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Posted 12 April 2005 - 07:32 PM

A week ago I saw the trailer for the new HGttG movie and... I feel sad.

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I'm gonna go into the corner and cry now.
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Posted 12 April 2005 - 07:36 PM

Yeah, I saw it and was a little dissappointed. I will reserve judgement until I see it however. But I will say this, Marvin the Paranoid Android was never meant to be round. He should look like he was created from old tin cans and TV sets someone left lying around.
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Posted 12 April 2005 - 08:17 PM

I haven't been able to see the trailer, and I refuse to read any reviews. Using the power of pure optimism, I will not allow myself to judge this in any way until I see the finished product with my own eyes. Still, one thing I have to scream and rage to the heavens about:

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HE ONLY HAS ONE HEAD! yell.gif

And only two arms! Goddammit all!
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Posted 13 April 2005 - 06:06 AM

*sigh* I've been worried about this movie ever since the cast a guy from the office. I fear it will go the magic roundabout route and destroy all love for the series.

On the happy side the BBC radio 4 is broadcasting the adaptation of the last books from may 3rd onwards, along with whatever original cast members are still clinging to life
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Posted 13 April 2005 - 01:11 PM

JANE: Don't Panic.
"I had a lot of different ideas. At one point, Luke, Leia and Ben were all going to be little people, and we did screen tests to see if we could do that." -George Lucas, in STAR WARS: the Annotated Screenplays (p197).
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Posted 13 April 2005 - 01:32 PM

I'm not panicking. Panicking is what I'll do on April 29th if I still have no way to get to the theater.

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Posted 13 April 2005 - 01:46 PM

But the important part is that you have a towel. I know that I'm going to hitchike. That's the only acceptable way to go to see this movie.
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Posted 30 April 2005 - 12:06 PM

I saw HHGG yesterday, my birthday treat to myself. It was actually quite nice and I enjoyed it. Essentially I went in with low expectations (the best way to see a movie) and came out pleasantly surprised. It's a subtly different kind of humour, not a laugh riot like the book, but it has it's moments. They did do a fairly coherent job of making the seemingly random series of events that occurs in the book into a credible plotline. I took my mom, who has never read, more less heard of HHGG, and she quite liked the movie as well (always a relief). All in all, don't go into the theater expecting to see your favorite scenes from the book laid out exactly as you had imagined... enjoy the movie as a whole and it will be fun!

Overall.... mostly harmless.

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The acting was.... ok. It was a little poor at the beginning (IMO), especially Mos Def, but got better as the movie progressed.

Marvin was not half as bad as I thought he would be... though I still have troubles coming to terms why he looks like a midget in a 1950's spacesuit.

And Zahpod does have 3 arms and 2 heads. innocent.gif
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Posted 30 April 2005 - 12:16 PM

I have to agree. I was quite afraid when I went in, but came out happy. Sure, they cut out a lot of the book itself(which I think was the best part, dammit!), but they came out with a much better and stronger plot. The humour was less dialouge based, more visual. Zaphod's extra head was done in an interesting way, and a reason was actually given as to why he had grown an extra head after meeting Tricia at the party. Martin was handled excellently. The new body moves in such a depressing, plodding way. And Alan Rickman doesn an excellent job of his voice. The ending was a bit crap, though.
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Posted 30 April 2005 - 12:32 PM

Extremely mild spoilers:

There is definitely missing in Hollywood an understanding of how British humour works. This obsessive need for romances and gratuitous happy endings is dreary; also I would have preferrd the desultory narrative of the radio play to the standard hero/villain plot that the movie offered. I went in with high expectations, and while I like the look, and all of the actors are bang-on, I sure didn't like what they did to Zaphod's character and I sure sure didn't llike what they did with the Vogons. All the extra stuff added to give it a Hollywood ending (a total nonsense one by the way, but at least no more nonsense than the last two novels) only took away more of my favourite lines. Overall effect being that is seemed a bit rushed. For instance, in the film Ford never explains how they managed to get a lift from the Vogons, and the Babel fish story is lacking its punchline. And so on.
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Posted 30 April 2005 - 12:57 PM

I just saw it, and I came away saying, eh. It was ok. Not good, not bad. I actually think HHGTG is just better as a book, and many of the lines simply aren't as good in film. For example, they did the petunias thing exactly right with the missiles, it came almost straight from the book, and yet, while hilarious on paper, it just wasn't funny on film. I really don't think they did anything specifically wrong, I just think it may not translate as well. And the pacing sucked, but again, that was because they didn't know what to include and what not to. They either should have completely avoided a true plot as the book did, or they should've focused on one plot and just created a slew of new jokes (with some old ones) in the spirit of the Hitchhiker's Guide and its characters. They tried to eat their cake and have it too, and it didn't work.

It's a shame too, because Restaurant at the End of the Universe was my favorite of the books, and they probably won't make that since this won't be a big success.
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Posted 30 April 2005 - 01:13 PM

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I still want to see it.
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Posted 30 April 2005 - 02:11 PM

The plot was muddled, presumably baffling for anyone not familiar with the book. The tacked on love story was drab, and why were they dragging us around those different planets again?

It was just...meh.
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Posted 30 April 2005 - 02:23 PM

Well, decision made. I'm waiting for the DVD.
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Posted 30 April 2005 - 03:20 PM

Does the movie have the falling sperm whale part? There's few things in this world that can beat a whale blowing up or going SPLAT. The first time I read it I was in a fit of hysterical giggles for about ten solid minutes.
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