It would appear I have work to do. runs out of thread
Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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No, the movie was bad.
I disagree.
I thought it was a fun flick and it inspired me to read the books (although I had to stop and should start up again).I also loved Mos Def in it.
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I disagree.
Have you read the books? Apart from Alan Rickman as Marvin, there wasn't much to cheer for in that movie.
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Yeah, as a fan of the books, I was really unhappy with the movie adaptation.
Marvin was great, though. They could always make a redeeming sequel that focuses on the Krikkit Wars or something. That might even translate better to film than the whole Magrathea escapade did.
The difficulty in capturing the greatness of Adams's books in film is that you can't just copypasta what he wrote onto the screen. And it usually wouldn't work to have a character quote the book in an inner monologue. Some of the scenes, the Whale one comes to mind, worked really well with the Guide acting as narrator, though. Maybe they should have tried for more of that throughout the movie?
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The difficulty in capturing the greatness of Adams's books in film is that you can't just copypasta what he wrote onto the screen. And it usually wouldn't work to have a character quote the book in an inner monologue. Some of the scenes, the Whale one comes to mind, worked really well with the Guide acting as narrator, though. Maybe they should have tried for more of that throughout the movie?
Watch the BBC miniseries. Low budget, but they did it perfectly. Aside from leaving out like two chapters focusing of Zaphod in the second book, the miniseries captures pretty much every line and nuance of the first two books. Hell, Adams originally wrote it as a radioplay and then did the miniseries adaptation… so by the time it was made into book form he might have even had those actors in mind. And the book narrator is great.
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I'll check it out, thanks Robby! Sounds awesome.
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Have you read the books? Apart from Alan Rickman as Marvin, there wasn't much to cheer for in that movie.
Alan Rickman as Marvin is worth the price of admission alone.
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For the 40th anniversary of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Dirk Maggs — who already adapted the Douglas Adams books Life the Universe and Everything, So Long and Thanks for All the Fish, and Mostly Harmless into radio series to match the original Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy radio sitcom — has done the same to Eoin Colfer‘s sixth novel in the series, And Another Thing… incorporating other original work by the late Douglas Adams.
Starring as many of the original radio and TV actors as possible, with John Lloyd, flatmate of Douglas Adams and co-writer of the second series — and creator of Blackadder, Spitting Image, and QI — as The Book. And Stephen Hawking as The Book Mark II.
For a little while at least you can listen to the first episode free, worldwide, on the BBC Radio iPlayer.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09th4hf
I was pretty indifferent to the last book. It captured the humor okay but the plot was meh. I've only listened to part 1 (the others haven't aired yet) so its hard to tell how much or how little it will improve on the book, but its a real treat to have Simon Jones as Arthur again. He still sounds the same which is great considering its been 40 years. And that musical theme….
I probably need to track down the other radio plays, I never listened past the first two.
And while I'm at it...
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Dammit, now I have work to do, runs to the library
So Kitsune, it's been… seven and a half years. You do your homework yet?
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I read the first 100 pages or so of And Another Thing… and it really didn't capture me. I don't know if it was the pacing or what but just none of the charm and punchiness was there.
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I read the first 100 pages or so of And Another Thing… and it really didn't capture me. I don't know if it was the pacing or what but just none of the charm and punchiness was there.
It wasn't just you. The book was eh. Tried too hard to capture the jokes (down to even copying some of them directly) and the weirdness but kinda missed the mark. The radio play seems to put some of the energy and charm back in though.
It was a happier ending than book 5 at least.
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Just recently I have finally gotten to reading HGTTG for the first time. A regular and lengthy work transit is all it took for me to start.
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At least watch the BBC series man! It's only six half hour episodes!
It always galled me that they stopped at the end of Restaurant at the End of the Universe. It's not like the other 3 would have been that terribly difficult to do. Lots of most of them spent time on normal Earth or really easy-to-simulate environments.
You would think in the era of the Doctor Who revival, they could easily do the entire five-book (and even the Eoin Colfer follow-up) as a series, and even expand upon it.
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It always galled me that they stopped at the end of Restaurant at the End of the Universe. It's not like the other 3 would have been that terribly difficult to do. Lots of most of them spent time on normal Earth or really easy-to-simulate environments.
Well, it was a REALLY expensive series to do. SUre it looks super cheap by current standards, but it was a lot, especially all the animated bits.
Also, while the tv series aired in 81, they started on it in 79, and the third book didn't come out till 82… which was close enough that they theoretically could have adapted it except it wouldn't have been enough material on its own probably.... and book our wasn't until 84 and the last book (with its downer ending) wasn't until 92.
There was no production timetable that would have made any sense to continue the original tv series with the original actors. Having them do radio plays basically serves the need, I think.
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For some reason I thought those were all written WAY before those dates…I've read the entire series cover-to-cover about 4 times now and listened to the audiobooks I don't know how many times but I never really look at the 'about the author' stuff or anything like that, so I guess that's why I never placed its exact publication.
But still, with Doctor Who coming back in 2005 with its makeup and CGI budget being able to make such awesome things happen, that there hasn't been another HHGG series in over 10 years since, is insulting.
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Well, there IS the Dirk Gently series…
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Well, there IS the Dirk Gently series…
The one with Elijah Wood? I ended up hating it after the first season. It sounds nothing like what I read about the description of the book, and the book is not available at my library for some reason.
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I guess? I haven't watched it at all and know literally nothing about it except that they made it. It's a new series based on a Douglas Adams property.
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Not to spoil anything but I don't like mixing science and spiritualism very much, and instead of relying on just one or the other, they did go with both which I found annoying, though that's not my biggest gripe. If I ever do find the book I hope it's not as disappointing. In any case, the far better series needed to get a proper TV series and didn't.
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Well, the original books had ghosts and norse gods in them, so if that's the rough nature of your complaint, that's in the source material.
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Those weren't in the show, at least not the first season, and now I'm ten times as disappointed in it knowing those weren't part of it. But I'd settle for the Norse gods thing from "And Another Thing…" if they eventually make all six of the HHGG books into a proper series like it deserves.