Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy...

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Spritz

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is gonna be soooo sick. the book was awesome i cant even imagine what the movie is gonna be like

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'I met her last night in Vail... Kobe style.'
 
it's gonna be terrible i bet.

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"The only things a guy should ever have to ask permission for are threesomes and going in the back door." - Jay

"dude what the fuck is in there..."

"coke"

"dude, it's fucking wet...oh, like the drink?"

"yeah dude" - Mat and Piot

Frostmonkey.NET
 
I can't wait for this movie... I really cant. I'm going to be so crushingly disappointed when I see it.

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When the truth is, I miss you.

Yeah the truth is, that I miss you so.

And I�'m tired...

I should not have let you go.
 
i think i will be to^. but i think it has the dad from clarissa explains it all so how gcould it be bad?

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Craig-
Hey is that a Hitler book?

Me-Yeah the guy who killed millions of people

Dave-Thats real ignorant Jared
 
i wouldnt be surpised if they ruined the book

- getting an inch of snow is like winning 10 cents in the lottery---

*CCR*
 
douglas adams wrote the script for teh movie before he died so it shouldnt be that bad

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club seals not sandwiches

Now i just kind look and say "how about that, there is a tity on my computer"

 
It won't work, not if Zaphod only has one head! And played by Sam Rockwell?! What the hell? But Dent is being played by a guy who looks just like him in my mind. Never thought Ford was black though.

Hummingbird style: 70 times in one second.

Does Crichton smoke? Does a bear shit in the woods? -Rex
 
Seriously. What is that book about? I sounds kinky.

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i have been waiting so long for this movie to come

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Gotta Love the Midwest

I have reinvented myself from CmuSkiFreak
 
i dont know anything about the book but the previews seem breath taking

word

sick guy, yo guy yesterday guy, some g tried to jack me guy, cause yo i was selling him some budz, guy, and yo guy... i busted out ma nine and shit guy he was packing heat to guy, mad gun fight guy-
G-Dawg
 
im about to read the book

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Yeahm saran wrap and a couple of rubber bands and your set for some steamy hot, safe sex action. -Mike-O

im not crazy 'cause i take the right pills everyday
 
wtf. just die now please.

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"The only things a guy should ever have to ask permission for are threesomes and going in the back door." - Jay

"dude what the fuck is in there..."

"coke"

"dude, it's fucking wet...oh, like the drink?"

"yeah dude" - Mat and Piot

Frostmonkey.NET
 
yeah the books are allways better... even in the case of harry potter

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-Matt

wayne gretzky, the only man i'd have sex with. i'd be intimate with, wayne gretzky

I am soooo takin' the waffles... that's right brandon. I took your waffles
 
You are now the biggest idiot on this website. I officially deem it. It's final.

Rich, there's just no way it can approach living up to expectations. No way in hell.

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When the truth is, I miss you.

Yeah the truth is, that I miss you so.

And I�'m tired...

I should not have let you go.
 
Why waste your time waiting for the movie when the books already out?

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Yeahm saran wrap and a couple of rubber bands and your set for some steamy hot, safe sex action. -Mike-O

im not crazy 'cause i take the right pills everyday
 
Okay, I was not in the best mood, that person might not be the biggest idiot on the site... but really, until you've read the books, there is no way you can understand how wrong that comment was.

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When the truth is, I miss you.

Yeah the truth is, that I miss you so.

And I�'m tired...

I should not have let you go.
 
and he's only at 22 posts imagine what he'll be like at

1000

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club seals not sandwiches

Now i just kind look and say "how about that, there is a tity on my computer"

 
i am also shaking my foot in anticipation. the trailers make it look good, but how could it live up to the books?

and apparently Zaphod only has two heads some of the time in it? it should be interesting.

-christopher

.DFP.
impact
 
u know what i like about movies?...no reading

Take me to your special place

Close your eyes, show me your face.....I'm gonna piss on it

 
i remember i read it awhile back, and i vaguely remember it...i can't find the copy i have though

i'm hoping it's good, my dad is pretty amped on it, he loves hitch hiker's guide to the galaxy

-Jeff
 
I'm pretty sure that guy was joking, at least I still cling to the hope that he was. Concerning the movie, it is a Disney movie so...

