I saw the movie this afternoon, and I can't understand your mindset. The mindset of anyone who'd post a negative review puzzles me. I've seen, heard, and read, the other versions of H2G2, and this new film was legitimately the best non-novel draft of that story. They MUST make sequels galore.
Luckily, the movie is very funny. That reviewer is simply wrong. I saw it this afternoon, and I couldn't stop laughing until... well, I'm still laughing.
The movie provided mental illustration for people who don't like to think very hard while enjoying a good book or radio programme. For this reason, they MUST make four sequels.
I loved how Marvin looked! He was so cute as a big fat robot! He looked like a natural evolution of the robots they're actually building nowdays; that's why it was such a good design for him!
Are you kidding? The whale hitting the ground in the distance, and the dust that looked like a mushroom cloud, was hilarious! I couldn't stop laughing! That was so good, and brilliantly executed (pun sorta intended)!
The babel fish was cute! If the "God disappearing in a puff of logic" part weren't deleted, the movie might not have its G rating. And its G rating will introduce a new generation of kids to reading the books that we've so enjoyed!
The early eighties TV version is a great three-and-a-half hour videotape, the radio version is a great nine hours... soon to be thirteen hours. The books are a great couple of weeks. The old DC comics version was apt. And the movie is a wonderful way to spend the afternoon. Having experienced the other versions, the new film was a welcome addition to the Douglas Adams canon, in my opinion. I loved the new episode with regards to the Church of the Arkelseisure, because that Perspective Gun was a wonderful literary tool which allowed screenwriter Douglas Adams to have his characters learn things which they otherwise would have learned through bulky dialogue. As for dialogue, the movie had a good mix of "novel dialogue" and "movie dialogue". "Novel dialogue" is bulky, wheras "movie dialogue" is short and to the point, and the film had a good mix indeed.
I've enjoyed the other versions, and so I found it very simple to enjoy the new version.
They must make four sequels.
P.S. Bring a pair of "red and blue" 3D glasses. As the starship Heart of Gold arrives at the planet Magrathea, the crew is greeted by a holographic recording. That recording is only a minute long; however, it's in 3D. You need a pair of "red and blue" 3D glasses in order to properly enjoy that minute of film. This is not a spoiler; it's an enhancer.
The original animated TRANSFORMERS movie was one of the best animated films ever made. If they can surpass that scale in the story told, and do some complex battle sequences that make sense and have a point, this could be good.
I'm reminded of the story that got me interested in Slashdot in the first place. It was years ago, and I saw Slashdot on a friend's computer screen, and there was a story -- like this one -- about plans to make a live action DragonBall Z movie. Me -- still a huge fan of Dragonball Z -- my hopes were raised sky high, and I read the entire discussion, because I'd love a Dragonball Z movie -- especially if WWE's Shaun Michaels were somewhere in the cast.
Anyway, that story was much like this one, and my hopes were raised, but the Dragonball Z live action film was never made.
Slashdot -- you accepted this story about this Transformers movie, so I hope you're not just getting my hopes up again.
Another good live action movie would be about the Thundercats.
"Blending the quality and style of anime with Western storytelling, IGPX will be the first instance of a U.S. cable network working directly with a Japanese animation studio to create an original series."
I have a web-site that's trying to attract the attention of a North American network, and/or a Japanese animation studio, to accomplish that EXACT goal.
My web-site contains entire scripts for so-far 24 episodes of an original anime series concept called BANANA CHAN. The web-site is at:
BANANA CHAN is an epic mystery about a tightly-knit Japanese family who must come to terms with many secrets. It's got the extremes of comedy and drama, not to mention a very complicated, yet strange and easy-to-follow, uber-plot.
View my web-site, read the scripts, and learn how anyone can help get this series produced!
Maybe it's got something to do with the Toynbee Tiles! In case you're not "in the know", the Toynbee Tiles are a top-secret Masonic project in which the bodies of famous great thinkers are literally "seeded" at famous intersections througout North America, and their graves are marked with a puzzling message about Kubrick. JUST KIDDING! I actually have no clue who's behind the tiles, just as I have no clue what we're talking about? What code? Can I find it on a streetcorner? If so, I have to wait until daytime because there's a lot of prostitutes in my neighbourhood. Well, since I'm gonna get bad karma anyway for this inappropriate comment, I might as well take this opportunity to plug the things I love: STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE and HOMESTAR RUNNER and BANANA CHAN and SEGA DREAMCAST. There. May the Karma gods spit on me.
