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# Okay, how about Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy?
Just re-read Mostly Harmless and it left me depressed.
(I helped save b3ta! Smallbrainfield, Wed 23 May 2012, 11:32, archived)
# if you like, what time, 3pm?
(I helped save b3ta! HappyToast Groat froth, Wed 23 May 2012, 11:36, archived)
# 3 p.m. it is.
Let's get crayoning!
(I helped save b3ta! Smallbrainfield, Wed 23 May 2012, 11:42, archived)
# Then don't watch the film
(I helped save b3ta! Tribs 🦇 ↓ dn ʎɐʍ sᴉɥʇ ↓🦇, Wed 23 May 2012, 11:36, archived)
# Too late.
It was a mess, but it did have some nice bits in it. Zooey Deschanel, mostly.
(I helped save b3ta! Smallbrainfield, Wed 23 May 2012, 11:43, archived)
# Vogons were incredible
infinite improbability sequences (wool characters :D)
the look of Marvin (if not the voice)
and to a degree Ford and Zaphod

Ruined for me by Arthur appearing to be a bit bored and not constantly irritated
and the whole end bit
(I helped save b3ta! HappyToast Groat froth, Wed 23 May 2012, 11:48, archived)
# And the way the plot just didn't seem to flow
Like it was oddly edited or something. I dunno. Maybe we're just spoiled by the memories of the TV series and its superior cast.
(I helped save b3ta! Tribs 🦇 ↓ dn ʎɐʍ sᴉɥʇ ↓🦇, Wed 23 May 2012, 12:15, archived)
# lumpy and bumpy for sure
(I helped save b3ta! HappyToast Groat froth, Wed 23 May 2012, 12:16, archived)
# Two fucking heads
How hard can it be to give one of the characters two fucking heads?
(I helped save b3ta! emvee cruor deo cruoris, Wed 23 May 2012, 12:19, archived)
# Zaphod didn't have two heads in the film?
I've obviously blocked it from my memory more successfully than I'd thought!
(I helped save b3ta! Wasp Box like a nervous random stranger at a glory hole, Wed 23 May 2012, 12:24, archived)
# He did have two
but not simultaneously
(I helped save b3ta! RedHouse over yonder, Wed 23 May 2012, 12:32, archived)
# My point exactly
(I helped save b3ta! emvee cruor deo cruoris, Wed 23 May 2012, 13:57, archived)
# I quite liked the way they did it (head under his head)
but not the way that it was an unfinished storyline - took his head away in exchange for getting the gun, then forgot to go back and get the head - sequel that never happened
(I helped save b3ta! HappyToast Groat froth, Wed 23 May 2012, 12:45, archived)
# this is one of the main things I hated about the film
well, that and marvins voice and pretty much everything else
(I helped save b3ta! Ham o' Shatner -.-- --- ..- .-. / .- .-.. .-.. / --. .- -.--, Wed 23 May 2012, 14:00, archived)
# I watched it, and there were a couple of giggles
But it very much felt that the film wasn't for me. Felt like a film for families that hadn't read the book. Too much goof and love story, not enough surrealism and logical reverse-engineering.

Also Marvin looked like an Apple iMarvin, which didn't sit with my mental image of a clanking mess of arduino boards and servos.

Oh well, got to move on.
(I helped save b3ta! Extinct Jesus Dossier "...I think it counteracts Hitler's magic...", Wed 23 May 2012, 14:37, archived)
# Has anyone read Eoin Colfer's effort?
I've not gone near it because its very existence makes me angry
(I helped save b3ta! emvee cruor deo cruoris, Wed 23 May 2012, 11:58, archived)
# No.
The ending of Mostly Harmless does bug me though. I know Adams was famously shit at meeting deadlines, but it just feels like he got up one morning, thought 'Fuck it' and wrote the ending so he could go back to whatever it was he was more interested in doing.
(I helped save b3ta! Smallbrainfield, Wed 23 May 2012, 12:09, archived)
# his interview on here where he came across as a bit of a cock put me off it even more
(I helped save b3ta! HappyToast Groat froth, Wed 23 May 2012, 12:10, archived)
# and this
(I helped save b3ta! Wasp Box like a nervous random stranger at a glory hole, Wed 23 May 2012, 12:16, archived)
# My friend at the time was working as Colfer's agent, she tried to convince me that it was worthwhile
I think I said he should "fuck off and die" instead, and after that relations got a bit strained
(I helped save b3ta! emvee cruor deo cruoris, Wed 23 May 2012, 12:20, archived)
# This
(I helped save b3ta! Wasp Box like a nervous random stranger at a glory hole, Wed 23 May 2012, 12:16, archived)
# I read it
because I got given a copy.

It wasn't terrible just sort of...pointless.
(I helped save b3ta! Afinkawan Yes I can hear you Clem Fandango, Wed 23 May 2012, 13:23, archived)
# Never read it,
but much like with Monty Python, I've had enough of it quoted at me to know I likely won't like it.

I'm sunburnt.
(I helped save b3ta! Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...", Wed 23 May 2012, 12:25, archived)
# no thanks
(I helped save b3ta! atomic A-bomb-a-nation, Wed 23 May 2012, 13:40, archived)