Comments on: Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

By: bill

bill — Wed, 11 May 2005 16:02:11 +0000

Dervala, good to read a review of this by someone ‘not involved’.
There’s a small breed of American that never saw this stuff as British. Ones who hated the anglophilic pretense of north east prep schools mangeld after “the english system.”
..Bought thew books used. Heard the radio sho late at night on weird college shows, and reluctantly enjoyed PBS presentations of the BBS series.
I feel like the movie might expose a huge underground joke thing that’s written into the software code all over the U.S.
Zaphrod-BeebleBrocks is no longer a secure password.

By: ARJ

ARJ — Tue, 03 May 2005 20:35:44 +0000

I was mildly disappointed with the “guy gets the girl” Hollywood ending in what otherwise was a close-in-spirit film adaptation. Trillian was never really into Arthur in the books. But it was still a sweet ending, so I guess it didn’t tarnish things too much. I loved the little animations done for the entries in the Guide.

By: Dervala

Dervala — Mon, 02 May 2005 12:06:35 +0000

I have read the book, and it did seem close to spot-on, from what I remember of it. But I’m not the target audience, so I’m not ever going to find it more than sweet and amusing. Maybe I’ve also (been) overdosed on all the BBC comedy shows and writing that later aped Adams’ gentle, absurd deadpan—Americans seem to get more excited about it. ;-)

By: Peter

Peter — Mon, 02 May 2005 11:19:30 +0000

Saw the movie over the weekend with Sim. If you read the book, the movie was spot on and quite enjoyable. If you haven’t read the book… well then, I can see how you might be scratching your head a bit and wondering what all the fuss is about.

By: Jessica

Jessica — Mon, 02 May 2005 09:46:43 +0000

My husband and I are excited to see this so I appreciate the review.

Also, I will be in San Franscisco this October for a medical conference. Please let me know if you would be up for a drink.