the 3 people who "disliked" this video, in fact, had twitched at almost the exact moment of clicking the mouse, thus causing them to click the dislike button. one of them also helped to fuel infinite improbibility for a ship with an infinite improbibility. another helpful factor is that someone happened to have a heart attack at the exact same time, choked on a fishbone, fell into a lake, and finally found his copy of a very good book he had been searching for for 42 seconds.
i'm working on the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy. it's the book within the series, not the series about the book. content is based on the books & radio series. anyone who wants to help can send me a message.if three or more people work on the project we can't use personal messages to communicate. it would be far more efficient to use comments on a channel so we all see what is said. we will vote on what to include & i'll put each article in the same document & send a copy to anyone who helps
Sure as hell you can! Get it in as big as you can (google picture search for Marvin, or Hitchhiker's Guide, or "Marwin wallpaper Don't panic" etc.), the google custom t-shirts (worth a try on your own language, if it's not English). Put the two together, and there you have it!
@MARK1HOE god you people are annoying. I don't get it, how many times does it need to be said Douglas Adams WROTE the script to the movie. everything that had to do with the movie went through him.
@SketchyPeenut It is amazing how many movies are changed when the director gets a hold of them. Ask Frank Miller (A brilliant comic book writer) about Robocop II.
The director took his script and tore it to pieces.
@MARK1HOE yea, but it still doesnt change the fact that Douglas Adams inspected everything before the movie was released, if he didnt like the outcome im sure he could have stalled it or something. but yea your right about the robocop 2 script. i shudder when i think about it
@SketchyPeenut oh, it wasn't just this movie, but Douglas Adams watched everything connected to Hitchhiker's from the 1981 BBC mini-series, audiobooks, the animated film, the graphic novel (where Zaphrod was black) to this film. Adams was very keen on protecting this creation.
i'm sorry, but this doesn't even come close to the original release of the song, but tbh, hitchhikers guide to the galaxy is fuckin awesome so i'l let them off =D
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Good song and story but the whole entire story is written by an athiest. Who thought he got the universe but did not consider the fact that by saying that there isn't something in the everything is quite something. Or another thing that he forgot "Why Not"
"I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours."
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Whether you want to call it God, Gods, a Sombline Inspiration, A Divine Force in which we can't understand it dosn't matter. It exists, what we call is what we call it what everything else in the universe calls it is astronomical beyond are limit of thinking.
Note your heart thinks when you put a moral value into something.
Contemplating the universe rationaly is Theoretically, logically, and whatever orher big words you use is impossible.
What I would like to know is that since Marvin had a brain the size of a planet, why did no one ask HIM to figure out the question? Or alteast think of a different answer. Questions are easy, answers are hard.
He may have a brain the size of a planet, but the other characters do not, and therefore cannot comprehend Marvin's intelligence, and don't ask him for the answer. He does, at one point, try to tell them, but do to an unfortunate run-in with the ravenous bugblatter beast of traal, they never find out. Of course, a great deal of the story doesn't actually happen in this level of probability anyway, and since the cavemen die out, the answer is incorrect weather marvin told it or not.
You misunderstood. The Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal is mentioned in all the works, but I don't remember it being part of the action in any of the stories.
The only actual action the Beast is in is during a short scene aboard the ship of a Hagunemnon. The Hagunemnons are 'super-evolutionary' species, and so, one of these creatures evolves into the Beast.
Yep, thats totally right. I cannot remember if it was in the book, but definitely in the radio series. It started as a chair, turned into the Beast, and then into an escape capsule, explaining how Zaphod survived being eaten :)
I hate how one of his deaths leads to the death of all the main characters, but I like to think just by all deaths not being accounted for yet, in some section of the Universe, the Hitchhikers emerge from an improbability field.
Have to say I was never happy with the way Mostly Harmless ended. I understand Adams probably wanted to end it all, but it was just brutal really, considering how much effort he put into characterisation.
no cause in the movie he said you want the ultimate question. fine the only one that made me happpy was "is she the one?" and the answer was yes. not 42
Arthur Dent found out the Question in the book, when he visits prehistoric Earth and coaxes it out of his subconscious via homemade scrabble pieces. ;)
It was never confirmed which species became the dominant one, it was merely implied. Still, there'd be no argument if someone had actually bothered to ask Marvin back in Hotblack Desiato's stuntship.
