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December 05, 2004
HHGttG
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy -- The Official Movie Website
Several years ago, a friend gave me Mp3 versions of the entire audio book for the Hitchhiker’s guide to the Galaxy. It shows up a lot in my itunes Playlist. The Hitchhiker’s guide is a wonderful, silly, slightly morose story about a universe gone mad. Or, perhaps, it is about our world, blown up to universal proportions to have its silliness examined. This movie looks like none of that...
There are 5 books which comprise a trilogy for Gods’ sake! Watch this trailer and tell me if it seems like that. The fact that they had to do it over Mr. Adam’s dead body should tell us something...
Thanks to Dazed_and_Confucius Whose fault this movie isn’t...
Posted by Andrew at December 5, 2004 11:34 AM
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How can anyone form a conclusion about the movie having seen that trailer?
This isn't a personal question, more a general comment on the trailer's lack of content. For those of us who've read the series, it has no way to judge whether it'll be worthwhile or not... Heck, we can't even see if the casting was acceptable.
To those who've not read the books, it has no content on what the movie is about... Even the subtle humor in the trailer would be lost on people who've not read the book...
By the way, nice turn of phrase there... "blown up to universal proportions to have its silliness examined."
Blown up indeed...
At least I know where my towel is.
On the note of waiting for Mr. Adam's death... Given that it started as a radio show, has been converted into every modern media format available (IIRC it's already been done as a movie, I know it was done on TV), and all with Mr. Adam's blessing (more or less), I doubt he's rolling in his grave over this having been done. And judging by the quality of some of those format conversions, I doubt that he'd even spin in his grave if the movie was lousy. Actually, given his comments, I'm more inclined to beleive he'd be chuckling at how horrible it is.
Rand.
Posted by: Rand. at December 6, 2004 07:11 AM