Thread: Hitch Hikin

I'd like to know everyones thoughts on douglas adams most famous work of 'The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy' (which i incidentally read in like grade six) and the transition from book to movie.....my thoughts are TWO THUMBS WAY DOWN

Not seen the film yet but I have read the series (starts good, ends poor). I met Douglus Adams once at a book signing in Sydney, two years before he died; he was very tall, which is strange because his books are very short.

haha man your on my mad respect list honestly every one of your posts makes me pee myself laughing

wow i never even heard of that book than again i barley heardof any of the books mentioned

Originally Posted by Jimmy_James

haha man your on my mad respect list honestly every one of your posts makes me pee myself laughing

Thanks. This is the moment when I prove I'm funny - but I'm having trouble. Too much pressure. I feel like the best man at a wedding...

...just off to the toilet!

book-to-movie? try radio-to-book-to-TV-to-movie. The original, FIRST, BBC radio episodes remain by far the best incarnation.

.. I mean, as much as I love them, the hitch hiker books aren't particularly well written 'novels'.... Douglas adam's wrote the story as a half-hour-at-a-time-serial, and the novels, particularly the first couple, were pretty much word for word translations of that. As such they have a very serialized, non-plot-friendly, flow to them; pure vehicles for his comedy, which was always his selling point. Line by line, I laugh my tail off... but on a whole, I can't call them well-composed.. not in book form.

anyway, apparently the new move version was heavily monitored by adams before his death too, and he gave it his full blessing, and I heard he even wrote-in/imagineered the malkovich role himself. You're right it wasn't very good, but I feel it was about as good as we'll see from Hitchhikers, given the nature of film versus its raw serializations roots.