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Friday, April 15, 2005 → by Danieru
Oh dear, oh dear oh dear oh dear, oh deary dear dear dear...When M J Simpson (biographer of the late Douglas Adams, and author of numerous guides to the The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy) says this movie is a stinker I start to sit up and take notice.
There was always a 50/50 chance that this movie would either be the ultimate answer or just a bunch of fetid dingo's kidneys. I think I might cry...
Douglas Adams sadly departed from this reality on 11th of May 2001, taking with him any hope of turning that most remarkable of books, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, into a quality movie.
I salute you Douglas and hope that the directors of the hollywood road accident ahead can re-edit it to some sort of order before its release (less than 2 weeks away. Kill me now...)
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i feel i must respond personally to claims made by some people that the new hitchhiker's film is good. it isn't. it is one of the
worst conceived pieces of badly edited humourless trash i have ever had the
displeasure of waiting for release. my disappointment is something which i
will take with me to the grave. where was the humour you ask? well, they
took it out, not simply by altering the script (they made a vaild attempt to
crucify every carefully crafted 1 liner into a poorly executed no liner) but
by missing the entire basis of all humour on the planet : timing. comedy is
about timing, British comedy doubly so. the outcome is a slapstick rendition
of a near perfect story. there are no custard pies in the movie, because the
entire movie is one big custard pie, thrown in the face of Douglas Adam's
fans everywhere. Terry Gilliam could have made this film 10 years ago, Spike
Jonze WAS set to direct this film, that neither of them got the chance in
order that the two bit comedic soul destroyers Jennings and Roach could tear
it limb from limb is a fact that will haunt me well into my next
reincarnation and the reincarnated nightmares of my (metaphorical) children
and their (even more metaphorical) children's children
don't bother with this movie until you have read the book, listened to the
radio series and watched the 1980's TV series. (which, by the way, was bang
on when it came to timing, characterisation [apart from trillian maybe] and
originality) and even then, if you do watch this movie don't mention it
around me unless you like seeing a grown man cry.
so there
May 13, 2005 4:07 AM
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