On Apr 26, 2005, at 10:12 AM, Gary Denton wrote:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/film/4461899.stm (BBC - "charming" but - "Did the script veer too far away from the source material or tie itself in knots trying to keep faith with it? Bizarrely, I think the answer is both." Is charming a BBC code word?)
This is the killer paragraph:
"A lot of effort has gone in to keeping the film as faithful to Adams' vision as possible. But somewhere in the production process the crew has lost sight of the fundamental aspect of the books - they were immensely funny."
If the production has lost sight of the humor of the Guide, the production has lost everything. There is no reason whatsoever to read the books or listen to the BBC recordings except to laugh your ass off, even at the bits you've heard or read dozens of times before.
-- Warren Ockrassa, Publisher/Editor, nightwares Books http://books.nightwares.com/ Current work in progress "The Seven-Year Mirror" http://www.nightwares.com/books/ockrassa/Flat_Out.pdf
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