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| Posted by: Edward Teach | | It's been a long time coming, First it was the best selling book series by Douglas Adams, Then a BBC TV series and BBC Radio Series and now coming in May 2005.
For all you Hitchhiker's Guide Fans
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
The Answer is 42. Do you have your towel?
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| Posted by: Shadow Stalker | | They better not botch this. It looks promising though. Man, I love those books. | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: Edward Teach | | It's from Touchtone which is owned by Disney or was owned. I think they may have spun it off. | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: chodder | | Since I work at a movie theatre I made sure I got the poster to this one  | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: chodder | | I've got tons of posters. The good ones I put up... but I used a thumb tack on all 4 corners so hopefully that doesn’t decrease the value that much. Any hoot, I am looking forward to this movie. The trailer looks pretty promising. Surely to be a sci-fi classic in the future. | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: Mr. F | | The BBC series is already a sci-fi classic.
I hope they dont try to do the whole book in one movie; they would lose too many of the weird tangents the series was constantly running off on.
Any movie with a manic-depressive robot is OK in my book | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: gaboman | | The new hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy trailer is online. I saw it on the amazon website, and I can't find another link for it  so just look around a bit... | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: Edward Teach | | I'll have to say the the trailer on the internet is a bit less than that in the theater. | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: gaboman | | The trailer at http://hitchhikers.movies.go.com/main.html isn't the one I caught on amazon.com... I'm talking a trailer trailer, not a teaser trailer
The one I saw featured Arthur at work, then Ford tells him that he's an Alien, they're told the world will be blown up to make way for the intergalactic freeway. From then on, had some shots of various silly things, a few of Marvin... looked awesome. Can't find at all now  | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: HECK! | | I remember hearing about these books back in the day, but I have no idea what it's about...
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| Posted by: gaboman | | Was a radio series first, on the BBC. If you ever get a chance to listen to it, you should give it a try. You'll laugh your ass off. | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: chodder | | LOL that last scene with the things smacking them in the faces was hilarious | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: Edward Teach | | Well anyone who's read the books knows the humor and will surely love this movie. | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: gaboman | | Wait... is it based on just the first book or the trilogy?
Or the "trilogy"?
It just said best selling book "Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy", which implies just the first book... but... I dunno, they could make the first few books into a pretty good movie easy enough. | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: Edward Teach | | I expect just the first book, since that was Hitchhikers Guide. The others all had different names like, Goodbye and Thanks For All The Fish, and Restaurant at the End of the Universe, Young Zaphod plays it safe and Life the Universe and Everthing.. | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: gaboman | | Not particularly in that order, but you're right  the thing is, the other books have quite a lot of interesting stuff through them. If they want to concentrate solely on the first book, will they make more movies (provided this one's popular enough)? I really hope so. | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: gaboman | | In all the clips I've seen, Zaphod Beeblebrox seems to only have one head  wonder what the deal with that is... | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: Edward Teach | | Zaphods head wasn't that good in the TV series, but graphics are much better now.
I think I need to re-read it before I go see it. It's been a good 10 years since I read the book, because I don't remember those things popping out of the ground smacking them in the face. Maybe those would be better than Land Mines and our military should think about using them instead of Land Mines. | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: gaboman | | I'm pretty sure those landmines were not in the book. When they tried to land on that weird, non-existant planet, 2 missiles come after them, Arthur turns on the infinity circuit dealy, and the missiles turn into a whale and a bowl of cashews (or something similar). I remember that because the nuts thought "not again" when it happened. Then they landed, and started into the hole the whale made pretty much right away.
I like the design of Marvin, he looks good. Pitiful and all. | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: gaboman | | I just read, Alan Rickman is doing the voice of Marvin. I've gotta say, that's pretty cool his voice is suitable for a paranoid andriod. | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: adityamahesh | | Go to Google and type this in the search box: 'the answer to life, the universe, and everything', all lower case. Check the answer given by Google's calculator. 
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| Posted by: gaboman | | Hahhahaha I can see what's coming already gotta love those blokes at google. | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: gaboman | | (I guess this may contain spoilers for people who don't want to be spoilt. If this is you, don't read what I have to say because, quite honestly, I don't have time to listen to any whining).
Okay, people who know the story, read the books, heard the radio show, saw the original mini series, or who have been lucky enough to see the the movie already know that when Deep Thought - the second most powerful computer to be created, ever - was asked what the answer to "Life, the Universe, and Everything" is, after seven and a half million years of calculation, the computer finally got the answer "42".
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"Forty-two!" yelled Loonquawl. "Is that all you've got to show for seven and a half million years' work?"
