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It is a good thing for my son that I had not seen HGTTG before he was born or he may very well have been named Zaphod.
-Chris
“Presidential fame is temporary. I find the ultimate question, that’s permanent, It sticks. Plus everyone thinks you’re deep. Win-win!”
Who is that guy?
Ah. Haven’t read the book neither seen the movie. Am I out now?
I liked the movie. But still the movie isn’t quite like the books. You should read the remaining stories as well, for the sake of Zarquon!
And yes, Evil-Devil, you are, like, totally out 
I agree and is the case with most movie adaptations. However, Sam Rockwell is BRILLIANT as Zaphod in this movie
Here is his campaign video:
-Chris
You ought to get hold of the original BBC radio series. And the BBC TV series. The original and best Arthur Dent and Zaphod in that
Cas
Don’t forget the original Ford - he was far superior.
Kev Dent.
The movie was fun and ( IMHO) a good intro for people that are only vaguely familiar with the story. However…the depth of character building you get in the books just can’t be touched in a 2 hour movie. The BBC radio broadcasts ( which I believe you can find online too ) are probaby the best adaptation and the original BBC tv is really close as well.
I got hooked on HHGTG watching the BBC shows on PBS ( right there with Dr. Who, Blakes 7 and Tripods ) and then discovered the books. if the movie got you interrested in the Zaphod character then you too should grab the book. His ego is even bigger if you can possibly imagine that!
8)
^^
Zaphod’s two heads. 
Oooooh, Tripods! I’d almost forgotten - wonderful BBC series.
Kev
Oh no, I have the books. Just Sam’s performance was fantastic!
-Chris
I thought the film was an order of magnitude better than I expected it to be. DNA always changed stuff between formats anyways and so in a way some of the film ideas were pretty much the last of his work to reach us. When the theme kicked in and it was the original one from the radio series I knew it would probably be ok. I didn’t think that big-headed Marvin looked great but he was brilliantly dolorous.
You’d have thought it would be more obvious to Arthur that Ford in the movie wasn’t from somewhere near Guildford because he couldn’t pronounce the town’s name, but then I guess being from somewhere near Guildford I would really notice that…
HGTG and Monty Python - geek humor classics I don’t understand. Haven’t seen the movie but I read the books back when they first came out. Even played the infocom text adventure on my c-64, but I just don’t see the humor.
:-\
I have no idea what’s so funny about HGTG, but I love Monty Python.
“The spaceships hung in the air exactly the way like bricks don’t” = Not funny. Seriously.
However, THIS is funny:
[quote]Brian: You are all individuals!
Crowd: YES, YES, WE ARE ALL INDIVIDUALS!
Brian: You are all different!
Crowd: YES, WE ARE ALL DIFFERENT!
Lone Voice: I’m not.
Person next to him: SHH!
[/quote]
Hehe, Monty Python is great. I like the scene with the Black Knight in the wood. Its so coooooool ^^
Douglas Adams’ writting is one of those things that either strike you right or it doesn’t. Just like Monty Python or perhaps the Far Side comic series. My wife just does not understand why I find MP funny, but I had no trouble getting her hooked on Far Side. I think she would like HHGTG but she hasn’t given it a shot yet. It’s all just situational. DA’s writting presents things in a way that is so different than you would expect ( like your “ships hanging in the air” quote ) and you either “get it” or you don’t ( not meaning you can’t understand…simply that it doesn’t make sense ). Where much of Monty Python has me laughing, most of DA’s work isn’t laugh-out-loud funny, but rather something that amuses me at a differnt level than almost anything else around.
Likewise, I can’t believe anyone watches most of the game shows, ANY “reality” show, or nearly any talk show that’s on the air. But millions of other American’s do. I just don’t get it.
I agree that the story’s evolution into the movie did have some really interresting and well done concepts. The way they did the rakes that poped up and smacked you whenever you had an idea just about had me rolling. I wanted to grab an illegal copy of the film off the internet just to get that scene and send it to some of my coworkers. But the ending really let me down. It’s a LOT of story to tell in a single short movie. But I think they did a pretty decent job for the most part.
I still prefer Zaphod having his two heads side by side though.
Agreed that DA’s writing is mostly not laugh out loud funny. However, I believe that the movie did an excellent job of distilling the main plot points and making them mostly funny. Again, all of Zaphod’s scenes are amazing. Especially when they land on Planet Vogsphere and Arthur asks him what he thinks…
-Chris
That’s it, Chris! ;D
Of course, now that you made me laugh my co-workers are wondering what I’m doing over here. 8)
my favorite quote:
[quote]Now it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that anything so mindboggingly
useful could have evolved purely by chance that some thinkers have chosen to see
it as the final and clinching proof of the non-existence of God.
The argument goes something like this: I refuse to prove that I exist,' says God, for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.’
"But,' says Man, The Babel fish is a dead giveaway, isn’t it? It could not
have evolved by chance. It proves you exist, and so therefore, by your own
arguments, you don’t. QED.’
"Oh dear,' says God, I hadn’t thought of that,’ and promptly vanished in a
puff of logic.
"`Oh, that was easy,’ says Man, and for an encore goes on to prove that black
is white and gets himself killed on the next zebra crossing.
[/quote]
that did actually make me laugh for quite a bit of time!!
There are actually some really funny parts in his work. I guess I meant more that a lot of his humor is not laugh-out-loud funny ( at least for me ) from end-to-end. Not to diminish the entertainment value in the slightest by that though.
His concept of a “Somebody Else’s Problem” field is still one of my favorite ideas of all times.