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Post by Lieutenant Columbo on Jul 15, 2006 23:29:25 GMT
Not the fillum... the telly series. Absolutely TOP! But was it a 'comedy'? Who cares - I loved it! And still do. Best in it? Peter Jones as 'The Voice Of The Book' And the excellent 'non' computer graphics - amazing stuff!  N. |
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Post by Lieutenant Columbo on Jul 15, 2006 23:30:09 GMT
 ;D N. |
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Post by The Collector on Jul 17, 2006 14:10:18 GMT
Not the fillum... the telly series. Absolutely TOP! But was it a 'comedy'? Who cares - I loved it! And still do. Best in it? Peter Jones as 'The Voice Of The Book' And the excellent 'non' computer graphics - amazing stuff! N. Pity they dropped a bit of a bollock with the film...but if it made people go and get the DVD of the show or the Books or Radio shows...It wasn't wasted! |
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Post by Master Shake on Jul 17, 2006 19:23:02 GMT
Renee has this huge hardback book, all five unabridged Hitchhiker's novels AND a Zaphod Beeblebrox short story as well. Now, I liked the TV show. I liked the radio show (Geoffrey McGivern a much better Ford than Dixon or Def), and I even sort of half liked the movie, since I like actors like Sam Rockwell and Alan Rickman... ...so why, oh why, have I never been able to get more than a third of the way through the first novel?? I don't know why except to say that even though I see the comedy (which shines through in the other media) I just can't read Douglas Adams' writing style. AND I have a brain the size of a planet and a terrible pain in all the diodes down my left hand side.  |
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Post by Stan Butler on Jul 18, 2006 16:32:42 GMT
I never got into this.
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Post by bluebottle on Jul 18, 2006 19:23:29 GMT
The Hitch-hiker's Guide To The Galaxy Radio show was brilliant
The TV show equally Brilliant
The film considering how long it had not only been in production but talked about was speaking for myself as a fan of Hitch-hiker's..
TOTALLY DISAPPOINTING!!!!
Don't get me wrong it had good bits but on the whole a bit of a Naf Film and definatley not 1 I would pay full price for on DVD.....
If I had to pick 1 thing in the film that I realy hated it would have to be the way that they decided to do Zaffads 2 heads by having him flip his head back. The best way was the way that the TV series did it OK it was BBC and it was Low-Tec but it worked.
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Post by The Collector on Jul 22, 2006 13:36:16 GMT
Just paid £3 for the 2 DVD set, That's all it's worth
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Post by Lieutenant Columbo on Jul 23, 2006 22:40:42 GMT
Hey up - summat for me to borrow! ;D By the way... finished wi 'Triffids' so I'll do ye a temporary swap/lendyborrow eh? N. |
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Post by The Collector on Jul 27, 2006 13:52:20 GMT
Hey up - summat for me to borrow! ;D By the way... finished wi 'Triffids' so I'll do ye a temporary swap/lendyborrow eh? N. Sound's good ta me old fruit! |
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Post by Conrad Poohs on Apr 4, 2007 23:06:37 GMT
Renee has this huge hardback book, all five unabridged Hitchhiker's novels AND a Zaphod Beeblebrox short story as well. Now, I liked the TV show. I liked the radio show (Geoffrey McGivern a much better Ford than Dixon or Def), and I even sort of half liked the movie, since I like actors like Sam Rockwell and Alan Rickman... ...so why, oh why, have I never been able to get more than a third of the way through the first novel?? I don't know why except to say that even though I see the comedy (which shines through in the other media) I just can't read Douglas Adams' writing style. AND I have a brain the size of a planet and a terrible pain in all the diodes down my left hand side. I absolutely love H2G2 (okay, haven't seen the movie, but that doesn't count), and Master Shake, I totally understand what you mean about Adams' writing style. I don't know if it's a British thing for me. Like Monty Python, some of Adams' work simply eludes me. I've read the books often enough now that I can skim through the boring or doesnt-make-sense-to-a-yank parts. However, with both MPFC and Adams, I think the majority of their work is simply incredible. One of the funniest things I've ever read in my life was using the Babel fish to prove the NON-existence of God, in the first book of the "trilogy." That part alone makes muddling through worth it. |
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Post by Lieutenant Columbo on Apr 4, 2007 23:37:15 GMT
