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Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Anyone See Yet?
Haven't seen a thread on this yet, just wondering if anyone has caught it yet.
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05-01-2005, 11:47 AM | #2 |
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I'm going tonight and can post comments later if you wish.
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05-01-2005, 11:54 AM | #3 |
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05-01-2005, 12:02 PM | #4 |
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I saw it last night.
I was laughing through much of the movie. I confess that I haven't read any of the books in ages, so that may have helped my enjoyment--some of the nitty gritty details that may have been overlooked weren't so blatant to me. I enjoyed it, I recommended it to my dad. And, most likely, when it comes to DVD I'll purchase it. /tk
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05-01-2005, 12:03 PM | #5 |
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Dola,
They really overdid the "love" between Trillian and Arthur. If I had one major gripe, that would be it. /tk
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05-01-2005, 12:05 PM | #6 |
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Bah! Couldn't remember the name of that thread, and thusly didn't catch it whilst looking.
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05-01-2005, 12:24 PM | #7 | |
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05-01-2005, 09:37 PM | #8 | |
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I agree with this 100% - I liked the movie, but the love interest which was almost a side issue in the book, became "THE" issue of the movie. I also thought there wasn't enough Marvin (though rickman does a great job on his voice)
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05-01-2005, 09:56 PM | #9 |
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I walked out of the movie with a feeling of....."meh". It was interesting to see some of the stuff I read in the book, but it skipped through things so quickly and told so much of the story in a different order. It wasn't a bad movie, but it wasn't good either.
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05-01-2005, 10:08 PM | #10 |
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I enjoyed the movie quite a bit, it was definitely better than I was expecting.
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05-01-2005, 10:43 PM | #11 |
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I wonder if some people here realize that the movie may not have been based off the book... ie, it wasn't the first iteration of Hitchhiker's Guide .
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05-01-2005, 10:43 PM | #12 |
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My wife and I watched it last night and both of us were disappointed. I was even tempted to get up and walk out of the movie and I have never done that.
I loved the books and was hoping for something with a similar feel, but what I got was another insipid Hollywood movie that tried too hard to make me laugh. And the "love" angle? Made me want to puke. That's what made me want to get up and leave. That and the fact that a good portion of the movie was incredibly boring. |
05-01-2005, 11:12 PM | #13 | |
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05-02-2005, 08:38 AM | #14 | |
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I have read the book, listened to the BBC radio play, and watched the BBC mini-series. All versions are different, but they are all fairly similar. The movie was really quite a bit different. This wouldn't have been so bad, but they cut out most of the explanations of everything, and they cut out a lot of the funny conversations. |
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03-08-2006, 01:25 PM | #15 |
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This might be old news to everyone else, but apparantly the BBC Radio made three new series of HHG shows in the last few years.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitchhi..._three_to_five Any clue where to get these - I loved the older ones, and would love to be able to hear these. Last edited by bob : 03-08-2006 at 01:55 PM. |
03-08-2006, 05:11 PM | #16 |
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I liked the movie - wasn't 100% faithful to the book, but was pretty good imho ...
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03-09-2006, 06:47 AM | #17 |
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FYI - The new radio episodes can be downloaded from iTunes. About $15 for each 2 - 3 hour phase.
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09-17-2008, 07:55 AM | #18 |
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New Hitchhiker's Guide book in the works....
Children's author Eoin Colfer has been commissioned to write a sixth instalment of the Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy series. Mostly Harmless, the last Hitchhiker book, was written by its creator, the late Douglas Adams, 16 years ago. Now Adams's widow, Jane Belson, has given her approval to bring back the hapless Arthur Dent in a new book entitled And Another Thing... BBC NEWS | Entertainment | New Hitchhiker's author announced |
09-17-2008, 08:24 AM | #19 |
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Holy thread necromancy.
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WTF?!!! BLASPHEMY!!!
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09-17-2008, 09:23 AM | #21 |
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Traveshamockery!
Note to Jane: Resurrecting Arthur Dent /= Resurrecting Doug. Sad, maybe, but true. |
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Fwiw I think that Colfer's "Artemis Fowl" series is fun - but this is still blasphemy.
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09-17-2008, 09:45 AM | #23 |
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This seems like a bad idea. Let ever increasingly misnamed trilogies lie in peace.
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09-17-2008, 09:50 AM | #24 |
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As a fantasy/sci-fi geek, I can't believe that I've never read any of the books. I just always put it off.
I think I'll pick up the first one after I'm done with my current book.
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