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Posted: June 09 2010 at 22:05
SaltyJon wrote:
I didn't have a problem with any of them, really. I'll admit that Mos Def wasn't exactly how I envisioned Ford Prefect (indeed, going into the movie I was expecting David Dixon to be back, and Dixon will always be how I visualize Ford while reading the books). I thought Sam Rockwell pulled off Zaphod really well, and Martin Freeman was pretty much amazing as Arthur. Zooey pulled off an effective Trillian, Bill Nighy's Slartibartfast was interesting, etc. It may not have been a masterpiece, but it's still a pretty enjoyable movie for me.
I always imagined Zaphod's two heads to be arranged differently. I haven't seen the original film though... was it like that in that version?
And no, Zaphod was annoying.
Besides, I think automatically of the characters being British.
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Posted: June 09 2010 at 22:16
James wrote:
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency is a much better book than The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
I love both though.
Unfortunately I never have heard the radio version although I think I may have heard some of it once... or maybe that was a recent version.
But the film wasn't making me laugh. Zaphod annoyed the crap out of me.
They only have the original 5 or 6 seasons of the radio series, so it must have been from that. I prefer the Hitchhiker's Guide series to the Dirk Gently books, but I love both series. I'm a Douglas Adams fanboy, basically.
Also: Trillian in the new movie was a much better fit than Trillian in the original series: Original series:
Movie:
Along with the looks, Sandra Dickinson's voice annoys me for some reason.
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Posted: June 09 2010 at 22:18
James wrote:
SaltyJon wrote:
I didn't have a problem with any of them, really. I'll admit that Mos Def wasn't exactly how I envisioned Ford Prefect (indeed, going into the movie I was expecting David Dixon to be back, and Dixon will always be how I visualize Ford while reading the books). I thought Sam Rockwell pulled off Zaphod really well, and Martin Freeman was pretty much amazing as Arthur. Zooey pulled off an effective Trillian, Bill Nighy's Slartibartfast was interesting, etc. It may not have been a masterpiece, but it's still a pretty enjoyable movie for me.
I always imagined Zaphod's two heads to be arranged differently. I haven't seen the original film though... was it like that in that version?
And no, Zaphod was annoying.
Besides, I think automatically of the characters being British.
In the book it's implied they're next to each other, but that is technically very difficult to impossible. Somebody claimed that compromise was actually Adams' idea.
It was OK, but not that good. A lot of people thought the intro was the best part, and it was certainly the part that was actually creative independent from the book, but I thought it was just annoying.
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