Douglas Adams was right...

Blacklight · 03-12-08, 12:41 PM

It's not quite the same workover that Hollywood gave Starship Troopers. When they made that one, apparently the people who wrote the movie didn't even take time to actually READ the book. It wasn't even the same STORY !!! And they changed the sex of one of the characters just to have a romance element in there (and the co-ed shower scene

).

It was as if the people who wrote the script only read the description on the back of the book, tossed the book in the trash, and wrote the movie (which also should be tossed in the trash and burned).

Torplexed · 03-12-08, 07:53 PM

The BBC TV Movie had a lot of background information and tidbits from the book and radio series in the form of shorts and animated bits.

Who can ever forget the Sirius Cybernetic Corporation....

Sailor Steve · 03-13-08, 12:15 AM

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Originally Posted by Blacklight

It was as if the people who wrote the script only read the description on the back of the book, tossed the book in the trash, and wrote the movie (which also should be tossed in the trash and burned).

That was almost word-for-word what I said about the 1994 Disney version of The Three Musketeers.

As for the 42 problem, I thought Adams answered that himself with the "What is 6 times 9?" It all makes sense.

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Originally Posted by Knipper

And while we're on the subject, this is pretty amazing too..... http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asi...ic/7291501.stm

Wasn't that what started this thread in the first place?

TarJak · 03-13-08, 12:23 AM

Forget the recent movie and even the TV series.

I'm with Knipper. Get a CD copy of the original radio play as broadcast on BBC in stereo back in 1977! My first introduction to HHGTTG was one Sunday afternoon when it came onto ABC radio here in Australia. I'd never heard anything as funny or as amazing on radio in my then short life.

I've got the lot including an additional radio play broadcast after Douglas' death which was put toether from part finished scripts and ideas and used the voices of a number of the original cast where possible.

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Blacklight Ocean Warrior Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Connecticut Posts: 2,507 Downloads: 145 Uploads: 0	It's not quite the same workover that Hollywood gave Starship Troopers. When they made that one, apparently the people who wrote the movie didn't even take time to actually READ the book. It wasn't even the same STORY !!! And they changed the sex of one of the characters just to have a romance element in there (and the co-ed shower scene ). It was as if the people who wrote the script only read the description on the back of the book, tossed the book in the trash, and wrote the movie (which also should be tossed in the trash and burned). __________________ Be my friend or be a mushroom cloud. "I am coming at you. You will explode in a couple of minutes !"

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Torplexed Let's Sink Sumptin' ! Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Seattle, WA Posts: 5,823 Downloads: 43 Uploads: 0	The BBC TV Movie had a lot of background information and tidbits from the book and radio series in the form of shorts and animated bits. Who can ever forget the Sirius Cybernetic Corporation....

03-13-08, 12:23 AM	#4
TarJak Fleet Admiral Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Sydney, Australia Posts: 17,052 Downloads: 150 Uploads: 8	Forget the recent movie and even the TV series. I'm with Knipper. Get a CD copy of the original radio play as broadcast on BBC in stereo back in 1977! My first introduction to HHGTTG was one Sunday afternoon when it came onto ABC radio here in Australia. I'd never heard anything as funny or as amazing on radio in my then short life. I've got the lot including an additional radio play broadcast after Douglas' death which was put toether from part finished scripts and ideas and used the voices of a number of the original cast where possible.