Television

The Veronica Mars movie was a great continuation of the original series.

It’s a real shame that the revival series ended the way that it did (avoiding any spoilers), it really killed off fans’ desire for more.

I'll give you the opposite. Mash was first a book then movie then TV series, but I think I enjoy them in the reverse otder. Can't think of many movies that spawned a hugely successful TV series.

I remember thinking Burn Notice: The Fall of Sam Axe wasn't too bad, but I am quite partial to Bruce Campbell

I am trying to think of movies that are not straight remakes. The Fugitive is great but is a complete remake. Here are god movies that are based on TV shows that are more continuations:

• Monty Python and the Holy Grail
• Various Muppet Movies
• Reno 911: Miami (omfg this show and movie the more you think about the gags the funnier they gets.
• The Brady Bunch
• Waynes World 1 and 2
• The Blues Brothers

Serenity as the finish for the firefly show.

Came to say Serenity (it's just a great end, tying up a main plot point and a small background plot point, with a fantastically emotional end) but since that is already top of the list I will go with a terrible one.

Sense8.

Started out as pretty great series, I absolutely adored the first series. I felt the quality was there even if super cheesy at parts. Then the 2nd series happened and soon after, news it was cancelled. The quality had dropped quite a lot but still not terrible. Then they were given the opportunity to do a 2 n a half hr special to tie up loose ends.

It was massively rushed, the quality was completely gone, some of the characters just acted so different from how they had been previously and some were barely in it.

To be honest, I think I am still grateful, at least we got a resolution but sometimes i remember how sucky it was, i think perhaps they should have just left it on a high (even though it had already started to falter in the 2nd series)

Here is my list of terrible movie adaptations:

• Chips. I loved the show as a kid. The movie was an utter mess. None of the gags worked, there was a joke about eating ass that the movie kept doing call backs too that just got more and more cringey.

On a side note, I have checked out some Chips episodes as an adult and OOOF nostalgia really has rose colored glasses.

• The Mod Squad: The show was a precurser to 21 Jump Street and very much a counter culture cop show. It was just so so cool. The movie adaptation was a flaming bag of shit that just made no sense. The casting was spot on, but there just nothing for them to do other than look cool.

• The Avengers. No, not the Vanilla ice cream that is the Marvel stuff. The Avengers was a show about British spy Duo John Steed and Emma Peel. It had cool spy gadgets, stiff suits, Diana Rigg (Peel) in sexy outfits and was a ton of fun. The movie had none of the above. The movie was devoid of charm, fun, laughs in fact it is fair to say the movie failed in everyway a movie can.

• Aeon Flux: In the early days of Adult Swim, it had a really cool bunch of shorts about a superspy infiltrating various “fortresses of solitude” and having shootouts with loads of bad guys. It was great for the five minute shorts. It absolutely was a dull boring train wreck as a movie. The most impressive thing the movie did was make Charlize Theron look dumpy in skin tight clothing.

Now that multiple people have mentioned Serenity I feel I need to mention Peacekeeper Wars as the wrap-up for Farscape. It was basically two seasons crammed into three hours, so it was somewhat rushed, but it wrapped up the show nicely and is a great watch!

The movie El Camino completes a part of the Breakong Bad storyline.

sg1 2 movies, however they were kinda forced to do so by the networks in favor of a new series.

I also think South Park Bigger Longer and Uncut and The Simpsons Movie are both excellent animated films that get to exist alongside their TV series.

South Park is a hilarious film, solid musical, and I'd say they should make more, but the series nowadays are often just films, and Matt & Trey are still making musicals in other media like Team America World Police and Book of Mormon, so they don't need to just use South Park.

The Simpsons, people love to shit on The Simpsons but the film was excellent and I'm glad we're getting another one. It was a grand adventure that we don't get to see the Simpsons family go on, and the adventure was a fun one.

The Star Trek movies would qualify but there are multiple movies. Some are good, some not, but I've never heard anyone argue that they are all bad.

Firefly also comes to mind with the movie Serenity. It has a 7.8 on IMDB and 91% on RT so I don't think it's considered bad.

The Simpsons Movie is generally held in high regard with 87% on RT.

I think the X-files movies were pretty good overall and did a good job with some of the storylines that they started on the show.

I wanted to say Pee Wee's Big Adventure but that's not really the same universe I suppose.

I’m quite fond of the TV continuation of the Big Hero 6 movie.

Certainly NOT Dead Like Me. Still salty about that one.

Serenity and Star Trek as others have said are proabbly my actual favorites. The original Naked Gun movies were based on the short-lived Police Squad show and are as close to maintaining continuity as anything ZAZ could be. Then, the original Transformers animated movie gets more credit than it deserves due to nostalgia and not being a Michael Bay mess, but it had no business being even as good as it was.

My vote has to be the Star Trek films as the best. Which Star Trek films? So many bad, so many good, but the winner has to be First Contact.

We get our full TNG crew together, fancy new ship, fighting the Borg, time travel, tons of lore, THE LINE MUST BE DRAWN HERE! Just brilliant.