FOR LIGHTWIZARD----YOU REALLY GONNA SEE HITCH HIKERS GUIDE?

I was unaware they had done a movie. They made a really lame attempt at it for television--Zaphod was so badly done, with this really pathetic fake head hanging off to one side of the actor's neck . . . i just never saw as good movie material, most of the humor arises from how its written.

exactly.Although I kinda liked the radio adaptation. The trailers have been quietly playing on the Comedy Channel .

I loved the books.

The mostly harmless reviews have convinced me to see it. I am afraid I am going to be disappointed so I am going in with as low expectations as I can muster.

well, 42

well, 42

well, 42

Never was and probably never will be convinced that the books are filmable. You know they would aim it a teenage audience to sell the movie so it leaves real fans out-to-sea. Hasn't any filmmaker learned anything from Peter Jackson?

Mostly harmless! Heh.

NYT review was close to a rave.

How do they do Zaphod's two heads? Is it that he's got a face on the back of his head? (Ebert said something about "two-faced.)

Marvin looks awesome. I cracked up just looking at him. Voiced by Alan Rickman!!!

I really really want to see this one.

I am going.

Alan Rickman is PERFECT for Marvin.

Isn't he just totally perfect?!

Yahoo had something about it and I went through lots of pictures, reviews etc. earlier today and got really excited about it. I'd been kind of hmmm and skeptical but it's looking good!

Anyone actually seen it yet?

Oh, to hear Alan Rickman say, "Life... Don't talk to me about life..." It'll be showing with rear-view captions, though (at least it BETTER -- it's showing in other cities, hasn't made it to Columbus yet), so I'll be able to imagine...

Very mixed reviews with a Rotten Tomatoe guage of 57% favorable among the cream-of-the-crop reviewers. It's proceed to the cineplex at your own risk -- is it Hitchhiker's Guide or a rip-off of Monty Python? The satire could be lost in a lot of lampoon bafoonery.

actually the radio plays came first

i'm enough of a fan i'll probably buy the dvd when it comes out, but i doubt i'll see it before then

It was O.K. I wasn't expecting much but I had a better time than I thought I would. It didn't seem to be aimed at teens. You would have to have read the books to figure out what was going on. I'd like to hear from someone who went without knowing the story.

Thats what Eberts review was about. He felt that , without knowing anything about HGTTG, youd sit there wondering, whats all this now?

I don't care. Why sit through a bunch of exposition if you DO know what's going on?

Eh, we'll see what I think once I've seen it.

It would only have to be an attempt to draw the teenage cineplex audience to wreck the story and if the esoteric humor was lost without reading the books or every having listened to the radio series, that's not a plus. The R2-D2 clone was enough to point in the direction that this was not strictly made for the fans of the series. The proof of the pudding is if it can draw the worldwide audience of fans of the books and radio show. It's one thing if a film gets initially lukewarm review response and another when it also doesn't make it at the box office. Sounds strangely familiar -- like the basically failed adaptation of "Dune." The musical score and Sting were just two elements designed to bring in a generally younger audience who mostly didn't understand the film in the final assessment.

was that the one made for tv on the si Fi channel?.That thing was, to me, unwatchable.
PS, I hereby turn over the keys to this thread to you , since I only started it thinking you were out of the countryor in jail.

Thanks for the review, thiefoflight. Always good to hear from someone who's seen the film under discussion.