I can't recall; it was discovered in a game of scrabble. The Earth was created to discover what the question was by pandimentional beings who just happened to look like lab mice.
Noooo, Prak the truthful said that the question and the answer could not be known at the same time, as they would cancel each other out and take the universe with them.....
I only just realised, I love the song Hotel California and then I remembered that this was by The Eagles too! Love HitchHikers! I've read them all and i'd read them again and again!
BRILLIANT!!! My first contact with The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy was through the movie and I kept replaying the bit with this tune on the DVD release and I kept singing it for the rest of the day!
That movie was pretty good. Has a better opening then the BBC series, though I find the BBC series is much better then the movie, and the book and books are much better then both and even greater then digital watches.
I haven't seen the BBC series yet, but the movie was great, I am reading The Ultimate Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy atm, (collection of all his books about the characters from hitchhikers guide) and I am at the last book now, that is brilliant reading, it is so insanely good ^^
I'm at the same place as you Hitchhiker's-wise, and I tried watching the series last night, but...I dunno it was just too painful for me to look at acting-wise and the pace was a little too slow for me. But that's individual taste. I'd like to hear what YOU thought?^_^
Hitchhiker's Guide had a plot. Douglas Adams was a master of humour and writing talent. If your're going to make a movie, at least make it true to the book your're basing it on. The book is perfect -why change it?
The thing I found funny about the whole h2g2 fanboys hating the movie for not being true to the source is that the books are not the source. It started as a Radio series, then was released as a book, then the TV show and followed by the movie. Each one being different from the others. And from what I recall the screenplay for what was filmed was about 95% written by DNA himself, with only subtle tweaks here and there. So the fanboys are angry at the creator himself.
That, and the only version of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy that Douglas Adams was really unsatisfied with was The Original Radio Scripts. The reason? It was the ONLY version of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy that didn't directly contradict from any other.
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CardassianSunrise 2 months ago
@CardassianSunrise No.
GGPvRickyboy101 1 month ago
BEST... MUSIC... EVER!
mankymoo 2 months ago
Thanks for pointing that out, Marv. I would've been completely panicking right now if I hadn't seen those words.
mysterykcad 4 months ago 3
I saw this movie unfortuatly they missed out alot and added other stuff but still gud
killthemallism 5 months ago
@killthemallism If you can try and find the 80's mini series.
It's great.
ahomevideoonline 3 months ago
I will bee listening to this while driving to the resterunt at the other end of the galaxy.
ProfessionalGam3rz 7 months ago 2
0:37
Free good-part-button, enjoy!
GeorgedIDK 7 months ago
4 reincarnations of agrajag did not like this
megajaronX 7 months ago 5
@megajaronX aah memories
killthemallism 5 months ago 2
@megajaronX Normally I hate comments based on dislike-count, but for that I'll make an exception.
rebmcr 2 months ago
the 3 people who "disliked" this video, in fact, had twitched at almost the exact moment of clicking the mouse, thus causing them to click the dislike button. one of them also helped to fuel infinite improbibility for a ship with an infinite improbibility. another helpful factor is that someone happened to have a heart attack at the exact same time, choked on a fishbone, fell into a lake, and finally found his copy of a very good book he had been searching for for 42 seconds.
tremuloser 10 months ago 25
@tremuloser That's very improbable, I'm afraid
MrStevenWolfe 9 months ago
@tremuloser
and the fourth one read your comment, then, because of which he choked on his perfectly normal beast sandwich and his face clicked the dislike button
geeksquadnatedawg 8 months ago
@tremuloser
Heh, that sounds like something that would be in the GUide itself.
TARDISES 3 months ago
3 people are missing the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and will likely spend more than 30 seconds with a lungful of air in the vacuum of space
Edshar32 11 months ago 2
DON"T PANIC!!
whereismyninjacake 11 months ago
shame this song ended xxx
LadyEpic1996 11 months ago
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CHILD99OF99EVIL 1 year ago
HES GOT A TOWEL!!! RUN!!!
