omg this looks so great, anyaway whats your oppinion on the forthcoming movie and the books (if you have read them) :choc:
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omg this looks so great, anyaway whats your oppinion on the forthcoming movie and the books (if you have read them) :choc:
It's going to suck. Hard.
You can't take out more than 3/4 the jokes, and replace them with an incomprehensible storyline and expect it to be good.
I'll be seeing it opening night. :D
yeah me too :D :choc:Quote:
Originally Posted by Jebus
Everyone says it's gonna stink. But the book...'tis awesome. I hope for the book's sake that the movie is nice!!
the audio tapes/radio versions were the best, that is how the series started
the old movie was god damn awful and not funny whatsoever, and the new movie looks quite funny
The books were wonderful. Now matter how much the movie might suck I still plan on watching it.
I'm looking forward to seeing it. I loved the TV series, although I never actually read the book. It looks alright but I'm not sure if I'll like it as much as the TV series, I really liked the actors in that. And Marvin looks weird. xD
Yeah I can't really imagine an Arthur Dent better than in the TV show (not sure which, as I think there were two, but I'm guessing the original). I think 'the Book' is gonna be hardest to replace though, the voice for the radio and TV show was fantastic...Peter Jones I think the name was...
I can't see how it'd suck too bad - Adams *did* write the screenplay for it.
yeah, i dont think it will be as good as the book but it looks awesome anyway :choc:Quote:
Originally Posted by Super Christ
Well, you can never go wrong with a 5 book trilogy :P
4 book trilogy!
1 guide ott he galaxy
2 the resteraunt at the end of the universe
3 life the universe and everything
4 so long and thanks for all the fish!
There's also Mostly Harmless, though my copy of the HHG is the "Trilogy of Four" that you said. I've yet to read Mostly Harmless.Quote:
Originally Posted by Croyles
mostly harmless does not belong to the trilogy, its part of the Dirk Gently books.
Mostly Harmless is the end of the series, where everything comes full circle and ends, that and it states on the book that it's the fifth in the trilogy.
I'll watch it, I guess, I never saw the series or heard the radio plays, I just read the books.
Hitchhiker's Guide:
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The Restaurant at the end of the Universe
Life, The Universe, and Everything
So Long, and Thanks for all the Fish
Mostly Harmless
Plus the short story: Young Zaphod Plays it Safe
Dirk Gently:
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
The Long, Dark Teatime of the Soul
And an unfinished story which was released in The Salmon of Doubt.
*show off*
Anyway, DA wrote the ORIGINAL screenplay. That doesn't mean they still didn't ruin it.
www.planetmagrathea.com/notinthefilm.html
www.planetmagrathea.com/shortreview.html
ending of series! it ended on the greatest cliffhanger of the whole series, obviously Adams had been planning a sixth :choc:Quote:
Originally Posted by Lindy
Felt more to me like he was just trying to end the series with the last two books.
Yeah, I'm afraid it won't be too good, but it looks decent, and I love the series...I just hope they don't mess it up too badly. The guy who played Arthur in the BBC show did his voice for the radio series, so that's why he was so perfect.
or so PREFECT get it, hohoho im so funny :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :choc:Quote:
Originally Posted by Azar
I'm a sucker for Sci-Fi and special effects. This is a movie I'm really looking forward to. I have never read the book but I'm sure it would be worth while to read. I may pick it up someday.
your gonna be disapointed then, it's more of a comedy :choc:Quote:
Originally Posted by Yugo
I read all the books, and i got tickets 5 weeks in advance.this should tell you my opinion
Douglas Adams did write the screenplay. Apparently, he didn't want the movie to be done. Something like "Over my dead body" is probably the utterance he procured concerning the issue.Quote:
Originally Posted by Super Christ
Now he's dead and we're all going to go and watch the movie that he didn't want us to see because he didn't deem it good enough.
Let us march on and desecrate the rotting corpse of a man (An atheist for heaven's sake) who we all seem to admire and respect. Meanwhile, we can feed his enemies and not have an extremely enjoyable time!!!!
(Because I guarantee you that the movie will not measure up)
said in true HGTTG styleQuote:
Originally Posted by Martyr
What?Quote:
Originally Posted by Martyr
Where are you getting that Adams didn't want this movie to be made? He and the executive producer of the movie had been working together for 10 years to get the project off the ground. The makers of the movie had both Adams' approval while he was alive, and his familiy's blessing after he died.
From everything I've heard about the movie, it stays extremely faithful to the spirit of the book.
I can't wait to see it.
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Originally Posted by Miriel
I like to keep this on the down low, but (SPOILER)I could be wrong
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But, besides all that, I'm pretty sure I'm right.
And from everything I've heard they took all the jokes and replaced them with slapstick and bathroom humor. We'll just have to wait and see.Quote:
Originally Posted by Miriel
It's going to suck.
I can't wait to see it. I read the awesome books.
Personally, I think, compared to the book, it will suck. That is why I'm pretending the movie is called Hitch Hikers Guide TO the Galaxy(NEw Capital letters andf a new space). That way, I never read the Hitch Hikers Guide TO the galaxy, so I wont be dissapointed.
LOL.Quote:
Originally Posted by Siric
I read the books. Try eating the books.
I just saw the movie on Tuesday night. I thought it was good. But, then I haven't read the books or seen the TV show.
