BBC Reviews Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy 537
An anonymous reader writes "Now that the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy has made its debut in London, reviews are now beginning to trickle in. The BBC's review can be summed up in one sentence: '... somewhere in the production process the crew has lost sight of the fundamental aspect of the books - they were immensely funny."
Fun Game! (Score:5, Funny)
[Fill In Book Name Here] is not as bad as I had feared. Then again, it is not as good as I had hoped.
Choose from:
Note: Those marked with an '*' may actually, really and truly, suck.
Seriously, mixing american actors with british actors and trying to turn something that wasn't very bad as a BBC TV series into a movie would be difficult, especially with the Hollywood penchant for wanting it to end differently than the book so the audience would be surpried and trying to make britishisms translate into equally funny americanisms or vice-a-versa. Imagine the following scenario: (brace thyself) A Hollywood remake of Monty Python and the Holy Grail... que horror, eh? Imagine (told you to brace yourself, you sensitive clod!) hip-hop actors, dimbulb comedy actors from sitcoms and the utter flattening of comedic timing to accomodate dumbed down humor. Yeah. Somethings are better left alone. Better to just go see Spamalot.
I do expect Rickman's dead-pan voice to be perfect for Marvin, but that's about all.
Don't judge a book by its cover. (Score:5, Funny)
Now that it's debuted in the UK... (Score:5, Funny)
Right, then! (Score:5, Funny)
It sucks. (Score:3, Funny)
I think you all ought to know that I'm very depressed.
Re:Now that it's debuted in the UK... (Score:4, Funny)
Funny? (Score:5, Funny)
Did the script veer too far away from the source material or tie itself in knots trying to keep faith with it?
Bizarrely, I think the answer is both.
Funny, I was almost certain it was 42
Only one movie (Score:2, Funny)
Ok, now that the movie is out of the way... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Fun Game! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:maths? (Score:5, Funny)
It's British English. Sometimes they call a truck a "lorry," sometimes they call a television "the tube," other times they call elevators a "lift."
My god. This is just about the most culturally blind, obviously offensive, most idiotic thing I have ever seen on the Internets.
My take on the review: (Score:5, Funny)
"Oracle 9i and the Prisoner of Redwood CA" (Score:5, Funny)
I've moved onto the sequel, "Oracle 9i, The Wrath of Larry Ellison" myself.
Re:Fun Game! (Score:4, Funny)
Almost, but not entirely.... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Fun Game! (Score:5, Funny)
Scene opens on a hilly vista, bamboo trees in the near foreground, and two men dressed in black face each other.
Man 1: You killed my triggers and erased my stored procedures. For this, you will die like a dog.
Man 2: I was seeking my rightful revenge for your destruction of my parent process. Now I will finish the job by applying pressure points to your SQL until it bleeds.
Man 1, flying through the air: Aaaiii!!!
Re:Funny? (Score:4, Funny)
[obscure hhgttg reference swim]
Can't read the article (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Fun Game! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Funny? (Score:2, Funny)
p.s. Fellow who cares not for PennyArcade, it saddens me that you have no appreciation for mature (see wang) humor. wang.
Re:Fun Game! (Score:2, Funny)
Keanu Reeves is
THE ADMINISTRATOR
The Hollywood Spectaculomatic (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Almost, but not entirely.... (Score:3, Funny)
Re: not quite true (Score:4, Funny)
Screw the movie and the book. What I'd really like to see is a Fight Club made up of members of Slashdot.
It would be no surprise to me to see guys bring Light Sabres and those Klingon BetleHs.
To sum up. "Pure Awesomeness!"
If I Had a Dime... (Score:4, Funny)
And you're wrong as well (Score:2, Funny)
Spoilers of both the movie and novel below. If you don't want to know, don't look.
Marla had breast cancer. In the movie, she just finds a lump. Edward Norton's character in the book had cancer for 5 minutes. Gone. The fight scene where Edward Norton beats up himself happens at the office of some film manager, not at the auto manufacturer's office. Edward Norton's character also shoots a man at a Pressman Hotel Party. That's out too. The ending was completely different in the movie than the book. The one thing that bugged me about the movie, was that Edward Norton never had the hole in his cheek from fighting. His character talks about the hole in his cheek constantly in the novel, but the movie didn't have it. Furthermore, he bites off the tip of his tongue in a fight and doesn't have it reattached, and the movie left that out.
Considering all the changes, I would hardly call it a survival. He, both Tyler Durton and Edward Norton's character were a lot smarter than the movie makes them out to be
Re:Fun Game! (Score:5, Funny)
First off, they'd ignore standard ticket buying procedure; you'd have to purchase your tickets through Ticketmaster, and you'll need a guide to find the right series of buttons to push for your particular phone and calling area in order to get tickets. Of course, if you don't do things right, and sometimes if you do, they'll accidentally send you tickets for the Lion King, and you'll need to start over.
