Basically, I thought it somewhat, but not entirely, resembled the trilogy that I loved and I personally thought the new timings for speed and special effects for big screen audiences was well worth the $8.50. Heck, people were cheering when it ended, here.
Warren Ockrassa wrote:
It was the unforeseeable way things fit together that really made the story so damned clever.
I thought a lot of that was well intact. Sure, the stuff was streamlined and cut for timing, but most of it was still there... some of it just flies by at hyperspatial speeds. I almost wanted to pause the film several times in the theaters to take a break, I knew the general layout of things from the book, radio plays, and computer game.
> (Well, that and Adams's careful honing of
language, most of which was changed in the script by someone with the same notions of subtlety as a hammer-wielding three-year-old.)
That would be good old Douglas Adams himself. I've heard that he was often his harshest critic of his own prose when writing the script than any stereo-typical Vogon that some of you may believe was actually to blame.
I heard that at one point Douglas Adams had the film script down to 80 pages (about 70-80 minutes) and that much of the work actually went into restoring pieces that DNA had hacked out of the scripts.
Honestly, I enjoyed it. I went with someone who had more recently read the books than I had, and we spent much of the after conversation just talking about some of the other things from the books that we had remembered watching the movie. They couldn't show everything, but I think they got the essential core of the story in there... particularly enough that it would provide just enough of the hint of some of the tangents the other incarnations make that you can laugh about them and discuss them afterward. That to me says they did a good job.
...and the things that were added I found enjoyable. I'm like Douglas Adams in that I do think that the same thing everytime is boring. The new pieces provided new laughs of their own that helped draw my attention further into the film than a straight translation would have.
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