In article <nlv00457u5tjk1itma0o9etoc2gie1b3q5@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
George Peatty <peattyg47-1230@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On Fri, 11 Apr 2008 17:41:46 -0700 (PDT), TBerk <bayareaberk@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> wrote:
>
> >Well, I don't have to be the star, (wait I'd be doing a voice over
> >anyway, so it's OK) I'd like them to recreate a faithfull to the
> >source version of Doc Savage, the Man of Bronze- he was a hero from
> >the pulps of the later twenties, thirties era.
>
> It's been done. Problem is, when you see it up there onscreen, in all
it's
> pulpy glory, you realize just how cornball the whole idea is ..
It's only cornball because it was done cornball. The movie isn't
faithfull at all. Mona works in an office instead of being a princess?
Thugs that sleep in cribs? The idiotic fight at the end? Liquid gold?
DOC SAVAGE logos on everything? Monk's the worst fighter in the group?
Heck, they didn't even get the year right.
follow up set to alt.fan.doc-savage
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