"I checked it very thoroughly," said the computer, "and that quite definitely is the answer. I think the problem, to be quite honest with you, is that you've never actually known what the question is." |
Later, Arthur Dent tries to discover what the question actually is, as he's the only survivor after the destruction of the first most powerful computer to be created, ever: the Earth (blown up 5 minutes before the billion year calculation was to be finished). After playing with scrabble pieces to construct the question, he finally gets "WHAT DO YOU GET IF YOU MULTIPLY SIX BY NINE".
So you multiply six by nine and you get forty two.
Completely bizarre as it is, the story and theories behind the answer and the question make an interesting topic.
A popular theory is that the question, when calculated in base 13, actually does equal 42. This was immediately dismissed by author Douglas Adams with the simple observation: "nobody writes jokes in base 13".
Another theory has been that the question, in actuality, should be "think of a number, any number". This was a question put forward by Marvin the Paranoid Android, who, according to himself, has a brain as big as a planet (which would mean it's pretty darn big, by most measures).
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"I gave a speech once," he said suddenly and apparently unconnectedly. "You may not instantly see why I bring the subject up, but that is because my mind works so phenomenally fast, and I am at a rough estimate thirty billion times more intelligent than you. Let me give you an example. Think of a number, any number."
"Er, five," said the mattress.
"Wrong," said Marvin. "You see?" |
As "think of a number, any number" isn't actually a question, I personally think it's ridiculous.
It was later discovered, in the books, that the answer and the question could not both be known about in the same universe, otherwise it would implode or disappear or something, and be replaced by something even weirder than we've already got.
We do sort of find out the question, however. At the end of the final book (which may not have meant to be the final book, but I guess we'll never know). Arthur and company enter a club, located on street #42. What happens next implies the question may be something similar to "Where does the story end?"
Theories continue to pour out about the significance of 42, but funnily enough, the answer has been given to us (nerds are just too stupid to listen) by Douglas himself:
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| The answer to this is very simple. It was a joke. It had to be a number, an ordinary, smallish number, and I chose that one. Binary representations, base thirteen, Tibetan monks are all complete nonsense. I sat at my desk, stared into the garden and thought '42 will do' I typed it out. End of story. |
Truthfully, the last explanation makes the most sense. | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: HECK! | | I love this. I think Jack Bauer is the man... oh wait, that's 24. My bad.
I wish I would have read some of these books back in the day, I'm just not that amped to see this movie. That info. looks funny though, who knows.
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| Posted by: gaboman | | As far as sci-fi goes, it doesn't get better than Hitchhiker's. Smart and funny at the same time. Go to the movies and see it. If you don't enjoy it, I owe you a pint, okay? | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: Pippin | | My friends and I are pumped for the movie. We're going to show up to the theater with 42 pinned to our shirts and a towel over our shoulders. I read the first book in the 7th grade and loved it, but in watching the previews I think I'll be very disappointed. My main complaint is that they made Arthur American. WHAT?! Part of what makes him so funny is that he is very very English! I mean, he overloaded the computer by taking up all its extra space and having it make him tea! Which, if memory serves, was bloody delicious. | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: hatchjaw | | Arthur American? Are you sure you're not talking about Ford Prefect? Mos Def who plays him, is American. But the guy who plays Arthur, Martin Freeman, is definitely English, and what little I could hear from the previews Arthur sounds pretty English too. I could be mistaken of course not being English myself, but I'd imagine they'd at least get Arthur right.
As far as the movie goes, I think I'm going to be disappointed by some things but I'm generally hopeful about it. The trailers have some good stuff in them, like the whale. | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: Pippin | | Well, I DID only hear Arthur say three words, (What is this?), so I could have been wrong. In short sentences English and American can sounds a lot alike.
Ford is American for sure, though. I heard him say more than three words. His accent would be different from Arthur, but I always firgured that after all those years he had spent in England his accent would have changed. | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: gaboman | | Arthur's definitely English (Martin Freeman, I believe, is the guy who's playing him). I've got no problem with Ford Prefect being American, to be honest... it's not like he was really English either I just hope he's eccentric enough. | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: adityamahesh | | Well, Ford definitely speaks like an Englishman, but Mos Def is funny enough that I am sure he will do the character justice.
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| Posted by: Shadow Stalker | | you know whats really wierd? 6x9 doesn't equal 42.
and am i the only one who didn't like the way Mostly Harmless ended? | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: gaboman | | Shadow didn't read my post 
6 x 9 equals 42 in base 13. Though like it says, that's not the reason he chose 6 times 9 as the question...
