Complete opposite. Uzumaki spends about 40% of its run time being literal slice of life one shots in the horror town, before its one big arc to the end. If you only made a movie-like narrative of it, you'd have to cut all the build up scenes because they don't make a lot of sense chronologically.

The most famous scene with the girl above is one of those one shots with basically no further effect on the main plot other than another incident of "spiral bad."

Its tailor made for a 6 episode series, with one ep to set up, 2-3 with 9 minute small stories and then the finale.