I found a hacked version of BLEEM that allows me to play many more PS1 titles on my Dreamcast, and the graphics are better than if you put those same discs in a PS2; however, emulators are a grey area. If you use BLEEM, try to only use it with discs that you bought legitimately, rather than downloaded ROMs.
I think I'll start a new SEAMAN. There's something special about raising that guy. You can't put into words the intangible knowledge, and the life-lessons, you learn from SEAMAN. The act of raising a SEAMAN is full of beautifully-executed metaphor. After raising Seaman, I was able to keep goldfish alive for a whole three weeks!
MSR -- if you can get through it -- has unlockable vehicles such as a lawnmower, busses, and a taxicab. Also, there are unlockable "free roam" modes for the different districts where the games' over two-hundred tracks are located. I'm personally addicted to METROPLIS STREET RACING. Too bad the game was released without enough advertising to show everyone that it's WAAAY better than many PS2 racers.
In Japan new games are still released for Dreamcast every month. A lot of them are playable even if you don't speak Japanese. Some of the more recent releases that I'd recommend are: Border Down (2003), Psyvariar 2 (2004), Puyo Puyo Fever (2004), and Shikigami No Shiro 2 (2004). Dreamcast should resurrect in North America so that these great games, and others, can find the fans they deserve.
Why make a reincarnation? If they re-release the Dreamcast console, and re-release the hits, and release new titles, there is a fanbase who would buy everything. The only thing they should do better next time is advertising. People have gotta know the talents of our favourite system.
If you think Ikaruga was good, Dreamcast Japan released the defining verticle shooter just this year. The game is called PSYVARIAR 2. After playing it for a few hours, you can't help but see beautifully-colored fireworks whenever you close your eyes. Very trippy.
I like the new South Park episodes. I think the show has evolved, in many good ways, since its creation. A lot of people get attached to the "good old" episodes of a show, because those were the first episodes they saw, the episodes which made them fall in love with the show in the first place. I think that you're blind to see that new "classics" are being created all the time.
The "badass bar" will be hit when Yu Suzuki continues his serial of movie-like RPGs with Shenmue 3! I can't wait for it to come out, and I hope he's generous enough to port a Dreamcast version for his HaRdCoRe FaNz like me who've played the first two installments over-and-over.
Yes, there is a console that isn't dying: Dreamcast! Sega's console was the first to reach the plateau, and it'll be the longest survivor. For more information about the Dreamcast revival, check out such "signs of the second coming" as http://www.videogamedepot.com http://www.dreamcasthistory.com and http://www.dcemulation.com
OH... MY... GOD. I need to use that song in one of the early episodes of my "virtual series" The Creator. Dude or dudette, whatever you may be, you MUST record that song to the tune of the theme of ALL IN THE FAMILY. The worse singing voice, the better. You wrote it, so you have the copyright -- so what if its lyrics are in this discussion... just freakin' record it now, because I want to buy it!!!
With even rudimentary knowledge of VXML, you can still get away with some awesome stuff on TellMe! I used to use it all the time until their free service stopped being offerred in Canada. You can still access it free in the states, and when Canadians dial the American eight-hundred number (1-800-555-tell), we get a recording that says: "Oh, I'm sorry, but we currently don't offer our services in Canada. But you can still access all of our services, by calling us long-distance at..." -- and then they say the area code, and the number. TellMe survived in ways that MyTalk crumbled. I'll bet TellMe will evolve eventually into way more than what MyTalk was. MyTalk, and many of the other services that people mentioned in this discussion, are good ideas, but they weren't planned perfectly, because they were way ahead of their times. I hope their times come soon...
You signed up for MyTalk with a computer, and their services were established through computers, but you didn't need a computer to use their services -- all you needed was a phone, because MyTalk was all about adding features to the telephone. On those grounds, I'd moderate your comment "off topic"... but I won't because I'm happy to have a conversation about this topic. memories are sweet!
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I saw the movie this afternoon, and I can't understand your mindset. The mindset of anyone who'd post a negative review puzzles me. I've seen, heard, and read, the other versions of H2G2, and this new film was legitimately the best non-novel draft of that story. They MUST make sequels galore.
