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Originally posted by: nakedfrog
This will actually be the first time I've gone to a theater in over five years. It seems almost a shame to break the streak...
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Whoa, I couldn't do that. I go to the theater about 30 times a year. :Q
 
Originally posted by: mobobuff
Originally posted by: nakedfrog
This will actually be the first time I've gone to a theater in over five years. It seems almost a shame to break the streak...
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Whoa, I couldn't do that. I go to the theater about 30 times a year. :Q
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Try having kids 😉
 
Originally posted by: nakedfrog
Originally posted by: mobobuff
Originally posted by: nakedfrog
This will actually be the first time I've gone to a theater in over five years. It seems almost a shame to break the streak...
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Whoa, I couldn't do that. I go to the theater about 30 times a year. :Q
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Try having kids 😉
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Good point. You take a noisy kid into the theaters and you instantly have 40 different enemies wishing for your death.
 
I want to go see it, but got no one to go with so i guess i'll try to go to the early showing tomorrow.

by the way, i know nothing about the story line or the book, except what i read at moviefone.com
 
I think this is one that I'll wait to see at home. Don't get me wrong - I loved the books when I read them years ago, but I just can't see them being translated into a very good movie.
 
Originally posted by: Fritzo
Woohoo! I'm going this weekend. Sunday is usually best after a movie opening. All the geeky doofuses usually sleep till 2pm that day, so the noon showing is best 🙂
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Absolutely. Plus at our theatre, it's a matinee discount before 5pm. 🙂
 
Originally posted by: SelArom
Just got back from watching it....





loved it...

absolutely

positively

LOVED IT

-SelArom
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And were you a fan of the books/radio series/TV series or what have you?
 
I don't think a lot of Americans will "get it", British humor sometimes means that you have to have a little knowledge to understand the joke. American humor seems to be more on the "kicked in the nuts" level. Red Dwarf is the same way, I can show some friends an episode, and half of them will be rolling on the floor, the other half will sit and watch the whole thing stone faced, the jokes go right over their head, then they tell me they don't get it. It seems to be the dumber friends who don't get it.
 
Originally posted by: nakedfrog
Originally posted by: SelArom
Just got back from watching it....





loved it...

absolutely

positively

LOVED IT

-SelArom
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And were you a fan of the books/radio series/TV series or what have you?
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ABSOLUTELY yes I'm a big fan. I have the radio series on mp3, I bought the ultimate book with all the hhgtg books and I also have the tv series on divx and I love them all and watch them over and over.

the movie is different though. If you are expecting to go into the movie and see a page-for-page translation or an exact remake of the tv series, you wil probably be disappointed. but if you're going in to see a douglas adams movie, you will not be disappointed! and it does have a lot of the important elements from the book. I enjoyed it THOROUGHLY. I literally got chills when the original themesong came on. It was great, really great.

me and my wife went to the first showing and we went dressed in our bathrobes and of course took our towels!!

-SelArom
 
Originally posted by: SelArom
Originally posted by: nakedfrog
And were you a fan of the books/radio series/TV series or what have you?
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ABSOLUTELY yes I'm a big fan. I have the radio series on mp3, I bought the ultimate book with all the hhgtg books and I also have the tv series on divx and I love them all and watch them over and over.

the movie is different though. If you are expecting to go into the movie and see a page-for-page translation or an exact remake of the tv series, you wil probably be disappointed. but if you're going in to see a douglas adams movie, you will not be disappointed! and it does have a lot of the important elements from the book. I enjoyed it THOROUGHLY. I literally got chills when the original themesong came on. It was great, really great.

me and my wife went to the first showing and we went dressed in our bathrobes and of course took our towels!!

-SelArom
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Y'know, I hadn't thought about the robe (already planned on the towel) but if I can dig up and wash my old robe quickly enough, it might happen 😛
 
I just got back from seeing the movie and i must say.......I havent been this disappointed since the end of Star Wars Episode I.
 
I saw it earlier tonight. If the chick playing Trillian was hotter (Elizabeth Hurley) and if Jim Carrey were playing Zaphod this would have been a much better movie. Instead, they had a stupid Ben Stiller wannabe playing Zaphod (wtf is bstiller in so many movies that he couldn't fit this one in so they got a bad clone?) Mos Def was ok as Ford but he was underutilized in the script...good in the first 15 minutes then the rest of the film he was just standing around or slapping Zaphod around.
 
Saw it tonight, it was enjoyable, had me laughing just about most of the time.

Again, the humour is not for everyone, I particularly enjoy British humour so I found it hillarious, definately not a waste of money.

--Mark
 
I liked it and found all the jokes to be funny, but where the movie got weak for me was the unconvincing acting, especially the girl who played Trillian, she was too awkward and stumbled over her lines a lot. The actor who played Zaphod made it feel like a Saturday Morning cartoon. Alan Rickman did an amazing job with his voicework, every time he had a line I was so depressed I wanted to shoot myself, in a good way 🙂. JHCS did a fantastic job with all of the aliens and creature effects, gave the movie a unique feel, and John Malkovich successfully creeped the bajesus out of me.

I liked it a lot, but the acting fell through a few times. Jim Carrey woulda been great for Zaphod if the director could've kept him from going overboard. I also wish the movie could've been a little longer.

:heart: Jim Carrey.
 
Yep they totally make up a new plot to the movie with many of the important elements from the book. It was decent. 90% of the funny scenes/lines were the ones that were directly ripped from the book. The other 10% was just damn good material.
 
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