Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/05/02

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Subject: [Leica] The Hitchhikers' Guide To the Galaxy: To Be Avoided at all costs
From: douglas.sharp at gmx.de (Douglas Sharp)
Date: Mon May 2 03:34:17 2005
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One head missing (well not quite), Trillian and Ford (Edsel?) as 
Americans, an extra character, that spindly leggy thing. Marvin is too 
small, the Heart of Gold is supposed to have been shaped like a running 
shoe, even the Vogons look mildly pleasant.. It's a wonder they didn't 
try to slip Dirk Gently (Vlad)and some Norse Gods in there too. A total 
mess.

The worst mis-filming of a book since "War of the Worlds" was moved into 
the atomic age - which took out 100% of what H.G. Wells was trying to 
put across about the hubris of man in the industrial age.
Douglas
BTW the tv-series (BBC) was actually quite good, well I thought so. Ford 
Prefect, Zaphod, Marvin and Arthur were , IMO, perfectly cast.

Mark Langer wrote:
> I saw the film yesterday.  Wish I had received the warnings from this
> thread beforehand, and saved myself the $9.95.
> 
> Mark
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