Asadsadsadclown
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The classic opening scene from the often overlooked mini-series. Although suffering from limited technology of it's time, it is a near perfect adaptation of the source material. Unlike the film.
TinaHHgerm
https://imgur.com/xsW8EI4
TacoFox
Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so.
unencumberedbythethoughtprocess
So much better than the Disney version
omadonnadellerose
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GdebMueller
But what’s the question?
NotRockyAdriaaaaan
Photus
As in the late dentarthurdent.
Abi53
I used to love the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy movie until I read the books. I still like the movie, but the books are much better.
MrMarlin
Waaaaaaay better than the bloody awful movie. Sam Rockwell was great though!
stret
"Yellow"
2fligh2high
Let's see if this can be found on the world's wide web!
IWishIWasBlank
This version is currently on Amazon Prime (US) for free. Its better than the movie.
thestreetsunderme
Might you have a link before I start my own search?
2fligh2high
my1rstlaptopwas34inchscreenup
this man will surf
wintermute93
It's definitely present on the high seas.
2fligh2high
InTheDistanceAPlaintiveEnglishHorn
This Arthur is hot
ministryofpeace
I thought the council worker was supposed to have a fur hat
dnebdal
All the HGTG versions are different, anyway - being true to the books isn't all that important.
Phischstaebchen
Best version, DESPITE the movie gave us that nice little dolphin-intro (filmed in LoroParque, Tenerife with a lovely song :)
goflyblind
ProbablyPoe
Is that mark wahlberg
lehenry
YOUAreTheMagicMan
Ford, you're turning into a penguin. Stop it.
theresamooselooseabootthishoose
Good though this is, I would argue that the BBC Radio plays are the best version of Hitchhiker's. Take a listen and see if you agree!
MaxximumB
I have to disagree. For me the BBC TV series is the best version. But saying that I watched the TV series back in 81 as my initial exposure.
theresamooselooseabootthishoose
I can't argue with that! It's very subjective subject
licmasack
N E E D S A L I N K T O C O U N T
theresamooselooseabootthishoose
Just Google it. I listened to it in the radio way back when, so I've no clue what format it's on these days
ChloeRed
...The Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy. Staring Peter Jones as.. the book.
ChloeRed
(although admittedly, the pause is from the second series)
StarkRG
Probably because they're the original (though the book was written simultaneously).
theresamooselooseabootthishoose
I don't mind the varying nature of the story, but the section with the bird men of Brontithor is to my mind the best of all the series
StarkRG
I don't remember that, but it's been a long time since I listened to it.
theresamooselooseabootthishoose
Worth a listen. Apparently written in a rage after Adams failed to find decent shoes on Oxford Street!
trentofxanth
Always liked this scene better than the movie version. Movie version seemed to fast paced and forced.
Melonfish
At the pub ford orders six pints and two packs of nuts and gets change from a fiver.
ChloeRed
and tipped the barman 110% of the cost of the beer and nuts
Melonfish
At the time of writing beer in the uk was 40p or so a pint, by this show airing it was still only about 53p a pint.
licmasack
Awwww now you spoiled it ....
bwav8
In. As you say. The mud
Idrinkforevil
I really wish they made restaurant into a movie but then again starship titanic was one of my favorite DA books
Schlagerfuzzi
the source material would be the radio show then, since it was out before the book. 1/2
Jennar8OR
Thank-you!
Schlagerfuzzi
All the versions are pretty different.. - radio show, record album, book(s), film, text adventure video game... all different!
Inarticulated
I'm still waiting for a streaming service to pick up this IP and make it a mini series or something
jinbee
You mean re-make this existing series which was also a film and radio series that the original author worked on?
Inarticulated
Yes. As much as I love the old series.. I want a full show that covers all Adam's books. The journey in its entirety.
xizar
All his books? It would take a bit of detective work to make a holistic story of them all.
