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Old 28-03-08, 10:40 AM
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Originally Posted by Paul Brookes
I sort of enjoyed the 1st part, which I watched last night.
Part of the trouble is, although visually the discworld books translate to the screen, most of the humour and indeed writing talent is not in the visual description or dialogue.
Yes, most of the fantastic humour was sadly missing
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You will need to read the books to understand. In fact you should read the books anyway.
Agreed
and I think you've nailed my problems with it.
I laugh out loud reading the books. The humour is unique, clever and just plain brilliant and that is definitely lost in the TV rendition
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