Tavers2 1 year ago 4
looks like 3 people paniced o.o
commanderzac 1 year ago 5
LOVE LOVE LOVE IT! Tacky as hell, but it takes me back!
megrudanj 1 year ago
Anyone who hasnt seen the BBC series needs to. Film was great, the Vogons and Zaphod were done really well. But the BBC series is fuckking awesome!
murf69 1 year ago 4
Love the picture. Wish I could get it on a t-shirt.
morningchaps 1 year ago
@morningchaps just google it and look on images its there
ricspeed1971 11 months ago
@morningchaps
Sure as hell you can! Get it in as big as you can (google picture search for Marvin, or Hitchhiker's Guide, or "Marwin wallpaper Don't panic" etc.), the google custom t-shirts (worth a try on your own language, if it's not English). Put the two together, and there you have it!
alba0merula 11 months ago
2 people forgot their towel
Peleg50 1 year ago 3
Epicness
Pr3dat0rr3qui3m 1 year ago
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strooberi 1 year ago
thankyou for posting this :)
AddictedtoSocks 1 year ago
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This movie was terrible! If Douglas Adams was alive, this movie would have killed him
MARK1HOE 1 year ago
@MARK1HOE god you people are annoying. I don't get it, how many times does it need to be said Douglas Adams WROTE the script to the movie. everything that had to do with the movie went through him.
SketchyPeenut 1 year ago 4
@SketchyPeenut It is amazing how many movies are changed when the director gets a hold of them. Ask Frank Miller (A brilliant comic book writer) about Robocop II.
The director took his script and tore it to pieces.
MARK1HOE 1 year ago
@MARK1HOE yea, but it still doesnt change the fact that Douglas Adams inspected everything before the movie was released, if he didnt like the outcome im sure he could have stalled it or something. but yea your right about the robocop 2 script. i shudder when i think about it
SketchyPeenut 1 year ago
@SketchyPeenut oh, it wasn't just this movie, but Douglas Adams watched everything connected to Hitchhiker's from the 1981 BBC mini-series, audiobooks, the animated film, the graphic novel (where Zaphrod was black) to this film. Adams was very keen on protecting this creation.
GriffithAMPS 1 year ago
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MARK1HOE 1 year ago
the Tv show marvin was in the movie at one point
HitchHikerStudios 1 year ago
I love this arrangement :)
winobint 1 year ago
alan rickman was the voice
warwick davis "was" marvin
beasst94 1 year ago
I actually like the movie better than the TV series, partly because I like Martin Freeman better as Arthur Dent, but also because of Stephen Fry!
xxPatheticEmoxx 1 year ago 2
@xxPatheticEmoxx same here
ccproject72 1 year ago
marvin FTW
Dagg215 1 year ago
GPP: General People Personality, He's a prototype, "You can tell cant you."
TheMilitarynut 1 year ago
alas we shall bring our beloved towels to a new age!
Wizepie 1 year ago
This version is alright, but the song just doesn't seem the same.
The movie was, well: Meh.
I much prefer the TV Series of the Movie
I much prefer the Books over the TV Series
Though, IMO the radio series is the best version of the Series.
Godscarmachine 1 year ago 3
I feel that the movie was good but not a patch on the radio series
CharlieSpecs 1 year ago 3
@CharlieSpecs they need to continue the series, but I doubt that was their intention at all.
daddyrizla 1 year ago
GUYS! IVE LEARNED SOMETHING!!
if we find both the question AND th answer, the universe will cease to exist, no?
holasenor96 1 year ago
i'm sorry, but this doesn't even come close to the original release of the song, but tbh, hitchhikers guide to the galaxy is fuckin awesome so i'l let them off =D
metalord80 1 year ago
Damn !! My Babel fish just fell out of my ear !!!!
Navtheimpaler 1 year ago 2
there wont be a movie for The Restaurant at the End of the Universe"??? :'(
Ripp3RX 1 year ago
there are 6 books of the trilogy and its not about glittering vampires. I don't think there will be, it is very unfortunate.
AllBranMuffins 1 year ago
Alan Rickman as Marvin was total win!
love the movie, love the books even more
Bring your towels everybody!
drdistracto707 2 years ago 85
Towels FTW!!!
catfish552 1 year ago
@drdistracto707
Alan Rickman wasn't Marvin...
