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From: Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us>
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RonB wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:

> 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.

Hmmmm. You seem to think that some types of people do not have a story to be
told.

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You may my glories and my state dispose,
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