The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (merged)
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Aust Diamondew
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I enjoyed the movie alot. It wasn't entirely faithful to the books but I wasn't expecting it to be. It seemed to capture the spirit of the books however very well.
I thought Zaphod was a bit too stupid but thats okay.
I thought Zaphod was a bit too stupid but thats okay.
Andrew D. Gable
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Wasn't Adams at the very end, when the Heart of Gold was flipping through its very images? I think he was the very last one, shown for an instant.Tolen Mar said:
I gave it an 8. I thought it was good, not wonderful, but a bit beyond what I expected. It actually turned out to be fairly much like the book.
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TheAuldGrump
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Saw it and... didn't hate it.
Didn't love it either.
I would give it a 5 to the radio show's 8.
Rickman's voice was great, Marvin's body... meh.
And Trillian was cute.
The Auld Grump, who did not like Zaphod as shown in the movie at all at all... but didn't like him in the TV show either (a 6).
Didn't love it either.
I would give it a 5 to the radio show's 8.
Rickman's voice was great, Marvin's body... meh.
And Trillian was cute.
The Auld Grump, who did not like Zaphod as shown in the movie at all at all... but didn't like him in the TV show either (a 6).
Viking Bastard
Adventurer
Saw it. Liked it. Gave it a 8.
The casting was very well done.
The production value was high.
The jokes were all there. (Bowl of petunias thinking "not again")
The Guide animation was charming.
Heart of Gold was a Douglas-looking spaceship.
And yet, for all those things the production crew got right on this move, I just didn't feel that the movie had the soul the books held for me. When I re-read the books, as I do every few years or so, I get chuckles and guffaws. The movie really did nothing for me except provide images for me to think of the next time I read the books. I thought the funniest part of the movie was the sighing the Heart of Gold doors made when they opened and closed, but all the other jokes fell flat on their face when they put a stich in my side as I read.
Too bad, really. I gave it a 4.
The production value was high.
The jokes were all there. (Bowl of petunias thinking "not again")
The Guide animation was charming.
Heart of Gold was a Douglas-looking spaceship.
And yet, for all those things the production crew got right on this move, I just didn't feel that the movie had the soul the books held for me. When I re-read the books, as I do every few years or so, I get chuckles and guffaws. The movie really did nothing for me except provide images for me to think of the next time I read the books. I thought the funniest part of the movie was the sighing the Heart of Gold doors made when they opened and closed, but all the other jokes fell flat on their face when they put a stich in my side as I read.
Too bad, really. I gave it a 4.
ddvmor
I'm a little teapot!
Anyone seen Zaphod's Election Campaign yet? http://www.media-file.net/hhgg/zaphod.mov
Also... you guys may be able to help me out with this. I used to have a set of cassetees of the first 4 books read by Stephen Moore. They're long since lost and I'd love to get hold of them again - The only version I've seen for sale is the one read by Adams - anyone know where I can get hold of a copy?
Also... you guys may be able to help me out with this. I used to have a set of cassetees of the first 4 books read by Stephen Moore. They're long since lost and I'd love to get hold of them again - The only version I've seen for sale is the one read by Adams - anyone know where I can get hold of a copy?
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sniffles
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I really enjoyed it, as evidenced by the fact that my face hurt from smiling by the time it was over.
It was not perfect, but then what adaptation of a book ever is? And this wasn't even an adaptation of a book - it was an adaptation of a radio show that was made into a book that was made into an album that was made into a television series.
I thought the casting was very good, except perhaps for Trillian, who was a bit lackluster. On another forum I read someone complaining that Arthur didn't look the way he was described in the book (always a silly complaint IMHO), but I just reread the description of him this morning and I think Martin Freeman was fine. I am now thoroughly a fan of Bill Nighy - he's just great.
My fiancee thinks they ought to have limited the number of jokes they were trying to reproduce and fleshed out what remained - for example, making the Vogon poetry sequence a bit longer, as well as Arthur and Ford's arrival on the Heart of Gold. We did really find it amusing that the Vogon destructor fleet captain was sitting on a chair shaped like a squashed deer - that's a little reference back to the book that even I didn't get until my fiancee reminded me.
I'm not sure I could agree that people who aren't familiar with the books would "get" this movie. I think most of the people here who haven't read the books or seen the tv series at least know something about the story. People who know nothing about it would probably find it a bit more impenetrable.
But oh, how can you not love Stephen Fry as the voice of the Guide?
It was not perfect, but then what adaptation of a book ever is? And this wasn't even an adaptation of a book - it was an adaptation of a radio show that was made into a book that was made into an album that was made into a television series.
I thought the casting was very good, except perhaps for Trillian, who was a bit lackluster. On another forum I read someone complaining that Arthur didn't look the way he was described in the book (always a silly complaint IMHO), but I just reread the description of him this morning and I think Martin Freeman was fine. I am now thoroughly a fan of Bill Nighy - he's just great.
My fiancee thinks they ought to have limited the number of jokes they were trying to reproduce and fleshed out what remained - for example, making the Vogon poetry sequence a bit longer, as well as Arthur and Ford's arrival on the Heart of Gold. We did really find it amusing that the Vogon destructor fleet captain was sitting on a chair shaped like a squashed deer - that's a little reference back to the book that even I didn't get until my fiancee reminded me.
I'm not sure I could agree that people who aren't familiar with the books would "get" this movie. I think most of the people here who haven't read the books or seen the tv series at least know something about the story. People who know nothing about it would probably find it a bit more impenetrable.
But oh, how can you not love Stephen Fry as the voice of the Guide?
demiurge1138
Inventor of Super-Toast
No problem. Also, did anyone notice that the book Arthur was reading at the fancy dress party was "The Selfish Gene" by Richard Dawkins? For a while, Douglas Adams claimed it was his favorite book. I thought that was a nice touch.Wolv0rine said:That was the most wonderful, delightfully hillarious thing I've seen since someone posted Leonard Nemoy's wonderful rendition of The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins (which, unlike so many people, I love). Thanks Demiurge.
Demiurge out.
