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On 2024-06-24, Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> wrote:
> Andrzej Matuch wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:
>
>> On 2024-06-24 03:06, RonB wrote:
>>
>>>> I didn't realize that they started off as radio skits and THEN became
>>>> books. I thought it was the opposite. I guess it makes sense then that
>>>> the TV show from the 1980s is a lot funnier than the movie.
>>> 
>>> I don't think the people who made the movie had a clue about Douglas Adams'
>>> humor. But, to be honest, a lot of his humor is in the narration (or
>>> explanation), not in the action. That's hard to do well in a movie where
>>> you're supposed to "show not tell."
>>> 
>>> If they wanted to make a Hitchhiker movie, in the 2000s when everyone had
>>> forgotten about it, they probably should have gotten Terry Gilliam to
>>> direct it. It probably wouldn't have been a hit anyhow, but at some of the
>>> original humor might have shown up.
>>> 
>>> At least it wasn't nearly as bad as the new Disney Star Wars crap.
>>
>> They can always try to re-release it now and make the President a 
>> homosexual. They already have a black guy in there so they're on their 
>> way to checking every one of the diversity boxes.
>
> For more diversity they should add bigots.

Or maybe they should just try telling a story and forget about their 
bullshit Woke propaganda.

-- 
[Self-centered, Woke] "pride is a life of self-destructive fakery, an 
entrapment to a false and self-created matrix of twisted unreality." 
"It was pride that changed angels into devils..."     — St. Augustine