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BBC Reviews Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
An anonymous reader writes "Now that the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy has made its debut in London, reviews are now beginning to trickle in. The BBC's review can be summed up in one sentence: '... somewhere in the production process the crew has lost sight of the fundamental aspect of the books - they were immensely funny."
[Fill In Book Name Here] is not as bad as I had feared. Then again, it is not as good as I had hoped.
Choose from:
Note: Those marked with an '*' may actually, really and truly, suck.
Seriously, mixing american actors with british actors and trying to turn something that wasn't very bad as a BBC TV series into a movie would be difficult, especially with the Hollywood penchant for wanting it to end differently than the book so the audience would be surpried and trying to make britishisms translate into equally funny americanisms or vice-a-versa. Imagine the following scenario: (brace thyself) A Hollywood remake of Monty Python and the Holy Grail... que horror, eh? Imagine (told you to brace yourself, you sensitive clod!) hip-hop actors, dimbulb comedy actors from sitcoms and the utter flattening of comedic timing to accomodate dumbed down humor. Yeah. Somethings are better left alone. Better to just go see Spamalot.
I do expect Rickman's dead-pan voice to be perfect for Marvin, but that's about all.
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
Unless the cover says "Don't Panic."
Physics is nothing like religion. If it was, we'd have an easier time trying to raise money!
Where's the torrent? ;)
put the what in the where?
Panic.
Obliteracy: Words with explosions
I think you all ought to know that I'm very depressed.
Did the script veer too far away from the source material or tie itself in knots trying to keep faith with it?
Bizarrely, I think the answer is both.
Funny, I was almost certain it was 42
-- johntracy.com, because everybody else is wrong.
While I haven't seen it yet, I'm kind of disappointed they only made one movie, there's enough material for more. Imho they should have announced it to be a trilogy (and then actually release 5 movies, one for each book).
The Sci-Fi Channel can remake it as a mini-series with a couple well known American actors and a bunch of unknown actors at a studio in Eastern Europe, with funny costumes, but a decent plot. :)
It's British English. Sometimes they call a truck a "lorry," sometimes they call a television "the tube," other times they call elevators a "lift."
My god. This is just about the most culturally blind, obviously offensive, most idiotic thing I have ever seen on the Internets.
Entry for new movie updated from: "Harmless" to: "Mostly harmless"
Do not disturb. Already disturbed. http://www.teaaddictedgeek.com
At least the Unix version of "Oracle 8.5" is true to the book.
I've moved onto the sequel, "Oracle 9i, The Wrath of Larry Ellison" myself.
It is by the juice of the coffee bean that thoughts acquire speed, the teeth acquire stains. The stains become a warning
..unlike the books.
I tried to read the article but both my sunglasses turned completely black!!
The Hollywood Spectaculomatic will automatically analyze any for for content, theme, humor, plot, sub-plot, charactizations, social commentary, cultural reference, and political ramifications; cross analyze the results against a target demographics intellectual, visceral, and spiritual entertainment needs and produce a movie that is almost, but not quite, entirely unlike the original book. Buy yours today!
Fight Club was a phenomenal book that survived the transition to a movie, and then some.
Screw the movie and the book. What I'd really like to see is a Fight Club made up of members of Slashdot.
It would be no surprise to me to see guys bring Light Sabres and those Klingon BetleHs.
To sum up. "Pure Awesomeness!"
Live forever, or die trying.
...for everytime negative reviews came out for a movie I ended up loving....I won't be sitting here at work surfing the internet right now....
"The saddest words of mice and men, are not those which were, but should have been."
Wrong. The relationship between Helena Bonham Carter's and Edward Norton's characters had more substance than just fucking and running away from the space monkeys. There are many different changes that both diluted and twisted Chuck Palahniuk's message.
Spoilers of both the movie and novel below. If you don't want to know, don't look.