Well, from what I've read Douglas Adams was pretty depressed when he wrote Mostly Harmless, so that's why the book is so depressing. However, most think he was planning another book to fix that up. We'll never know though. | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: adityamahesh | | Mostly Harmess is the fifth and last book in the trilogy, right? From what I heard, he was tired of being asked to continue the series and that is why he killed off everyone.
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| Posted by: Pippin | |
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adityamahesh said this in post #13 :
Mostly Harmess is the fifth and last book in the trilogy, right? From what I heard, he was tired of being asked to continue the series and that is why he killed off everyone.
M. |
Like Sherlock Holmes
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| Posted by: gaboman | | If you read "The Salmon of Doubt" (a book published after his death), there's an interview in which he says that he would love to finish the series on a more positive note with a sixth book, and said he just had a crappy year. If only he'd gotten to it soon  | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: Shadow Stalker | |
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gaboman said this in post #12 :
Shadow didn't read my post
6 x 9 equals 42 in base 13. Though like it says, that's not the reason he chose 6 times 9 as the question...
Well, from what I've read Douglas Adams was pretty depressed when he wrote Mostly Harmless, so that's why the book is so depressing. However, most think he was planning another book to fix that up. We'll never know though. |
Oh oops, must've missed that. Makes sense about Mostly Harmless.
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| Posted by: Lawless | | Film has its moments, but misses the heart
By Christy Lemire
Associated Press
Friday, April 29, 2005 Posted: 9:13 AM EDT (1313 GMT)
(AP) -- Surely "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" would seem sufficiently well-known and have a large enough cult following for its various incarnations that comparing it to something else -- another book, another TV series, another movie, whatever -- would be pointless. You know it or you don't. You love it or you don't.
But sitting through the long-awaited film version of Douglas Adams' beloved book calls to mind another ambitious effort: not Monty Python, with which it's easy to find similarities, but last year's "I (Heart) Huckabees."
Both have eclectic ensemble casts. Both mix complicated concepts with broad physical comedy. Both have the courage to be completely out there with wild ideas and images.
Despite its quick, quirky opening and dry British wit, after a while "Hitchhiker's Guide" feels like an onslaught. There is simply too much stuff -- too many aliens, too many gadgets, too many elaborately absurd set pieces -- all at the expense of character development and plot.
The first film from longtime music video director Garth Jennings has traveled to the screen with lots of baggage. Adams died in 2001 at 49 while working (and re-working) on the screenplay; the script is credited to him and Karey Kirkpatrick.
What they've come up with sporadically flirts with genius -- like the guide itself, a precursor to the Blackberry with its bright colors and oversimplified graphics, the contents of which are explained in understated fashion by narrator Stephen Fry. Alan Rickman, meanwhile, provides the ideally droll voice of Marvin the Paranoid Android, who's rendered like a "Star Wars" storm trooper with a case of encephalitis.
Most everything else, though, feels aimless and a little empty as the characters meander from one section of the galaxy to the next, their adventures punctuated by an overly jaunty score.
We don't know that much about everyman hero Arthur Dent (Martin Freeman, Tim from the BBC series "The Office") or Tricia McMillan (the irrepressibly lovely Zooey Deschanel), the American girl he adores and with whom he unexpectedly reunites in space after the Earth blows up. Who they are doesn't seem to matter as much as the places they inhabit, which are invariably over-the-top in detail. By no fault of their own, they're like props with a pulse.
Mos Def has a goofy likability as Arthur's friend, the automotively named (and nattily dressed) Ford Prefect, who informs Martin that he's an alien just minutes before the globe is about to explode. And Bill Nighy ("Love Actually"), who stands out in every film he's in with his craggy face and world-weary presence, plays a planetary construction engineer who offers such meaningful nuggets as, "I'd much rather be happy than right any day." Good point.
And then there's Sam Rockwell, playing the incompetent galactic president, Zaphod Beeblebrox, in a way Adams couldn't have imagined back in 1978. Rockwell is doing an impression of President Bush -- or he's doing an impression of a parody of Bush, with his breezy jokes and smug twang -- but he's dressed like the lead singer of a '70s glam-rock band.
This is a fascinating juxtaposition to behold, and it would have been the film's best performance if Rockwell weren't saddled with a repetitive, distracting special effect in which a second head pops out of his neck and starts talking while the first head just sort of dangles at the back of his neck.
It's just one more element that makes the movie, similar to how the universe is described, "vastly, hugely, mindbogglingly big." But sometimes, size doesn't matter.
"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy," a Touchstone Pictures release, is rated PG for thematic elements, action and mild language. | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: Shadow Stalker | | Hitchhiker's Guide gets a thumbs up
Film reduces the blather but retains the high spirits loved by fans of the novel
Go to showtimes
By AMY BIANCOLLI
For The Chronicle
Don't Panic: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a brilliant entertainment, a beautifully odd duck and a faithful-in-spirit adaptation of Douglas Adams' iconic sci-fi ramble.
