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Post by bsc4ever on Jul 18, 2010 11:04:19 GMT -5
I didn't see a thread for this, so I'm not sure if it's been discussed before, but . . .
Which live action medium do you think portrayed the BSC characters better - the TV show or the movie?
Personally, I think the TV show was more true to the characters than the movie. I think those actresses fit the parts much better than the movie.
What about you?
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Post by oldhickory on Jul 18, 2010 15:33:54 GMT -5
i was a little bit too young to watch the show (i was born in 1989) so i guess i prefer the movie just because i know it a lot better. when i saw the show later on it felt like the wrong actresses were playing the girls, because i "knew" the girls in the movie, if that makes sense.
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Post by bsc4ever on Jul 18, 2010 15:40:26 GMT -5
^^^ I totally get you. That's EXACTLY how I feel about the TV show - maybe because I saw it first, but I think it was also because I knew none of the actresses. In the movie, there were several actresses that I already knew from other roles - I am thinking that is what helped kill it for me.
Thanks for your input!
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Post by sparklymouse on Jul 18, 2010 19:38:56 GMT -5
There wasn't a lot of good acting on either project. However, I think the TV show girls seemed more familiar with the books and with what their characters were supposed to be. They didn't all physically match their characters' book descriptions, but I got a more natural friendship vibe among those actresses than with the movie ones. Maybe because they worked together over the course of a few years, while the movie girls probably spent 2 months together. Again, this could just be an acting problem, but the movie girls didn't seem very comfortable with the younger actors. Larisa Olyenik/Dawn in particular kinda looked like she hated kids.
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Post by celaeno on Jul 18, 2010 21:27:32 GMT -5
I saw the movie only once (when it was first in theaters) and I'm more familiar with the tv show (since we had two episodes on tape), so I might be biased, but I felt like the tv series more accurately portrayed the characters. I felt like the episodes captured the cheesy and light feel of the books, and the balance between baby-sitting meetings/baby-sitting jobs/non baby-sitting stuff was similar to that in the books.
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Post by booboobrewer on Jul 19, 2010 0:22:02 GMT -5
I think the show and characters totally captured the feel of the books. The movie characters didn't do it for me at all. Kristy wasn't...Kristy enough, Mary Anne was too meek, Stacey too serious, Claudia not humorous, etc.
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Post by oldhickory on Jul 19, 2010 19:11:08 GMT -5
it sounds like i am the only one who prefers the movie :] i'll have to go watch the whole series now to see what i'm missing.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 23, 2010 20:30:42 GMT -5
I think the show and characters totally captured the feel of the books. The movie characters didn't do it for me at all. Kristy wasn't...Kristy enough, Mary Anne was too meek, Stacey too serious, Claudia not humorous, etc. TMNT II Don: Hey guys, look, it's Raph. Mikey: Yeah, a little too Raph. Leo: You guys, knock it off. If Kristy was more like her book self she'd be like Mary Anne and Stacey. I think the movie did a good job in portraying how in different situations, for whatever reason, people will act differently. In Kristy's case it was believable. As for how accurate character portrayals were, I haven't watched many of the tv ones, and I did see the movie one first, so I do prefer the movie one better. The tv characters simply felt weird. Though I think I prefered the tv Claudia over the movie one simply because the movie Claudia was too tall.
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Post by booboobrewer on Jul 23, 2010 23:27:53 GMT -5
Yeah I guess it depends which one you saw first. For me the movie acting--save for Kristy I suppose--was so wooden and boring. I think the TV girls captured the earnestness of the BSC really well.
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Post by funkymonkey on Aug 21, 2010 23:43:02 GMT -5
I agree with many of you on the BSC TV Show. The show depicted a strong bond of friendship between the members that the movie didn't show. Even though I thought the characters in the movie looked more like the book, the acting amongst the people in the TV show was more believable and close to what they had going on in the books.
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Post by wanderingfrog on Aug 28, 2010 20:21:16 GMT -5
I agree with the people who said the TV show for basically the same reasons, so there's not much point in repeating them. I've only seen the movie once (I think when I was 25), despite owning it on VHS and DVD, but it feels like I've seen it a whole bunch of times because I've read so many posts about it that I don't really forget anything about it.
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Post by BuckinghamAlice on Oct 14, 2010 1:49:07 GMT -5
I prefer the tv show, but there are some characters whose movie incarnations felt truer to me, and some vice versa. TV Kristy seemed just right to me, while I liked the acting and mannerisms of movie Dawn (although it would have been awesome to get that in the physical package of TV Dawn). TV MA was too tall for me, and movie Stacey was a little bland.
I suppose what I liked about the TV show is how episodic it was. That sounds weird to say since obviously they're episodic (what with being TV episodes), but I mostly mean that the episodes were all self-contained and that by the end the characters were more or less where they started. That felt truer to the books. The movie has a feeling of finality, and as we know, finality and the BSC don't mesh.
That being said, I like both the show and the movie. I remember seeing the show in reruns on Disney when I was younger (more than anything, the song) but I didn't see the movie as a child. I couldn't get past how different from the books it looked.
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Post by shannon86 on Dec 20, 2010 23:41:22 GMT -5
The Movie was okay, but I like the TV Series much more better.
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Post by mallorypike on Jul 15, 2017 20:51:38 GMT -5
I like the movie better. The characters looked like themselves for the most part. The storylines were better and more interesting. It was funnier and it wasn't as cheesy as the TV show.
That being said, though, the TV show is really enjoyable and funny. It was really cute and sweet but cheesy and poorer acting and lower budget and the cast wasn't as spot on as the movie was.
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Post by CharlotteTJohanssen on Jul 15, 2017 21:12:22 GMT -5
I think the cast matches more in the tv series more than the movie.
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