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'I'm the master of low expectations.'

'I understand small business growth. I was one'

-Dubya!

 
anyone mind giving a breif plot explanation???

word

sick guy, yo guy yesterday guy, some g tried to jack me guy, cause yo i was selling him some budz, guy, and yo guy... i busted out ma nine and shit guy he was packing heat to guy, mad gun fight guy-
G-Dawg
 
^Please. Stop that. Every time someone makes a post like that I want to punch something.

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When the truth is, I miss you.

Yeah the truth is, that I miss you so.

And I�'m tired...

I should not have let you go.
 
the book is good

pretend you will give the guy head to give back your skis, he probably will accept, then once he whipps his cock out, steal it-SteezePatro

if you want to be a real gangster wear your ski boots to the dance. when he starts shit when youre
 
So... I have some bad news.

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy movie is bad. Really bad. You just won't believe how vastly, staggeringly, jaw-droppingly bad it is. I mean, you might think that The Phantom Menace was a hopelessly misguided attempt to reinvent a much-loved franchise by people who, though well-intentioned, completely failed to understand what made the original popular - but that's just peanuts to the Hitchhiker's movie. Listen.

And so on...

It’s bad on a big scale because enormous swathes of the story have been dispensed with - most of the Guide entries, whole scenes - or changed beyond all recognition. And it is bad on a small scale because many, many wonderful lines have been cut or in some cases actually rewritten to make them less funny. Whatever your favourite line from Hitchhiker’s, there’s a good chance that it won’t be in the film. Even if it’s really well-known, widely-quoted, much-loved, very funny - it will probably be absent from the movie. Or if it is there, it might have been changed.

Douglas Adams was a dialogue writer. That was his skill - writing great dialogue. And when he had written it, he would rewrite it again and again and again, changing a word here or there because he knew that good comedy writing is like poetry. It has a meter to it and when you get the right words in the right order it just sounds right and nothing else will do. Douglas’ dialogue was perfect. However, the makers of this film, despite all their talk of being faithful to Douglas’ intentions and ideals, have seen fit to piss about with his carefully crafted, wonderfully quotable lines.

To put it bluntly, they have cut most of the jokes out. I’m not being metaphorical here, they really have, in a very literal sense, removed the jokes from the story. There are scenes where all we’re left with is the set-up dialogue, there are jokes where we get the feed-line but not the punchline. It’s astounding. Occasionally, the filmmakers have actually bothered replacing the jokes but they have replaced them with really, really pisspoor, unfunny jokes; they have replaced them with stupid playground humour and pointless slapstick.

As well as being staggeringly unfunny - and Hitchhiker’s Guide really is one of the least funny comedy films ever made - the film also suffers by having an entirely nonsensical plot. It is driven by convenience and unexplained happenings. Characters just happen to be where they need to be and have what they need to have, even if it makes no sense for them to be there or to have that. Maybe it did make sense at one stage, but the film looks like it has had some heavy re-editing from the version seen in early previews and test screenings.

With a plot that makes no sense, and most of the explanatory Guide entries either missing or so heavily cut that they might as well be missing, I fail to see how anyone who wasn’t already completely familiar with Hitchhiker’s Guide could possibly follow what is going on. And those of us familiar with the story will just be incensed at the way that so much of it has been thrown out and replaced with unfunny, pointless crap.

This just doesn’t feel like Hitchhiker’s Guide. There’s no sense of a big crazy universe packed with weird lifeforms that somehow reflects our own world. Hitchhiker’s Guide has always been a Swift-ian satire but the makers of the movie have decided to ditch all that and replace it with pointless surrealism and crude physical comedy.

It doesn’t help that Martin Freeman plays Arthur Dent as an annoying little prat, that Zaphod has been changed entirely in appearance, character and motivation so that all that is left is his name, and that Ford never gives the impression that he wants to go to a party. Of the Heart of Gold crew, only Zooey Deschanel’s Trillian is at all believable and sympathetic. Bill Nighy is excellent, easily the best thing in the film, but Marvin might as well not be there as almost all of his lines have been deleted or altered.

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When the truth is, I miss you.

Yeah the truth is, that I miss you so.

And I�'m tired...

I should not have let you go.
 
