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[challenge entry] Do you have clearance to use that camera?

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(, Thu 27 Aug 2009, 20:18, archived)
# *fears*
that's a lenscracker and no mistake
(, Thu 27 Aug 2009, 20:20, archived)
# one of the few highlights of a fucking awful film
(, Thu 27 Aug 2009, 20:21, archived)
# It was better than the TV series...
...but that's not saying a lot
(, Thu 27 Aug 2009, 20:24, archived)
# You what?
You're having a laugh?
(, Thu 27 Aug 2009, 20:26, archived)
# Utterly spoiled by BBC budget
I preferred the books & the radio shows
(, Thu 27 Aug 2009, 20:28, archived)
# Erm
I think the writing transends the budget.
The TV series was well ahead of its time in certain aspects. DNA was constantly having to argue the case that the guide scenes weren't done by computer.
It's a sad day when comedy is rated by it's special effects.
(, Thu 27 Aug 2009, 20:58, archived)
# at least the tv series had an Arthur Dent that worked
(, Thu 27 Aug 2009, 20:32, archived)
# I did like Alan Rickman's Marvin, though
and Trillion was less fucking annoying.
(, Thu 27 Aug 2009, 20:38, archived)
# I'd have preferred Jack Dee
Just not enough malice in his tone.
(, Thu 27 Aug 2009, 20:41, archived)
# that's an interesting thought
but surely he's not meant to be surly and grumpy - just depressed?
(, Thu 27 Aug 2009, 20:43, archived)
# No, he's definitely quite a bit hateful
Now the world has gone to bed
Darkness won't engulf my head
I can see by infra-red
How I hate the night

Now I lay me down to sleep
Try to count electric sheep
Sweet dream wishes you can keep
How I hate the night
(, Thu 27 Aug 2009, 20:47, archived)
# Life... loathe it, or ignore it, you can't like it
(, Thu 27 Aug 2009, 20:48, archived)
# he would have been superb
(at least in comparison)
(, Thu 27 Aug 2009, 20:47, archived)
# I like to think of the movie as a loving tribute
Rather than worry about it being canon.

Biographer and Adams expert MJ Simpson gave it a scathing review
and other dedicated h2 fans gave him such a hard time he threw the
toys out of the pram and said he wouldn't write another word about
him. People forget that none of it was ever meant to be "canonical",
that's how DNA approached it (radio, books, TV, computer game)

So the film wasn't great but Adams co-wrote it, it doesn't really matter.
Except for the whole Humma Kavula angle which made me wince.
(, Thu 27 Aug 2009, 20:54, archived)
# that was the bit that DA did write
(, Thu 27 Aug 2009, 21:06, archived)
# He shouldn't have sold the rights to Disney I guess, all those years hence.
(, Thu 27 Aug 2009, 21:09, archived)
# DING DING DING!
I wanted to kill Trillian
Or at least lock her in a room for all eternity with Bonnie Langford
(, Thu 27 Aug 2009, 20:42, archived)
# True...and Peter Jones was a better book...
(, Thu 27 Aug 2009, 20:45, archived)
# what?
(, Thu 27 Aug 2009, 20:37, archived)
# I won tickets to the premiere
It was wonderful. I met Lily Cole (didn't know who she was) and got Stephen Fry's autograph.
(, Thu 27 Aug 2009, 20:35, archived)
# mr b3th won't believe Lily Cole is a model
despite having seen her in the M&S ads.
(, Thu 27 Aug 2009, 20:39, archived)
# She's a very sweet young lady
Very unaffected - at least she was then.
She's a star of Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
So it's all kicking off for her now.
(, Thu 27 Aug 2009, 20:45, archived)
# I can't tell what that is.
(, Thu 27 Aug 2009, 20:22, archived)
# Yeah - it worked better in my head
(, Thu 27 Aug 2009, 20:23, archived)
# Ahhh. Yes. Good idea, but tricky.
(, Thu 27 Aug 2009, 20:28, archived)
# Towels
Well you learn odd and pointless things everyday, Martin Short is Claire Shorts 1st cousin
(, Thu 27 Aug 2009, 20:22, archived)
# what?
as in The Three Amigo's Martin short?
(, Thu 27 Aug 2009, 20:24, archived)
# yes
Although bear in mind I just read that on Wiki, so it could be complete crap
(, Thu 27 Aug 2009, 20:25, archived)
# has she only got one cousin?
just goes to show, the rich and famous don't have everything ;)
(, Thu 27 Aug 2009, 20:24, archived)
# to be honest, would you want to be associated with her
(, Thu 27 Aug 2009, 20:26, archived)
# not particularly, no
(, Thu 27 Aug 2009, 20:28, archived)
# she will chain you to a radiator and beat you with a soiled prawn ring
(, Thu 27 Aug 2009, 20:30, archived)
# eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
(, Thu 27 Aug 2009, 20:32, archived)
# Oh, admit it
You're turned on by the thought, arent you?
(, Thu 27 Aug 2009, 20:34, archived)
# just think of Kerry Katona giving you a wink from the backdoor :D
(, Thu 27 Aug 2009, 20:37, archived)
# She'd probably not mind sharing a spliff with you...
and she's got a fun accent to do impressions of.

At least she's not Ann Widdecombe.
(, Thu 27 Aug 2009, 20:40, archived)
# haha vogons
(, Thu 27 Aug 2009, 20:59, archived)