DrPaulMutilation 1 year ago
@DrPaulMutilation in the movie, yes he was....
drdistracto707 1 year ago
@drdistracto707 it sounded like alan rickman ut was warwick davis in the suit
darkomengod 1 year ago
@drdistracto707 You mean Alan Rickman as Marvin's voice ...
kumarhk 1 year ago
@drdistracto707 froody :D
Tconnolly2 10 months ago
@Tconnolly2 yeah, he definitley knows where his towel is.
tremuloser 10 months ago
@drdistracto707 My towel might not be long enough...I have failed you. :(
tremuloser 10 months ago
@drdistracto707 and warwick davis was in the body of marvin.
boethiah12 8 months ago
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Good song and story but the whole entire story is written by an athiest. Who thought he got the universe but did not consider the fact that by saying that there isn't something in the everything is quite something. Or another thing that he forgot "Why Not"
UNsoldierLieutenant 2 years ago
@UNsoldierLieutenant
Go read a bible will you? We don't care.
AlonTavor 2 years ago
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your brain thinks faster than your heart sad
UNsoldierLieutenant 2 years ago
I just lol'd, Since when does Hearts think?
Still am loling.
"I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours."
-- Stephen Roberts
AlonTavor 2 years ago 5
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Whether you want to call it God, Gods, a Sombline Inspiration, A Divine Force in which we can't understand it dosn't matter. It exists, what we call is what we call it what everything else in the universe calls it is astronomical beyond are limit of thinking.
Note your heart thinks when you put a moral value into something.
Contemplating the universe rationaly is Theoretically, logically, and whatever orher big words you use is impossible.
UNsoldierLieutenant 2 years ago
@UNsoldierLieutenant no disrespect, but why are you posting this on a Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy music?
fearofthemind 2 years ago 3
The Answer is 42
UNsoldierLieutenant 2 years ago 4
I tried answering all of my the question's as 42 on a math test...didn't go over very well, sadly
jbsdude 1 year ago 6
Math!!!!!!!!!!
UNsoldierLieutenant 1 year ago
Real shame how the music cuts off at the end there.
0mni42 2 years ago 37
@0mni42: I'll try and find you a better, compete version.
EddieTheFishReturns 1 year ago
@EddieTheFishReturns
Way ahead of you. ^_~
(Dang, you can't post URLs... search for Journey of the Sorcerer and it's the first video in the results.)
0mni42 1 year ago
@0mni42: Cool beans! But do you know about the YouTube-to-mp3 converters?
EddieTheFishReturns 1 year ago
@EddieTheFishReturns
I've heard of them, but never used one.
0mni42 1 year ago
SPOILER ALERT! "Sorry for the inconvenience"
That's what it all adds up too!
ketchupkenny 2 years ago 4
I so love this. The Guide was part of my life.
ml7267 2 years ago 2
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i wish this song was longer!
bassassin1837 2 years ago 3
it is a peice of the eagles version
omzig18 2 years ago
What I would like to know is that since Marvin had a brain the size of a planet, why did no one ask HIM to figure out the question? Or alteast think of a different answer. Questions are easy, answers are hard.
Wyrmshadow 2 years ago
He may have a brain the size of a planet, but the other characters do not, and therefore cannot comprehend Marvin's intelligence, and don't ask him for the answer. He does, at one point, try to tell them, but do to an unfortunate run-in with the ravenous bugblatter beast of traal, they never find out. Of course, a great deal of the story doesn't actually happen in this level of probability anyway, and since the cavemen die out, the answer is incorrect weather marvin told it or not.
thecoolcollector 2 years ago
I don't suppose that was very helpful was it?
thecoolcollector 2 years ago
Which continuity does the bugblatter beast come in? I Don't remember that in the books, or TV. Was it in the radio series?
Wyrmshadow 2 years ago
Yes the books, yes the BBC series. Haven't heard the radio series myself but it's in everything so I'd venture a yes there too.
ostimeg 2 years ago
You misunderstood. The Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal is mentioned in all the works, but I don't remember it being part of the action in any of the stories.
Wyrmshadow 2 years ago
The only actual action the Beast is in is during a short scene aboard the ship of a Hagunemnon. The Hagunemnons are 'super-evolutionary' species, and so, one of these creatures evolves into the Beast.
It's not the real thing, but good as.
thecoolcollector 2 years ago
I remember that... was it in the radio play? I think it also turned into a chair maybe.
