HitchHikers Guide to the Galaxy
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You are missing out big time then, as books, in my experience, are far superior in plot, storyline and everything. Having read the HHGG books and listened to the radio plays I would expect the film to be missing 90% of the story. I have yet to see it, but how can you show the storyline from five books, part of the first one ran to 8 or 9 hours of radio plays, in a film lasting two hours or less? If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it. Margaret Fuller (1810 - 1850)
The film has the vague story of the 1st book, which is the vague story of the first 3 episodes of the 1st radio series (apparently... I'm yet to see the film, and I'm not sure if I want to from what I've heard) -- Help me! I'm turning into a grapefruit! Buzzwords!
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I just saw the movie. My reaction: :doh: :sigh: cheers, Chris Maunder
I loved it. I am a fan, after all. I have 5 1/2 books out of the trilogy (Last one, "Salmon of doubt" got published from scraping on the author's hard drive after he passed away in 2001) I also have the DVD edition of the tv show. I wish I had access to the radio series. I wish I still had that text only adventure game by Infocom. I would say that about 25% to 33% of the movie is original, not found anywhere else. This is consistent. The author, Douglas Adams, (here I would say "god save his soul", but he is a firm atheist, so I wont) kept introducing inconsistencies from one version to the next. He was that creative. I am a fan, and very sad that he died. I know that for the last 10 years before he died, he fought and fought and struggled to have a movie out of this series of book. My wife, who doesn't know anything about science fiction, got lots of good laughs out of the movie, even if we watched it in french. My loving it does not cound, since I was sold before I even bought my ticket, but I am pround of the end result of the movie. Also, I can't get the song out of my head, "So long and thanks for all the fish" :) 42
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I loved it. I am a fan, after all. I have 5 1/2 books out of the trilogy (Last one, "Salmon of doubt" got published from scraping on the author's hard drive after he passed away in 2001) I also have the DVD edition of the tv show. I wish I had access to the radio series. I wish I still had that text only adventure game by Infocom. I would say that about 25% to 33% of the movie is original, not found anywhere else. This is consistent. The author, Douglas Adams, (here I would say "god save his soul", but he is a firm atheist, so I wont) kept introducing inconsistencies from one version to the next. He was that creative. I am a fan, and very sad that he died. I know that for the last 10 years before he died, he fought and fought and struggled to have a movie out of this series of book. My wife, who doesn't know anything about science fiction, got lots of good laughs out of the movie, even if we watched it in french. My loving it does not cound, since I was sold before I even bought my ticket, but I am pround of the end result of the movie. Also, I can't get the song out of my head, "So long and thanks for all the fish" :) 42
I saw it last weekend with five others - we all hated it. The plotline was, at best, like fishnet stockings are to carrying water, the characters woefully underdeveloped and the script as thin as my hairline... I'm a huge fan of the original books, the radio show and (to some extent) the telly series but as a FILM this did not work. I felt very sorry for two of my friends who hadn't read the book as it was even more disjointed for them.. Avoid where possible. :zzz: Tim Stubbs
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all 4? It was a trilogy in 5 parts. -- Help me! I'm turning into a grapefruit! Buzzwords!
So what? I have all 5 books in 4 physical books, part 1 and 2 sharing one cover. _________________________________ Please inform me about my English mistakes, I still try to learn your language!
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I loved it. I am a fan, after all. I have 5 1/2 books out of the trilogy (Last one, "Salmon of doubt" got published from scraping on the author's hard drive after he passed away in 2001) I also have the DVD edition of the tv show. I wish I had access to the radio series. I wish I still had that text only adventure game by Infocom. I would say that about 25% to 33% of the movie is original, not found anywhere else. This is consistent. The author, Douglas Adams, (here I would say "god save his soul", but he is a firm atheist, so I wont) kept introducing inconsistencies from one version to the next. He was that creative. I am a fan, and very sad that he died. I know that for the last 10 years before he died, he fought and fought and struggled to have a movie out of this series of book. My wife, who doesn't know anything about science fiction, got lots of good laughs out of the movie, even if we watched it in french. My loving it does not cound, since I was sold before I even bought my ticket, but I am pround of the end result of the movie. Also, I can't get the song out of my head, "So long and thanks for all the fish" :) 42
Bamaco2 wrote: I wish I had access to the radio series. http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/networks/radio4/aod.shtml?radio4/hitchhikers[^] Was broadcast yesterday, and will be up for a week until the next episode is broadcast. As for a game, the BBC site has something similar.... http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/hitchhikers/game.shtml[^]
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I just saw the movie. My reaction: :doh: :sigh: cheers, Chris Maunder
I haven't seen it, wondered if it was going to be any good ... now I know. *sigh* Thanks for your movie "review". D.
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I just saw the movie. My reaction: :doh: :sigh: cheers, Chris Maunder
Haven't seen the film yet , loved the BBC series,the books. My only problem is that the answer to life is actually not 42 but 137. Google it! .nuetter
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Bamaco2 wrote: I wish I had access to the radio series. http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/networks/radio4/aod.shtml?radio4/hitchhikers[^] Was broadcast yesterday, and will be up for a week until the next episode is broadcast. As for a game, the BBC site has something similar.... http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/hitchhikers/game.shtml[^]
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We should pity the poor guys who watch the movie without knowing the books. :(( _________________________________ Please inform me about my English mistakes, I still try to learn your language!
I pity guys like me, who, knowing it sucks, still have to go, since it's, you know, Hitchiker on big screen. :((
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I just saw the movie. My reaction: :doh: :sigh: cheers, Chris Maunder
I agree, I was very disappointed. :(
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You are missing out big time then, as books, in my experience, are far superior in plot, storyline and everything. Having read the HHGG books and listened to the radio plays I would expect the film to be missing 90% of the story. I have yet to see it, but how can you show the storyline from five books, part of the first one ran to 8 or 9 hours of radio plays, in a film lasting two hours or less? If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it. Margaret Fuller (1810 - 1850)
I was just making fun of the standard line given out by dummies. It could be worse, one could be reading the book "based on the movie". That is known to happen (the book, not the reading!) I think quite a few movies in the US have spawned books, though I can't recall even one immediately. :rose:
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We should pity the poor guys who watch the movie without knowing the books. :(( _________________________________ Please inform me about my English mistakes, I still try to learn your language!
Except that maybe they'll be able to enjoy the film because they don't know the books? Their expectations won't be sky high? Stuart Dootson 'Java, Basic, who cares - it's all a bunch of tree-hugging hippy cr*p'
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I was just making fun of the standard line given out by dummies. It could be worse, one could be reading the book "based on the movie". That is known to happen (the book, not the reading!) I think quite a few movies in the US have spawned books, though I can't recall even one immediately. :rose:
Rambo "First Blood" was one. First came a really good book (He died at the end), then the film (open ending to make way for sequel) then the book based on the film so that sequels to the book could be written. Unfortunately there are to many dummies in the world. If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it. Margaret Fuller (1810 - 1850)
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I just saw the movie. My reaction: :doh: :sigh: cheers, Chris Maunder
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