Inarticulated
Haha nice. +1 Only listened to one audiobook in that series.. I really couldn't stand Dirk in the american tv-show.. Preferred the BBC ver
StarkRG
Peter Davidson (the Fourth Doctor) as The Dish Of The Day
DonnietheOwlGuy
*Fifth Doctor. Tom Baker was the fourth
StarkRG
Shit.
michaelpaice2
I never could get the hang of Thursdays. At least I know where my towel is.
Hemelsblauw
I upvoted you to 42.
insolentwerp
Sass this hoopy frood
spleenless1der
Amazing satisfaction in being the 42nd upvote of this comment
ChloeRed
I suggest 3 pints, given it's lunchtime
michaelpaice2
Hic! I'm on it
ChloeRed
Wait till you feel like a military academy.
michaelpaice2
That's how I feel every time I wake up in the morning, I don't need a matter transference beam!
ChloeRed
Obviously an issue with a lack of salt and protein!
MaxximumB
Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.
ChloeRed
Very deep. You should send that in to the Readers Digest, they have a page for people like you.
beefytrout
The movie had Sam Rockwell.
DigiT00l
Fact: no adaptation is true to the source material, not the book, not the tv show, not the film, Adams said so himself, he also wrote all 4
chinaPieCreator
It was a Radio Play originally, on The Kenny Everrett Radio Show, then came the book
SpaceCadetDubzy
This is something I think about often, and is a philosophy I wish more people adopted when it came to adaptations.
GerardEngelage
Why tell the same story twice?
WillCorrectInaccuraciesForFood
Why not? Plus, changes make it not *quite* the same story.
DigiT00l
5 times apparently, and because he could, and it allows people to exoerience different versions, keeps things fresh
Glenalth
I got to hear that from his own mouth at a book signing in Santa Fe. He talked about his favorite part that he added to the book.
captpal
What part was that?
JoeSmokes
wardenda
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Glenalth
The encounter in the skybridge between the two buildings.
Glenalth
Or I suppose it would be more appropriate to say in the center of the "H".
SkypeOfCthulhu
Yes! It is pretty much a rule that any adaption of Hitchhikers, must differ from all the other adaptions of Hitchhikers. Even the originals.
Asadsadsadclown
He felt that way so that each version could fully embrace each new medium. The writer that took over the movie after his death was a hack.
twozerooz
Fact: Beets. Bears. Battlestar Galactica.
ComicSansHumor
The Radio Show is the best version. Change my mind.
mmckee44
Books play on your imagination. Movies are an adaptation of the screenwriters imagination. So of course it would be different.
DigiT00l
Douglas Adams wrote all Hitchhikers except the 6th book, he wrote the movie even, though a script editor came in to finish the script
mmckee44
Yes. But his imagination and people who read his books have different imaginations.
MaxximumB
But why did they have to fuck up the movie? It just missed on almost every aspect.
noodeandnerdy
You know what, just let me enjoy the movie. I don't want to hear about, about facts and stuff!
DigiT00l
The story changes were fine, the look maybe not
MaxximumB
And the script. The dialogue. Zaphod's head. The Vogon ships weren't yello. The Heart of Gold's shape. The whale was good.
DigiT00l
Like I say, the story line changes were good, but it should also be said that the script was never truly completed by the writer
DigiT00l
He had the main lines completed but died before he could iron out the script, the script editor couldn't get the tone right
ChloeRed
5, you can include the computer game too!
TheSilverSeraph
Holy crap, that Infocom adventure game was infuriating!
ChloeRed
Have you played the other Douglas Adams Infocom adenture?
TheSilverSeraph
No, but I hear it was also very frustrating (by design, obviously)
ChloeRed
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bureaucracy_%28video_game%29 I have a copy. Any game that's end of game if you having a heart attack from 1/
AngelZiefer
6. The Radio Show!
LetMyselfDownAgain
https://fourble.co.uk/podcast/hhgg
ChloeRed
the radio show _is_ the source material.
