Did you know another Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy book is coming?

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Since you keep putting the "only wants to make a buck" argument forth while completely missing what I said about Adams' wife giving her blessing to this book and the author, I give up. I'm unsubscribing myself from this thread so as to not read any more of your tripe.

shit goddamn. I just got a PM from you...I'm trying to leave you alone! Thanks for putting me on ignore. I didn't have to look at your post history to see what you're doing: I read the Tolkien thread prior to this one and I read the Brutal Legend thread because I am interested in the game.
 
Asmodai said:
You are everything that is wrong with this world.

That movie was beyond shit. It transcends shit. It should not exist. The universe would have been infinitely better without its existence.
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What exactly did you not like about it? And don't give some crap answer like "everything".

I thought the movie was quite entertaining, and generally did as good of a job as could be expected, considering that much of the humor in the books isn't spoken, but rather in the way Douglas Adams wrote.
 
He probably wishes it was more like the BBC miniseries from the 80's that I've never seen because you just can't find it anywhere anymore. And when you do it costs an arm and a leg.
 
Jasoco said:
He probably wishes it was more like the BBC miniseries from the 80's that I've never seen because you just can't find it anywhere anymore. And when you do it costs an arm and a leg.
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I wish it was like anything in the world that didn't suck as horribly, which is to say basically everything except the two movies you mentioned.

To answer the question of the other guy who asked what I didn't like: I can't honestly say "everything", because I thought the actor who played Arthur Dent was decently cast. Oh, and Marvin's voice actor wasn't bad.

Absolutely everything else was irredeemable.
 
ascii42 said:
What exactly did you not like about it? And don't give some crap answer like "everything".

I thought the movie was quite entertaining, and generally did as good of a job as could be expected, considering that much of the humor in the books isn't spoken, but rather in the way Douglas Adams wrote.
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It somehow took all the humor from the book and converted it into unfunny, putrid garbage.
 
......wow I don't know what to say.
first thoughts: I really don't think another HitchHiker's book should come out since Adams has passed. I know he wanted to write another book to kind of lighten what was a dark finish for the series (dark for Hitchhiker's books anyways). Didn't he basically have the framework of the story done? hmmmmmmm this is a though. I'd read it, but I honestly can't promise to be objective.

BTW: Adams wrote the version of the screenplay they used for the movie. All the things you say ruined it movie were things HE added. That movie was fucking awesome loser!!!!! LOSER!!!!!!! ARRRRRR
 
I liked Mos Def. And I love Zooey. And how can you hate Sam Rockwell? And God, Slartibartfast was awesome. And the Vogons were delightfully bureaucratic. Even Humma Kavula was good. And the second most powerful computer in the universe was made by Apple. The original Trillian and Arthur both make cameos. And the Guide's animations were pretty awesome.

There's nothing I don't like about this movie. Except that it probably won't have a sequel.
 
Jasoco said:
I liked Mos Def. And I love Zooey. And how can you hate Sam Rockwell? And God, Slartibartfast was awesome. And the Vogons were delightfully bureaucratic. Even Humma Kavula was good. And the second most powerful computer in the universe was made by Apple. The original Trillian and Arthur both make cameos. And the Guide's animations were pretty awesome.

There's nothing I don't like about this movie. Except that it probably won't have a sequel.
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How ironic, that's the only thing I like about it. :lol
 
I'll play the middle ground. I didn't mind it so much the first time I saw it but I think that was mainly due to me really anticipating it.

I don't think it's an awful movie. In fact my feelings are much closer to it being average and compared to a lot of movie fare average isn't bad but they made a lot of poor decisions imo when they made it more casual appealing by inserting things like the love story and they completely missed on Zaphod by turning him into a wacky three stooges like character. The BBC series by comparison does it so much better.

I made a thread about it years ago.

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?p=4416735#post4416735
 
I went to see the film with a friend of mine who's never read the books. We both thought it was terrible and wasn't funny in the slightest.
 
Stoney Mason said:
I'll play the middle ground. I didn't mind it so much the first time I saw it but I think that was mainly due to me really anticipating it.

I don't think it's an awful movie. In fact my feelings are much closer to it being average and compared to a lot of movie fare average isn't bad but they made a lot of poor decisions imo when they made it more casual appealing by inserting things like the love story and they completely missed on Zaphod by turning him into a wacky three stooges like character. The BBC series by comparison does it so much better.

I made a thread about it years ago.

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?p=4416735#post4416735
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I'll say again; the love story and Zaphod's behavior are apparently things Adams himself put into his screenplay because there was no plan on making another movie (getting this one done took long enough) and he wanted to make it stand on it's own and yes, have more broad appeal. I had gone on and on to my roommate for years about my love of the book's and I will NEVER forget the look he gave me 20 seconds into the opening credits. LOOK OF DEATH! He actually liked the move in the end, but damn he wondered what the hell I got him into when the singing dolphins came on lol.

agrajag said:
I went to see the film with a friend of mine who's never read the books. We both thought it was terrible and wasn't funny in the slightest.
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Poor, soulless fool.
 
BobTheFork said:
I'll say again; the love story and Zaphod's behavior are apparently things Adams himself put into his screenplay because there was no plan on making another movie (getting this one done took long enough) and he wanted to make it stand on it's own and yes, have more broad appeal. I had gone on and on to my roommate for years about my love of the book's and I will NEVER forget the look he gave me 20 seconds into the opening credits. LOOK OF DEATH! He actually liked the move in the end, but damn he wondered what the hell I got him into when the singing dolphins came on lol.

Poor, soulless fool.
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There were parts I liked. And I'm not a traditionalist in the sense that I don't think some changes weren't necessary. In fact I would have Americanized it more in the sense of characters and setting if they were truly trying to reach a wider audience.

