Posted on 04/28/2005 10:44:46 AM PDT by js1138
Starring: Martin Freeman, Sam Rockwell, Mos Def, Zooey Deschanel, Bill Nighy, Anna Chancellor, John Malkovich, Warwick Davis, Alan Rickman (voice), Stephen Fry (voice)
It opens with a perfectly choreographed dolphin musical number, and ends with the disembodied head of deceased author Douglas Adams. This is the long awaited adaptation of his novel, “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy,” and as the dolphins flawlessly perform their rendition of “So Long and Thanks for All the Fish” you’ll realize you’re in for one hell of a ride. Don’t panic. It only gets a little weirder.
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It was my first experience with a four book trillogy (and later on he added even more books!)
Mark
The sour humorless christians get the most press because they cast the rest of us regular folks who like to laugh and enjoy life in its many forms in a bad light. anytime you get the chance to lump several million people together you don't agree with is great, for those that bash christianity.
There's a bit in the books about a philosopher who through the use of logic disproves the existance of G-d. In his hubris, he goes on to prove black is white, and is subsequently killed at the next zebra crossing. It's a farce; not meant to be taken seriously.
They might have; I encountered the first book in 1980 and I always thought that was the beginning of the franchise. But I'm often wrong.
:)
-good times, G.J.P. (Jr.)
Can't wait to see it, I'm driving a Mini named "Bistromath" to the theater.......
The series have a unique view of life and the universe including an alternate creation story.
I liked Peter Davidson as the Doctor. He had a hard act to follow.
Don't let on, but I was very disappointed in the downer ending of the very last book.
They did.
"Can't wait to see it, I'm driving a Mini named "Bistromath" to the theater......"
Be careful to turn the S.E.P. field off before you park, or otherwise someone will hit you and nobody will notice.
(As an aside, my entire platoon --- CO included --- started using "SEP" almost as much as "SNAFU")
Yes, the radio show came before the books. One of my prized possessions is a 2nd printing HHGTTG by Chaucer Press, UK in 1979, with all the words like 'color' spelled funny. It says 'based on the famous radio series' right on the cover and in the frontice piece says the radio show ran from August '78 to December '78.
Certain strains of Christianity eschew joviality.
Yeah....I wonder why Stephen Moore wasn't tapped for this task? I know he was included in the revival cast to do the current HHGTTG "Tertiary Phase". (On BBC 4, May 3rd at 6:30 and 11pm BST)
He really did have a tough time. I think that in many peoples' minds, Tom Baker was the "Ultimate" Doctor.
Somewhere at home, I've got a photo of Peter Davison at a HHGttG/Dr Who convention in St Louis from... Oh, it has to be from about 1985 or 1986, where at the banquet, the DotD was wheeled out to him! If I can find it, I'll scan it in and upload it.
Mark
There were actually two radio shows. The first ends with the forests of primitive Earth burning to the strains of "What a Wonderful World." The second picks up there and goes on to explain why the bowl of petunias thought, "oh no, not again" and why a certain planet has a multi-mile high statue of Arthur Dent throwing a cup of something "almost, but not completely, unlike tea."
That would be a tad bit colder than my Frigidaire at home.
"That would be a tad bit colder than my Frigidaire at home."
That would be an SEP.
We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty ping!
I understand that Vroomfondel and Majikthise are not in the movie; a turn of events about which I am quite concerned.
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