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# arf!
DEEP THOUGHT! DEEP THOUGHT!
DEEP THOUGHT! DEEP THOUGHT!
DEEP THOUGHT! DEEP THOUGHT!
DEEP THOUGHT! DEEP THOUGHT!
DEEP THOUGHT! DEEP THOUGHT!
DEEP THOUGHT! DEEP THOUGHT!
DEEP THOUGHT! DEEP THOUGHT!
DEEP THOUGHT! DEEP THOUGHT!
(I helped save b3ta! Scoopzilla http://www.slapwatch.com now get to fuck, Wed 30 Nov 2005, 22:50, archived)
# Haven't seen the film yet
meant to, but didn't. better than the book?
(Baron Samedi - sale must end, Wed 30 Nov 2005, 22:52, archived)
# better than the book?
are you mental? it could never be. And wasn't. Not by a long way.
(I helped save b3ta! drunkenoaf, Wed 30 Nov 2005, 22:54, archived)
# Because, of course
it's the film of the book?
(0800221155 Coldseal windows, Wed 30 Nov 2005, 22:55, archived)
# to be sure
The film was mildly amusing; the only thing of book-quality was Stephen Fry's narration of text taken verbatim from the book. The rest of the film was fairly average.

Better than the telly series though...
(I helped save b3ta! drunkenoaf, Wed 30 Nov 2005, 23:00, archived)
# The TV series wasn't bad at all
You just had to realise that it was little more than an attempt to act out the radio series with the same actors and a very small budget.
(Guineapiggy Fuzzeh!, Wed 30 Nov 2005, 23:04, archived)
# There is only one version of HitchHilkers
The original radio series. Everything else is just other stuff (tm).
(I helped save b3ta! Hagbard ... it's been a long time., Wed 30 Nov 2005, 23:09, archived)
# To an extent but the books and radio series went off in different directions
after a while.
(Guineapiggy Fuzzeh!, Wed 30 Nov 2005, 23:10, archived)
# Especially
the crappy recent radio series rehash, with obligatory "happy ending" :(
(I helped save b3ta! Uzbek Lobster http://custardsurgery.com/azerbaijan, Wed 30 Nov 2005, 23:14, archived)
# It was great to hear Mark Wing-Davey in the role of Zaphod again
He didn't look the part in the TV series but his voice and the way he played the character was 100% what Zaphod should be. Plus it made up or the shitty casting for Ford in the movie.
(Guineapiggy Fuzzeh!, Wed 30 Nov 2005, 23:18, archived)
# They made a book out of it?
(I helped save b3ta! shambla www.gagaprinthouse.com, Wed 30 Nov 2005, 22:57, archived)
# ha!
(I helped save b3ta! drunkenoaf, Wed 30 Nov 2005, 23:00, archived)
# I am in a reasonably fit state of mind tonight
but shall take your advice, and get the DVD at the earliest opportunity
(Baron Samedi - sale must end, Wed 30 Nov 2005, 23:01, archived)
# Not quite the book
Definately Douglas Adams
Great Film
Not what most expect
(syrtismajor is comfortably numb and has been worrying the populace since 1982, Wed 30 Nov 2005, 22:54, archived)
# Not even close but still fairly good
Well... probably better than the 5th book but that was pretty crap anyway.
(Guineapiggy Fuzzeh!, Wed 30 Nov 2005, 22:54, archived)
# Some good bits
but he himself admitted he wrote it during a really crap time in his life.
(I helped save b3ta! Uzbek Lobster http://custardsurgery.com/azerbaijan, Wed 30 Nov 2005, 22:57, archived)
# I can imagine, it is a little... flat.
(Guineapiggy Fuzzeh!, Wed 30 Nov 2005, 22:58, archived)
# ie
while he was dying?
(0800221155 Coldseal windows, Wed 30 Nov 2005, 22:59, archived)
# Gotta love the fact he died in a health spa
Very Adams really. Kinda like the fact the best and last Dr Who episodes he ever wrote never got shown.
(Guineapiggy Fuzzeh!, Wed 30 Nov 2005, 23:00, archived)
# Shada
AICMFP
(I helped save b3ta! Hagbard ... it's been a long time., Wed 30 Nov 2005, 23:09, archived)
# Was that the "secret footage"
that made its way into "The Five Doctors"?

[/was about eight, but fancied Leila Ward]
(I helped save b3ta! Uzbek Lobster http://custardsurgery.com/azerbaijan, Wed 30 Nov 2005, 23:11, archived)
# Yep, the very same
Shada was fun. There's a luke-warm radio recreation of it with Paul Megane you can get on bbc.co.uk but it's not great.
(Guineapiggy Fuzzeh!, Wed 30 Nov 2005, 23:14, archived)
# yes.
In the sense that we're all dying every day.
(I helped save b3ta! Uzbek Lobster http://custardsurgery.com/azerbaijan, Wed 30 Nov 2005, 23:01, archived)
# seeing as he didn't write half of it, due to being dead
(0800221155 Coldseal windows, Wed 30 Nov 2005, 23:03, archived)
# ...'Mostly Harmless' was published in 1992...
(Guineapiggy Fuzzeh!, Wed 30 Nov 2005, 23:06, archived)
# Noooo...
You're thinking of "The Salmon of Doubt". The 5th book was "Mostly Harmless".
(I helped save b3ta! Uzbek Lobster http://custardsurgery.com/azerbaijan, Wed 30 Nov 2005, 23:06, archived)
# no i'm not, i just got confused
I was talking about the film
(0800221155 Coldseal windows, Wed 30 Nov 2005, 23:07, archived)
# Adams didn't write any of the film
He just oversaw the early scripts and ideas as far as I'm aware. (Well, there were of course the directly ripped-from-the-book/radio bits but you get the idea.)
(Guineapiggy Fuzzeh!, Wed 30 Nov 2005, 23:07, archived)
# I didn't even bother.
No way could it live up to what was in my head.
(I helped save b3ta! Uzbek Lobster http://custardsurgery.com/azerbaijan, Wed 30 Nov 2005, 22:55, archived)
# Nah...
not near as good as the book.

Though it would be nice if they made "The Restaurant at the end of the Universe"
(I helped save b3ta! Scoopzilla http://www.slapwatch.com now get to fuck, Wed 30 Nov 2005, 22:55, archived)
# fuck no
(I helped save b3ta! Yeknom. Incontinence and Premature ejaculation? Easy come, easy go., Wed 30 Nov 2005, 22:56, archived)
# 42?
42!

we're going to get lynched
(Mehitabel_Itrang, Wed 30 Nov 2005, 22:53, archived)