Hard-core enthusiasts should be mollified. Everyone else, including genre snobs who wouldn't touch the novel with a stick, should have a corking good time, for here at last is a science-fiction epic with a sense of humor and a proper British fondness for eccentrics. Everyone is alien in Adams' universe — everyone, and no one. It's hard to say who might be hiding an extra head somewhere.
This Hitchhiker (which began as a radio play and was previously rendered for BBC TV) is not a blow-by-blow account of the source material; it's a movie. Much like the Lemony Snicket adaptation, it absorbs elements from the first few books in Adams' series and pops them out in a bright fandango of non sequiturs and crisply animated visual touches. The original novel is breathless and funny, but (sacrilege alert) it does blather on.
The film, whooshed along by a witty and efficient script (from Adams and Karey Kirkpatrick), reduces the blather but retains that crackpot ebullience so beloved to Adams fans. Director Garth Jennings bangs the whole crazy enterprise like a kid with a drum; he never forgets that he's playing with a huge toy, and we don't, either. No deadly seriousness lurks anywhere in this film. Not even when Earth gets vaporized.
The vaporizers-at-large are the Vogons, a hideously schnozzed race of bureaucrats clearing the way for a galactic highway bypass. The (seeming) sole human survivor is one Arthur Dent (Martin Freeman, of the BBC's The Office), who's whisked away in his ugly green bathrobe by an intrepid Betelgeuseian named Ford Prefect (Mos Def, in a total dither).
They hitch a ride with the Vogons, whose leader tortures them by reciting bad poetry and then expels them into the vacuum of space. In the nick of time they're rescued by the highly blond Zaphod Beeblebrox (Sam Rockwell), who is both the president of the galaxy and a moronic narcissist of infinite proportions. (I don't know where Rockwell got his satin short shorts, but they deserve an Oscar category all their own.)
It just so happens that Zaphod and his fed-up babe Trillian (Zooey Deschanel) have stolen a cutting-edge spaceship, the Heart of Gold. This remarkable vehicle runs on an ''improbability drive and delivers its passengers instantly to any point in the universe, but not before transforming them temporarily into sofas or small knit dolls. Thus yields a brief image of the metamorphosed Arthur puking yarn into a basket.
So Arthur, Ford, Zaphod and Trillian go gallivanting about the universe in search of ''the ultimate question," assuming the answer is ''42," and run into a few problems, one of them being John Malkovich as a politician/preacher who prays to a giant hanky. He steals half of Zaphod's brainpower, making him stupider than usual and requiring him to wear an interactive juicer-helmet so Ford can squeeze lemons into his head.
And one more thing. The dolphins. During Hitchhiker's fantastic and fantastical opening credits, Stephen Fry's plummy voice — the same voice that narrates candy-animated excerpts from the title's celebrated guide — tells of Earth's dolphins, whose attempts to warn humans of impending doom are misinterpreted as hoop-jumping pool tricks devised for our amusement. As opening credits close, the dolphins zoom skyward, but not before joining in a chorus of great robustness and cheese. ''So long, so long," they sing, ''and thanks for all the fish." What an infectious beginning to an infectious film. Two hours later, I was still humming.
Movie Details
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Movie Type
Comedy, SciFi/Fantasy
MPAA Rating
PG
for thematic elements, action and mild language
Running Time
110 minutes
Directed By
Garth Jennings
Cast
Bill Nighy, Martin Freeman, Mos Def, Sam Rockwell, Zooey Deschanel
Written By
Douglas Adams
Produced By
Gary Barber, Jay Roach, Jonathan Glickman, Roger Birnbaum, Todd Arnow
Released
Apr 29, 2005
(Nationwide)
Distributed By
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| Posted by: Shadow Stalker | | okay, having just seen the movie, i have to wonder what the crud the author of the first review was smoking. that movie was great. | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: Shadow Stalker | | So, having seen it, what was your impression?
Personally, I loved it. While it wasn't strictly true to the book, it kept the randomness and hilarity that makes the books so fun. | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: Pippin | | Agreed. I saw it last night I must say Arthur and Marvin were very very very well done. I didn't like how they did Zaphod's other head, though. I always imagined it also on his shoulders, kind of next the other one. Not on his neck. I sat next to this guy who had obviously never read the books because throughout the movie he was asking my things like, "So what is the smartest race (in the beginning. He caught on later)" and "Why do you have a towel with you?" I actually didn't mind telling him. I felt all-knowing. | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: Shadow Stalker | | yeah the head thing is off, Zaphod's other head was on his shoulder. When he asked trillian to go with him at the party, he had it covered with a bird cage and was dressed as a pirate in the book. | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: Shadow Stalker | | haha yes.
