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by dragonwriter 3920 days ago
> Now the movie, that was definitely meant to be satire. Which is why so many fans of the book hate it.

I don't so much hate the movie because it was satire, I hate it because it was cheap, lazy, unnecessary satire of either a phenomenon to which the book is at best distantly connected or of a very distant reading of the book.