Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy
by I saw this opening night. Awesome.
Hilarious.
It diverged from the book a bit, but Adams wrote most of the script so most of the changes came from him, and he worked with the production company before he died. Also, this was originally a radio series, and it changed a bit when it went to book form, so its normal for it to be changed to fit the medium.
Performances by all the cast were great, I especially liked Arthur Dent played by the guy from the British comedy "The Office". Mos Def as Ford Prefect was pretty good. Marvin was funny but not the look I was expecting, but then again I'd seen the British TV mini-series so I guess I had pre-conceived notions (The TV Marvin made a cameo!).
Overall a lot of fun, and they definitely left an opening for sequels based on the other books, I hope they do some more.
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i just had an idea *smack* ouch!
i watched it with my dad, we both didn't like it too much. he seemed to genuinely hate it, i only mildly hated it.
i made him a cd of some of the radio shows, and he LOVED that. so i think the movie just didn't do the whole thing justice.
I agree. It blew chunks. I watched the first 1/2 hour and turned it off.
I never read the book and i am not a huge fan of sci-fi
so, we rented this movie recently and i hated it, quite a lot
just hated the whole thing, not even anything in particular. Hated it.
I like Chris' humor, and I think you do too. Therefore, I think you might actually like the books. It's not very SCI-FI-ish.
Just general weird hilarity. The writer is great, so the book is hilarious. The movie is not.
Has anyone else seen the Alan J.W. Bell one? I haven't seen it entirely. What I have seen tho, gets a good laugh. The supercomputer is real laughable just from the way it looks. Eventually I'll buy this version on DVD. Have it saved to my Amazon wish list. It was a low-budget film.. reminded me of Star Trek's real real early days.
Okay..now that I've read everything but the last few chapters of "Mostly Harlmess" I'm totally glad that I saw it before reading. They definetly mixed things up a bit..not too bad. Don't know why they even encorporated "so long and thanks for all the fish" in it since that's not brought up until the third book when Arthur is back on Earth. Thought the Vogons were pretty good, Zaphod's head definetly was not what is should have been. What the heck was the whole scene with him leaving his head with that guy? That doesn't even happen...at all? I don't think that the fact that Earth was the better computer that Deep Thought created was made clear in the movie.
This is from IMBD.com
John Malkovich's character, a religious leader, was created especially for the movie by Douglas Adams.
Okay not bad ^.^
I didn't like the way the supercomputer looked. I like the one from the older movie better.
It was alright.. I just need to see it with an audience that can appreciate it. The audience was really dead when I went. Felt like I was the only one getting the humour (and probably was). Felt like the time I saw Napolean Dynamite with a British audience.
Dan asked me about the original radio series (which roughly covers the same material as the first two books), and told me he found "The Quandary". As I suspected this is part of the new radio play covering the last 3 books.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/hitchhikers/newseries.shtml
According to this the Quandary is "So long and thanks for all the fish"
they DO want to make more:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/film/4491259.stm
not too too far off from the book altho zaphods heads really annoyed me
agreed
Ben was complaining about that.
i saw it opening night and wasnt really too thrilled with it. i liked the president character and some of the stuff was funny, but the movie was like 2 hours long and yet i felt like nothing happened. i was kind of dissapointed. I'm reading the book now.
haha yeah i did like zaphod a)those gold shorts were hot b) i think owen wilson would have been great playing him though i thought the guy who did play him did a good job
i thought the same thing! actually i think it was just because that guy kinda reminded me of owen wilson
Yeah, defininetly thought the same thing too.
nice. it was #1 at the box office this weekend. I almost saw it twice last weekend, I'll probably go see it again this weekend.
I was kind of disappointed that I was the only one that brought a towel.
lol. spoken like a true nerd.
I enjoyed it. I'm glad I didn't read the book first before seeing it because I know I get so anal and angry over changes and all.
i thought it was pretty good, too. the only reason i was ok w/ most of the changes was also b/c it was from Adams himself. i went w/ people who never read the book and i can see it might be a little confusing if you have no idea what is going on. and marvin was definitely not how i imagined-i pictured him a little more along the lines of Bender from Futurama
I agree about marvin. He's my favorite character. Not only did he not look like what I hoped he would (even though I already knew what he'd look like.) I thought his character wasn't very funny in the movie. But in the books he's hilarious.
I agree, for anyone who's never read the books, it's certainly confusing.
I LOVED the Hitchiker's Guide entries. SO WELL DONE, and FUNNY!
I totally forgot that the bowl of petunias thought "oh, no, not again". I love the way Adams brings this back later! SO FUNNY! That whole sperm whale part was done so perfectly. I had forgotten where they had come from...
The special effects were wonderful. But there's just somethings that Adams wrote that just can't be shown. I love the way he plays with language.
it's true, something definitely gets lost in the translation from book to movie, but i'm glad that they did keep in some of the funny little details.
yeah, the Guid animations were great. I loved when they turned into thread. hahaha. so ridiculous.
oh man! The infinite improbability drive's Abnormality factor is hilarious!
I wish they could put on film what Adams describes when Ford and Arthur are first saved! Penguins and pudding is part of what I remember. I was laughing so hard at this point in the book, I was crying!
hahaha yeah that was a really great part