"I'd like you all to know that i'm very depressed" | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: flying panda | | I loved the movie, i have never read the book, seen the t.v. show or heard the radio verson, but i liked the film. It was a laugh a minute | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: flying panda | | This guy next to me didnt get the "joke" about Mice and men ... | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: Sierradaddy | | I've not read the book(s?).
I'm thinking about seeing the movie on DVD. Since I'll have awhile before that occurs, should I read the book(s?) first, or not bother with it?
Let me just say right now, it's VERY hard to get me to read a book. Once I start though, I rather get into it. Especially if it's quirky and intelligent. | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: Pippin | | Normally I would recommend seeing the movie first so that you won't be disappointed in it and it makes the book seem even better in comparison, but because this movie was actually very good I don't think it will hurt to read the books first. It may even help you understand some subtler things thrown in from the books that aren't part of the big plot, but more to make the book-readers in the audience giddy. | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: Pippin | | Well, there's the 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; and at least one more that I can't remember the name of. You only need to read the first one all the way for the movie. There are smidges of others in there, but it is almost 100% the first book. | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: Pippin | | Not only was the movie good, they had sweet previews. Dark Water made me jump really high and throw my arms around even though I had seen the preview before. I think I smacked the guy sitting next to me. The same one who didn't know why I brought a towel to the theater. I'm not going to see that movie, but the previews were pretty good.
Then there was the preview for Star Wars episode 3. Man, I'm so pumped for that movie. I bought the rest of my costume today.
"You are under arrest."
"Are you threatening me?"
Sshhwwoooom Bzzzz
Then, last but by no means least, SERENITY. I had no idea they were making a Firefly movie. I nearly started a loud celebration in my seat, but I didn't want the guys with the glow sticks to come and drag me out of the theater before the movie started. I could hear my brother's friend cheering down the row. He is a huge Firefly fan, too. That movie looks really good. Even if Hitchhiker's had flopped, I would still feel like I got my money's worth just because of those previews. | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: flying panda | |
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Pippin said this in post #5 :
Really? Did you explain it to him? |
I dont do that sort of thing, I read that book when i was 13 at school, he obviously hadent. i dont know, some people, cant understand anything.
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Shadow Stalker said this in post #6 :
wow thats rather pathetic... |
it is rather isnt it
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Pippin said this in post #11 :
Not only was the movie good, they had sweet previews. Dark Water made me jump really high and throw my arms around even though I had seen the preview before. I think I smacked the guy sitting next to me. The same one who didn't know why I brought a towel to the theater. I'm not going to see that movie, but the previews were pretty good.
Then there was the preview for Star Wars episode 3. Man, I'm so pumped for that movie. I bought the rest of my costume today.
"You are under arrest."
"Are you threatening me?"
Sshhwwoooom Bzzzz
Then, last but by no means least, SERENITY. I had no idea they were making a Firefly movie. I nearly started a loud celebration in my seat, but I didn't want the guys with the glow sticks to come and drag me out of the theater before the movie started. I could hear my brother's friend cheering down the row. He is a huge Firefly fan, too. That movie looks really good. Even if Hitchhiker's had flopped, I would still feel like I got my money's worth just because of those previews. |
the previews seem really whild where you come from, theres none of that in England. Kingdom of heaven looks good, that was one of my trailors, but i never really remember the trailors when ithe film finishes, i only remeber Kingdom of heaven because i know a guy that help record the sound for it ... its got orlando bloom in it and looks like its a lord-of-the-ring-type film.
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| Posted by: Pippin | |
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flying panda said this in post #12 :
the previews seem really whild where you come from, theres none of that in England. |
The previews may not be great there, but the commercials before the films kick butt. I saw Spiderman 2 in Middlesburough and there was this hillarious commercial with these three guys trying to pitch this idea to Sean Astin. The idea was for a cell phone commercial called Lord of the Ringtones. I missed the first half, but the second half had me in stitches. Sean Astin walked out thinking the guys were morons, and after he left one of the guys starts talking like Gollum, much to the distress of one of the other guys. He's like, No! Stop doing that!!
I have yet to see that commercial in America
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| Posted by: flying panda | | Yea that commertial was about orange, and how you should turn off your phone in the cinema ... it was the guy who played samewise in lordof the rings, and the gollum voise said something like "the hobbit has left the pressious foood" and the guy in the middle says "i've told you before, i dont like you using that voice" or something like that, the l;atest one involves darf vader, it changes everyso often, theres also one where mini-me from austin powers is in it ... and another where two of the guys are advertiseing orange wednesdays (where anyone with an orange phone can call or text 'film' to 241, and they get one ticket free when they buy another. and they speack in french ...)
