On 4/29/05, Warren Ockrassa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ...Douglas Adams spinning in his grave. > > HHGttG was everything its detractors have suggested, unfortunately. > Entirely meaningless digressions, all the genuinely funny situations > replaced by watered-down simpering, and a story that was considerably > less finessed and meaningful than what Adams was able to string > together a frantic week at a time writing scripts to a story that even > he didn't know how would end. > > They cut the best parts out in order to fit in an completely useless > subplot involving John Malkovich, which was just stupid. The radio > plays amounted to about two hours of material just as they were; had > they been left unsodomized there would have been no need to "edit" the > parts that made the plot, as crafted by Adams, fly. > > Save your money and the two hours of your life and do something > productive. Such as combing the shag carpet. > > -- > Warren Ockrassa, Publisher/Editor, nightwares Books So I take it that you did not like it? /is not actually surpised. HHGTG didn't have a really straightforward, movie suitable plot.
~Maru 'Cmmb the shag'?Oh la di dah, aren't we the fancy one! In *my* day we didnae have shag! We had woven poison ivy to cover our floors, and we liked it! The rashes kept us warm when we ran out of dung to burn. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
