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Post by Mambo's Here! Look Busy! on Apr 19, 2005 18:33:43 GMT
I think its like the Harry Potter movies: all American money and production but the actors and writers have to be British...and yeh I know Sam Rockwell is American...I guess thats the point of him being an alien!!
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Post by RSM on Apr 19, 2005 19:21:45 GMT
Which reminds me, ZAPHOD IS NOT A ROCK STAR!!!! He's not hippy enough.
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Post by Mambo's Here! Look Busy! on Apr 19, 2005 19:25:01 GMT
My sentiments exactly! and his heads are the wrong orientation....then again mebbe they wanted their own design to be seperate from the older one, but Im sure it says in the book that the heads are adjacent: theres a scene in Restaurant at the End of the Universe where his heads talk to each other....Im sure of it!...the same scene where the cow offers its own sides of meat(!)
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Post by RSM on Apr 19, 2005 19:32:02 GMT
Yeh, his heads are side by side, I'm watching the vids of the BBC series now.......
I want to know if they have the whale
"Its green, round, I'll call it ground, hello ground"
SPLAT!!
;D
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Post by Sin on Apr 19, 2005 19:39:24 GMT
Yeh, his heads are side by side, I'm watching the vids of the BBC series now....... I want to know if they have the whale "Its green, round, I'll call it ground, hello ground" SPLAT!! ;D They do have it, I've seen a few shots of it.
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Post by Mambo's Here! Look Busy! on Apr 19, 2005 19:42:07 GMT
Its on the website: click on the "improbability" icon and load of weird stuff from the book flies around: including the whale whacking a character (theres one on each section of the site) over the head!! ;D So I imagine it will be... I dont remember seeing it on the trailer. Perhaps I was too busy hyperventilating!
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Post by ronson on Apr 20, 2005 13:39:50 GMT
the alan rickman rogues gallery:
"i'll get you robin hood!" *shakes fist*
"i'll get you john mclaine!" *shakes fist*
"i'll get you harry potter!" *shakes fist*
"i'll get you sexy secretary!" *shakes fist*
"i'll get you martin freeman!" *shakes fist*
"i'll get you stereotypical casting agent!!!" *shakes fist*
adapted from dead ringers - dont sue me! - skint!
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Post by Samface on Apr 20, 2005 15:01:43 GMT
Sexy secretary? What film that from?
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Post by SJ on Apr 29, 2005 17:21:10 GMT
......NOW! Out today anybody seen it? I'm hopefully seeing it this weekend.
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Post by madhair60 on Apr 29, 2005 19:10:01 GMT
Poss. Spoilers
Saw it today. Excellent in places, cringeworthy in others, impossibly bad in more.
Disappointed.
PROS
Marvin is excellent Acting generally good, spesh Arthur Dent Stephen Fry Some excellent jokes
MINUS
The embarassing musical number Hollywood ending Zaphod too irritating Some moments of vomit-inducing badness
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Post by SJ on Apr 29, 2005 21:55:47 GMT
I knew it wouldn't be AMAZING in film.
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Post by jennytablina on Apr 30, 2005 8:50:04 GMT
I saw it with Madhair and a few other pals
[second opinion] ::spoilers there be here::
The films generally fine as long as you can stomach the musical number at the start of the film. Oh and the splicing of the proper opening scene too, that might not go down too easily.
Some of the jokes have been put into american context, due to this the jokes are hit and miss. Sometimes they work and other times it just isnt funny. The jokes with the improbablity drive however are some of the best in the film.
The new subplot in the film (which I'll give nothing away on) is ok, it was originally thought out by Adams himself for the original film screenplay so people who see the film shouldnt be all "ZOMG DRASTIC CHANGE THAT AUTHOR DIDNT HAVEORZ". The only problem with this subplot is that due to events, Zaphod is a brainless ass for most of the film.
Marvin rocks but half his dialogue was cut so sometimes what he says isnt as funny as it can be in the book (like full discussions on how horribly depressed he is) But his new outfit makes him kinda cute looking IMO. ;____; I want a Marvin plushie now, seriously. Also some more of the guide might have been nice
Trillian and Arthurs relationship is exaggerated. This in part leads up to that icky Hollywood ending. Plus blatant plugs for the sequel "Resturant at the end of the Universe" makes the films end feel a little cheap.
But bar it's cons Hitchikers isnt awful but it's not the best adaption ever eather, the old TV series is better still IMO. Hopefully on the sequel they'll pick up a bit.
[/second opinion]
Oh and to anybody going to see the film, SIT THRU THE CREDITS
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Post by ronson on Apr 30, 2005 13:01:13 GMT
Sexy secretary? What film that from? love actually and that lust for that secretary i try to be amusing
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Post by Samface on Apr 30, 2005 18:15:20 GMT
The only problem with this subplot is that due to events, Zaphod is a brainless ass for most of the film. And he wasn't before?
