Quick, check to see if all of the dolphins left the planet.
Consult the mice, they’ll know what’s up.
Not a dolphin in sight in arizona 😥
None in Brittany either! This is a bad sign
That is very British. I love it. And I bet you can just wipe it with your towel.
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The fish and chips shop closed? So sad that it should come to this.
People have clearly stopped liking Fish and Chips.
My work cafeteria sells fish and chips but they are nowhere near as good as Fish and Chips :(
Anybody else actually love the song from the movie?
Anyone who hates on the movies for being different from the books seriously misunderstands the pedigree and nature of the Hitchhiker’s Guide series.
I’ve honestly never met a fan of the books that didn’t also like the movie. I think it did a great job of appealing to fans of the book and a not so good job appealing to non fans.
I never saw the movie because I never understood what value that medium would have to offer. There’s just too many jokes packed into the text for it to translate into something you can watch in one sitting. It’s like when they made a movie about catch-22. It’s great to get the material to more audiences, but there’s just no way to correctly translate it no matter how good you do it.
I don’t hate the movie for being different from the book; I hate it for being poorly written/directed and cringey.
Now, the BBC miniseries from the 80s - that is worth watching.
But the miniseries is just a carbon-copy of the radio programme…
Is that a bad thing? It’s a different medium that can reach a much wider audience. I’d bet that at least 80% of people who enjoy the BBC miniseries have never heard of the radio program.
It’s kind of neutral in my opinion.
It would have been better if it varied more from the radio show as the books did, and the special effects were largely cringeworthy if a product of the time and budget. The animations were very good though.
My point was that it doesn’t particularly support the idea that all the different versions have been drastically different.
It’s a fairly close adaptation, but not the same. And even if it was, why would that affect what they said?
The amount of pants-shitting about the film from people who’d only read the books (probably not even all of them) was, well… predictable
Especially crazy when Douglas Adams has a writing credit on the screenplay, and all indications are that he was substantially involved in it’s contents.
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The script we shot was very much based on the last draft that Douglas wrote… All the substantive new ideas in the movie… are brand new Douglas ideas written especially for the movie by him… Douglas was always up for reinventing HHGG in each of its different incarnations and he knew that working harder on some character development and some of the key relationships was an integral part of turning HHGG into a movie.
- Robbie Stamp, Executive ProducerIt’s funny when people say that the original book was better. When the book itself is just an adaptation from the original radio play
While I have my nitpicks with the movie, overall I adore it. Especially Marvin’s design
My only problem with the movie was it didn’t have an infinite number of monkeys outside who want to talk to us about this script for Hamlet they’ve worked out.
The miniseries? Yes.
Is the song from the miniseries? I’ve never seen it.
The “So Long And Thanks For All The Fish” theme was compressed for the 2005 movie.
Both the movie and TV miniseries use “Journey of the Sorcerer” by The Eagles as an instrumental theme song.
I do! It’s one of my favorite parts. I read the books long before I saw the movie and I enjoyed them both. Didn’t really get all the hate for it to be honest.
There’s a theory that every new telling of the story is different because the Heart of Gold’s infinite improbability drive simply found similarly infinitely improbable results
Somebody get Wonko the Sane on the phone. He’s the one with the house that looks like the inside of an insane asylum on the outside.
Bravissimo, hip hip hooray. What a glorious display.
Mind and body blown away
What a radiant crescendo
I love that someone got the reference!
Another band that I’ve picked up on courtesy of Radio Paradise
Did they close down because the crackheads who laid those pavers and bricks kept stealing their vinegar and snorting their tartar sauce?
What, no love for chips?
Don’t worry, you can still go to the Chip shop.