ChloeRed
(well, fits 1 to 12, 13 to 26 are taken from the books)
polkjameskpolk
Douglas Adams wrote this version. Don't know who wrote the movie. Probably Eoin Colfer
aslavych88
Douglass Adams was a big part of the film as well. Her on purpose made it different than the book.
InTheDistanceAPlaintiveEnglishHorn
I read the novels first and I love the film
aloysiuscentauri
Did you read all five parts to the trilogy?
anyofmany
I liked the movie enough to pick up the books- and the BBC radio play- and the audiobook with martin freeman- so I think it was allright
polkjameskpolk
It WAS alright. We just all wanted it to be spectacular.
BenderRodriguz1010
Not everything can be so...42
LateNightBunnyParty
Unpopular opinion: I loved the movie but didn't like the book. Which is really odd, cuz I'm usually a pretentious "book was better" fuck.
Trassation
I preferred the miniseries. I liked the little informational vignettes from the guide. All just neat bits of world building.
MagosDotarius
I loved the movie which made me decide to read the books. I liked the book better in the end, but wouldnt have read them without the movie
LateNightBunnyParty
I read it 20 years ago in college for a class I had been excited for but wound up with a lukewarm professor who made it completely boring.
DaveSauce48
Adams intentionally made each version slightly different.
AStegosaurus
This seems like a thing he would do on purpose just to laugh about people fighting over which one is better.
DaveSauce48
That is too say, that faithfulness to the books is overrated.
ImRodAndILikeToParty
Adams did mostly. It was adapted from the radio show version I think. It's all still his work.
Asadsadsadclown
Adams at first, died during production. Karey Kirkpatrick finished it, poorly.
jennym123
I thought the ending was alright. A bit too hollywood I admit but I still liked it.
fozzibab
I can bloody-well guarantee *everyone* that Adam's first casting choice for Ford Prefer wouldn't have been fucking Moss Def. -_-
SavageDrums
Mos Def was a perfect Ford, dammit!
MaxximumB
I think Mos Def was an inspired choice. He works well against Martin Freeman. It was a poor script that spoilt the movie Ford. /2
MaxximumB
Even Sam Rockwell wasn't a bad choice. It's a shame they didn't get the two heads right as well as a bad script. I don't even mind the /3
MaxximumB
change to the story, Adams changed it for each iteration, but the script was poor and left out so much of Adam's perfectly crafted dialogue.
DigiT00l
Douglas Adams wrote the movie, but died before he could iron things out, also, all changes were brought in by Adams himself
TheDayTheBrainStoodStill
I think people like to conveniently forget that all the new ideas in the movie came from Adams. What Kirkpatrick did was basically editing.
H2ONerd
The only way I would ever believe that Adams signed off on that steaming pile of shit is if he told me himself. Which I would still doubt.
ImRodAndILikeToParty
Just gonna deny reality for the sake of a science fiction story the author himself adopted several times in different ways?
SkamanSam
Adams has written and spoken about different story telling techniques between media. All forms were different, according to its medium.
ImRodAndILikeToParty
Look up the YouTube show movies with Mikey. He discusses the movie and why douglas Adams is responsible for it.
MaxximumB
I think there were a lot of changes that didn't come from Adams. He took so much care with his writing. He was well known for making sure /2
MaxximumB
every word was the right word. For example "The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't." compare this to the clumsy /3
MaxximumB
dialogue in the film. I can believe the plot changes came from Adams, but the script, nope. Also Zaphod's extra head is just wrong.
PballQhead
Have you ever heard the REAL originals - the radio plays? Different than the books. Which were actually a bit different from the BBC >
PballQhead
miniseries. Adams was fine with changes between every format and iteration, they're internally consistent but that's about it.
H2ONerd
Yes, I've read, listened, and watched them all. I'll admit that I'm a Fanboy. This movie though....nah.
DigiT00l
He wrote the script, he died before it finished
H2ONerd
Well yes, some of it, but when it came to actual production they took an awful lot of liberties. This was not an Adams film.
MaxximumB
I agree. Also Zaphod's extra head is just wrong.