Gods damn that man is fast on  the draw.

I'll say it here just for posterity, if you ever want to check out the Hitchhiker's guide series but don't feel like reading, check out the entire series on audiobook read by Douglas Adams himself, great listen, and as an added bonus he knows how to pronounce everything and listening to the master in action is a beautiful beautiful thing.

Updated the turntable.

Yeah, when the movie itself is a political statement of a sort in it's own right. It's hardly fair to criticize any commentary for it, for trying to delve into the politics of the day and what the movie is trying to say about them.

In the same vein, James and the Giant Peach.

I'm trying very very hard to follow the advice of your signature.

I just want to thank Cloe Z right now.

And indeed, strong work everyone, great epi.

True...but I mean really, it takes a certain kind of concerted effort to ignore and fuck up the source material as much as this movie did.

I've actually been thinking about this a lot the last couple days, and i think that if there was ever to be an even remotely faithful translation of Hitchhikers it would need to incorporate the narrator in a major way, because when you're reading the books he essentially is an entire character to his own. And considering the level to which DA leans on the narrator/guide to fill in the backstory of various events it would be incredibly hard to do without him, and if a director were to truly embrace that concept it could only make the film stronger in my opinion.

Also...said film would need an insane VFX budget in order to do any of it justice, like the scene where Arthur and Ford first get picked up by the Heart Of Gold, the books description is these massive vistas of light and sound that can barely be comprehended by the human mind...and in the 2005 we get...a...uh, a talking couch. Um, yeah.

I'd agree with that, Douglas Adams seems to have a bit of a history of re-writing his own material whenever possible, when he took it from radio to book form and then when it went to TV and then when it was made in to a movie. And I'll freely admit I'm biased towards the books, because thats what I grew up on, quite literally. But the 2005 version, assaulted the source material on so many other levels, tone being a major one in my opinion, I have yet to see anyone really capture Douglas Adams tone on film, which is a shame because I think that if we could find someone that could translate it well it would be an incredible thing to behold.

Another part of it is the story, and I know that Douglas Adams supposedly wrote the whole new ending and yadda yadda, but it's bad, it's just horrible. The movie is essentially a patchwork of all the really iconic scenes from the first 2 books sorta slammed together with a very weak throughline, all the charm removed and a new ending slapped on that makes absolutely no godsdamned sense.

Holy shit I made the front page! I feel both included and insulted, by my apparent need to be a know it all about fairy tales! I love my DiF family. *hug*

AND a new DiF to listen to on an already amazing day! Woot! Perfect way to end the day.