I did NOT like HGTTG movie :-(

[KevinPage]

I'm a new fan as you can get. Last month I rented the BBC TV series and then read the book.

Going in I was rolling my eyes at the nay sayers who were saying things like:

you can't have Mos Def be Ford Prefect
Zaphod only has 2 heads some of the time
etc, etc, etc.

So I wan't to give it the benefit of the doubt, even with the story changes.

But overall, I jsut felt the film was boring. Mos Def barely spoke and was terribely miscast and Alan Rickman as Marvin jsut didn't work for some reason and Freeman as Arthuir Dent jsut wasn't believable.

The whole movie felt rushed, as evidenced at the beginning of the movie with the tractors and bar scene. Then the Zogan scene poetry scene wizzed by. (and it's FUTILE, not USELESS)

I didn't really mind the changes to the story. And I understand they have to cut things to made it fit into a 2 hour movie and you have to play up the love scenes more for a American audience.

But it really doesn't change the fact that I was bored and Zaphod was just more annoying than he should have been.

Oh well, one less DVD that I have to buy.

 

[Testtrack321]

I really liked it, mabey it's just me. Oh well, hopefully any sequals will be better!

 

[imagineer boy]

(and it's FUTILE, not USELESS)

In Star Trek they say Futile, but in the Guide to the Galaxy, they say useless.

 

[KevinPage]

In Star Trek they say Futile, but in the Guide to the Galaxy, they say useless.

I could have SWORN that in the BBC TV series they said Resistence is Futile.

Oh well, my bad.

 

[Woody13]

"Resistance is useless!" shouted the Vogon guard back at him.

 

[KevinPage]

Woody,

Do we have to take your opinion seriously now, since there is no longer and RED BOXES under your name :veryconfu

:lol:

 

[DisneyPhD]

Oh no, and I was nay sayer, saying that the casting was off and all the changes weren't right. Oh well. I still haven't seen it since we just got home less then 24 hours ago and I almost never get to see movies anyway. I think I still will go see if when and if I can get a baby sitter.

Oh well, and all that debating we had before hand. It will be at least a week until I get to give my opinon.

BTW, what happened? I left for WDW and came back and the whole rep system is gone. Is it just me or does anyone else kind of miss it? I liked giving postive points and getting them. I even gave some positive ones to Woody, but it was kind of a futile point!!!!! (or should I say useless!)

 

[Dakotadogy]

The child went to Nana and Pop Pop's house tonight for an overnight vaction. Yeah! Date night to celebrate our 12 year wedding anniversary and mother's day all rolled into one.

We just got home from the movie. Personally, I thought it was OK. I read the book(s) and saw the BBC series almost 20 years ago. So, I'm going mostly on memory. My DH hadn't been influenced by any form of the story and he indicated on the ride home that it definitly did not make him want to run out and buy the books.

I did not care for the interpretation of Arthur. However, I loved the Ford Prefect rendition. Marvin's voice was great but the "robot" used definitly did not fit with my internal perception of him. The actor portraying Zaphoid reminded me a lot of Johnny Rotten from Survivor a few years ago and I thought he was great even with the 2 head - 1 head thing.

I loved that they used an updated version of the music from the BBC series with the opening credits. Even after 20 years, the music came flooding back.

 

[HMGhost13]

See I loved the movie. I didn't think it was rushed. Why does everyone say that about films that are taken from books and such? Do you WANT to sit through a 10 hour movie? It'd be the equivilant to watching all three LOTR in a row but for only one movie (and imagine if they put everything from THOSE books intot he film...we'd have a week long movie for each!) When books translate to film (and Douglas Adams wrote this script) they can't always put everything in them. I think the movie summed up the book pretty well. and Alan Rickman was perfect as Marvin.

Although the whale had the best part in the whole film "HI GROUND!!!" *SPLAT!*

 

[KevinPage]

See I loved the movie. I didn't think it was rushed. Why does everyone say that about films that are taken from books and such? Do you WANT to sit through a 10 hour movie? It'd be the equivilant to watching all three LOTR in a row but for only one movie (and imagine if they put everything from THOSE books intot he film...we'd have a week long movie for each!) When books translate to film (and Douglas Adams wrote this script) they can't always put everything in them. I think the movie summed up the book pretty well. and Alan Rickman was perfect as Marvin.

Although the whale had the best part in the whole film "HI GROUND!!!" *SPLAT!*

I never understood the purpose of the whale part, even in the book, I thought it was needless and tiresome. I'm surprised they devoted any time to it in the movie.

 

[FigmentJedi]

I liked it, though it still needed some additional stuff such as the explanation of a towel's importance and WHY Ford is on Earth in the first place: To update the entry for Earth from "Harmless" to "Mostly Harmless"

 

[HMGhost13]

I never understood the purpose of the whale part, even in the book, I thought it was needless and tiresome. I'm surprised they devoted any time to it in the movie.

The whole point is the Improbability Drive. Arthur used it against the missles.

And actually Ford had a lot more to say about Earth, the guide just put it as "mostly harmless" deleteing everything else he said.

 

[DisneyPhD]

I never understood the purpose of the whale part, even in the book, I thought it was needless and tiresome. I'm surprised they devoted any time to it in the movie.

I read somewhere Dougless adams take on it. Something about needless volince and shot em up shows. Where people just died with no regard to what they had planner for later in the day. It was his joke about it, just put in to make people like him, and then take him away.

Maybe it was in "Last Chance to See" a book he wrote about endangred creatures. (one of the few other books of his I have read.)