^ Congratulations. With that post you have completely crushed all my optimisim for the film.

I really fucking liked the book, but it seems all that made me chuckle has been cut out. Why did I even bother getting my hopes up for this film.

Good lad JD. your jaded view kinda has some comedy in it. Or at least some of it made me laugh. (probably why i liked the book so much)

 
i had a feeling that they would do exactly what jd said they did....except he elaborated on it more than i did in my head

why can't they ever take a book and make the movie like the book actually is, why don;t they just give it another name?...god damn it, i was excited for this movie

but no longer

-Jeff
 
whoa any book that has Mos Def in it i'll read right away. im gona tell my mom to pick up a copy

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ummmm Mos Def isnt in the book

CMc - *NSFD*

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, when you participate in sporting events, its not whether you win or loose, its how drunk you get." - Homer
 
How do you know all of this about the movie?! it hasnt even come out yet.

directed to j.d._may

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'I met her last night in Vail... Kobe style.'
 
well i can only pray its not that bad

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'I met her last night in Vail... Kobe style.'
 
oh dear. that really makes my day worse.

and i think if j.d. was quoting a review, he would have given credit where credit is due.

-christopher

.DFP.
impact
 
What the fuck... I thought I posted the link to that site. Yes, it was a review, the movie is not out yet. I have no idea who wrote it.

http://www.planetmagrathea.com/shortreview.html

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When the truth is, I miss you.

Yeah the truth is, that I miss you so.

And I�'m tired...

I should not have let you go.
 
well im about halfway through the book and i almost think, like most books into movies, its better left just as a book. i think a lot of the events and looks of things are better left to interpritation than to some movie makers. also it would be very hard to fully recreate the book to make it exactly like the book. i dont know i'll probably still see the movie to compare it but im not expecting that much. the trailers look pretty good though.

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Yeahm saran wrap and a couple of rubber bands and your set for some steamy hot, safe sex action. -Mike-O

im not crazy 'cause i take the right pills everyday
 
one thing is is that the heart of gold isnt shaped like a running shoe

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club seals not sandwiches

Now i just kind look and say "how about that, there is a tity on my computer"

 
if anyone goes and sees this today or whenever, let me know how it is, i have to work tonight and tomorrow so i cant see it right away

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'I met her last night in Vail... Kobe style.'
 
^not out till april 29th

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Yeah
saran wrap and a couple of rubber bands and your set for some steamy hot, safe sex action. -Mike-O

im not crazy 'cause i take the right pills everyday
 
^oh my bad i thought it was 19th

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'I met her last night in Vail... Kobe style.'
 
bizzump. if anyone sees it today let me know how it is

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'I met her last night in Vail... Kobe style.'
 
i would also like to know

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Yeah
saran wrap and a couple of rubber bands and your set for some steamy hot, safe sex action. -Mike-O

im not crazy 'cause i take the right pills everyday
 
Might go see it tonite but im sure it will be a waste of money!!

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Skiing isn't a matte rof life and death. IT's much more important than that!

'Live simply so others can simply live'-Ghandi
 
the book is better

*****Capital city Ridaz***** est 2003

"not a good idea then we wouldnt be able to bash on atlantaski for trying to talk like a negro"~~Lateralis

"Everyone masterbates because if you dont you like blow up or something."~~skiierman

 
I just saw it the book was better. in fact it was pretty dissapointing I must say. for someone who hasnt read the book its good. for those who have read it its a dissapointment. you guys and gals might want to check into the BBC series it was very cool. you can probably get it on a bit torrent network.

in fact if you have seen the BBC series and the movie you will notice that the robot Marvin from the TV series apears in the back in a line.

over all it was dissapointing

 
i just saw it and yeah, the book is better, but it's still 1 million times better than the radio series...they left out alot of happenings in the book, and kind of centered the entire movie around the Vogons rather than anything else, and they left out ALOT of speeches for time restraints and such..it was overall pretty damn good though, i must say

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rex thomas asked to blow his nose on my doo-rag once.
 
I disagree I think the radio series was also done better than the movie. the fact that the main focus of the fil was the focus of the film was also dissapointment. what made the movie a dissapointment is the fact that they toned down the sarcasm which made the book and BBC series so good so that american audiences would understand it.

 
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