*Sighs Shakes his head and walks off*

One of the best movies I've ever seen.
"AHH!! He's got a towel!"

Not great, but not bad. Pretty good, in fact. I wish they'd have stuck closer to the book, however.

haven't seen it yet. Loved all the books & the 1970's BBC series, but all the reviews say this movie is crap. They'll get my money though as I have to see it.

It's one I'd like to see as well.

Well if you liked the books the movie will be crap.

Ive read the books, watched the old series which i thought was almost there but lacked a fulller picture, So there i was assuming the same thing could not possibly happen again and that the good people to whom made the movie would have included it... but noooo that would have been to difficult so instead they take the first and 10 minutes of the last book and make a film out of it. How nice of them.

Trust me from the moment Ford gives beer to the destruction team instead of getting the destruction team leader to lay in front of the truck you know its lost the plot.

I really loved the book and its humour so its a shame they decided to cut that out... the humour i mean.

and i quote from the guy who wrote Douglas Adamns biography...

Douglas Adam's died before the movie was released but Simpson, writing on the Internet a few weeks ago, now thinks Adams got off lucky, since the author will never see how Disney bastardized his beloved child or hear his brilliant lines gutted and reduced to glib, soggy punch lines. "You just won't believe how vastly, staggeringly, jaw-droppingly bad it is," Simpson wrote, being most kind. Simpson, of course, comes to it from the perspective of the obsessive fan and distant friend, protective till the end of Adams' tale about the travails of the last earthman, Arthur Dent, as he trips through space with aliens Ford Prefect and Zaphod Beeblebrox and Marvin the Paranoid Android. But he does indeed speak for those who adore the book not for the story (a narrative as linear as a soap bubble), but for Adams' zippy, witty writing style, which was Marx Brothers by way of Monty Python--nonsense that made perfect sense to its acolytes. Anyone unfamiliar with the novel will simply be lost, a hitchhiker just trying to get a ride out of the theater.

and there is this

Several elements of the book, especially the randomness of the ending, would not have translated well to the screen.

No translated well??? Not Translated well!!!!, The whole bloody point of it being a Random Ending is just that... it leaves the dumb stupid people who dont get witty jokes to leave in a huff of stupidity whilst the rest of us can sit there smug, smile and know its a piece of art thats done justice to a man who couldnt ever see it. But its not to be...

Most of the humour I found was in relating back to the book. There were countless jokes in the movie that would have made absolutely no sense whatsoever if you hadn't read the book. To actually find the movie funny you had to stop watching the movie itself and instead think back to the book. This movie will collapse and I fear a second one never made because of both the pathetic critiques of it and the fact that it just really isn't that funny without the book as support. The thing is that you have to realize that it is impossible to put words into picture form. True, pictures are worth a thousand words, but a thousand words will never equate to a single picture. The way the words are put together create mental images that reality cannot reproduce, and that is the falling of movies made from books, they can never grasp the true idea just how the book did. However, I believe that H2G2 the movie almost perfectly reflected Douglas Adams' twisted mind. Of course the worst parts of the movie stemed directly from their attempt to make it mainstream. That they failed miserably at. A love story? What?! Some complaints about the movie was that it really never had a direct track it was on, same with the book and Douglas Adams' mind. Mos Def as Ford was genius, same as Alan Rickman as Marvin(Holy shit he was perfect). Arthur was played well. Zaphod... Pathetic actor... Fire that man and never allow him in movies again. That was despicable. Slartibartfast was perfect also. And I loved the way they handled the Guide. The movie was good. Unfortunately there are people that feel that a movie based on a book should follow it letter by letter.

Drew go and see it and youll get what i mean.

The difficulty stems when you have a read a book a few times and have created these characters for yourself, the look, the sounds etc, just to have a film go and derail those persona's completey.

I really started to get bored of Marvin like half way in in the film, i loved his debate about the doors in the book and yet a 2 second glance. I suppose that moment in the movie should have caused me to remember the moments in the book and thus smile but it didnt.

Yeh Slartibartfast was good but i was just so geared up to see certain parts of the book and ... yeh didnt. Remember the whole bit with the Guard on the Vogan ship and their conversation to stop him kicking them out ...Removed.

On the Flipside they went to town with the special effects so that was interesting.

Anyone ever play the Hitchhiker's Guide computer game for the Apple II? It was completely text-based. Kind of cool.

I'm going to go see this on friday along with house of wax. I hope not to be let down twice in one night. We shall see.

Originally posted by LionelHutz
Anyone ever play the Hitchhiker's Guide computer game for the Apple II? It was completely text-based. Kind of cool.

Awesome game but i always got stuck at the ship, you had to fix the computer i do believe and it just lost me. Genius though and beautifully made.

Originally posted by Lokideviluk
Awesome game but i always got stuck at the ship, you had to fix the computer i do believe and it just lost me.

Try playing the game before you read the book. When I finally read the book I was like "Oh, I was supposed to stick the fish in my ear!" Suffice it to say, I didn't get very far. I had to appreciate the game retroactively.

lol im amazed you got past "lie down in front of bulldozer"

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/hitchhikers/game_nolan.shtml
I'm just not old enough to have had an Apple 2.

Originally posted by Blibblob
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/hitchhikers/game_nolan.shtml
I'm just not old enough to have had an Apple 2.

Hey, that's the game! Kewl.

You missed out Blib. You haven't lived until you've played Montezuma's Revenge.

I saw the trailer for "Hitchhikers.." and went out and bought the book immediately. I bought the anthology with all the sequals (it's 800 pages). I read furiously just before the movie came out.

I was familiar with "42" and a couple of other tidbits from being in college with fans of the book, but I had never read it myself. I was so excited after I finished the book(s).

The movie was a complete turd for all the reasons stated above.

lol Ed we completely agree,