At the end of the advert you were talking about it says "dont let your phone ruin the movie" | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: Pippin | | I wish WE got cool commercials like that! In my town they don't even have commercials anymore. It's 'The Twenty' and for twenty minutes before the movie we have to sit through stupid interviews and learn all about coming-soon rides at entertainment parks. Bleh. | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: flying panda | | That sounds great (notice the sarcasum) The problem with having the previews before the film, is that i can only remember half the films that were on there, even though i said when i was watching the, "i'd love to see that one" i only rememberd "kingdon of heaven" because i know a guy that help record the music for it. | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: gaboman | | No clue yet as to when it will be released in Taiwan and I feel too guilty to download this one... but perhaps I'll have to... | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: flying panda | | i went out to day and brought both the book (based on the film, not the oridunal, which has pictures of them making the films and other bits about the film) and the audio CD of douglas adams reading it on Radio 4 (which is where Hichickers was first shown and all other versions (eg, tv show, book, video game and tea towel etc.) i havent read (and listened at the same time) through alot of it yet, but im SLOWLY getting there. ((i listen to it because theres alot of long words in there, and im dislexic, so i find ithard to read all the big words.) | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: Pippin | | Dyslexic, eh? Sometimes I wonder if I have a problem with pronouncing words. I am excellent in my English class but every so often I'll totally mispronounce a word I know and then I get all confused. I always do the wrong pronunciation for live, and when I was reading Lord of the Flies I came across a word that totally confused me: both. I wasn't reading it the right way, I was pronouncing is to rhyme with moth. I wrote it down and tried to remember what it was and about an hour later I finally realized what it was. Talk about embarassing! Funny thing was, when I was mixed up I couldn't ever remember seeing that word before. 
I know dyslexics have a problem reading, but do they have a problem writing also? If they do, GREAT JOB ON 2,OOO+ POSTS!!!!
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| Posted by: Shadow Stalker | | And it keeps your attention through out the whole book. I kept reading not so much because i wanted to get to the end or even see what happened, but purely because it was hilarious. | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: Pippin | | That's absolutely right. I love in the third book how Adams explains about matresses! Too funny! And there are all different levels of humor. Not just dry wit, but really obvious humor, and different kinds of jokes for different ages. Really well written | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: Shadow Stalker | | I loved how everything in the end fit together, no matter how bizarre. | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: flying panda | |
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Pippin said this in post #9 :
Dyslexic, eh? Sometimes I wonder if I have a problem with pronouncing words. I am excellent in my English class but every so often I'll totally mispronounce a word I know and then I get all confused. I always do the wrong pronunciation for live, and when I was reading Lord of the Flies I came across a word that totally confused me: both. I wasn't reading it the right way, I was pronouncing is to rhyme with moth. I wrote it down and tried to remember what it was and about an hour later I finally realized what it was. Talk about embarassing! Funny thing was, when I was mixed up I couldn't ever remember seeing that word before.
I know dyslexics have a problem reading, but do they have a problem writing also? If they do, GREAT JOB ON 2,OOO+ POSTS!!!!
This book shouldn't go by too slowly. Some of the chapters are only a page or less long. |
Theres different types of Dyslexicia, Some people find spelling difficult, some numbers, some reading etc. I think i have the writing and spelling it, but i dont have it too bad now, you can get over it, my mom or dad had it, im not sure which, but there fine now.
I find the writer reading it is good, because he does the voices. i forget his name but the guy who started of the film, who did the voice over at the beginning of the film, Adams remineded me of him.
Even though im only on chapter 5 or something, and ive already found he repeats himself.
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| Posted by: Edward Teach | | I loved the book and have the complete unabridged edition. I do believe that reading the books helps with understanding the movie. A little inconsistencies but all in all it pretty much followed the book. Some things they could have explained a little better for the NON Hitchershikers guide fans.
I didn't really like the narrator. I think it would have been better for Ford to explain The Guide to Arthur.
Coming out of the theater we heard some who said it was awful others say that they loved it. Seemed there was no in between.
So I believe this movie was made for the fans vs trying to gain new fans. Yes they could have done it better but then again it IS British Humor and having spent 2 years in England I got it and was laughing when others weren't.
