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2016-05-29 Note from Robbie Stamp. Of Leopards and Spitting

Post 61

Dmitri Gheorgheni, Post Editor

'Zwei Seelen wohnen, ach, in meiner Brust...' - Goethe

('Two souls inhabit my breast, alas...')


2016-05-29 Note from Robbie Stamp. Of Leopards and Spitting

Post 62

Jackruss a Grand Master of Tea and Toast, Keeper of the comfy chair, who is spending a year dead for tax reasons! DNA!

JWTF is going on today............. ok back to the cider and gin......... it's a lot safer smiley - smiley


2016-05-29 Note from Robbie Stamp. Of Leopards and Spitting

Post 63

paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant

" I adore Mos Def in the Hitchhiker's film." [Sol.

smiley - sadface

I like Mos Def in "Be kind, rewind." Just not in "Hitchhiker's guide to the universe." I wasn't slamming the actor, just the choice of role.


2016-05-29 Note from Robbie Stamp. Of Leopards and Spitting

Post 64

Recumbentman

I thought he did fine.

Two bodies, one soul? No problem. Body = hardware, soul = software.


2016-05-29 Note from Robbie Stamp. Of Leopards and Spitting

Post 65

You can call me TC

Robbie did, too. He (Mos)came up with most of the nifty ways of using a towel himself.


2016-05-29 Note from Robbie Stamp. Of Leopards and Spitting

Post 66

Pierre de la Mer ~ sometimes slightly worried but never panicking ~

Danish poet Tove Ditlevsen had this to say about two souls in one body when she was elderly (I'll just quote two of eight verses, if I may):

"There lives a young girl in me who will not die
she is no longer me, and I am not her,
but she stares at me from the mirror, from the lakes of her eyes
as if she seeks something she can no longer find.

She has no one else in the world to ask than me:
where are my dreams? and where is my twenty year's joy?
Where are the innocent smiles, the serious game?
And where is the country, we should tread together?

smiley - pirate


2016-05-29 Note from Robbie Stamp. Of Leopards and Spitting

Post 67

Dmitri Gheorgheni, Post Editor

What a great poem. smiley - biggrin


2016-05-29 Note from Robbie Stamp. Of Leopards and Spitting

Post 68

paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant

I have a feeling that my foot is too big to fit in my mouth MMMMF


2016-05-29 Note from Robbie Stamp. Of Leopards and Spitting

Post 69

Jackruss a Grand Master of Tea and Toast, Keeper of the comfy chair, who is spending a year dead for tax reasons! DNA!

JWTF,JJJJJJWWWWWTTTTTFFFFF...... poetry....... i'm off skismiley - winkeye


2016-05-29 Note from Robbie Stamp. Of Leopards and Spitting

Post 70

paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant

Enjoy skiing. smiley - ski


2016-05-29 Note from Robbie Stamp. Of Leopards and Spitting

Post 71

broelan

Everyone's entitled to their own opinion, paulh, yours just happens to be... perhaps not wrong, just unpopular.


2016-05-29 Note from Robbie Stamp. Of Leopards and Spitting

Post 72

broelan

Dam. Forgot the smiley.

smiley - winkeye


2016-05-29 Note from Robbie Stamp. Of Leopards and Spitting

Post 73

paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant

Thanks, broelan. smiley - smiley

I'd like to see a movie version of "Restaurant at the end of the universe," but I guess the first one didn't do well enough to met Hollywood's test of worthy sequel material. smiley - sadface I've always thought that "restaurant" was Douglas Adams's finest novel.


2016-05-29 Note from Robbie Stamp. Of Leopards and Spitting

Post 74

Baron Grim

Yeah... sadly there's a lot of hate for the film amongst the general public and those that were either not strong fans of the previous iterations or were VERY strong fans of the previous versions. I like it but I also can understand some of those that don't. It's an impossible task to please the die hard fans and make it accessible to those completely unfamiliar with it. I personally felt they did a fine job trying. There was new material and gags for those overly familiar with the source material (like me) like the Humma Kavula stuff, the "Slap Sticks" and the POV gun. The "love story" seemed like pandering to the LCD American crowd, but I like both actors so I just rolled with it.

But for those with no previous knowledge, some of the stuff was surely quite confusing because the jokes were rather compressed and edited. It's a LOT of source material to cram into a tolerable 100 minutes so that's inevitable I suppose. Like I said, it's an impossible task to try to please both the fans and the general audiences you need to have a successful film.

I love it, personally; and I waited SO long for it I couldn't not like it. I have my limited edition DVD right next to my TV series collection.


2016-05-29 Note from Robbie Stamp. Of Leopards and Spitting

Post 75

Tavaron da Quirm - Arts Editor

Thanks everyone for 'explaining' the slap sticks. I never got that joke until now. It only completely confused me.


2016-05-29 Note from Robbie Stamp. Of Leopards and Spitting

Post 76

Dmitri Gheorgheni, Post Editor

Look, 'The Hitchhiker's Guide' is like 'Hamlet' - each iteration has its own peculiar charm. smiley - winkeye


2016-05-29 Note from Robbie Stamp. Of Leopards and Spitting

Post 77

Milla, h2g2 Operations

My view exactly, Dmitri! All different, all wonderful.

smiley - towel


2016-05-29 Note from Robbie Stamp. Of Leopards and Spitting

Post 78

Pierre de la Mer ~ sometimes slightly worried but never panicking ~

Hamlet is the most unlikely play ever. It takes place in Elsinore. But there isn't even ONE drunken Swede in it smiley - groan

smiley - pirate


2016-05-29 Note from Robbie Stamp. Of Leopards and Spitting

Post 79

Dmitri Gheorgheni, Post Editor

Have you seen Branagh's version? He put in some drinking. smiley - winkeye


2016-05-29 Note from Robbie Stamp. Of Leopards and Spitting

Post 80

Baron Grim

My favorite version of Hamlet is _Strange Brew_. And it had a Swede in it (Max von Sydow). smiley - cheers

http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi1768423449


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