The fake answers to the Question were in the book.
I agree completely about the surprise, or lack thereof. I think the reason the books worked so well on the first reading is that you never knew what was going to happen next, but you knew it was going to be absurd. Absurdity without surprise is much less funny.
Did you notice they'd credited Lucas with the lightsaber sound effects?
"The fake answers to the Question were in the book."
I won't give you an argument on that, but even my vague recollection of the equivalent scene in the book didn't have the mice acting quite so much like...Hollywood movie execs as they do in the book.
You make a good point about why the books worked so well on first reading. Now that I think about it, I didn't take to the books because I found them funny. Instead, I enjoyed them precisely because they *were* absurd, but had their own internal logic, and because the characters rarely acted stupidly. In the movie, the internal logic was okay but the stupidity level, IMHO, sometimes soared too high.
I didn't notice the credits to Lucas, but I'm not surprised because there were several other homages to Star Wars in the movie. I don't remember them all, but with the exception of the lightsaber bread knife they annoyed me because I thought them superficial and tacky. (And Marvin really, really shouldn't have looked like a toddler in stormtrooper armor.)
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I agree completely about the surprise, or lack thereof. I think the reason the books worked so well on the first reading is that you never knew what was going to happen next, but you knew it was going to be absurd. Absurdity without surprise is much less funny.
Did you notice they'd credited Lucas with the lightsaber sound effects?
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I won't give you an argument on that, but even my vague recollection of the equivalent scene in the book didn't have the mice acting quite so much like...Hollywood movie execs as they do in the book.
You make a good point about why the books worked so well on first reading. Now that I think about it, I didn't take to the books because I found them funny. Instead, I enjoyed them precisely because they *were* absurd, but had their own internal logic, and because the characters rarely acted stupidly. In the movie, the internal logic was okay but the stupidity level, IMHO, sometimes soared too high.
I didn't notice the credits to Lucas, but I'm not surprised because there were several other homages to Star Wars in the movie. I don't remember them all, but with the exception of the lightsaber bread knife they annoyed me because I thought them superficial and tacky. (And Marvin really, really shouldn't have looked like a toddler in stormtrooper armor.)