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Re: Oh please please PLEASE don't make this into a campy movie...
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Wed, 16 Apr 2003 18:50:09 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.fun, John P. Henderson writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.fun, David Koudys writes:
> > In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Erick Jensen writes:
> > > In lugnet.off-topic.fun, David Koudys writes:
> > > > So again, don't blow this one.  "Charlies Angels" seems to be okay on the
> > > > large screen--follow suit and do right by KITT ;)
> 
> As much as I enjoyed watching that show a lot when I was younger, I'd have
> to say that it was pretty campy already.


Oh it was definitely campy, but so was the 80's ;)  But if it degenerates
into something like that Adam West/Burt Ward 2 hour special a few weeks back...

I had such a crush on Bonnie (Rebecca MacPherson, iirc) growing up.

> ...Still, I think of the Brady Bunch movies of being parodies, where
> Charlies Angels, although it had humor, still was a fun actiony movie that
> didn't really poke too much fun at the original.  I think a Knight Rider
> movie could work either way, although I agree doing it more like Charlies
> Angels would be better, provided they updated things to make it less '80s.
> There will still be some cheese though, even if without Hasselhoff, simply
> because it's pretty hard to have a car drive up a ramp into a moving truck
> without seeming cheesy.


And at the end of almost every season they totalled the 'indestructble car'

> Suddendly I have the theme song stuck in my head...  ;)
> 
> -H.

"...a shadowy world of a man who does not exist..."
"...in a world where criminals operate above the law..."

;)

Dave K



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  Re: Oh please please PLEASE don't make this into a campy movie...
 
(...) As much as I enjoyed watching that show a lot when I was younger, I'd have to say that it was pretty campy already. ...Still, I think of the Brady Bunch movies of being parodies, where Charlies Angels, although it had humor, still was a fun (...) (23 years ago, 16-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

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