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From: ccrrick@ucdavis.UUCP (Rick Heli)
Newsgroups: net.comics
Subject: re: superheroes in movies
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Date: Tue, 10-Dec-85 20:29:44 EST
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> > From:	k.cs.cmu.edu!mcb
>  
> > Actually, I think that superheroes don't make it in movies and TV because
> > real people look silly in costumes.  Because of this, superheroes in other
> > media are almost always played for laughs.  (Just look at the Batman TV show
> > and the Superman movies for example.)  Offhand, I can't think of a show or
> > movie that wasn't "camp".  If anyone has a counter example, I'd like to hear
> > about it.
> 

Also, there were one-shot pilots (?) of "Captain America" and
"Dr. Strange" that were not camp.  The latter was interesting,
the former less so.