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Telegraph Reviews Hitchhiker Movie, Approves

Posted by timothy on from the gives-hope dept.

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."

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  1. Box office earnings... by kwoo · · Score: 5, Funny

    I forecast 42 million dollars in the first day. :P

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    1. Re:Box office earnings... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      Well if it does make that much on the first day, I guess we DO know what the question is.

    2. Re:Box office earnings... by SidV · · Score: 5, Funny

      6 Million Theartres X 9 Million Theatres = 42 Million dollars.

      Highly possible since the math used by Production companies to figure out the Net when there are people getting paid a portion of the Net is even more complicated, mysterious and convuleted than Bistromathematics.

      Ask anyone who's ever taken a percentage of the Net, Production company will show that it lost more money than it took to actually produce it.

    3. Re:Box office earnings... by friedo · · Score: 4, Funny

      #include <stdio.h>

      #define SIX 1 + 5
      #define NINE 8 + 1

      int main() {
      printf("%d times %d is %d\n", SIX, NINE, SIX * NINE);
      }

  2. Will The Movie Be A Trilogy Too? by rewinn · · Score: 4, Funny

    If a book trilogy can consistent of 5 books, why can't a movie trilogy consist of 1 movie?

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    1. Re:Will The Movie Be A Trilogy Too? by TCQuad · · Score: 4, Funny

      A trilogy: a set of 3±2 literary or dramatic works related in subject or theme.

  3. Re:So does it suck, or not? by kyle90 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Who cares, I know I'll be seeing it. Opening night. Vogon poetry couldn't keep me away from the theater for this one.

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  4. Breaking news: Slashdot ad revenue bust by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    REUTERS:

    In financial news today expert industry anylists report that the once popular, geeky, tech news site slashdot.com's ad revenue is in sharp decline.

    Economists assert that Slashdots's new diet of endless lame news items about Google, municipal WIFI and Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy are putting off hungry consumers who are going elsewhere.

    "I just can't take it anymore" said one long time Slashdot afficionado. "It's just Google, HitchHiker's, and WIFI"

    Experts predict that of the remaining 12.5 visitors slashdot gets daily, 98.3% use the adblock feature of the controversial "Firefox" browser.

    "It's a bleak situation"

  5. The Real Question by kizzbizz · · Score: 4, Funny
    How many reviews must a man read before he knows the Ultimate Answer to whether this movie is good?

    42.

    1. Re:The Real Question by MartinB · · Score: 4, Funny

      The answer, my friend, is blowing in the wind; the answer is blowing in the wind.

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  6. Re:Quit mixing metaphors badly by screwballicus · · Score: 5, Funny


    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.

  7. Tom Bombadil! by Brandybuck · · Score: 4, Funny

    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?

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  8. Re:So does it suck, or not? by yesteraeon · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

  9. "Can anyone say LotR?" by Heisenbug · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

  10. Re:I just don't understand by geminidomino · · Score: 4, Funny

    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...