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I've watched bits of the original on YouTube – camp or what! But, you're right, Tim B's movie looks great fun.
Angela and I have been watching the original series for over a year. At 20 minutes a pop, they're like candy. It's exasperatingly bad TV, but strangely compelling too if you can ignore the botched lines, the primitive effects and the shadow of the microphone moving around or the cameraman bumping into the furniture. After each episode we gag and say we'll never do it again, but we keep doing it. Burton's looks like a great romp, but it will be too polished...
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