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Hitchhiker's Movie is Bad, says Adams Biographer
Rollerbob writes "MJ Simpson, who has 'been studying and documenting the life and career of Douglas Adams for more than 20 years', has written a very in-depth review and plot analysis of the Hitchhiker's movie. As well as the full review that contains SPOILERS , he has also published a shortened spoiler-free version, as well as a list of things from the radio plays, records, books and TV series that have not been included in the movie. Hitchhiker's fans, prepare to be like Marvin ... very depressed."
if a bad movie which became a bad series also became a bad movie.
word.
Yet another staple of my childhood turned into a downward marketing graph. I'll be boycotting the movie, because there was absolutely not one reason to make it. It's doubly evil because the only reason the current incarnation of the movie treatment (there have been MANY) wasn't made earlier is because, sadly enough, Doulas Adams would only have let this happen over his dead body.
"Old man yells at systemd"
They didn't try to fit the whole series into one movie, they just did the first book worth of story. Just like the first book, the film ends before they even get to Milliways - in fact, much like the book, it ends with Zaphod telling everyone that's their next stop, as the ship shoots off into space.
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MJ Simpson went out of his way to make the list of "missing stuff" as long and offensive as possible. Listen to yourself. You say "We all knew they couldnt fit the whole series in one movie," and then you lament the loss of a bunch of story points which only appear in the later books. Hm? Maybe they were planning it with sequels in mind.
Even though MJ Simpson has a lot of experience with Adams and H2G2 I think it's pretty weak that his angry anyry fanboy review got frontpage on
"Gandalf is a wizard, why doesn't he cast more spells?"
Gandalf is a lazy cunt... he gets other people to light his fires instead of using a level 1 fire spell.
Karma: It's all a bunch of tree-huggin' hippy crap!
He had to cut what's 6 hours or more of story down to 2 hours. Things have to be cut. That you think what is obviously funny about this scene is over his hea, instead of thinking this is a casualty of time, shows you to be an idiot.