scifisam
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The pace of it was too slow for me. About a million times better than the film, though.
Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy film.
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The pace of it was too slow for me. About a million times better than the film, though.
kained&able
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I couldn't even get out the bedroom in that!
dave
dave
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I'm with this.
ATOMIC SUPLEX
Member Since: 1985 Post Count: 3
I couldn't even get out the bedroom in that!
dave
I'm with this as well
kyser_soze
Hawking's Angry Eyebrow
It's bizarre isn't it - Rickman can do evil genius really easily, yet can't make a paranoid android with a GPP sound sad enough...
kained&able
Here for the football.
i also bought his the voice of god thingy in dogma. marvin, rubbish though.
dave
dave
5t3IIa
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I read a biography of Adams and it really seemed like the film would never be made unless he'd died, which is a bit odd but there we go. He just wouldn't settle on a script and his procrastination is legendary. So, the film wasn't perfect but how could it ever be? We should be grateful it was made at all like.
I was all *glee* from the dolphin song to the DA pop-up right at the end. THANK GOD THEY MADE IT.
I was all *glee* from the dolphin song to the DA pop-up right at the end. THANK GOD THEY MADE IT.
scifisam
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I'm not grateful that they made a crap film. I'm especially not grateful that they made a crap film of this particular book. It's not the kind of book that I was ever itching to see made into a film, anyway - it doesn't depend on visuals.
It's a bit of a weird suggestion you've made there, really. So you didn't like the film? Tough! Be glad you got to see this film that you didn't like!
5t3IIa
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I'm not grateful that they made a crap film. I'm especially not grateful that they made a crap film of this particular book. It's not the kind of book that I was ever itching to see made into a film, anyway - it doesn't depend on visuals.
It's a bit of a weird suggestion you've made there, really. So you didn't like the film? Tough! Be glad you got to see this film that you didn't like!
I didn't quite mean it like that. A lot of people did want to see a film and I think it was a very fair stab at it, a million times better than I expected.
I said it wasn't perfect. Did you hate every second of it?
Idris2002
Stay Alive in '25
My reaction to the film - you dullard nay-sayers - was that it was Hitchhiker's as it was meant to be. I'm going to rent it and watch it again over the weekend, and I fully expect the same positive experience I had to it on the first showing.
I say this as someone who, at the age of eight, was told by his speech therapist that he would strongly identify with the character of Marvin.
I say this as someone who, at the age of eight, was told by his speech therapist that he would strongly identify with the character of Marvin.
Misogynist
I did think Mos Def was pretty good, actually. I always imagined Ford being a tall bloke with blonde hair but that didn't nag at me when watching Mos. Although, having said that, I was probably pre-disposed to liking his performance.
kained&able
Here for the football.
mos def is a decent actor. His part in 16 blocks is spot on as well.
dave
dave
scifisam
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I think there were a few seconds I didn't hate. I did go in expecting to like it, funnily enough.
It seriously does surprise me that so many of you on here liked the film. The only explanation is that you watched it in some parallel universe, or we're not the same species. There is no way someone of the same species as me, in the same universe, could have watched that pile of shit and thought it was good.
Now, I can understand you being crazy enough to like the film, but saying that it's 'Hitchhikers as it's meant to be' is not something many other people who liked the film would agree with. Unless Hitchhiker's was secretly meant to be a consummated love story between Arthur and Trillian, and Douglas Adams forgot to put that in.
He was OK, but, having cast an American, they really should have taken out the joke about him not really being from Guildford or at least changed it so that it worked.
Ceej
Where is my mind?
Marvin looked like a kids toy - brain the size if a planet, my arse. Didn't particularly like the film, much preferred the old Radio 4 - and the 'romance' was a joke.
Why does there always have to be a romance? They did the same thing with '79 Charing Cross Road' - sweet, witty little book about a letter relationship between the Americal writer Helene Hanuff and the manager of an Englis antiquarian bookshop. Put Anne Bancroft in, and Anthony Hopkins and bingo, they're in love. Meh.
And if memory serves, wasn't Trillion/Tricia the very nice girl who Arthur met at a very nice party who he totally failed to get off with?
Why does there always have to be a romance? They did the same thing with '79 Charing Cross Road' - sweet, witty little book about a letter relationship between the Americal writer Helene Hanuff and the manager of an Englis antiquarian bookshop. Put Anne Bancroft in, and Anthony Hopkins and bingo, they're in love. Meh.
And if memory serves, wasn't Trillion/Tricia the very nice girl who Arthur met at a very nice party who he totally failed to get off with?
david dissadent
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I thought the film was alright. I was not expecting the book\ radio show mark II and did not get that. Compaired to 90% of the slop that is dished up as scifi, I thought it was somewhat gentle and inteligent.
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