Marla had breast cancer. In the movie, she just finds a lump. Edward Norton's character in the book had cancer for 5 minutes. Gone. The fight scene where Edward Norton beats up himself happens at the office of some film manager, not at the auto manufacturer's office. Edward Norton's character also shoots a man at a Pressman Hotel Party. That's out too. The ending was completely different in the movie than the book. The one thing that bugged me about the movie, was that Edward Norton never had the hole in his cheek from fighting. His character talks about the hole in his cheek constantly in the novel, but the movie didn't have it. Furthermore, he bites off the tip of his tongue in a fight and doesn't have it reattached, and the movie left that out.
Considering all the changes, I would hardly call it a survival. He, both Tyler Durton and Edward Norton's character were a lot smarter than the movie makes them out to be
"No beer until you finish your tequila!" -Leela's Dad
I never think that Penny Arcade comics are funny, but often still laugh at User Friendly.
You've got a lot of nerve saying that out loud, but some people here might actually think you're serious. Next time you want to start a flame-war, play it a little more broadly, and maybe you'll get some people really interested. Try something like this:
"Star Trek is a waste of screen time and latex ears... but I love the revolutionary science fiction stories in Lucas' Star Wars series, especially the newer ones."
The "immensely funny" thing is curious. To be honest, completely honest... I didnt find douglas adams' work to be all that genuinely funny
Interesting to read, and written with an easy style that said "come back and read more!" sure, but not funny.
Not to me, personally, and not speaking for anyone else.
Awww, you're just grumpy because no one replaced the diodes down your left side yet...
You can't take the sky from me...
"Star Trek is a waste of screen time and latex ears... but I love the revolutionary science fiction stories in Lucas' Star Wars series, especially the newer ones."
Yes, but the latex ears seemed to counterpoint the surrealism of the underlying metaphor of the Humanity of the writer's compassionate soul, which contrives through the medium of the verse structure to sublimate this, transcend that, and come to terms with the fundamental dichotomies of the other, and one is left with a profound and vivid insight into whatever it was the show was about.
Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.
You'll leave wishing that you had gone to see "MySQL Cookbook" or "Practical Postgresql", which were both showing at the same theater, and the tickets were free.
Naaah, MySQL Cookbook might be free, but they only recently decided to bother installing seats in the theater.
HA! I just wasted some of your bandwidth with a frivolous sig!
I go to high school in the 00's and tater-tots are still alive and kicking.
Dang, at least the ones we ate in the 80's had been killed before being served to us!
Socialism: a lie told by totalitarians and believed by fools.
"Don't panic!" .immensely funny!"
"Crammed full of witty erudition!"
"A . . . comedic romp!"
"Sam Rockwell does a great turn as Zaphod Beeblebrox!"
". .
"Outstanding production design and some fantastic visual effects!"
"Charming!"
diffamation - is that where you take something famous and change it?
I swear you could invent a new language from the typos on Slashdot.
Typical. Here I am, karma pool the size of a planet, and my modpoints ran out yesterday.
I'd give you a +1 funny, except I don't have modpoints, and I don't think there's anything funny in life anyways.
I'm sorry, did I say something wrong? well excuse me for breathing which I never actually do anyway so I don't know why I bothered to say it oh god I'm so depressed.
Curiosity was framed. Ignorance killed the cat.
diffamation - is that where you take something famous and change it?
I swear you could invent a new language from the typos on Slashdot.
Yeah: French.
I speak more than one language, and my typing sucks in all of them : )
You can't take the sky from me...
You must have been an awfully precocious 7-year-old if you understood just about anything about H2G2.
;-)
I wonder what that would do to a growing lad, expecting triple-breasted whores from Eroticon Six, and only ever managing to find the double-breasted kind... I hope he wasn't too scarred
You can't take the sky from me...
Then again, maybe it's because I don't have an imagination and/or hate the sound of my own voice when I read the paper books, even if it is only in my head.
So use one of the other voices. I personally like to use the deep demonic voice in my head. It lets me feel less guilty about the thoughts.
It's from the Law of Conservation of S's. Consider the following sentences:
American English: I wish you were as interested in math as you are in sports!
English English: I wish you were as interested in maths as you are in sport!
You can't take away an s without it popping up somewhere else.
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