Wyrmshadow 2 years ago
Yep, thats totally right. I cannot remember if it was in the book, but definitely in the radio series. It started as a chair, turned into the Beast, and then into an escape capsule, explaining how Zaphod survived being eaten :)
thecoolcollector 2 years ago
Try to make a question, that already has an answer...
thotiakos 2 years ago
Among the best intros I've ever heard...The Eagles...unfairly underrated
rlaitano 2 years ago
i know why the bowl of petunias (agrajag) thought oh no not again (poor agrajag)
thelightningseye 2 years ago
I hate how one of his deaths leads to the death of all the main characters, but I like to think just by all deaths not being accounted for yet, in some section of the Universe, the Hitchhikers emerge from an improbability field.
Soder96 2 years ago
Have to say I was never happy with the way Mostly Harmless ended. I understand Adams probably wanted to end it all, but it was just brutal really, considering how much effort he put into characterisation.
webbtje 2 years ago 3
Then prepare for "And Another Thing..."
DocImpossible 2 years ago
How did I not know of its existence till now!
Not sure if I approve of anyone else but Adams being in charge, but it'll be an interesting read either way.
webbtje 2 years ago
There ya go. Even if Colfer doesn't possess Adams' panache, its still likely to be a good book. I'm still anxious to see what's become of Ford.
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So far, so good - bejaysus!
maraband 2 years ago
What's 6 times 7? Or..or.. How man roads must a man walk down?
nhpresident08 2 years ago
did the mice realise that they could have had trillians brain aswell???
dalekofdoom2 2 years ago
Well, she had left the earth a while before it was destroyed. Arthur was there right up to the moment it imploded.
MortalEnemie 2 years ago
dear dalekofdoom
if she left earth before the final readout she would no longer be part of the program and the question would not be in her head
thelightningseye 2 years ago
Guys, guys, stop arguing, the answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything is 42 god dammit D:<
jdjk7 2 years ago 3
where can i find full
DUCKBOIpi 2 years ago
this makes me fancie a pan galactic gargle blaster! (must remember where my towel is!)
JonAndCallum 2 years ago
why is the robot so depressed? he saved their lives at the end of the movie.
roundedhalo 2 years ago
He just wasn't designed properly by the Sirius Cybernitcs Coperation (he was a prototype)
Mythe66 2 years ago
ohhh
roundedhalo 2 years ago
thats what happens when your built be dogs.
bigbang452 2 years ago
He had a pain in all the diodes down his right side
DieKolkrabe 2 years ago 3
no cause in the movie he said you want the ultimate question. fine the only one that made me happpy was "is she the one?" and the answer was yes. not 42
jatman12 2 years ago
i feel like arthur some times like at the start... bewildered about whats out there..... bring on reseraunt at the end of the universe
hawkwreak 2 years ago
the answer is 42
yoshimasterleader 2 years ago
Ahh..but then what is the question?
Chaosblade777 2 years ago
How many roads must a man walk down?
Niiauyr 2 years ago
What is the answer to life, the universe, and everything. It is 42.
FireEmblemBZP 2 years ago
Nono, see, they asked what the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything was. No one actually knew the question.
Some say it's "where does it all end?" but that hardly makes any more sense.
GenaTrius 2 years ago
Arthur Dent found out the Question in the book, when he visits prehistoric Earth and coaxes it out of his subconscious via homemade scrabble pieces. ;)
AuthentiWolf 2 years ago
Ah, but the question was wrong. They interfered with the Earths programing, so the answer in Arthurs head was wrong.
phenom123456789 2 years ago
It was never confirmed which species became the dominant one, it was merely implied. Still, there'd be no argument if someone had actually bothered to ask Marvin back in Hotblack Desiato's stuntship.
AuthentiWolf 2 years ago
this is because the question is invalid the meaning of life is that there is no meaning and that we just have to have fun and live
DUCKBOIpi 2 years ago
I can't recall; it was discovered in a game of scrabble. The Earth was created to discover what the question was by pandimentional beings who just happened to look like lab mice.
blackking1 2 years ago
What do you get if you times 6 by 7 is the question of the meaning of life. (for anyone interested ;) )
spacenakora 2 years ago
No, that's only what the pan-dimensional mice suggested. The actual answer is "What do you get if you multiply six by nine?"
