Hitchhiker's Guide

[larper]

If you have not read the books, the movie is hopeless to follow. If you have read the books, the movie is hopelessly inadequate.<br /><br />I think they got Zaphod right, though. Too bad he didn't get a chance to shine. The whole cutting off of one of his heads completely diverges from the book. <br /><br />They also took away that best part of the entry on Babblefish.<br /><br />Read the books. You might or might not like them, but they will enlighten you about the movie.<br /><br />They should try to make a movie from his best novel, "Dirk Gentley's Holistic Detective Agency". <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><strong><font color="#ff0000">Vote </font><font color="#3366ff">Libertarian</font></strong></p> </div>

 

[vogon13]

I liked the Vogons, too.<br /><br /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><font color="#ff0000"><strong>TPTB went to Dallas and all I got was Plucked !!</strong></font></p><p><font color="#339966"><strong>So many people, so few recipes !!</strong></font></p><p><font color="#0000ff"><strong>Let's clean up this stinkhole !!</strong></font> </p> </div>

 

[CalliArcale]

<blockquote><font class="small">In reply to:</font><hr /><p>They should try to make a movie from his best novel, "Dirk Gentley's Holistic Detective Agency". <p><hr /></p></p></blockquote><br /><br />Guess what? Most of that book was recycled from the uncompleted Doctor Who episode "Shada" (available on VHS from Time Warner). Check it out if you want to see what Professor Chronotis is like, and why his office door can move through time and space. <img src="/images/icons/wink.gif" /> (Hint: it's a TARDIS, and Chronotis is actually a Time Lord. But Adams couldn't say that in the book, since they're copyrighted.) There's stuff in "Shada" that's not in "Dirk Gently", of course, and vice versa.<br /><br />He also reused a bit from his script for "City of Death" in that book -- mainly the concept that life on Earth was triggered by an exploding alien spaceship.<br /><br />I liked the sequel much better: "The Long, Dark Tea-Time of the Soul". I thought that was his best book ever, personally. If you haven't read it, I highly recommend it. We learn an interesting navigational technique: if you don't know where you're going, find a car that looks like it does, and follow it. <img src="/images/icons/wink.gif" /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p> </p><p><font color="#666699"><em>"People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but actually from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint it's more like a big ball of wibbly wobbly . . . timey wimey . . . stuff."</em>  -- The Tenth Doctor, "Blink"</font></p> </div>

 

[larper]

I didn't like Tea Time nearly as much as the first. Didn't know that it was originally a Who script. Sure didn't read like one. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><strong><font color="#ff0000">Vote </font><font color="#3366ff">Libertarian</font></strong></p> </div>

 

[CalliArcale]

Parts of it were, not all of it. "Shada" involves a power-crazed madman intent on breaking a very dangerous prisoner out of a Gallifreyan prison called Shada and then sucking up his mind to obtain his power. That doesn't get into "Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency". And the Electric Monk never appeared in "Shada". But a lot of other stuff was recycled. For instance, there's a wonderful interchange between Chronotis and Romana that was reused in the book:<br /><br />Chronotis: Tea?<br />Romana: Oh, yes please.<br />Chronotis: One lump or two?<br />Romana: One please.<br />Chronotis: Sugar?<br /><br />I love that bit. Pure Adams genius to have such a subtly bewildering interchange. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p> </p><p><font color="#666699"><em>"People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but actually from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint it's more like a big ball of wibbly wobbly . . . timey wimey . . . stuff."</em>  -- The Tenth Doctor, "Blink"</font></p> </div>

 

[Grok]

I still haven't seen the movie. I'm in the middle of the fourth book now <i> So long and thanks for all the fish </i>. However, I've stopped reading Clark to reread <i>War of the Worlds</i>, and then someone mentioned that I should read Hemingway's <i>A Moveable Feast</i> before I go back to Paris. So, after I peel back all the layers I'll eventually find Hitchhiker's again. I'm always burying myself this way.

 

[tom_hobbes]

I wouldn't bother, it's Mostly Disappointing. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><font size="2" color="#339966"> I wish I could remember<br /> But my selective memory<br /> Won't let me</font><font size="2" color="#99cc00"> </font><font size="3" color="#339966"><font size="2">- </font></font><font size="1" color="#339966">Mark Oliver Everett</font></p><p> </p> </div>

 

[avaunt]

OHO !<br /><br />Someone got bit by the Paris bug, eh?.<br /><br /><img src="/images/icons/smile.gif" /><br /><br />Twice !, "You lucky lucky lucky lucky barstard!".*<br /><br /><br /><br />*Quote from Life of Brian, not me being rude. As such. <br /><br /><img src="/images/icons/smile.gif" />