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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. 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.

  2. 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?