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Remember When The Used To Make Cartoons About Movies?


During the eighties and ninties it used to be that no hit movie could exist without getting an animated spin off.
Some of them were pretty terrible like Ghost Busters or Beetlejuice. But other shows had terrific writing and became something of their own rather than just a short lived spin-off.
Men In Black is a great example, so is Batman The Animated Series.
It took the premise created by the film and took it to new levels, with a series they could become more intimate with the audience, exploring all sorts of scenarious with the characters. As a cartoon they could do things that just wouldn't work in live action.

I miss them, cartoons don't seem to get that respect anymore. Movie based cartoons are few and far between, The Invincible Iron Man was released earlier this year to preceed the live action movie coming out next year.
Transformers is getting an animated series but it's terrible beyond words.
Batman Begins is getting an anime movie but I'm not really a fan of anime.
And most original cartoons aren't that "original" either, I think the only good cartoons around now are Ben 10, Venture Bros and Dethklok.

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I happened to love Ghostbusters and Beetlejuice. I was nine-years-old when Beetlejuice started and I was a Burton fan from that moment on.

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"During the eighties and ninties it used to be that no hit movie could exist without getting an animated spin off.
Some of them were pretty terrible like (Ghost Busters or Beetlejuice)"

id hate to have your taste in cartoons......

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This is an old thread, but I want to set some things straight:

-Batman The Animated Series is based on *gasp* The comic books. They brought it out because of the movies, sure, but there's very little to nothing taken from the movie and everything taken from the comic books. Look at cartoon series ACTUALLY on the movies. Men in Black (I think, I'm not sure) is based more on the movie than comics. MTV Spider-man is based more on the movies than the comic books.

-Invincible Iron Man has nothing to do with the live action movie.

-Transformers Animated is actually pretty good. Best Transformers series since Beast Wars. Though...I admit that's not saying much considering how crappy the anime series were.

-The name of the show is Metalocalypse, not Dethklok. Dethklok is the name of the band.

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Men in Black: the animated series was actually based on the comics which was owned by marvel at the time not sure if they still own it or not but if you look at the time the first movie came out and the first episode of MIB:TAS they came out roughly at the same time which is why when you watch the show some of the things in it don't match up with the movie so you really can't consider this cartoon a spin-off of the movie.

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The movie and the series are based on the comics but the series is a sequel to the movie. J is white in the comic and the series has him black and from the second season K's voice actor changes to be similar to Tommy Lee Jones. Bugs make an appearance and mention Edgar as a relative, voiced by Vincent D'Onofrio.

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The Real Ghosbusters is the gold standard in how to adapt a film to animation, maybe the OP meant Filmation's Ghostbusters and got confused?

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