The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

[Umbran]

I'm not teribly interested in what one or two reviewers have to say. The tastes and priorities of individuals vary a bit too much for them to be particularly helpful. When a whole mess of reviewers have sounded off,and the results start showing up at places like rottentomatoes.com, then I might pay a bit more attention.

Even then - it was a quirky book. That menas a quirky movie. Reviewers frequently don't like quirky. They like that which fits their personal model of a Good Movie. So, we shall have to see.

 

[Mark]

Maybe it'll not be a good movie, maybe it will. But I won't be judging it on its adherence to the source.

That's always the best approach, IMO.

 

[diaglo]

42.

where is that on your poll as an answer?

 

[Rodrigo Istalindir]

42.

where is that on your poll as an answer?

That's an option on the next poll. We haven't finished formulating the question yet.

 

[Flyspeck23]

I've no idea whether the movie is good or not, but that review only told me that the reviewer was far to anally retentive for me to take his opinion seriously.

Additionally, the reviewer seems unable to catch the irony of his own review: he describes at lenght how (in his opinion) inappropriate the Infinite Improbability Drive (in part 1) is working in the movie, then he goes on (in part 2) telling the reader how utterly improbable it is for the Heart of Gold to arrive at exactly the right planet...

 

[Rodrigo Istalindir]

From the review: "the film also suffers by having an entirely nonsensical plot."

Methinks he didn't understand the books as well as he thinks he did. The whole point of the books was nonsensical, whimsical plot.

 

[Thornir Alekeg]

I've finished scanning parts of the long review.

I now believe that the review was written by a robot with Genuine People Personality (TM), and the programmed personality is "perpetually pessimistic."

 

[Vonlok The Bold]

I'm nervous. I loved the books, and I also loved the BBC television series. To me there wasn't a void that needed to be filled by another movie version. But I will say that some of the casting seems to be on.

I will definitely go and see it, I just hope I'm not terribly disappointed and that it doesn't try and 'broaden the appeal' by making mass blockbuster movie type changes.