Better (and worse) review of Hitchhiker's Guide To the Galaxy than mine

[yesthattom]

He said it better than I did.

On the other hand, there is this review by a whiny annoying nerd who is so incensed that the movie isn’t 100% faithful to the book, that he lists nearly every specific line and joke cut. His version would have been 100 hours long, and people would have died of starvation sitting in the movie theater non-stop. I laughed harder at his review than the movie. Wait, maybe it was a parody!

Comments

[lovingboth]

Hmmm. The basic complaint is not that they've changed it. It's that what they've put in to replace what they've taken out is not as good!

The idea that it'd take "100 hours" to do it properly is Wrong.

The original radio series is just under three hours. The TV series is roughly three hours. The film, like the first album and the book, stops about two-thirds in, so that'd be two hours.

I'd love to see the various drafts up to the point he died and afterwards. Douglas Adams may have a script credit, but if he actually approved this mess, I'll eat his script.

[beowabbit]

You might be interested in Ask 'Hitchhiker's Guide' Exec. Producer Robbie Stamp, from Slashdot a few days ago.

[lovingboth]

A sadly closed thread...

[beowabbit]

Actually, after posting that, I noticed that it was a link to the original thread looking for questions, rather than to his responses. I paged through the last few days and didn't find his responses, although I know I read them.

[beowabbit]

I really liked the movie, but my opinion about Zaphod and Marvin is almost exactly opposite that in the Bob the Angry Flower review. I thought Sam Rockwell's Zaphod was the weakest thing in the movie, and Marvin as voiced by Alan Rickman was among the best. (And I thought the physical design of Marvin was ingenious; they came up with a form that lets him communicate all that depression through body language without looking too human.)

(A lot of people I know really liked Zooey Deschanel's Trillian. I was sort of *enh*. But Martin Freeman's Arthur Dent struck me as almost perfect.)