Not really what you're asking, but I've been thinking about films which were adapted for TV which didn't have enough material for a series, and which actually added something worthwhile.

Picnic at Hanging Rock didn't expand the story enough to justify a series.

The Purge season one wasn't justified, but season 2 was (exploring the days after Purge Night.

Scream worked as a series (at least season 1, haven't watched 2), letting the paranoia and suspicion build, getting attached to characters know they could be murdered).

Westworld works - there's so much to explore with the subject of Artificial Life, several seasons is warranted.

Anyways, these are just a few that cane to mind.

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Those Luke/Din episodes are some of the best Star Wars stuff ever made. Can’t imagine cutting those out. I could care less what the title of the show is, it’s a spin-off so there will always be connective tissue to other stuff.

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My boyfriend only really watches either horror movies or movies about the royal family so I can relate haha.

Yeah, you definitely gotta get a Letterboxd. Doing this shit manually like this is so 2011.

I kid. But seriously, Letterboxd will change your life.

Titanic was not only nominated for both but also won both

The concept was shit, so it wouldn't have worked as a movie either.

I could probably think of a lot more in the other direction. Novels are usually too much plot for a standard length movie.

It was definitely a little difficult because up until maybe about a year or so ago, I didn't really think all that critically about movies outside of whether or not I liked it. But as I've gotten older, I've been more analytical of the movies I've watched and that's led to an even greater admiration of filmmaking

And I actually did not watch the first Avatar in theaters. When it came out, I was only like 9 or 10, and when you're that age, you don't really have the money or the means to go to the theater without your parents. And when it comes to something like Avatar, my parents are an automatic pass on that.

Tarsem always reminded me of Alex Proyas; they both came out of the gate with a couple of masterpieces: The Cell/The Fall, The Crow/Dark City, then they both kind of fell off the map afterwards.

Weirdly enough, a lot of Toho monster films films. Notably Godzilla Final Wars and a lot of the Nick Dean-Eiji Tsuburaya collaborations

Any movie where the Asian film studios hire an American actor to "American" the shit out of everything is great.

Their stereotypes about us are as hilariously crazy as our stereotypes about them and it brings a smile to my face

Or Toy Story 3 or Up

Part of Christopher Guest's troupe since Best in Show

You beat me to the Bloodsport joke... also, technically it was in Kowloon City which gives it some merit.

She has sadly schlemieled her last schlimazel.

Did Richie get some action?

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Watch The Driver, it's much more of an inspiration than Taxi Driver was for this film.

Dr. Schultz signing his death warrant in Django Unchained

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There's a picture of Anne Frank's father looking at attic where his kids were surviving. It's heartbreaking for so many reasons. But one of them is what you're talking about -- that we can be completely swept up in major situation that's bigger that us that leaves us with no control over the outcome.

That you can be going about your life and then BAM! A radical change can occur that will change everything about the trajectory of your life. It's maddening to me.

There's a few things that Tom Hanks does, physically, in the movie that resonate. One is where he's sitting on the beach after he realizes he's stuck. His posture and mannerisms say it. It's such a great piece of acting.

The other is the heavy vibe in the kitchen with his ex. From the moment he walks in his physical energy seems to just realize all at once that it's over. The idea and image that helped him survive doesn't exist anymore. It reminds of soldiers in WWII or Vietnam who were surviving on the thought of getting back to their significant other. Only to find out the whole time they were writing their SO was with someone else the whole time. God, that's just a mind fuck to think about.

Relative to the Hays Code, or even the MPAA, we're in an era where organised concentrated media censorship is declining. If a film wouldn't be made a major studio it can happen elsewhere, if a film can't get a certificate, there's a chance you'll still get to see it somewhere. Also you can get films that have been banned or released with extensive edits, illegally or otherwise. As we've had more technology to copy and distribute media it's simply become harder and harder to restrict it, which is all that censorship is.

A few years ago I went to a festival where a film depicted the fictionalised murder of 3 real life police officers, it showed their crimes, then them getting off without consequence and then dramatisations of them being killed. That film was never going to show at Cannes, it was fantastic, but the subject matter was incompatible with their brand and the brands that pay for the festival. You can't play film with such a direct call to action at SXSW, they want to exist next year.

The sponsors associated with large film festivals will pull out if programmers get too controversial. It really sucks, but this is always what film festivals have been like. The answer is to go to more interesting smaller festivals, as when it comes down to it, none of this stuff is going on Netflix.

There's like a larger conversation to be had about how scared brands are of being abused or called out on twitter, but the reality of it is that while we have social media, people will continue to post stupid takes on it. And sometimes when someone posts 'TIL: Coke-a-cola supported this film where a dog is killed' you never get the context and coke never supports that festival again.

I have seen that movie as well! I thought I ve seen everything concerning horrormovies. Slamming something [ big carrot, root??] into the man s troath to stop screaming, turning him upside down en slowly start carving his crotch with a manchete for several times. then the 2 men who held the man upside down both pulled one leg and teared the man open en in two halves. Too sick to even think about such thing. It was disgusting to watch! The movie itself was kind of boring and not entertaining.

I have a friend who only sees blockbusters, he is not an interesting person (you can’t choose your neighbors as a kid).