Chaosblade777 2 years ago
The question is "what do you get if you times six by nine". Go read the book again, it'll refresh your memory D:
Aceunown 2 years ago
Noooo, Prak the truthful said that the question and the answer could not be known at the same time, as they would cancel each other out and take the universe with them.....
phenom123456789 2 years ago
Anyone know if there is a place to get this song for the piano? Thanks.
andyrooney11 2 years ago
zsenialis : )
crystalsniper23 2 years ago
szerintem is zseniális. :)
migeges 2 years ago
love this song!!!!make this cliff cherry...case you arent gettng this I'M ON A CLIFF!!!!
nightstream1 2 years ago
but im on a boat.. haha!
TheRandomUs3r 2 years ago
I only just realised, I love the song Hotel California and then I remembered that this was by The Eagles too! Love HitchHikers! I've read them all and i'd read them again and again!
CharlotteC94 3 years ago
I get a musigasm every time I hear this shizzle. *sigh* *puffs fictive cigarette*
CavriCaprice 3 years ago
plodding.
annoianoid 3 years ago
42!
FOXMcCLOUD74647 3 years ago
also dont forget:42 devided by 0 equals to win over the sum of epic!
j377yb33n 3 years ago
fusebox count 42
sparks12001 3 years ago 3
ok where is the 42. fusebox i didnt see it
Torn0023 2 years ago
its a reference to the review of "the thing" by Spoonyone.
sparks12001 2 years ago
yeah i got that but i thought it were 41
Torn0023 2 years ago
BRILLIANT!!! My first contact with The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy was through the movie and I kept replaying the bit with this tune on the DVD release and I kept singing it for the rest of the day!
SupremeDalek12 3 years ago 3
That movie was pretty good. Has a better opening then the BBC series, though I find the BBC series is much better then the movie, and the book and books are much better then both and even greater then digital watches.
AmericanRide007 3 years ago
I haven't seen the BBC series yet, but the movie was great, I am reading The Ultimate Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy atm, (collection of all his books about the characters from hitchhikers guide) and I am at the last book now, that is brilliant reading, it is so insanely good ^^
sjark5000 3 years ago
The books are insanely good, I agree!
I also loved the movie and tv series.
I've yet to listen to the radio series though xD
Imo
Books > TV Series > Movie
but they are all amazing =D
Protome 3 years ago
I'm at the same place as you Hitchhiker's-wise, and I tried watching the series last night, but...I dunno it was just too painful for me to look at acting-wise and the pace was a little too slow for me. But that's individual taste. I'd like to hear what YOU thought?^_^
CavriCaprice 3 years ago
I havent seen the series yet, but the movie is nice ^^
sjark5000 3 years ago
You might find the series "draggy," Adams tried to give the story a better plot for the movie, but I missed some of the best lines.
ejay1118 3 years ago
get the books to
zestamaster 2 years ago
I realize that, but have a look-see and tell me, please. If you'f like, that is.
CavriCaprice 3 years ago
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movie is shockingly bad, not true to the books, poorly made and appaling to the memory of Douglas. the bbc tv series is much better
btoynbee 2 years ago
They tried to give the movie a plot, in order to appeal to a wider audience.
What they fail to realize is that pandering to fanboyish expectations of source-loyalty works better 90% of the time.
SaiTaisho 2 years ago
Hitchhiker's Guide had a plot. Douglas Adams was a master of humour and writing talent. If your're going to make a movie, at least make it true to the book your're basing it on. The book is perfect -why change it?
btoynbee 2 years ago
Perhaps I misspoke.
They tried to "normalize" the plot, so that non-Adams fans would get it.
In the process, they took out enough wackiness that fanboys were angry, but not enough for "normal" people to get it.
SaiTaisho 2 years ago 3
I do agree. However, the movie had a great production and a really good design team. Which made it somewhat appealing aswell
Hamring 2 years ago
The thing I found funny about the whole h2g2 fanboys hating the movie for not being true to the source is that the books are not the source. It started as a Radio series, then was released as a book, then the TV show and followed by the movie. Each one being different from the others. And from what I recall the screenplay for what was filmed was about 95% written by DNA himself, with only subtle tweaks here and there. So the fanboys are angry at the creator himself.
OuroborosAnarchy 2 years ago
That, and the only version of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy that Douglas Adams was really unsatisfied with was The Original Radio Scripts. The reason? It was the ONLY version of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy that didn't directly contradict from any other.
BPhoenixProductions 2 years ago
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ThatGuyMcCoy 2 years ago
i love this song
CheyneQuinn 3 years ago 4
I like the bit a 0:26 to 0:38
ConningPictures 3 years ago 3