday, 23 January 2021 19:37 (three years ago) link
https://www.limitedruns.com/media/images/productimage-picture-slaughter-s-big-rip-off-487476.jpg
Slaughter’s Big Rip-off
― Dan Worsley, Sunday, 24 January 2021 23:18 (three years ago) link
going along with the "sitcoms that became movies" idea
https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1057/4964/products/munster-go-home-vintage-movie-poster-original-1-sheet-27x41.jpg
― Piven After Midnight (The Yellow Kid), Sunday, 24 January 2021 23:38 (three years ago) link
OMG
― Next Time Might Be Hammer Time (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 24 January 2021 23:55 (three years ago) link
into it
― shivers me timber (sic), Sunday, 24 January 2021 23:55 (three years ago) link
yeah that's great.
Munster, Go Home (1966) ... for future searches.
― visiting, Monday, 25 January 2021 00:44 (three years ago) link
I am all for a thread on the shitty, pointless movie versions of classic British sitcoms tbh.
One that didn't go far: British Sitcoms-turned-Films...
― visiting, Monday, 25 January 2021 01:19 (three years ago) link
when I was a kid and we had only a few tv channels one of them seemed to show Munster, Go Home and the previously mentioned Thing With Two Heads on Saturday afternoons with disturbing regularity.
― joygoat, Monday, 25 January 2021 19:08 (three years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/n0xDfnn.jpg
Blazing Stewardesses, 1975
― shivers me timber (sic), Monday, 25 January 2021 19:14 (three years ago) link