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Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Screening Reviews

Posted by michael on from the marvin-i-love-you-marvin-i-love-you dept.

Doctor Monkey writes "Initial reviews are up at Ain't It Cool News from a 'work-in-progress' screening of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy in Pasadena, CA. Reaction seems mixed-to-positive, mostly due to some uneven performances. But it looks like the film is not a complete bastardization of Adams' work."

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  1. that isn't damning by faint praise, either... by ed.han · · Score: 3, Insightful

    michael quoth: "looks like the film is not a complete bastardization of adams' work."

    this is actually IMHO the best a fan should ever hope for WRT film adaptations of a cherished book/series/whatever.

    ed

  2. Fight Club by trickster5378 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I watched the movie first and then read the book later. I couldn't believe how close the two were. And I honestly enjoyed the ending to the movie better than the ending to the book. (The only thing that was really changed).

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  3. Re:Book to movie? by rackhamh · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Shawshank Redemption.

    Okay, it was a novella, not a book, but how many people had heard of the story before the movie? Both the story and the movie were quite good, IMO.

    Actually, the fact that the original story was a novella probably helped a lot, since the movie was able to include pretty much the whole story. When you try to convert a full-length book, a lot gets left out by necessity.

  4. AICN by Skyshadow · · Score: 3, Insightful
    The thing about AICN is that they're complete and utter jibbering idiots.

    They routinely give lousy movies glowing reviews ("Freddy vs Jason was top-notch fashizzle!"). Some of it I can understand -- these folks like movies and get excited about them, so they're more optomistic in their reviews. Fine, whatever, what still doesn't mean anyone should ever listen to one of their reviews. Ever,

    The only usefulness I ever, *ever* get out of them is in determining which movies are at the absolute bottom of the heap. If AICN says that a movie's bad (or gives it "mixed reviews"), that generally means it's so god awful that St. Peter will keep me out of heaven when I die when he finds me carrying the ticket stub.

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  5. Impossible to bastardize by nganju · · Score: 3, Insightful
    "But it looks like the film is not a complete bastardization of Adams' work."

    Since the original radio scripts were substantially different from the books, and the books were substantially different than the TV special, there really hasn't been any single consistent version of the story line.

    Actually, since incessant change is the only thing that is consistent, the only way to not bastardize the spirit of the original story is to substantially change it.

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  6. and this is news because? by amnesiaWind · · Score: 3, Insightful

    i'm a fan of Adams' work, but i hardly think some random opinion of a movie that isn't even finished yet is news worthy...

  7. question by mohrt · · Score: 4, Insightful

    How do you convey vogon ships hanging in the air much like a brick doesn't on the big screen?

  8. Re:tv spots by cmpalmer · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I think they should, it fits right in with the humor of the original books.

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