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I need Anakin Skywalker here, so he can bring balance to the Sales Force.
Yeah sales wise, big audiences are good.
But it makes **** difference to actual quality.
I need Anakin Skywalker here, so he can bring balance to the Sales Force.
Yeah sales wise, big audiences are good.
But it makes dick difference to actual quality.
Personally I'd rather watch a movie than a miniseries. My reasons aren't things inherent to the media themselves, but the cinematography, tone, and overall presentation feels too much like television, and to me it feels constrained because of it. There's no reason for it to be that way, but that's just how people tend to make them, in my experience. I like my adaptations to be cinematic, with everything that that implies.
But television series allow one to delve deeper into a subject, like a novel, or a book series. I do agree that miniseries are not cinematic--but that's not really what they're meant to be, to my knowledge.
Yeah, I know that's not what they're meant to be. I meant that miniseries are inherently less interesting to me than movies, for that reason.
What?? Who gives a **** about getting it to as wide an audience as possible if the quality isn't as good?
What matters most is the quality. The Sopranoes, Oz, The Wire, there are a lot of adult tv shows that have done very well both with with "wide" audiences and quality wise.
Who gives a **** if x amount of people watch as long as it's good?
Neither a movie nor a miniseries will be as good as the book, so following your logic they should just not bother with it at all.
I mean, why else make an adaptation if not to bring the story to new audiences? Sure, it'll be kinda cool for us fans to see our favorite story acted out, but I'm personally much more excited to be able to share this amazing story with people I know who would never pick up a comic book or watch a miniseries.
Right now I work at a video store, and while I dont know if I'll still work there when Watchmen's out on DVD, but if I am I cant wait to be able to recommend the movie to people and know they're gonna go home and watch it and probably enjoy it. We almost never carry minseries', and when we do no one rents them.
Additionally, I love seeing trailers for comic book movies in the theater. Last night at Iron Man I got to hear all the reactions to the Dark Knight and Incredible Hulk trailers, and it was cool. Wont get that with a miniseries.
Personally I'd rather watch a movie than a miniseries. My reasons aren't things inherent to the media themselves, but the cinematography, tone, and overall presentation feels too much like television, and to me it feels constrained because of it. There's no reason for it to be that way, but that's just how people tend to make them, in my experience. I like my adaptations to be cinematic, with everything that that implies.
Mad Men
Rome
Carnivale
Big Love
Six Feet Under
All of those shows are/were incredibly cinematic. They're quality is just as impressive as any movie I've seen.
The obvious argument for a movie is that a studio is likely going to make more money with merchandising and so forth.

"What does Alan Moore actually like?? "
The Devil![]()
It's not so much the devil as it is a giant snake deity.



I disagree. Personally I've only watched Rome and Carnivale out of those you listed, but to me they felt like TV.