The real oracle tickets will be made of solid lead and weigh 800 pounds each. Only powerful movie theaters will be capable of exchanging the tickets for you.
When you finally sit down to watch the movie, you find that you don't know any of the characters, but they'll act like you already know every intimate detail about them. The cinematography is well implemented, but a the expense of a very slow and cryptic plot. The show will have to be closed early because the theater will prove to not be big enough to handle all of the viewers after all.
You'll leave wishing that you had gone to see "MySQL Cookbook" or "Practical Postgresql", which were both showing at the same theater, and the tickets were free.
Re:Movie reviews usually suck. (Score:5, Funny)
You've got a lot of nerve saying that out loud, but some people here might actually think you're serious. Next time you want to start a flame-war, play it a little more broadly, and maybe you'll get some people really interested. Try something like this:
"Star Trek is a waste of screen time and latex ears... but I love the revolutionary science fiction stories in Lucas' Star Wars series, especially the newer ones."
Re:Fun Game! (Score:3, Funny)
Well, that's nothing like the upcoming Slashdot movie.
*** SPOILER WARNING ***
The Slashdot movie begins with citing Star Trek, of course with some errors both in pronounciation (to mimic spelling errors) and in content. That is, it begins with:
"Whitespace, the final frontier. This are the voyages oof the start script Enterprise. It's five-year emission: to explode strange new words, to peek out new livestreams and new customizations, to boldly click where no man has clicked before!"
Next will be a short scene, where a troll calls "First Post!", and someone else answers "Sorry, you missed it!" A voice from the off: "-1 Offtopic!"
Then there's a cut to some person you cannot see clearly. There's a text shown on the lower part of the screen: "Anonymous Coward. Score: +3, Insightful." He tells you "The last frontier? Are people really having so many problems with their space bar?"
Ok, I think I'll spare you the rest of the film.
Re:perspective. (Score:3, Funny)
Interesting to read, and written with an easy style that said "come back and read more!" sure, but not funny.
Not to me, personally, and not speaking for anyone else.
Awww, you're just grumpy because no one replaced the diodes down your left side yet...
Re:And you're wrong as well (Score:2, Funny)
One you fail to mention is that Project Mayhem actually DID collect testes of politicians in the fridge.
So I suppose I should respectfully retract my comments above and say "you're right" but that wouldn't be very sporting or /. of me.
I hereby challenge you to a game of CounterStrike: Source. The loser will agree to mod all posts up +1 Insightful whenever he has mod points, and communicate via email to the winning party at such a happy circumstance.
oh who am I kidding, I'm almost 30 and haven't been good at a FPS in 8 years. You win.
Re:Movie reviews usually suck. (Score:5, Funny)
Yes, but the latex ears seemed to counterpoint the surrealism of the underlying metaphor of the Humanity of the writer's compassionate soul, which contrives through the medium of the verse structure to sublimate this, transcend that, and come to terms with the fundamental dichotomies of the other, and one is left with a profound and vivid insight into whatever it was the show was about.
Two thumbs down (Score:5, Funny)
Naaah, MySQL Cookbook might be free, but they only recently decided to bother installing seats in the theater.
Re:Reviews and Penny Arcade (Score:4, Funny)
Dang, at least the ones we ate in the 80's had been killed before being served to us!
What will end up on the ads from the review (Score:3, Funny)
"Crammed full of witty erudition!"
"A . . . comedic romp!"
"Sam Rockwell does a great turn as Zaphod Beeblebrox!"
". .
"Outstanding production design and some fantastic visual effects!"
"Charming!"
Re:Fun Game! (Score:5, Funny)
Neo: So what are you saying -- that I can reboot these servers remotely?
Morpheus: I'm saying when the time comes, you won't have to.
Neo: Woah.
Re:Hardwired didn't suck. (Score:5, Funny)
I swear you could invent a new language from the typos on Slashdot.
Re:Movie reviews usually suck. (Score:3, Funny)
I'd give you a +1 funny, except I don't have modpoints, and I don't think there's anything funny in life anyways.
I'm sorry, did I say something wrong? well excuse me for breathing which I never actually do anyway so I don't know why I bothered to say it oh god I'm so depressed.
Re:Hardwired didn't suck. (Score:3, Funny)
I swear you could invent a new language from the typos on Slashdot.
Yeah: French [google.ca].
I speak more than one language, and my typing sucks in all of them : )
Re:way tooo geeky for me... (Score:3, Funny)
I wonder what that would do to a growing lad, expecting triple-breasted whores from Eroticon Six, and only ever managing to find the double-breasted kind... I hope he wasn't too scarred
Re:perspective. (Score:1, Funny)
So use one of the other voices. I personally like to use the deep demonic voice in my head. It lets me feel less guilty about the thoughts.
Re:maths? (Score:5, Funny)
American English: I wish you were as interested in math as you are in sports!
English English: I wish you were as interested in maths as you are in sport!
You can't take away an s without it popping up somewhere else.