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TURKEY · **Joined:** Mon Aug 23, 2004 2:40 pm **Posts:** 337

I was joking too. Get it? Ha. Ha.

toptddddddddddd :eekdance:

Mike · **Joined:** Mon Jul 05, 2004 8:04 pm **Posts:** 59

InterruptorJones wrote:

Mike wrote:

The original screenplay for the movie was written by Douglas Adams himself, prior to his death (er, obviously). The screenplay is being adapted (not rewritten from scratch), and hopefully they'll be following as closely as possible. Of course they're leaving most of the humor up to Adams.

Maybe.

If you check IMDB you'll see that there are other characters not anticipated. However, I guess that's ok. If the book was exactly the same in the movie, it would seem bad. It has to go through some changes to make it better.

Like the Harry Potter series have those yucky morals thrown into each movie (such as "they'll always be there (points to heart)")

:eekdance:

Mike

Hysterical Woman · **Posted:** Fri Sep 17, 2004 10:57 pm

Now I've started re-reading it and I love. Pratchett's still my favorite, though. (dodges incoming flames)

InterruptorJones · **Posted:** Sat Sep 18, 2004 3:55 am

Mike wrote:

If you check IMDB you'll see that there are other characters not anticipated. However, I guess that's ok.

The IMDb information is hugely incomplete and somewhat outdated (since the H2G2 project has been circulating for years and years). I almost never trust IMDb when it comes to as-yet-unreleased films.

Buz · **Posted:** Thu Oct 07, 2004 3:47 am

Mike wrote:

Like the Harry Potter series have those yucky morals thrown into each movie (such as "they'll always be there (points to heart)")

Oh, did you miss the morals in the books? I can see how you might. But they were there.

Didymus · **Posted:** Thu Oct 07, 2004 4:20 am

How about those sucky morals thrown into the Lord of the Rings movies? You know, like, "Don't let the really big orc dude shoot you with arrows," or "If you're fleeing from an enemy calvary, don't flee into the mysterious forest that just appeared over night."

Buz · **Posted:** Thu Oct 07, 2004 4:54 am

Didymus wrote:

How about those sucky morals thrown into the Lord of the Rings movies?

Yeah, Peter Jackson, as great a job as he did, must have done a lot of work to take the morals out of the LotR material.

Dark Grapefruit · **Posted:** Thu Oct 07, 2004 5:52 pm

I don't really care if the movie doesn't follow the story that well. It's a running joke that every incarnation of Hitchiker's contradicts all the previous ones in some way. As long as it's still got the crazy funny jokes, I'll love it for sure.

Hysterical Woman wrote:

Now I've started re-reading it and I love. Pratchett's still my favorite, though. (dodges incoming flames)

BLASHPEMY!
Just kidding, I love the Discworld series too.

InvaderTK · **Posted:** Fri Nov 12, 2004 12:55 am

Buz · **Posted:** Fri Nov 12, 2004 2:23 am

Fhqwhgadshgnsdbkhsdabkfab wrote:

...not telling us what book it is, and there's a lot of questions that have "42" as the answer.

Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy 5-book trilogy. After a thousand years of computing, the city-sized computer "Deep Thought" gave the answer to life, the universe, and everything. The answer was "42." Clear now?

InterruptorJones · **Posted:** Fri Nov 12, 2004 2:30 am

Max in Pi did not "blow his brains out". He drilled them out.

And as per usual Wikipedia knows all about the number 42.

Hand Me Down Clown! · **Posted:** Fri Nov 12, 2004 3:00 am

That's... disturbing. I'd hate to be the guy who cleaned the drill... :poop:

InterruptorJones · **Posted:** Fri Nov 12, 2004 3:03 am

Hand Me Down Clown! wrote:

That's... disturbing. I'd hate to be the guy who cleaned the drill... :poop:

If it's any consolation, it doesn't turn out as bad as it sounds. Rent the movie, it's worth watching. Actually, it's worth owning.

TheNintenGenius · **Posted:** Fri Nov 12, 2004 3:26 am

It's even more worth owning when you consider it usually retails for about $10.

InterruptorJones · **Posted:** Fri Nov 12, 2004 4:02 am

Fhqwhgadshgnsdbkhsdabkfab wrote:

How can a number be the answer to everything in the universe? It's just a number. Also, I've never read THGTTU, so I don't know anything about it. Is it, like, a fictional book, or some philosifical book like A Brief History of Time and Space?

Perhaps you should try the Popular Search Engine Google. Or even Amazon. Or Wikipedia. Step 1: Lift a finger.

Clever Danielle · **Posted:** Sat Nov 13, 2004 3:25 am

dysthymia7 wrote:

They are making a remake from Disney, or so I heard.

http://www.h2g2movie.com/

I know where my towel is.

BTW... does my sig have anything to do with this?

thefreakyblueman · **Posted:** Sat Nov 13, 2004 4:15 am

Fhqwhgadshgnsdbkhsdabkfab wrote:

*tries to*

Ugh...too much effort.

Well done. As much as IJ hates nitpicking, you put The Hitchhikers Guide to the Universe instead of galaxy.

THHGTTG is the story of a British man off to save the world... well, that's what I got from the first episode. :-|

As for 42, "...and that quite definitely is the answer. I think the problem, to be quite honest with you, is that you've never actually known what the question is."

If that's too deep for you, good luck with literature.

Upsilon · **Posted:** Sat Nov 13, 2004 11:15 am

Hysterical Woman wrote:

Now I've started re-reading it and I love. Pratchett's still my favorite, though. (dodges incoming flames)

Ditto. Although Adams and Pratchett have quite similar styles, so I don't think that there's likely to be much hating on Discworld in a Hitchhiker thread.

Dark Grapefruit · **Posted:** Thu Nov 18, 2004 8:22 pm

Oh. Wow. I just found ou that the HHGG movie is scheduled to come out on my dad's birthday. His 42nd birthday. Sometimes the universe is so awesome that way. I hope it doesn't get delayed.

KatStar · **Posted:** Fri Nov 19, 2004 12:44 am

You know, I think that 42 is actually a method of discouraging people from answering the question. You see, I told my friend that 42 was the answer to everything, and she said, "Doesn't 42 mean shut up?" Therefore, the question could be "What is the meaning of life?" and the answer would be, "Shut up". Or "Cheese and blowing things up."

Mike · **Joined:** Mon Jul 05, 2004 8:04 pm **Posts:** 59

I think it's about time to lift this topic out of the mud...*lifts*...

So anyone psyched for the release in TWO days?!?! (at least in the US)

Dark Grapefruit · **Posted:** Thu Apr 28, 2005 3:22 am

I have gotten my mom and brother to read the book in anticipation. I've been browsing the website, looking at the trailers, and hearing opinions from people who saw the preview screenings. We're probably going to see it on Friday (I have my towel ready). I haven't been this stoked about a movie since Matrix 2.

Tintin · **Posted:** Thu Apr 28, 2005 7:29 am

I thought it was a trilogy in four parts? What's the fifth?

Dark Grapefruit · **Posted:** Thu Apr 28, 2005 5:46 pm

The fifth book is Mostly Harmless. Not that it matters for the movie, since it only covers the first book.

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