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Well, yesterday I caught a preview of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Movie.
Oh, man. What happened? Hollywood once again proves that they can't take a good BBC SF show and not try to vamp it up with too much glitz and action.
I am supremely disappointed. Anyone else feel this way, or know anything that might make me want to see this... thing?
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But the teaser was so awesome that I am hopeful that the humour of the original can still be glimpsed in the movie.
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Yeah, that teaser had me wetting myself. It was quite embarassing.
Actually, I'm waiting too. I plan to enjoy it anyway, because it'll be a good movie, even if it isn't a stellar adaptation of the book.
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I am anxious to hear Alan Rickman read off some of Marvin's best lines. I will enjoy it for that, even if everything else sucks (and I don't think it will).
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I dunno. Maybe I'm just sick of effects-based movies. Particularly when based upon such a well written show (both radio and television).
What was great about the BBC stuff from the seventies and eighties. Well, it wasn't the effects. It was the plots, the characters, the acting, and the writing . Not the rubber monsters.
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I thought the preview was good. Sure there was the special effects thing...but the humor of the preview fit the books rather well.
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Did you see the trailer that was a guide entry on trailers?
I would think that would quell most of your concerns as they poke much fun at the hollywood explosions and girls-in-next-to-nothing trailers...
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cow orker: n. [Usenet] n. fortuitous typo for co-worker, widely used in Usenet, with perhaps a hint that orking cows is illegal. This term was popularized by Scott Adams (the creator of Dilbert) but already appears in the January 1996 version of the scary devil monastery FAQ, and has been traced back to a 1989 sig block. Compare hing, grilf, filk, newsfroup.
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Looks neat. I’m just hoping it’s better then the book. I read it for the movie but didn’t like it. So…. I’m just hopeful.
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AFAIK, it's based onthe book, but every version is slightly different, i.e. there's a new character inthe movie that was written specifically for the movie by Adams.
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He goes on and on about that in his introduction to The More Than Complete Hitchhiker's Guide.
Talking about The Hitchhiker's Guid to the Galaxy: The Original Radio Scripts, he says:
quote:The book is, as the title suggests, a collection of tall the radio scripts, as broadcast, and it is therefore the only example of one Hitchhiker publication accurately and consistently reflecting another. I feel a little uncomfortable with this -- which is why the introduction to that book was written after the final and definitive one you are now reading and, of course, flatly contradicts it.
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Both trailers I've seen have me thinking they might accually pull it off. The first and very short one with the song, "What a wonderful world" and then stopping abruptly to destroy the earth and in the middle of it for just a second show the words, "Don't Panic!" and the other trailer that's a guide to trailers was pretty darn funny. Especially the deep voice part.
Action doesn't have to be a bad thing, as long as they remember first that it's a comedy which they seem to be making sure anyone who doesn't know the books know it.
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quote: cow orker: n. [Usenet] n. fortuitous typo for co-worker, widely used in Usenet, with perhaps a hint that orking cows is illegal. This term was popularized by Scott Adams (the creator of Dilbert) but already appears in the January 1996 version of the scary devil monastery FAQ, and has been traced back to a 1989 sig block. Compare hing, grilf, filk, newsfroup.
.... Dang... you really can tell where I've been by my slang.
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I have but one question. Are we going to hear about how towels are the most useful thing in the galaxy? Because I was planning on taking a towel with me when I go see it......
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I need to remember that. I'll call my friend, we're going to go see it together because I forced him to read the book, and say," You need to scrotal!" He'll be so confused. In one of the trailers Ford says something about needing a towel so I'm taking one. Maybe it could be a Hatrack (and friends) statement. Take a towel with you to see the movie. Who wants to do it?
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Cause a mall patrol riot: sell towels while waiting for the showing to start. "I saw you bought a ticket to Hitchhike. Need a towel?" Shake head and tsk with pitying look if they refuse.
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I just saw the trailer in the right before Sin City. It looked amazing. I can't wait! But then again I'm a fanboy. Of course I'll have my towel. On a side note I have the 42nd post. I'm in fanboy heaven.
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Oh I'm ABSOLUTELY bringing a towel with me when I go see it! Dad and I are planning to go opening night (cause we're weird - we don't usually do opening day shows - and cause Mom has the day off to watch my kids for me)
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I was going to go the night it came out and take a towel with me......thats all I had planned. I think they need to make a real Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy the way it was described in the books, except for Mostly Harmless; I don't want a bird to explain stuff to me. Posts: 6026 | Registered: Dec 2004
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I spoke with the Executive Producer, Robbie Stamp, a few days ago. After seeing his presentation the previous night as part of the Melbourne Comedy Festival and spending half an hour with the guy for an interview for the magazine I write for I'm willing to give it the benefit of the doubt.
Stamp was a friend and business partner of DNA's for the 10 years leading up to his death. When the team chose the writer to massage the last draft Adams' was working prior to his death they went with someone who worked exclusively with material that Adams himself had written - they felt it was vitally important for no-one else to try and be "Adams-y", but to dip into the huge pool of writing that was left. Stamp had DNA's entire hard-drive copied to his. Apparently there was just tons of stufff - as anyone who's read "Salmon of Doubt" knows.
Obviously the presentation and the interview is all a part of the sales pitch for the movie, but it's heartening to know that most of the character and plot choices were ones that Adams himself had proposed. Even Humma Kavala - if you've heard enough to know who that is.
The other thing to keep in mind is that Adams himself constantly maintained that none of the various editions of his work were consistent with each other and (to paraphrase) always relished a chance to set the record wrong definitively.
Adams was the only celeb that I felt a personal connection to, with absolutely no justification, of course. He once replied to an email I wrote. That's it. But he's only celeb who's passing I mourned... I've given away that many copies of "Last Chance To See"....
So to cut a rambling post short: Yay Adams! (Cautious) Yay Hitchhiker's Guide Movie!
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Ouch! Guess I'll be waiting for some of the 'Rackers to go and tell me if it's worth eight bucks.
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The meeting between Ford and Beeblebrox is one of my favourite bits in the book. It looks like they changed it completely in the movie to make them actually happy to see each other.
EDIT: Plus I don't know how British Humour can be carried out without British accents. It's an elemental part of it.
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