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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.
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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
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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!!
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."
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."
"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.
diffamation - is that where you take something famous and change it?
I swear you could invent a new language from the typos on Slashdot.
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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