Joe Molotov

The TV Miniseries was over three hours long and it only covered about half the material in HHGTTG and half of "Restaurant". For a two hour movie, I think the first book will give them plenty of material, especially with all the new stuff that's been added.

LorenzoL

I'm just going through the book right now and can't wait until this movie opens in theatres.

BrianYuen

man i cant wait until the movie comes out!

i finished the book in 3 days, well... maybe because i was camping and just bored

laterz

dhmac

Actually, the 1st BBC radio series in 1978 is just 6 half-hour episodes, and covers what ended up being in the 1st book (HHGTTG) as well as the beginning and ending of the 2nd book (The Restaurant at the End of the Universe).

The 2nd BBC radio series (also 6 episodes) in 1979 took a whole different direction, most of which Adams either threw out or completely revised when he later wrote the 2nd book, so the middle of that book is this revised stuff.

The 3rd BBC radio series was just made last year and it completely ignored the 2nd radio series and was based entirely on the book Life, The Universe, and Everything (aka this 3rd radio series was essentially a sequel to the 1st two books, not the 1st two radio series).

And this year, the BBC is adapting So Long and Thanks For All the Fish for radio, with Mostly Harmless coming soon afterwards.

Dr. DVD

Anyone have a link to the new trailer (the one that makes fun of movie trailers)? That one sold me the ticket!

Joe Molotov

It's this one:
http://www.apple.com/trailers/touchs...axy/trailer_3/

Buttmunker

Well, I guess this means that the Radio series will come out in a handsome collection of CD's.

I am always living in fear of my cassettes getting "eaten."

garmonbozia

I have this set of the first 2 radio series from amazon.uk:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0563477024/

Julie Walker

So I saw a tv spot today that said it was rated PG.

Having never read the books,nor seeing the British tv series.

I am wondering what rating do you think the material from the book/tv series is worthy of?


I would hate too see that this new movie turns out to be a completely cleaned up,toned down version of the original source.

Jackskeleton

Julie Walker.. this is reason why I think you take ratings way to fuck'n seriously. This book is a childerns reading book. The source material is PG. There's actually more violence and gun fire in the film than there is in the source material.

Just because a film is not rated R doesn't mean that it is bad or not true to its source.

Groucho

Amen, Jack. Preach on, brother!

I first read this book when I was seven.

LorenzoL

If the movie is anything like the book, people expecting lots of action and violence will be very disappointed.

Jackskeleton

Well not so. The movie really does add a bit more "action" and "gun fire" than the first book has.

LorenzoL

BTW, is the movie based on just the first book or do they use parts of the other books? Does anyone know?

Joe Molotov

I wouldn't say it's a children's book, but it's true that there's really no language, violence, or sex in it.

Jackskeleton

Already saw it. It has the first book, ends it right before the second book (true to the book) But it has a new side tracked event tossed in the middle of it that was written for the film and it works very well.

Julie Walker

Well excuse me if I never read the book when I was a kid,and only older sci-fi geeks I ran into raved about it. So I assumed it was a more adult orientated sci-fi satire type of deal.

So I was expecting it to be PG-13 like every other film today(nothing wrong with that),so the PG rating surprised me.

LorenzoL

You saw it already? You bastard

Thanks, I can't wait to go and see it.

Professor Frink

They may have added more action and stuff to appease certain people. I'm fine with that on one condition -- they don't lose the FUNNY.

Jack, can you confirm that the humor is there relative to the book?

Joe Molotov

Several Douglas Adams/Hitchhiker's Guide fansite webmasters got to see a private screening of it, and they all came back with positive things to say about it.

http://www.douglasadams.se/forum/vie...?p=50854#50854
http://www.h2g2movie.com/pages/review.html

Dr. DVD

A lot of the funny in the book comes from the third person narrative employed by Adams, so obviously they will have to add some stuff here and there to make it translate visually.

riley_dude

They arent promoting this very well. I havent seen any commercials and have seen one poster up in San Francisco.
This doesn't sound good for opening weekend.

Jay G.

Luckily they have a few weeks to promote it still, since it opens April 29.

Big Boy Laroux

I've got a funny story regarding the teaser trailer to this movie... the one that just shows the earth blowing up, after "what a wonderful world" is played. Didn't happen to me, but funny nonetheless.

My friend was at the movies and was sitting behind a couple that appeared to be on one of their first dates. Anyway, this preview comes on. The song starts playing, and the guy turns to his date and says, "Oh, this is a preview for the movie RAY. great movie. So good"

Ok, so Ray had already been released in theaters by this time, AND the song is by Louis Armstrong and not Ray Charles. she says, "I don't think this is from Ray." He insists that it is, and continues to say "man, that is a great movie. Jamie Foxx is great" and things like that.

She kind of realizes it's not worth arguing about, so she drops it. He continues to comment about Ray, and then right as he is midsentence, the Earth explodes. he just sits there, staring at the screen.

it was all my friend could do to keep from laughing hysterically.

Joe Molotov

It cool that they decided to use that song for the teaser, since that's the same song that played at the end of the HHGTTG Radio & TV series. It's the little things like that that convinced my that my hope for this movie was not misplaced.