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Post by archangelffx on May 1, 2005 12:37:03 GMT
After seeing this yesterday, I'd like to give Bill Bailey an award for the best voice-acting I've heard in a long while.
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Post by Hysteriabrat on May 1, 2005 21:17:49 GMT
After seeing this yesterday, I'd like to give Bill Bailey an award for the best voice-acting I've heard in a long while. Seconded although did anyone else think he sounded like eddie izzard? Also very annoyed about missing the bit after the credits. My stepdad came back today after seeing it and told me about it and I was kicking myself. (possibly more spoilers) I was very apprehensive about going to see this film, not knowing how bad they would make it. Over-all I was fairly happy though. They have kept many original jokes from the seires which is always a good thing. Also a few new jokes and things to make it fresh. Things that annoyed me included zaphod in general. I mean the new place for the head was kinda cool but it just didn't seem right. And the brainless ass thing with the newsublot did get slightly annoying. Also the rubbish hollywood ending that people have mentioned before was pretty bad. Someone mentioned earlier (can't remember who) about the mention of the restaurant at the end of the universe being a cheesey way of introducing the sequel but that's exactly how it happened in the book so it's not so bad. Final thing did anyone else notice the original Marvin from the TV series stood waiting in the queue?
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Post by Mambo's Here! Look Busy! on May 4, 2005 12:07:43 GMT
OOps...I didnt stay thru the credits, was it something funny?! awww!! neways Im a heeeuge HHGTTG fan and I loved the film! The so long and thanks for all the fish song at the beginning was sooo Monty Python I was in stitches, and I loved the characters except from Zaphod Beeblebrox being jst a retard. I mean, hes meant to be so cool you can keep a side of meat in him for a month, but in the film hes just a self-obsessed airhead! Cmon, hes the inventor of the PanGalactic Gargle Blaster for heavens sake!! Hes meant to be quite a clever bloke, especially so when you have two heads! I didnt like Humma Kavula, he was unnecessary: the crews voyage to Magarathea was their own, not an errand for someone else, although I did like the Point of View gun. That, Im sure wasnt in the book. Marvin was brilliant with Alan Rickman as his voice, how perfect is that?! However he was never referred to as the Paranoid Android for some reason and didnt look quite right. SCHPOILER here., well a little one: I was pleased to see the old Marvin as a cameo in the Vogsphere scenes! ;D That really made my day! With reference to the Guide itself, there needed to be more passages from it, like in the original TV series, like the Babel Fish proving the existance of God, then Man proves black is white and gets knocked down at the next Zebra Crossing...and the many uses of the TOWEL!! And especially the explanation of the invention of the Improbablity Drive: The janitor which designed it was killed off by the scientists who employed him coz "no-one likes a smart-arse!" Some of the best, most funny bits of the book are in the Guide and the film missed a lot of the Guides contents out. Shame, really. But nit-picking aside it was brilliantly entertaining and I did walk out of the cinema a happy fan! ;D Zaphod is my fave character tho and I didnt think he was portrayed properly. (And Trillian is his biatch, not Arthurs!! lol!) I think in the next one he needs to be more like his book and series counterpart. BTW: DID ANYONE SEE THE SERIES LAST NIGHT?! Isnt it great?!
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Post by RSM on May 6, 2005 20:28:08 GMT
I was disappointed with the film, just didn't do anything for me, and I'm now watching the original series on tape to compensate.
Mambo, the bit in the credits was the Guide explaining how Arthurs "...wonderful towel..." remark was teleported into a room with two armies generals via a freak wormhole, the generals joined forces and went to attack the source of the insult, Earth. But due to a misinterpretation of scale, the fleet was eaten by a small dog......
Or words to that effect....
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Post by SJ on May 15, 2005 20:15:47 GMT
I saw it today, pretty disappointed, I didn't like that it didn't stick to the original story enough, the imrobability drive was used too and in the book/radio series, it just made everything around them change not shoot them through the galaxy. I still think marvin is wrong but the voice was good. I did like the part when they were making earth (When the man was painting the cliff and filling the sea) but they brought back earth which they didn't originally and the restaurant at the end of the universe is when the universe ENDS/DIES/EXPLOADS not at the end of a hall way or the end of a Q. So yeh they should of kept with the original plot more.
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Post by archangelffx on May 16, 2005 14:12:24 GMT
If a film was exactly the same as a TV show or a book, then what would be the point in seeing it.
Expectations ruin films, don't have them.
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Post by Mambo's Here! Look Busy! on May 16, 2005 14:18:57 GMT
Im inclined to agree with u, Arch. I wasnt expecting it to be exactly like the book, itd be far too long if it was!! I understand that there are fans that are boycotting it coz it isnt what they expected but they have to understand that it is an ADAPTATION of the book, not a movie clone of it! so meh!
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