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To: EdnaMode

And black since it worked so well with Will Smith in Wild Wild West.


7 posted on 12/23/2018 8:06:31 AM PST by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: SkyDancer

I’ll still take the two after series movies with Conrad and Martin over that atrocity.


16 posted on 12/23/2018 8:11:52 AM PST by wally_bert (We're low on dimes in fun city.)
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Having a black James West wasn't the problem. Making it a campy movie was the problem.

I watch the show every Saturday night at 6:00 on MeTV. When Robert Conrad rides into town, you know three things: Women are going to swoon, he's going to produce a gadget from somewhere in that skin tight suit, and most reliable and enjoyable of all, he's going to take on four or five guys in a furniture and railing smashing brawl.

Sure, there's tongue-in-cheek humor, and those impossible gadgets, and outrageous villains like everyone's all-time favorite, Dr. Miguelito Loveless, brilliantly played by Michael Dunn, but never camp. That's why it's enjoyable to watch because you don't feel like it's an SNL skit. I'll take a slight detour, especially being Christmas, to further make the camp is bad point: Elf. Unlike his other movies that I don't care for, I really like Elf because Will Ferrell plays him straight up. I see a very tall guy who was raised by Santa's elves dealing with the outside world and it makes me laugh rather than seeing a very tall actor overdoing it and winking at the audience which is suppisedto funny, so laugh.

58 posted on 12/23/2018 10:31:44 AM PST by Dahoser
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