• GrayBackgroundMusic@lemm.ee
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    9 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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        9 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?)

    • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.works
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      9 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.