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Posted 05 May 2005 - 06:22 AM

I've never read the book, or heard the radio play. I've only seen the BBC version, and they managed it well enough.
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Posted 05 May 2005 - 10:46 AM

I haven't seen or heard either one, and I feel like I'm missing out... sad.gif

And the soonest I'll be able to see the movie will probably be Saturday.
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Posted 06 May 2005 - 09:09 PM

Am I the ONLY ONE who noticed the original Marvin was in the line at the Vogsphere prison!? It was great to see him stuck in there, and it brings back many a memory of the BBC series. In fact, I'm a go watch them in a bit to cleanse my mind of the movie bits that I didn't like.
Overall, I did like the movie, but there were some things that I didn't care for at all. Everything that's been mentioned sums it up nicely. However, I doubt that I could have done any better, so no complaints overall.
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Posted 06 May 2005 - 09:16 PM

Floppy - Sure, it might not appeal to your average hollywood denzien, but the demographic of the books weren't that.

All in all, I blame the meat packing industry for it's push of smushed whale meat. They funded the whole thing.

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Posted 07 May 2005 - 07:08 PM

All right, I just saw it today, and I have to say it:

Screw you all, I loved it.

Yes, I did. Sure, compared to the book...well, it can't hold a candle to the book, let's face facts, but when I go to see a movie adaptation of a book - no matter what I'm thinking beforehand or how much I bitch about differences and what they did wrong - when I step into that theater my mind purges itself of all expectations and fangirl hang-ups about canon and continuity, and I judge the movie for what it is all by itself. I don't compare them, I just let it stand on its own (that's how I was able to love things like Prisoner of Azkaban so much). So by itself, I loved it and thought it went rather well. (...Except for the romance-y bits - I could have done without that.) I can't hold them both to the same standards - I can't allow myself to do that. If I do, I'm just setting myself up for disappointment.

And I loved Zaphod Beeblebrox. Loved him. At some point (especially after he got his second head cut out) I just couldn't stop thinking "That is adorable." ...I can't help it, I have a "thing" for that sort of stuff...

And just the fact that he did have the second head and third arm...well, there's my main hang-up pushed aside.
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Posted 08 May 2005 - 01:36 AM

ADDITIONAL (because I can't edit now): He's not the Zaphod I imagined, of course, but he still rubbed me the right way.

Also, I've only seen a few old pictures once several months ago, but when they were trying to rescue Trillian, was that robot in the queue the orginal Marvin? It just looked so familiar...
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Posted 08 May 2005 - 04:36 AM

AHEM:

QUOTE (Heccubus @ May 6 2005, 10:09 PM)
Am I the ONLY ONE who noticed the original Marvin was in the line at the Vogsphere prison!?  It was great to see him stuck in there, and it brings back many a memory of the BBC series.

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Posted 08 May 2005 - 02:44 PM

Oops...I didn't see that bit. Or I was just too out of it to notice... blush.gif
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Posted 09 May 2005 - 09:16 PM

from all accounts, good and bad, this movie sounds like a huge disappointment.

i haven't seen it, but if ford shows up with a trolley of beer to distract the workman, rather than that brilliantly elaborate, laying in the mud bit... then it's all fucked.

"In... as you say... the mud."

and the restaurant at the end of the universe? changed it's namesake to geographical instead of temporal.

it's like the movie was made by someone who has had listened to someone try and recount the show to him while in a pub ten to fifteen years after last seeing it themselves...

it's probably an entertaining film if you haven't enjoyed the radio, books, or TV series...

the radio works because you can't see all the crazy things the characters are reacting, in the TV series the actors do such a brilliant job, and the book itself is just brilliant...

but the insufficient references to Oolon Colluphid's central theme on his ultimate proof of the non existence of god based on the existence of the Babel fish is just reckless...

a joke that i was going to transcribe here, but then thought it better that you ALL go out and purchase the DVD of the television series!!!

RIGHT BLOODY NOW!!!

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Posted 09 May 2005 - 09:46 PM

I may be able to get the DVDs of the show next month...if I'm lucky.
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Posted 09 May 2005 - 11:33 PM

Well, that's all in the cards, eh? pirate.gif
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Posted 10 May 2005 - 05:32 AM

its being repeated on bbc2 now. which is a comment only relevant if you're in the UK. which you aren't. so forget I spoke.
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Posted 10 May 2005 - 03:57 PM

Let me know if they plan on showing them on the BBCA and we'll be in business.
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Posted 11 May 2005 - 06:09 AM

Don't worry Heccubus, I noticed the orriginonal Marvin. I got really excited, but seeing as noboy else had any Hitchhikers exerience at all(I know, I was shocked too. And they consider themselves smart)and just thought I was being odd, I let it drop.
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Posted 11 May 2005 - 06:42 AM

QUOTE (barend @ May 9 2005, 09:16 PM)
and the restaurant at the end of the universe? changed it's namesake to geographical instead of temporal.


How did they managed to pull that off? The whole point of the joke was that it was temporal...
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