If you like the novels, I can recommend the original radio scripts too - well worth a read. N. |
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Post by Master Shake on Apr 10, 2007 0:15:59 GMT
Renee has this huge hardback book, all five unabridged Hitchhiker's novels AND a Zaphod Beeblebrox short story as well. Now, I liked the TV show. I liked the radio show (Geoffrey McGivern a much better Ford than Dixon or Def), and I even sort of half liked the movie, since I like actors like Sam Rockwell and Alan Rickman... ...so why, oh why, have I never been able to get more than a third of the way through the first novel?? I don't know why except to say that even though I see the comedy (which shines through in the other media) I just can't read Douglas Adams' writing style. AND I have a brain the size of a planet and a terrible pain in all the diodes down my left hand side. I absolutely love H2G2 (okay, haven't seen the movie, but that doesn't count), and Master Shake, I totally understand what you mean about Adams' writing style. I don't know if it's a British thing for me. Like Monty Python, some of Adams' work simply eludes me. I've read the books often enough now that I can skim through the boring or doesnt-make-sense-to-a-yank parts. However, with both MPFC and Adams, I think the majority of their work is simply incredible. One of the funniest things I've ever read in my life was using the Babel fish to prove the NON-existence of God, in the first book of the "trilogy." That part alone makes muddling through worth it. It's not that it doesn't make sense to a Yank, since I'm a displaced Brit living in Minnesota, and my wife (an actual Yank) loves them. I just, for some reason, can't get into them. |
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Post by minx on Apr 16, 2007 17:06:28 GMT
I confess to never having heard the radio series although I want to. I love the TV show (Ford Prefect is one hoopy frood!) and the film wasn't brilliant but Marvin was ace.
I found the books a bit tricky to get into so then I tried reading Douglas Adams' (much shorter) books about Dirk Gently (Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency & The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul) and really loved them! Also, after reading them I seemed to have managed to get into his style of writing and found the H2G2 books much easier to read and enjoy.
So, after much rambling and many brackets (apologies! ),what I'm trying to say is, if you struggle with DNA's style of writing in the H2G2 books, try his Dirk Gently books first and you may be pleasantly surprised!
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Post by The Great Juxtaposition on May 26, 2007 19:13:37 GMT
I've read all the books and I thought they were brilliant. However, my first experience of it was frequently an abridged version of the first book read by Stephen Moore, the original voice of Marvin, when I was a child. After that my mother read the first book to my brother and I, and then we discovered the TV Series. Before watching that, I couldn't decide what Ford and Arthur looked like but David Dixon and Simon Jones are exactly right. A friend then lent us the first two parts of the Radio Series and I read the first two books for myself. After that my brother bought al the books which I nicked from time to time and I heard the rest of the Radio Series. So I am thoroughly immersed in the whole thing. Then came the film....and I was extremely dissapointed. As for whether or not it's a comedy, I'd say yes in a subtle, ironic way. It certainly makes me laugh. I know Radio Series fans will shoot me for this, but I love David Dixon as Ford.  |
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Post by Reneekittycat on May 29, 2007 23:13:16 GMT
As my husband said I have the huge compilation book but I had read the paperbacks long before I got that. I love Adams writing. He's very tongue in cheek and you really have to pay attention to get some of the jokes.
My favorite part is where he proves that there is no life in the universe and anyone you meet from time to time are merely products of a deranged imagination. First time I read that I was in stitches. A lot of my friends who I tried to get into it were put off by his writing. I have seen the TV series, PBS carried it years ago, and I did go to the movie. I too was disappointed. There was so much that seemed to be crammed into the movie that the comedy seemed very disjointed. I also didn't like the way the did Zaphod's heads and I couldn't quite come to grips with a black Ford Prefect. It would be nice to see another series done, with good scripts and good effects it could be awsome.
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