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The Hitchiker's Guide to The Galaxy| Errtu |
Posted: Apr 20 2005, 01:36 PM
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 Student of Cantor  Group: Global Moderators Posts: 107 Member No.: 48 Joined: 15-May 04  |
The Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy is a really good book, so are the sequels but they progressivly get worse. Yeah anyway anyone here read it? I heard it's being made into a movie too...wonder what that's like.
-------------------- Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.
--Rich Cook The only things going with the flow are dead fish |
 
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| Errtu |
Posted: Apr 20 2005, 03:16 PM
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Student of Cantor Group: Global Moderators Posts: 107 Member No.: 48 Joined: 15-May 04 |
you know if you google "answer to life, the universe and everything" it comes out 42
-------------------- Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.
--Rich Cook The only things going with the flow are dead fish |
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| sophiepsyche919 |
Posted: Apr 20 2005, 04:33 PM
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 High Nobility  Group: Members Posts: 378 Member No.: 66 Joined: 12-November 04 |
I have indeed read the hitchhiker's guide series...all of them except for the last one (after So Long and Thanks for All the Fish). I agree that the first was the funniest and most random...the last was much more serious...but I enjoyed them all. Must say, I like it a lot less when it centers around people on earth...which is why i stopped reading the last one at page 20 or so--you know the one where it's on an alternate earth and Trillian is still Trisha McMillan and she went back for her handbag and so Zaphod left without her? Yeah.
But those books rocked...I read most of them over spring break. I did not know about that in google...if google agrees, it must be true. right? (not really) -------------------- "The crowd is the untruth."--Kierkegaard
"While the ponderous Sir Professor explains the entire mystery of life, he has in distraction forgotten his own name; that he is a man, neither more nor less, not a fantastic three-eigths of a paragraph." -Soren Kierkegaard "I am a wizard, not a baboon brandishing a stick."--JKR, HP&HBP Take me to hobbiton! |
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| MantisShadow |
Posted: Apr 25 2005, 04:44 PM
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 Scary Kung Fu Thing a la Pointy Group: Members Posts: 273 Member No.: 63 Joined: 10-October 04 |
i fear for the movie, i have no idea how they are going to pull it off. though i love allen rickman and he will be playing marvin.
MS -------------------- life is pain...anyone who says otherwise is selling something
i Realized that i was God when i was praying one day and noticed i was talking to myself always carry a towl DATTEBAYO! |
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| Errtu |
Posted: Apr 25 2005, 05:04 PM
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Student of Cantor Group: Global Moderators Posts: 107 Member No.: 48 Joined: 15-May 04 |
movies coming from books are always iffy, i mean look at LOTR: The Return of The King and the whole LOTR series in general
-------------------- Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.
--Rich Cook The only things going with the flow are dead fish |
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| sophiepsyche919 |
Posted: Apr 25 2005, 10:54 PM
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High Nobility Group: Members Posts: 378 Member No.: 66 Joined: 12-November 04 |
Wait--are you saying that the LOTR movies are good or bad??? I'm confused...personally, I loved them, but the books were better (as always). Like addison, I fear for the movie--i don't think I'll see it. I don't want to see those books desecrated.
