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I’ve managed to sit through a quarter of HHGTTG and cannot sit through anymore. The acting is awful, they have bastardized the plot points and removed any trace of Douglas Adams’ genius. Adams successfully translated his story into two mediums. He moved it from radio to a novel and then into a BBC television series. Its a shame that Hollywood ruined his big screen adaptation.

The movie is worse than Vogon poetry. I feel like I should watch the entire movie just to give it a chance but its so hard to sit through this crap, especially when the BBC TV series, books, and radio show are so close at hand.

It looks like I was right to panic when they misspelled “hitchhiker” on their own webpage.

Nate ‧ Posted 3 years, 6 months, 2 weeks, 3 days, 12 hours, 13 minutes ago

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1. Yeah, it was pretty disappointing.  There are a couple of good jokes ahead, and the Vogon set design is fantastic, but it’s really just more of the same.

   — Mister Swill 

1. The moment I saw that the movie was only 110 minutes, I knew there were going to be problems. Reading a review by a die hard fan pretty much sold me on the idea that it was going to be awful.

   I might waste some money and time watching it on rented DVD, but I’m definaly not going to waste money at the theater.

   — Dave M. 

1. Douglas Adams wrote the screenplay, and had done most of the convert-to-movie work long before he died.

   i thought it was a successful translation to the screen, as just about any move from book to screen is incomparable.

   It was relatively enjoyable, and thats really all i could hope for it to be.

   — Jeff Foster 

1. I’m sorry, Lord of the Rings was a fair book to movie adaption. HHGTTG is laughable. You can’t take 3 books, large or small, and turn them into a 110 minute movie. If they had gone for closer to 3 hours, maybe. Less than 2 hours is just not going to fly.

   Yes, the transition had been done before he had died. Why they didn’t work from that effort instead of dropping it and starting over again is beyond me.

   — Dave M. 

1. The radio broadcasts blatantly contradict the books.

   any time he did the story for a different medium, he bent the story around to fit that medium. As far as doing that this time, i found it relatively well done.

   LOTR was a good example of someone trying to make a book INTO a movie. when it was all said and done, the LOTR was a pretty good and accurate adaptation, but i still found it boring. the books were much better.

   I never expected the movie to be as good or better than the books, and maybe that’s why i allowed myself to enjoy it. …like i enjoyed The Time Machine, which was extremely different from the book, but pretty good when translated to the language of movies.

   I will agree, though, that the Guide could have been better. I also think it could have been a lot worse. in the end, it entertained me, and i dont feel bad at all for paying $4.50 to see it.

   — Jeff Foster 

1. the movie was fantastic, douglas wrote the screenplay before he died and spent many years trying to get it made into a movie. i think it was a great tribute to a fantastic author and he would have enjoyed watching it. oh and the movie was only based on the first book for those who seem to be a bit confused by this matter, though with any luck the other films will get made in to equally fantastic movies. its unfortunate that most of you americans have a sense of humour bypass, are never happy with anything and feel the need to complain alot, you probably didnt find shaun of the dead very good and wont like the league of gentlemens apocalypse either but thats just your loss.

   — british comedy rules 

1. I’m sorry if you think “us” American’s complain too much. However, I don’t really see what that has to do with the travesty that was HHGTTH.

   If Douglas Adams wrote “that” screenplay, I have lost any love for his comedy I have ever had. I suspect that, in fact, Mr. Adams had absolutely nothing to do with this movie other than the fact that he had come up with the original story. If he were alive today, we would not be subjected to what Karey Kirkpatrick did to the “original” screenplay.

   — Dave M. 

1. seems kind of extreme to lose any love for everything someone has done simply because you’re not fond of his most recent thing.

   really, are the books no longer funny now that you’ve seen the movie? that’s idiotic.

   …hey, “british comedy fan,“ shawn of the dead was awesome, and league of whatever was boring and stupid. neither of those movies really relate to the Guide in any sort of meaningful way at all.

   — Jeff Foster 

1. Jeff, your not getting the point of my post. I really don’t believe that Mr. Adams had anything at all to do with the movie. I will never lose my love for Mr. Adams’ work. He is truly an artist.

   — Dave M. 

1. It would be interesting to know one way or the other how much of the screenplay can really be attributed to Adams.

   doesn’t really change how i feel about the movie though.

   — Jeff Foster 

1. As far as I can remember, Douglas said that the screenplay he was writing would be in the tradition of The Hitch-hiker’s Guide To The Galaxy, in that it would contradict every version to date, and that it did. At first, I was disappointed, but I’ve watched it several times now and enjoy it somewhat, though not as much as the various audiobooks that I have. I believe most of the screenplay was in fact written by Douglas, and if you know his sense of humour, then you should have expected that it wasn’t going to go along exactly with anything to date. I have chosen to believe that Douglas created parallel universes (sliders anyone) in which each version of the Guide ocurred verbatim, but that’s just me…. Robert

   — Robert 

1. It was one of the best movies I have ever seen, Bits were slightly different to the first book, but only to make it more of a movie. It was only based on the first book seeing as Douglas Adams wrote almost all of te movie except for the last part (the part where it gets even more different). Nobody can say its bad without watching it.

   — chocomandan 

1. Jeff Foster seems to have eaten a deceit pill, Douglas Adams issued in excess of 40 drafts which were each rejected, this work is in fact not of Douglas Adams, bears no resemblence to his philosphy, his vision, his humour and is one of the greatest insults to the great name of DNA.
   In fact just read MJ Simpsons review of the movie it more than articulates what was truly wrong with this whole Hollywood insult.
   He will be spinning in his grave.

   — James 

1. meh, whatever. you hardcore fans can keep on hating everything that doesn’t live up to some imaginary standard you’ve arbitrarily assigned. After all, that’s much better than just enjoying something for what it is and then getting on with your life.

   i am sad that it wasn’t the best movie of all time. oh well.

   — Jeff Foster 

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