Another thing was the accents and at times it was hard to understand especially if there was a lot of noise. | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: Pippin | | I love British humor. In my opinion it is better than the jokes I hear on a lot of American tv shows. Not all, but a lot. I didn't visit the UK until last summer and I have understood British humor all my life. Is it really that hard to understand for most people? | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: flying panda | |
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So I believe this movie was made for the fans vs trying to gain new fans. Yes they could have done it better but then again it IS British Humor and having spent 2 years in England I got it and was laughing when others weren't.
Another thing was the accents and at times it was hard to understand especially if there was a lot of noise. |
I dont know, ive read the book, seen the film and listened to the audio (which came out first) and the auther reading it, (the audio) ... i thought that the actors chose (on the most part (Ford wasnt described as black, but ginger haired (i thought he was the tokon black guy, but theres film for ya))) had the the same voice as the authers (eg the guide, sometimes arther, andothers.)
I doint thinm there could be an inbetween, you either like it or hate it. Reading the bit at the end of my book (i got the film edition where it had interviews etc.) the auther, who dies in 2001 wanted it to be a film ... i think they did it credit (espetially because the producer was a friend of his, but that is nither here nor there ... as for having to read the book(s) (i say bookS because i have only read the one the film was based on) is correct, because there is information in the book that serves a useful purpose for knowing stuff about what happens in the film.
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| I love British humor. In my opinion it is better than the jokes I hear on a lot of American tv shows. Not all, but a lot. I didn't visit the UK until last summer and I have understood British humor all my life. Is it really that hard to understand for most people? |
No, because i am british  i do find some american jokes to be a bit childish, maybe because i am british and dont fully get it (notice im being political about this and insulting both sides )
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| Posted by: Edward Teach | | Just out of curiosity, have you seen Blue Collar TV? (Jeff Foxworthy, Bill Engvall and Larry the Cable Guy?
If so what do you think of down south humor? | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: Edward Teach | | Yeah, ok just wondering. If you get a chance try to watch an episode if you want a laugh. | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: flying panda | | Blue Collar TV you say ... i dont even think we can get that over here, maybe on sky, but not on any channels i have. | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: Pippin | | I wouldn't be able to get it either. At my house we don't have cable or a dish, we have an antenna and can only pick up maybe ten local stations. | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: gaboman | | Finally came out in Taiwan last week, and I checked it out. Pretty awesome, if you ask me. They hollywooded it up a little, but it was still pretty darn funny. | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: Edward Teach | |
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flying panda said this in post #23 :
Blue Collar TV you say ... i dont even think we can get that over here, maybe on sky, but not on any channels i have. |
Well it's about Southerner poking fun at themselves. If you have ever heard Jeff Foxworthy (You might be a Redneck if), Bill Engvall (Here's your sign), Larry the Cable Guy (Git-er-dun) and Ron White, well it's them. They have skit's along the line as Benny Hill, Monty Python or the Paul Hogan show (which has never been seen in the United States) but on a Southern America theme.
Stuff like "Redneck Yard of the week", "Redneck Dictionary", "Stuff that burn my *** video booth".
Redneck Dictionary
Juicy - as in "juicy uncle Larry eat that possum?"
or
European = as in "I see european on the the tree."
Official Blue Collar Web Site
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| Posted by: flying panda | | Ive seen "Benny Hill, Monty Python or the Paul Hogan show" ... Monty Python is one of the best comady shows | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: Whidden | | I just saw it on DVD.
I dunno, the effects were awesome, and it had some good points. I like the depressed Robot.
When the super computer was talking, the big one with the cylon eye beam thingy, that was cool.
But the humor was really dry, I couldn't get into it. The jokes were kind of flat.
Plus, I didn't really know the storyline, and it felt like there was no direction, the movie just kept happening, and I was like where is this going, whats the goal, etc.
And, I was bummed out about the earth being destroyed and everyone killed the whole movie. It was cool they all went back to what it was at the end with the earth Mark2,
but I was bummed about it before I knew that.
The effects were really neato. I wish Lucas would have used the same people.
The robot was a cool design, and the buildings, and the spaceships. | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: gaboman | | the humour is quite "english" that's for sure. It's no good you couldn't get into it whidden, cause as far as funny goes, Hitchhiker's is like my bible. The later books should be made into movies too... so many awesome story lines. I bet it'll never happen though | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: Edward Teach | | I think if you read the books you would get humor in the movie. I thought for the most part the movie stuck to the book. But I was a little disappointed in the movie. Great special effects but something was missing. Critical things were left out that were needed that unless you read the book you wouldn't get it. I expect all because they only have a hour or two to tell the story.
By the way Flying Panda, I love all three of those shows and bet nobody in America has seen the Paul Hogan show. I don't think it got any play in the U.S. I saw it when I was in England in the 80's. | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: Whidden | | Well, I think it's the kind of movie that will grow on me, and I will enjoy it better the second time.