I only went cause my dad got free tickets to see the show. :D
i saw the moovie last night and i thought it was brilliant, alot of things werent the same but they kept most of the good jokes in and with Bill Bailey as the voice of the whale..classic :choc:
i was mightly impressed with the british actors. it could of been made bad but they did so well!
plus bill baily as a whale! xD hello ground
xD
and stephan fry as the narrator
xD
soooooooooo good! i laughed my sockies off!
the guy that played Slartibartfast was pretty good too :choc:Quote:
Originally Posted by boris no no
I'm going to see it in two and a half hours. I'm psyched.
I'm seeing it tomorrow...only cause that's the movie my friend decided on.
Saw it tonight. Loved it. I'm one that hasn't read the books, but with the constant quoting of it going on online, I understood quite a few of the jokes.
I just got back from it. The first half followed the book almost perfectly and was absolutely amazing. However, when it started adding in things that weren't in the book at all I started to get rather iffy. It was still very funny, but I'm a bit disappointed with what they chose to change. They revealed Deep Thought far too early in the plot and completely took away the suspense for the Ultimate Answer.
I really enjoyed the narration when they would bring out bits from the guide, especially because a lot of them were taken directly from the book.
And was that Alan Rickman as Marvin? Marvin rocked.
i thought the new stuff was pretty good, i quite liked the whole part of them being on Vogsphere, that was pretty funny, and yes it was Alan Rickman as Marvin and he did a damn good job of it :choc:Quote:
Originally Posted by Zaphier
I saw it earlier today.
Although I've never read the book or seen any of the franchise , I felt after all the hype it was a touch of a letdown- not that the story sucked ( well at least what resembled something logical was quite cool) but a lot of the humour didn't appeal to me all that much: I really didn't get the joke behind the " Answer to Life,the Universe and Everything " being the number 42 ... or the " Point of View guns." :confused: Call me stupid ...
However, I did like the characters - that crazy narcissistic President was just hilarious and I thought Alan Rickman's voice was just perfect for Marvin.Bill Nighy did a good turn as the planetary industrialist.Besides that , the visual effects were amazing.
Anyway,I think I may have appreciated it better if I'd taken the time to read the book beforehand.
OK, I saw it opening night (last night here) and it ROCKED!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I thought it was utterly hilarious... lol, deep think was funny (I've never read the books, so this was new) I got all of the jokes it was funny..."Hmmm... What am I, ooh! Whats this? I'll call it a tail! What's this I'm rapidly approaching? cloud, mound, fround... I know! Ground!" XDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
I was afraid of spoiling something, so I'm not going to say much, even though I want to.
Simply: It isn't the same as the book, even though there are many of the same situations and jokes.
The movie has some very amusing new bits, but many more that are inferior.
I like the book better.
And I pray for the young students of the future who watch the movie instead of read the Hitchikers Guide when they're trying to get a book report done in the last minute.
I enjoyed it.
I wish that they'd kept in certain plot elements since the only complaint that all my friends had (and none of them had read the book) was that the plot was pretty flimsy. I could get where they're coming from with that complaint. The movie is pretty frantically paced, and for the uninitiated it might've been a little hard to grasp what was happening. Which is precisely how Arthur felt...so maybe that was the point?
But still, it was funny, and quirky, and a decent adaptation of the book. It wasn't amazing, but it worked.
I absolutely loved the animated guide. It was perfection.
If you stayed after the credits, they had a nice little extra segment with the Hitchhiker's guide.
Loved it. A good adaptation. Can't wait for the sequel.
Adams was strongly considering turning The Salmon of Doubt, the unfinished Dirk Gently story, into the sixth Hitchhiker book. However, Mostly Harmless was, when he wrote it, the end of the Hitchhiker series.Quote:
Originally Posted by Squinn
Anyway, copy/pasted from my LJ:
Compared to the old TV shows...I'd have to say the movie was better. The TV show completely followed the books, but that only leads to disappointment. Plus, the Vogons, the spaceship, Magrathea...the movie has a huge advantage with more modern graphics. However, I have to say the old Guide was, if anything, better than the movie version(though the movie version was well done, too).Quote:
I just got back from seeing Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. And I wasn't disappointed.
This was chiefly because I didn't go in expecting it to be as good as the book, because that would be an impossible task(or, as Trillian would say, "very improbable").
First off, I have to say, the "one-head-under-the-other" thing for Zaphod was kinda lame. And am I the only person who pronounced it "Zah-fod" instead of "Zay-fod?"
However, the characters were decent, there were plenty of funny spots, the Guide was done about as well as it could have been, and Marvin(who was my favorite character from the books) was absolutely perfect. And, most importantly, it was a fitting tribute to the late Douglas Adams, the most creative, humorous, and brilliant writer in history, who unfortunately didn't get to see the movie he tried for years and years to make.
i just got back from it. not sure what to think. i thought alot of it was funny, but not in the laugh out loud kind of way. and i didnt really get most of it (didnt read the book) however, it did make me want to read the book, in hopes that ill understand it better and figure out what some of this stuff is anyway.
The book was far better, and I overall enjoyed the movie, but I'd have to say it was only "decent." I disliked the way it was kiddyized, and the romance between Trillian and Arthur just didn't seem well done at all. I didn't like it when it strayed from the book, but I know it's good, because if it was exactly the same it'd be dull. Some of the stuff they added in was hilarious, and other parts were just a bit lame. Zaphod was outstanding, and Alan Rickman was perfect as Marvin. One thing I thought was awesome--seeing the BBC show's Marvin in the line on Vogsphere. Sweet cameo.
i always pronounced it Zah-Fod as well and i always didnt imagine the heart of gold to be sphericalQuote:
Originally Posted by Raistlin
oh and for all you lovely brittish people, the original tv series is showing agian from Tuesday night at 11:20 on BBC2 :D
:choc:
Great movie! Can't wait to read the book!