• SanguinePar@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Possibly controversial, but I thought the movie version of Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy was a huge disappointment.

    Luckily there’s the radio series, books, TV show, comic, play, and game to get me through :-)

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      1 year ago

      I partly expected that this particular movie would come up in such a thread, as most people seem to be quite disappointed by it. Sure it was different from what everyone expected, and it could have been much better. I still appreciate it though because, like all adaptations/versions of H2G2, it tells a slightly different story, with the same humour and satire that is characteristic of Douglas Adams. And the effects were quite nifty IMO. Too bad DNA did not live to see the completed film…

      Luckily there’s the radio series, books, TV show, comic, play, and game to get me through :-)

      Don’t forget the BBC TV series, it was not bad either ;-)

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      1 year ago

      I agree. Mos Def and Zooey Deschanel really didn’t pull their weight. Zaphod with only one head nearly the entire time was lame. The whole thing felt too “American” to me.

      Bill Nighy was fantastic though.

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        1 year ago

        Zooey was definitely meh, but Mos Def was amazing imho. Especially considering it was his first acting role iirc.

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      1 year ago

      It’s a mess of a movie, but it’s also the only version of the story where some bits of Adams’ original material actually ended up being seen — namely Humma Kavula and the Point-of-View Gun.

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        1 year ago

        I’ve not read the book. I swear theres some weird curse on my copy, because every time I sit down to read it some major shit hits a fan.

        But I loved the movie, and the only disappointing thing with regard to it is that it didnt do well enough to get the sequels made.

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      1 year ago

      I found the book over the top and a cringy “penguin of doom” “I’m so random” style of humour. I don’t get that series