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Arkleseizure
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PostPosted: 03-02-2005 04:49 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


shiv4 wrote:
If you read the book, you wouldn't take Marvin's words so serious :rolleyes:
Now, go and enjoy your digital watch ;)


At least I can keep my towel.
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l0g1c
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PostPosted: 03-02-2005 11:59 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


You guys know that The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy is only one of the five great books in the trilogy, right? Anybody read the others?
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PostPosted: 03-03-2005 12:01 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


jup
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l0g1c
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PostPosted: 03-03-2005 12:04 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Shh, I'm fishing for noobs. :icon33:
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saturn
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PostPosted: 03-03-2005 12:34 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


damnit, you gave away the trilogy joke :mad:
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ajerara
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PostPosted: 03-03-2005 12:37 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


I don't think it will be that americanized, I saw the official trailer and another one, and a lecture by Robbie Stamp. It looks like most of the production crew is English, they did animatronics instead of all cg which is a very british thing. They are going to use the theme from the TV series. Someone asked if Disney made them to dumb it down to 8 year old level and Stamp claimed that Disney has left them alone about that. He said that one of Douglas Adams' dreams was to see the book made into a movie. Much of the dialog seems intact, at least what we saw in the two trailers. He said they had created some new stuff, because Adams wanted it to be different every time it was done, for radio, TV and the movie. They have a new " point of view" gun, when you shoot someone with it, they automatically understand your point of view. The Marvin robot from the TV series will make a brief appearance in the movie. I was worried that it would be too americanized, too, but I came away with a pretty good feeling about it, that it's gonna be British. Hope I'm right.
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PostPosted: 03-03-2005 01:58 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


ajerara wrote:
They have a new " point of view" gun, when you shoot someone with it, they automatically understand your point of view.


Lol :D
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Myth
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PostPosted: 03-03-2005 02:50 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Did anyone listen to the new BBC radio series broadcast a few months ago?
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PostPosted: 03-03-2005 03:04 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Myth wrote:
Did anyone listen to the new BBC radio series broadcast a few months ago?


missed it, did anyone mp3 it?
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Arkleseizure
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PostPosted: 03-03-2005 04:20 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


l0g1c wrote:
You guys know that The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy is only one of the five great books in the trilogy, right? Anybody read the others?


I've read:

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The Resturant at the End of the Universe
Life, The Universe and Everything
So Long, and Thanks for all the Fish


What is the 5th one?
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blood.angel
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PostPosted: 03-03-2005 04:31 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Mostly harmless.

The last two are woefully bad.
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Geebs
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PostPosted: 03-03-2005 04:43 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


No, SLATFATF is fricking great, you just didn't get it, man.

Mostly Harmless is alright, but Adams had slipped into crochety old bugger mode by then which is why the whole book is affected by an atmosphere of abject misery and the ending is crap.
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Myth
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PostPosted: 03-03-2005 04:57 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Yeah, the ending of Mostly harmless was a big anti climax :(
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Arkleseizure
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PostPosted: 03-03-2005 12:24 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


My favourite is The Resturant at the End of the Universe. Vey original concept in that book.
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shiv4
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PostPosted: 03-03-2005 12:46 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


I read the trilogy and watched the movie some times. Last year I got the DVD box :)
I never read the fish book and Mostly Harmless, cos I was told they were not that good.

Anyway, I will watch the remake although I have a little doubt that it works. Eric Idle didn't work in american comedy. But no matter if it is americanized or not, a good part of the comedy in the original HHG came from crappy effects and low budget design and that part will obviously be replaced with up to date cgraphics.

but I'm waiting gobberwartly for 04/29
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