The Hitchhiker’s Guide

Of course this movie is going to suck like nothing else has sucked in the history of this or any other universe because the books are brilliant and there's no way the movie will be able to capture the individual experience of the books as they are filtered through the imagination of each reader of these wonderful books. As Stephen Fry has said: Nothing can compare to the movie in your head. Just look at the way they completely screwed up "Lord Of The Rings". From the trailer I thought Peter Jackson had pulled it off but that was before I saw Legolas skateboarding!! But that's besides the point. What I really popped in to do was answer the question: On which prog album does Alan Rickman feature,uncredited? The answer is one of my favourite albums of all time: "Tubular Bells II" which,as far as I'm concerned,has TB1 thrashed soundly into a quivering pulp.

Pixel Pirate wrote:  What I really popped in to do was answer the question: On which prog album does Alan Rickman feature,uncredited? The answer is one of my favourite albums of all time: "Tubular Bells II" which,as far as I'm concerned,has TB1 thrashed soundly into a quivering pulp.

THAT'S.... CORRECT.

And I agree about TB2: it's a great album, very underrated in my opinion.

About LOTR: I think that movie is the best that could be done with the book.

It looks fun, i dont expect it to be exactly like the books or as good, i have a special hard cover edition of the series and in the forward douglas adams explains that the books were similar but distinct of the radio series, as was the short lived television run. He also explains that the script that he had at the time written for amovie was also different, just go in with an open mind and fall in love with some great characters all over again.