Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

[MeteorWayne]

Sci Fi is running it on Saturday night.

I thought the movie was pretty good in capturing the flavour of the book.
If you've never seem it, it's worth checking out, IMHO.

 

[bdewoody]

My answer is 42

 

[CalliArcale]

Sci Fi is running it on Saturday night.

I thought the movie was pretty good in capturing the flavour of the book.
If you've never seem it, it's worth checking out, IMHO.

I loved it! Though please note that it is not an adaptation of the book series. Rather, it is the latest incarnation of the franchise, which has undergone major changes each time. It didn't even start out as a book -- it started out as a radio series. It definitely captures the flavor of "Hitchhiker's", though.

Some fans were upset at things that were added -- yet the irony is that the most dramatic changes were those that Douglas Adams himself had made before his sudden and unexpected death. The scriptwriter who completed it did his best to be faithful to that and to the other incarnations of the story, and consequently made it more like preceding versions than Adams probably would have.

 

[MeteorWayne]

And my mental image of you, Calli, is the dolphins singing "so long, so long, so long, and thanks for all the fish!"

That's a good thing

 

[ZenGalacticore]

I read the whole compilation about 15 years ago. In the first 20 to 30 pages, I was like: 'What in the hell is this guy talking about?' An incredibly funny read, and I haven't seen the movie. Does it have the immortal being that flies around the universe determined to insult- in alphabetical order- every sentient being that has ever lived? And after 2 billion years he's just now insulting Arthur A. Dent? Too much!!! :lol:

Thanks for the info.

 

[CalliArcale]

Alas, no, Wowbagger the Infinitely Prolonged does not appear. ;-) It mostly contains events from the first book, though there are also many new scenes (and a major subplot) that have not appeared in any other version.