• Mugmoor@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    11 months ago

    Thay movie was awful. As a huge fan of the series, I don’t know how anyone can watch it and understand the plot without being familiar with it beforehand.

    The BBC series is much better, and goes up to Book 3 iirc.

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      11 months ago

      I disagree. I loved the film. I remember it fondly.

      Do you like the books? I find that people who like or have read the books tend not to like the movie and vice versa. I do not like the books.

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          11 months ago

          Yeah the way I see it is that even Douglas himself didn’t quite have a single vision in his mind about the story, which is why there are so many iterations (radio, book, movie, tv series, musical? Am I forgetting anything?)

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        11 months ago

        The funny thing about THHGttG is that it exists several times simultaneously with wildly different canons. The original BBC radio show was the original, then they did the TV miniseries with much of the same talent (Mostly replacing Susan Sheridan with Sandra Dickenson as Trillian), THEN the book pentology, THEN the 2005 movie. They all start pretty similarly with Arthur’s house and the pub and the Vogons, but then they go into all kinds of different directions in different orders.