Luckily, the movie is very funny. That reviewer is simply wrong. I saw it this afternoon, and I couldn't stop laughing until ... well, I'm still laughing.
The movie provided mental illustration for people who don't like to think very hard while enjoying a good book or radio programme. For this reason, they MUST make four sequels.
I loved how Marvin looked! He was so cute as a big fat robot! He looked like a natural evolution of the robots they're actually building nowdays; that's why it was such a good design for him!
Are you kidding? The whale hitting the ground in the distance, and the dust that looked like a mushroom cloud, was hilarious! I couldn't stop laughing! That was so good, and brilliantly executed (pun sorta intended)! The babel fish was cute! If the "God disappearing in a puff of logic" part weren't deleted, the movie might not have its G rating. And its G rating will introduce a new generation of kids to reading the books that we've so enjoyed!
The early eighties TV version is a great three-and-a-half hour videotape, the radio version is a great nine hours ... soon to be thirteen hours. The books are a great couple of weeks. The old DC comics version was apt. And the movie is a wonderful way to spend the afternoon. Having experienced the other versions, the new film was a welcome addition to the Douglas Adams canon, in my opinion. I loved the new episode with regards to the Church of the Arkelseisure, because that Perspective Gun was a wonderful literary tool which allowed screenwriter Douglas Adams to have his characters learn things which they otherwise would have learned through bulky dialogue. As for dialogue, the movie had a good mix of "novel dialogue" and "movie dialogue". "Novel dialogue" is bulky, wheras "movie dialogue" is short and to the point, and the film had a good mix indeed.
I've enjoyed the other versions, and so I found it very simple to enjoy the new version.
They must make four sequels.
P.S. Bring a pair of "red and blue" 3D glasses. As the starship Heart of Gold arrives at the planet Magrathea, the crew is greeted by a holographic recording. That recording is only a minute long; however, it's in 3D. You need a pair of "red and blue" 3D glasses in order to properly enjoy that minute of film. This is not a spoiler; it's an enhancer.
The original animated TRANSFORMERS movie was one of the best animated films ever made. If they can surpass that scale in the story told, and do some complex battle sequences that make sense and have a point, this could be good.
I'm reminded of the story that got me interested in Slashdot in the first place. It was years ago, and I saw Slashdot on a friend's computer screen, and there was a story -- like this one -- about plans to make a live action DragonBall Z movie. Me -- still a huge fan of Dragonball Z -- my hopes were raised sky high, and I read the entire discussion, because I'd love a Dragonball Z movie -- especially if WWE's Shaun Michaels were somewhere in the cast.
Anyway, that story was much like this one, and my hopes were raised, but the Dragonball Z live action film was never made.
Slashdot -- you accepted this story about this Transformers movie, so I hope you're not just getting my hopes up again.
Another good live action movie would be about the Thundercats.
"Blending the quality and style of anime with Western storytelling, IGPX will be the first instance of a U.S. cable network working directly with a Japanese animation studio to create an original series."
I have a web-site that's trying to attract the attention of a North American network, and/or a Japanese animation studio, to accomplish that EXACT goal.
My web-site contains entire scripts for so-far 24 episodes of an original anime series concept called BANANA CHAN. The web-site is at:
http://www.geocities.com/radiomovie2002/
BANANA CHAN is an epic mystery about a tightly-knit Japanese family who must come to terms with many secrets. It's got the extremes of comedy and drama, not to mention a very complicated, yet strange and easy-to-follow, uber-plot.
View my web-site, read the scripts, and learn how anyone can help get this series produced!
For cheapter DIVX, you can buy a Sega Dreamcast, then download the DIVX playing boot-disc from http://www.dcemulation.com
Maybe it's got something to do with the Toynbee Tiles! In case you're not "in the know", the Toynbee Tiles are a top-secret Masonic project in which the bodies of famous great thinkers are literally "seeded" at famous intersections througout North America, and their graves are marked with a puzzling message about Kubrick. JUST KIDDING! I actually have no clue who's behind the tiles, just as I have no clue what we're talking about? What code? Can I find it on a streetcorner? If so, I have to wait until daytime because there's a lot of prostitutes in my neighbourhood.
Well, since I'm gonna get bad karma anyway for this inappropriate comment, I might as well take this opportunity to plug the things I love: STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE and HOMESTAR RUNNER and BANANA CHAN and SEGA DREAMCAST. There. May the Karma gods spit on me.
