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Telegraph Reviews Hitchhiker Movie, Approves
LPetrazickis writes "The Telegraph has reviewed the movie adaptation of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. The review notes that the film is every bit as much a loving tribute to Douglas Adams as it is a joyous comedy. American actors acquit themselves well, and the sense of intelligent wonder transfers well to the technicolour screen. The many incarnations of The Guide are summarized at the end."
I forecast 42 million dollars in the first day. :P
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If a book trilogy can consistent of 5 books, why can't a movie trilogy consist of 1 movie?
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Who cares, I know I'll be seeing it. Opening night. Vogon poetry couldn't keep me away from the theater for this one.
Real_men_don't_need_spacebars.
Don't smoke dope and post at /. at the same time.
Drugs are yet another way for the capitalist pigs to suck you dry of your precious fluids; to make bourgeois French perfume. King Loius XVI said it best, "It's good to be the King!" Therefore, be your own king. Resist the capitalists, join our worker paradise, and just say NO!!!
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"It's a bleak situation"
I can confirm that it's just you.
If they can survive being linked when they had Morgan Webb photos, they can survive anything.
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
42.
Just reading about how this movie was made would make me think that a "making of..." documentary about this movie would be almost as entertaining as the movie itself.
In short, DNA could very likely be a character in his own book. Or conversely, his own life was so bizzare that in many ways the books (not just the Hitchhiker trilogy) mirror his own life. The more I read about DNA's life experiences, the more facinating I find him to be.
I found this bit to be almost priceless from the Telegraph story: (to pharaphrase) The producers of this movie are "two men working from a barge named Polly, moored on the Regent's Canal in an unfashionable part of Islington, north London."
I don't think DNA could have done better for a new book opening scene.
[blockquote]the film is every bit as much a loving tribute to Douglas Adams as it is a joyous comedy.[/blockquote]
so, it's as funny as a funeral and bears no resemblance to the book then?
We are, after all, discussing a movie review published on the website of a newspaper called the Telegraph
I don't know about you, but my head's spinning.
I'm not going to see the movie. They replaced Tom Bombadil with some stupid robot, and I hear Trillian is going to be fighting at Helm's Deep. Isn't anything sacred anymore?
Don't blame me, I didn't vote for either of them!
You're trying to explain this to people who eat at MacDonalds, then go and eat there again. It's no use.
Thank you! I was beginning to think everyone else (or maybe possibly I) was crazy! It was very painful. Personally, I got through half of the first episode, stopped it and deleted the entire series from my harddrive and did a DoD compliant wipe out of empty space just to be extra safe.
I thought he was from... Wales. (Hides)
"The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the pieces." --Aldo Leopold (Paraphrased)
Uh, I dunno ... is that one of those glottal stop words? Here in this country we use vowels.
"Lo-tor!"
"Lot-rrr"
"Lort!"
I think I hurt my glottis *and* my epiglottis. It's definitely bed time.
Cinema Mgr: Why should I refund your money? Are you going to un-watch the movie?
Moviegoer: <pained> If you can tell me how to do that, you can keep the 12 bucks...
Believe it or not, Moviefone was a happily operating business long before it was ever referenced on "Seinfeld"....
I don't care if it's 90,000 hectares. That lake was not my doing.
Do you have any idea how much it'd cost to hire a two-headed actor. The salary would be big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind- bogglingly big it would be. I mean, you may think it's alot to pay Jim Carrey 20 million a movie, but that's just peanuts compared to paying a two-headed actor.
The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
Hey, seriously, bringing a towel seems like a good idea. Except it only leads to 2 possibilities:
:(
1) I'm the only one who does it and look like a total dork
2) Lots of people do it and I look like an unoriginal hack
"When the atomic bomb goes off there's devastation...but when the atomic bong goes off there's celebraaaaation!"
You'd rush too if you were falling rapidly towards the ground :)
So the Earth will be destroyed five minutes before the box-office figures come in, then?
> Such writers can admit to watching something like Matrix or Star Wars only for
> spectacular stunts and explosions, not for admiring the fictional world or its
> techno-social implications.
So it's not just me who sits up half the night wondering just what the government would do were it to discover that the world is actually a computer program run by killer robots from the future? Girls just don't understand this sort of problem.