Mad Doug -
I absolututely agree with you about The Hitch Hikers Guide. I've been a fan of the original radio series for years and the TV version, which covers season1 ep 1-6, is good too as they adapted the radio scripts.
However, the movie is just pants for three reasons:
1) Douglas Adams himself was never satisfied with it and fiddled with the story to introduce all that crap about Trillian being kidnapped by Vogons and the Point-of-view-gun. That never happened in the radio series!.
2) After his death, the studio cut a lot of the gags (the famous opening joke about beware-of-the leopard is missing), presumably to help the movie be better understood in the US. It was painful to watch for me, as I could recite lots of the famous lines and gags from memory
.
3) Two idiot producers with no big movie experience and whose only previous work had included pop videos. Giving them a project of this complexity to produce is like giving the Lord of the Rings trilogy to someone who directs Hollyoaks.
I was so looking forward to the movie version, only for it to be s**te
. Almost as bad as the Thunderbirds film.
For those new to the Hitchers Guide, don't bother with the movie - it sucks big time. Get the BBC CD's of the first two radio seasons, put them on and lose yourself in the glory of it
.
Mad Doug - burn it but keep the box for other DVD's.