Like Kill Bill volume two. I saw vol 1 and 2 right together, and didn't like them much. It was too gory for me.
Later, I wound up buying volume two, and it became one of my favorite movies.
I think my problem yesterday, is I didn't know the story and felt lost the whole time,
there was no goal, I didn't know where the story was going or why it was going there.
And I was really having a hard time getting into the comedy with the whole planet just destroyed. I found it sick humor.
Now that I know the people all got put back on the Earth Mark two, it's a harmless joke, because everything was ok in the end.
But yesterday, I found it a cruel joke into most of the movie.
I had remembered Mahesh saying something about an Earth Mark 2 in some thread, so I had an inkling that the Earth would start over, but I didn't know the people would be back.
I will like it better I'm sure the second time around.
The same way with O Brother Where Art Thou. I saw it, was kinda let down, but upon seeing it multiple times, it got to be another of my favorite movies.
by the way, who was that old dude at the end, that made the earth? The guy in that took Arthur to the earth mark 2?
The actor?
I seen him in something else recently and can't place him. He looks like some old rocker dude from a 70's band. Very familiar fellow. | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: HECK! | | I finally saw this last week. I like the random humor. It was solid, I liked it, didn't think it was the best thing ever, but I didn't have any expectations going into it. Might watch it again if I was bored. Overall, I say a solid 'B'.
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| Posted by: gaboman | | Whidden, the guy who played Slartibartfast was in quite a few movies. He was in Underworld recently, and also Love Actually (he played the over the hill rock star).
Ron, I can name a few things that were missing from the movie:
1. "Mostly Harmless."
2. God didn't disappear in a puff of pure logic, which would've been awesome
They hollywooded it up a bit too much... Though I'm glad they left the whale and petunias in. You find out later the bowl of petunias was the reincarnation of a fly Arthur Dent had previously killed. | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: Whidden | | I felt sorry for the whale.
Yeah, yeah, love actually, he was singing the tune for a christmas album wasn't he?
Yeah, it's all coming back now. That guy makes me laugh, just looking at him.
Kind of like Jack Black. Just a funny dude. | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: gaboman | | Yeah..... couldn't really laugh at Jack Black after watching Envy.
But I can imagine laughing at him in King Kong, even when I'm not supposed to. | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: HECK! | | There was a whale? I did have a giant White Russian while watching it...
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| Posted by: gaboman | | It did.
The missiles... one turned into a Whale, all amazed and excited about being alive... the other missile turned into a bowl of petunias that thought "not again". | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: HECK! | | Oh yeah, I remember that. I blame the WR's.
Overall, funny movie. I did like it. That rapper dude did a good job.
The robot was funny. Alan Rickman rules. He will always be Hans Grube though. Regardless.
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| Posted by: gaboman | | Serious? You know when I watch Harry Potter, Dogma, Die Hard, Galaxy Quest, Hitchhiker's... he just seems like a completely different character each time. He's pretty kick-ass if you ask me. | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: HECK! | | I don't mean he's a one-dimensional guy, quite the opposide. He's a great character actor for sure. He owns his rules and they're all different, no doubt. I am just a huge Die Hard fan and he totally rocked so much that I just see it as a defining role, you know? Kind of like Brando with The Godfather. Pacino in Scarface. Pesci in Goodfellas. Reeves in Superman. Ben Affleck in Gigli. You get the picture.
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| Posted by: gaboman | | You just mentioned The Godfather, Scarface, Goodfellas and Superman in the same post with Gigli. Shame!
Die Hard rocks. I watched it as my Christmas movie of the year on the 25th just like every other year.
But speaking of Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy.... uh.... yeah... top movie. | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: HECK! | | Yeah, Die Hard is a great Christmas movie: "now I have a machine gun, ho, ho, ho." Classic.
Best movie of the year? Star Wars ep 3.
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| Posted by: gaboman | | Sin City rocked pretty darn hard too. John McClain was the bomb in that. | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: Pippin | |
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gaboman said this in post #34 :
Ron, I can name a few things that were missing from the movie:
1. "Mostly Harmless."
2. God didn't disappear in a puff of pure logic, which would've been awesome
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Both the Mostly Harmless part and the Puff of Pure Logic part are in the extras on the DVD
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| Posted by: Pippin | | The Puff of Pure Logic part was shorter than I would have liked, but it was still there
I wish that Arthur would have said the whole speech on where the paper work on his house demolition was. That was one of my favorite parts | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: gaboman | | I loved that... the speech on where the paperwork for his house was, then the speech later on about the Vogan's destroying the Earth and where the paperwork for that was... brilliant! | | Reply To this Message
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