-------------------- "The crowd is the untruth."--Kierkegaard
"While the ponderous Sir Professor explains the entire mystery of life, he has in distraction forgotten his own name; that he is a man, neither more nor less, not a fantastic three-eigths of a paragraph." -Soren Kierkegaard "I am a wizard, not a baboon brandishing a stick."--JKR, HP&HBP Take me to hobbiton! |
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| MantisShadow |
Posted: Apr 26 2005, 05:15 PM
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Scary Kung Fu Thing a la Pointy Group: Members Posts: 273 Member No.: 63 Joined: 10-October 04 |
well zaphod's heads are alread wrond, ill be sure to pick up on other inconsistancies
MS -------------------- life is pain...anyone who says otherwise is selling something
i Realized that i was God when i was praying one day and noticed i was talking to myself always carry a towl DATTEBAYO! |
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| Errtu |
Posted: Apr 27 2005, 12:48 PM
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Student of Cantor Group: Global Moderators Posts: 107 Member No.: 48 Joined: 15-May 04 |
the LOTR movies were good there are just some parts they screwed up on the the spider (whose name fails me at the moment) was fought by frodo and sam (unless i'm really very mistaken and please correct me if i'm wrong) is the first thing that comes to mind but there are also other inconsistencies though the movies were good
as for the hitchhiker's giude to the galaxy i'm sure they'll twist it and turn it as they have to make it marketable and so forth but it should be interesting to see it from a different viewpoint though i doubt i'll see it in theatre probably rent it or even worse! wait for my library to get it and see it next fall! -------------------- Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.
--Rich Cook The only things going with the flow are dead fish |
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| Aisuru |
Posted: Apr 30 2005, 09:48 PM
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 High Queen  Group: Admin Posts: 1,365 Member No.: 1 Joined: 20-March 04 |
saw hitchiker's last night. it actually was pretty good. and DUDE i want that soundtrack!
-------------------- "It keeps receding from me, the world does, it runs away from my fingertips; and when it rains, I must be absolutely soaked with the rain or rain is just not real to me. At night sometimes I creep out naked from my bed and go behind the house and smell the woods and wet and look at stars and cry, for I can't touch them with my fingers. I want to feel the dark between me, want the Lord to touch me and rub off my skin...I want some contact and relation which I fear is just not possible the way my world is so constructed now. So I must do something about this. I must reconstruct the world the way I want it, for to make it real again. I need to make it bleed to know it's real. Do you see? Oh, why do you ask me why? You make me sad when you ask why, and you don't want to know the answer anyway. I can't touch you enough, my love. I can't touch anything enough."
~Alice Ard, Ardy Fafirsin by Don Negro |
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| ticklequeen |
Posted: May 1 2005, 08:14 AM
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whos on it (the OST)? never read the books. though if they're random they are most certainly for me.
-------------------- Pinky: Hmmm... let me think...
Brain: Don't hurt yourself, Pinky. ---------------------------------- MODESTY IS THE NEW SEXY ---------------------------------- Knowledge is power Power corrupts So study hard and be evil. ---------------------------------- *~Lady in the PointyShiney~* Valkyrie of the PointyShiney |
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| sophiepsyche919 |
Posted: May 1 2005, 10:38 AM
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yeah, my sister saw the movie too, and said it was surpisingly good--that they didn't screw up the books too much, although they were forced to cut a lot.
Not so surprisingly, I haven't seen it. I rarely get to do purely recreational activities...But I do intend to see it. Maybe after my ap tests are over. -------------------- "The crowd is the untruth."--Kierkegaard
"While the ponderous Sir Professor explains the entire mystery of life, he has in distraction forgotten his own name; that he is a man, neither more nor less, not a fantastic three-eigths of a paragraph." -Soren Kierkegaard "I am a wizard, not a baboon brandishing a stick."--JKR, HP&HBP Take me to hobbiton! |
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| kuro miko |
Posted: May 9 2005, 08:12 AM
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 High Queen Group: Admin Posts: 400 Member No.: 2 Joined: 20-March 04 |
I think they actually did a pretty good job, all things considered. It was only based on the first book, so obviously some fan-favorites got left out - e.g. the Restaurant.
Did anyone else see that they dedicated the movie to Douglas Adams? ^__^ I thought that was awesome. -------------------- Queen of the PointyShiney
Face it. Curiosity will not cause us to die- only lack of it will. - Alastair Reid The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours; We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon! - William Wordsworth …Earth’s the right place for love: I don’t know where it’s likely to go better. - Robert Frost Let's go blow shit up. What is the point of this metaphysical speculation? - Balthamos The pie flies by On little cat wings... |
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