But that aside my problem was that I didn't feel the changes actually made it a better experience. It made it a sillier experience and an experience more aimed at a younger audience. Which is their right but I don't think those were the right calls for a good movie that captured the spirit of the books.

Even if Adams himself had written the script line for line and that movie they did represented it, I would have said the same thing. It doesn't feel right or capture what initially drew me in with the books.
 
Stoney Mason said:
There were parts I liked. And I'm not a traditionalist in the sense that I don't think some changes weren't necessary. In fact I would have Americanized it more in the sense of characters and setting if they were truly trying to reach a wider audience.

But that aside my problem was that I didn't feel the changes actually made it a better experience. It made it a sillier experience and an experience more aimed at a younger audience. Which is their right but I don't think those were the right calls for a good movie that captured the spirit of the books.

Even if Adams himself had written the script line for line and that movie they did represented it, I would have said the same thing. It doesn't feel right or capture what initially drew me in with the books.
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fair enough, but I disagree with some of that. I don't think it was re-aimed at children honestly. The dialog and voice over and guide segments were still way over a kid's head. The visualisation was done more in a Jim Henson style I thought and that (I think) has an appeal to everyone. What drew me to the books was the long-winded descriptions and the awkwardness the characters often find themselves in. Those are things I think translated well from the movie. I felt like they nailed the style they needed to express Adams. The only issues I had were with minor specifics that I felt got smoothed over from the book. Things like WHY Zaphod was doing it got badly muddled, and a few explanations I felt got simplified.
 
Forget the movie . . . and forget the books. Listen to the original BBC radio drama. It is awesome.

OK, the books are great too. But the BBC radio did a really good job with voices & sound effects while still letting your mind create your own imagery.
 
Wow this was announced last year and I only just found out too- wow.

Though reading the wiki page for it its good to see his views of writing it where initialty quite hounerable.

But then he decided to write it just to further his career :/

Oh well.
 
speculawyer said:
Forget the movie . . . and forget the books. Listen to the original BBC radio drama. It is awesome.

OK, the books are great too. But the BBC radio did a really good job with voices & sound effects while still letting your mind create your own imagery.
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I have all 6 of them. I think they're the more recent ones.
 
Jasoco said:
He probably wishes it was more like the BBC miniseries from the 80's that I've never seen because you just can't find it anywhere anymore. And when you do it costs an arm and a leg.
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You can stream it on netflix.
 
It's still coming? It's been a couple years since it was first announced, hasn't it? I was hoping it was as dead as Adams.
 
The movie haters can suck it, everyone I saw it with enjoyed it immensely. Also, The Supernaturalist remains one of my favorite novels even with its skew towards a younger audience, so I've no reason to doubt Eoin's ability to make a thoroughly entertaining novel.

We shall see.
 
Unsure what to think of this. The Hitchhiker's Guide books were such an important part of my childhood that I'd hate to see the story ruined by a new writer. That said, I'm not against someone else having a stab at it. Conflicted...


On the subject of Douglas Adams, has anyone seen his appearance on Have I Got News For You? I found a torrent of the early episodes the other day, and was really surprised to see him on the guest list.
 
Just finished reading it, it's not bad. Not spectacular but it could have been a lot worse. Considerably more enjoyable than Mostly Harmless was when I first read that.
 
I'd ask if you could get me a signed copy but I doubt he's signing.
gdt5016 said:
I have this giant hardcover which has the whole 5(?) book series.

Still gotta read it.
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got that, read it again right before this newest book came out. RE: the newest book, it's alright. I mean, the Guide could have had a smaller voice, seeing as it had no voice at in the previous books. I imagine he took that from the movie? At any rate, I kept expecting the guide
bird
to be the one doing all of the asides, even though it was
written out
in the first chapter.

Speaking of voices: there were too many, I think. I felt that there were too many people we were supposed to get to know in the book, several of whom weren't even proberly introduced until after already having a chapter or two written about them.

The whole
God search
was both well written and poorly executed, but I blame that on my having just finished American Gods by Neil Gaiman. The well written part is because of which ones showed up, and the poor execution is actually the same: because of which ones showed up. I just think that the ideas that were present in AG were so fresh that they clouded my ability to interpret the ideas in this book in their own universe.
 
Yes, I knew this. I'm a bit scared, though - there's no way it can possibly be the same without Adams.

Cindres said:
It's been so long i only remember what happens in the first one because of the movie.
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Then you don't know what happens in the book. The movie changed stuff around in so many ways I just sat there confused (since I didn't expect it to be that different from the book), wondering what the heck was going on.

I guess it's not a bad movie for anyone who doesn't know the books, but for me it was a disaster.
 
Sorry to bump .... but .. any more people read it ?

Just got this from a Secret Santa stuff ... and i would love to see what other gaffers think of this (in a rotten tomatoes kinda of way) to know in wich number of my queue list it goes ... because my "books i own and must read" is almost the same size of the "games i own on steam and must play" list ... and with those humble bundles, we all know that this one is huge =P
 
Platy said:
Sorry to bump .... but .. any more people read it ?

Just got this from a Secret Santa stuff ... and i would love to see what other gaffers think of this (in a rotten tomatoes kinda of way) to know in wich number of my queue list it goes ... because my "books i own and must read" is almost the same size of the "games i own on steam and must play" list ... and with those humble bundles, we all know that this one is huge =P
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Read it.
Loved it.

It's a slightly different style from D.A.'s, but it still fits the HHGTTG mold very well.
Really stays true to the characters and the universe that were already created,
 
MEH. The latter half of the series was pretty mediocre and felt quite directionless. The characters existed practically in isolation and their personalities felt incongruent with the rest of the books.
 
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