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Rûdhaglarien · 05-19-2005, 04:40 PM

Let me begin by first saying that I utterly enjoyed The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy on screen. Basically, I was just wondering what you all thought of it. (That is, of course, if 'you all' thought anything of it at all.) I'm always interested in others' opinions.
My favourite aspects were: (1)Marvin. Alan Rickman's voice was smack-dab perfect for my favourite pessimistic robot. And Davis' endurance for carrying that costume around is worth noting as well. (2)The fact that much of the dialogue came verbatum from Douglas' work. I love the fact that they didn't change loads of it. Of course, this is because Douglas helped to adapt his work for the screen. Still and all, I was afeared, much afeared, that it would be changed. (3)The original Marvin's cameo appearance. You could tell who all the nerds were, because we all squee'd when he was one screen, of course that lasted about point for seconds, but still. (4)The visual effects. Amazing. Absolutely beautiful. And I think that the fact that the Vogons were puppets and were really there, interacting with the actors made it better than a bunch of CG aliens, but that's my opinion.
Anyway, I'll stop my bit of the discussion there for now. Anybody else see it? Like it? Hate it? Eh?

Rûdhaglarien · 05-20-2005, 10:00 PM

Okay, so in the Sci-Fi and Fantasy Novels section, there's a thread for this movie, which began as a discussion of what it would be, who would be in it, et cetera. Anyway, back to my point, I didn't think to look in the novels section for a discussion about the movie, so... but it's there, anyway. Nevermind.

***Khamûl*** · 05-21-2005, 12:01 AM

And here's a link to the aforementioned thread.

http://entmoot.tolkientrail.com/showthread.php?t=11630

05-19-2005, 04:40 PM	#1
Rûdhaglarien Elven Warrior Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 288	H2g2 Let me begin by first saying that I utterly enjoyed The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy on screen. Basically, I was just wondering what you all thought of it. (That is, of course, if 'you all' thought anything of it at all.) I'm always interested in others' opinions. My favourite aspects were: (1)Marvin. Alan Rickman's voice was smack-dab perfect for my favourite pessimistic robot. And Davis' endurance for carrying that costume around is worth noting as well. (2)The fact that much of the dialogue came verbatum from Douglas' work. I love the fact that they didn't change loads of it. Of course, this is because Douglas helped to adapt his work for the screen. Still and all, I was afeared, much afeared, that it would be changed. (3)The original Marvin's cameo appearance. You could tell who all the nerds were, because we all squee'd when he was one screen, of course that lasted about point for seconds, but still. (4)The visual effects. Amazing. Absolutely beautiful. And I think that the fact that the Vogons were puppets and were really there, interacting with the actors made it better than a bunch of CG aliens, but that's my opinion. Anyway, I'll stop my bit of the discussion there for now. Anybody else see it? Like it? Hate it? Eh?

05-20-2005, 10:00 PM	#2
Rûdhaglarien Elven Warrior Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 288	Oops. Okay, so in the Sci-Fi and Fantasy Novels section, there's a thread for this movie, which began as a discussion of what it would be, who would be in it, et cetera. Anyway, back to my point, I didn't think to look in the novels section for a discussion about the movie, so... but it's there, anyway. Nevermind.

05-21-2005, 12:01 AM	#3
*Khamûl* Slacker Warrior Admin Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Alabama Posts: 2,759	And here's a link to the aforementioned thread. http://entmoot.tolkientrail.com/showthread.php?t=11630 __________________ "If the giving of information is to be the cure of your inquisitiveness, I shall spend all the rest of my days in answering you." Gandalf to Pippin Psalm 107:31