TV Shows vs Movies

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I find it surprising that I prefer TV to the movies, but for the last decade the best TV shows have been so good. My favorite shows (The Wire, The Sopranos, Arrested Development, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Breaking Bad, Mad Men, etc.) are better than my favorite movies that have come out recently.

Do others feel the same way? I'd say the best movies > the best shows in the 90s, 80s, and 70s. This is the first time TV shows > movies, IMO.
 
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TV shows for me. Movies aren't long enough to expand on characters how they should be (for the most part). Scrubs is my all time favorite show. I couldn't imagine being more connected to a group of characters or a setting or overall story arc than Scrubs. Same could be said about The Office. Movies just don't give enough time to go in depth with the people portrayed. I guess movie sequels do give that opportunity, and I appreciate it when films do have sequels that involve such growth. But IMO, you sorta grow up with the characters you watch on tv every week. More so than a 2 hour movie.
 
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It seems the effort put into high end movies now is lacking. Rehash a story that's already been told, add some special effects, watch the masses line up cash in hand.
 
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Good TV has just improved dramatically.

Not a fair comparison to a good movie though. A good TV show can accumulate to dozens and dozens of hours over a several year span. That sinks in and creates characters and story lines that stick with you. Hard for a 2 hour movie to compete with that.

Perhaps a great movie like The Godfather or something similar can.
 
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Yeah, I think prior to the last decade shows just didn't have the production quality to compete with movies. Now that that has changed, the character development wins the day. I agree.
 
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I do prefer TV shows, but the downside is most TV shows don't know when to call it quits. Too many drag 2-3 seasons past when they should have hung it up.
 
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TV could become even more popular when/if the FCC relax its restrictions on mainstream TV (i.e. NBC, CBS, ABC, Fox & CW) in regards to violence & nudity.

Its been talked about recently that they are thinking about. The Walking Dead is one such show that was originally going to be on NBC but they didn't want to follow the book.

Take for instance if the FCC allowed this you could see in the future shows along the same lines as The Americans, Sons of Anarchy & Justified currently on FX being shown on the regular Fox Network.
 
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Adam Carolla has a funny point of view. He thinks we show plenty of violence, and freak out at any exposure. He says if we are concerned about the kids, let's think about their future. We do everything we can to protect them from nudity, but we actually expect and even want them to have sex when they grow. We don't ever want them to participate in or witness acts of violence. Why are we so comfortable with them viewing the latter and not the former?
 
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n_huffhines said:
Adam Carolla has a funny point of view. He thinks we show plenty of violence, and freak out at any exposure. He says if we are concerned about the kids, let's think about their future. We do everything we can to protect them from nudity, but we actually expect and even want them to have sex when they grow. We don't ever want them to participate in or witness acts of violence. Why are we so comfortable with them viewing the latter and not the former?
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It's kinda weird that we are the only country who does this really. Europe has it reversed. Nudity to them is nothing (see any BBC show basically), but violence is an enormous problem to them. I think they have it right. You can see a pair of tits at 8:00, but you won't see a man's head get cut off ever.
 
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Daloth said:
It's kinda weird that we are the only country who does this really. Europe has it reversed. Nudity to them is nothing (see any BBC show basically), but violence is an enormous problem to them. I think they have it right. You can see a pair of tits at 8:00, but you won't see a man's head get cut off ever.
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They sure do have it right, who wouldn't rather see a pair of tits instead of a grizzly decapitation?:)
 
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Daloth said:
It's kinda weird that we are the only country who does this really. Europe has it reversed. Nudity to them is nothing (see any BBC show basically), but violence is an enormous problem to them. I think they have it right. You can see a pair of tits at 8:00, but you won't see a man's head get cut off ever.
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You had me at tits.
 
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n_huffhines said:
I find it surprising that I prefer TV to the movies, but for the last decade the best TV shows have been so good. My favorite shows (The Wire, The Sopranos, Arrested Development, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Breaking Bad, Mad Men, etc.) are better than my favorite movies that have come out recently.

Do others feel the same way? I'd say the best movies > the best shows in the 90s, 80s, and 70s. This is the first time TV shows > movies, IMO.
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One thing I've noticed is more and more movie stars are making the transition to tv. It used to be TV was a launching pad to getting into movies.
 
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as annoying as the previews are before a movie, they are still preferable to the commercial scheduling of TV shows.

the last 15 minutes of a show like Burn Notice is almost tortuous. 5 minutes of show, 5 minutes of commercials, then 3 minutes of show, 4 minutes of commercials. The cable networks are especially bad, but ABC/NBC/CBS/Fox are getting just as silly.
 
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MG1968 said:
as annoying as the previews are before a movie, they are still preferable to the commercial scheduling of TV shows.

the last 15 minutes of a show like Burn Notice is almost tortuous. 5 minutes of show, 5 minutes of commercials, then 3 minutes of show, 4 minutes of commercials. The cable networks are especially bad, but ABC/NBC/CBS/Fox are getting just as silly.
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And that is why I dvr everything, I haven't seen a commercial in 2 years. :)
 
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CagleMtnVol said:
TV could become even more popular when/if the FCC relax its restrictions on mainstream TV (i.e. NBC, CBS, ABC, Fox & CW) in regards to violence & nudity.

Its been talked about recently that they are thinking about. The Walking Dead is one such show that was originally going to be on NBC but they didn't want to follow the book.

Take for instance if the FCC allowed this you could see in the future shows along the same lines as The Americans, Sons of Anarchy & Justified currently on FX being shown on the regular Fox Network.
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There was a point back in the 90s that network TV seemed to be going where cable networks are now. NYPD Blue was one I remembered that used profanity not heard on any other show, and they had a sizable amount of nudity.
 
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