I found a hacked version of BLEEM that allows me to play many more PS1 titles on my Dreamcast, and the graphics are better than if you put those same discs in a PS2; however, emulators are a grey area. If you use BLEEM, try to only use it with discs that you bought legitimately, rather than downloaded ROMs.
I think I'll start a new SEAMAN. There's something special about raising that guy. You can't put into words the intangible knowledge, and the life-lessons, you learn from SEAMAN. The act of raising a SEAMAN is full of beautifully-executed metaphor. After raising Seaman, I was able to keep goldfish alive for a whole three weeks!
MSR -- if you can get through it -- has unlockable vehicles such as a lawnmower, busses, and a taxicab. Also, there are unlockable "free roam" modes for the different districts where the games' over two-hundred tracks are located. I'm personally addicted to METROPLIS STREET RACING. Too bad the game was released without enough advertising to show everyone that it's WAAAY better than many PS2 racers.
In Japan new games are still released for Dreamcast every month. A lot of them are playable even if you don't speak Japanese. Some of the more recent releases that I'd recommend are: Border Down (2003), Psyvariar 2 (2004), Puyo Puyo Fever (2004), and Shikigami No Shiro 2 (2004). Dreamcast should resurrect in North America so that these great games, and others, can find the fans they deserve.
Why make a reincarnation? If they re-release the Dreamcast console, and re-release the hits, and release new titles, there is a fanbase who would buy everything. The only thing they should do better next time is advertising. People have gotta know the talents of our favourite system.
The cel-shading of Jet Grind Radio was/is revolutionary. The Dreamcast game is better than its X-Box sequel, and that goes for Shenmue as well ;)
If you think Ikaruga was good, Dreamcast Japan released the defining verticle shooter just this year. The game is called PSYVARIAR 2. After playing it for a few hours, you can't help but see beautifully-colored fireworks whenever you close your eyes. Very trippy.
SoulCalibur -- yeah -- especially the mission mode. No matter what mode you're playing, you'll be surprised by new move animations for months.
I like the new South Park episodes. I think the show has evolved, in many good ways, since its creation. A lot of people get attached to the "good old" episodes of a show, because those were the first episodes they saw, the episodes which made them fall in love with the show in the first place. I think that you're blind to see that new "classics" are being created all the time.
Implanting tracking chips into homeless people is the grossest violation of human rights I've read about all day.
The "badass bar" will be hit when Yu Suzuki continues his serial of movie-like RPGs with Shenmue 3! I can't wait for it to come out, and I hope he's generous enough to port a Dreamcast version for his HaRdCoRe FaNz like me who've played the first two installments over-and-over.
Yes, there is a console that isn't dying: Dreamcast! Sega's console was the first to reach the plateau, and it'll be the longest survivor. For more information about the Dreamcast revival, check out such "signs of the second coming" as http://www.videogamedepot.com http://www.dreamcasthistory.com and http://www.dcemulation.com
OH ... MY ... GOD. I need to use that song in one of the early episodes of my "virtual series" The Creator. Dude or dudette, whatever you may be, you MUST record that song to the tune of the theme of ALL IN THE FAMILY. The worse singing voice, the better. You wrote it, so you have the copyright -- so what if its lyrics are in this discussion... just freakin' record it now, because I want to buy it!!!
With even rudimentary knowledge of VXML, you can still get away with some awesome stuff on TellMe! I used to use it all the time until their free service stopped being offerred in Canada. You can still access it free in the states, and when Canadians dial the American eight-hundred number (1-800-555-tell), we get a recording that says: "Oh, I'm sorry, but we currently don't offer our services in Canada. But you can still access all of our services, by calling us long-distance at..." -- and then they say the area code, and the number. TellMe survived in ways that MyTalk crumbled. I'll bet TellMe will evolve eventually into way more than what MyTalk was. MyTalk, and many of the other services that people mentioned in this discussion, are good ideas, but they weren't planned perfectly, because they were way ahead of their times. I hope their times come soon...
You signed up for MyTalk with a computer, and their services were established through computers, but you didn't need a computer to use their services -- all you needed was a phone, because MyTalk was all about adding features to the telephone. On those grounds, I'd moderate your comment "off topic" ... but I won't because I'm happy to have a conversation about this topic. memories are sweet!