Just thought I would do another post based on the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy movie that just came out because I just read a really good review on the movie over at blogcritics. Check it out: Film Review: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.
I believe its a very fair review of the movie with lots of valid points. The development of the “love” story between trillian and Arthur was a bit too much, but I can see why the did it. Also a good point about how the story line of how Ford was a writer for the guide got kinda lost too.
But over all the movie was done well. Someone could of took the movie and over done it with the special effects and ruin it. And like all other books turned into a movie, so much stuff gets cut out and change, this should not be any diffrent.
Also I want to point out that every version of the Hitchhiker “trilogy” has been diffrent and there is no “offical” story. So how can people say the movie sucks because it dosent follow the “real” story line when there really is not one????
I also wanted to reply to a comment made in the blogcritics post (and I quote word for word):
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Comment 2 posted by DNA on May 13, 2005 02:47 PM:
Why be so pleasant to Disney. They waited until Douglas Adams died to turn his masterpiece of literature into a long infommercial for Disney merchandise. I’d call that sick and disgusting, Disney has reached a new low. Boycott the movie if you do not want to see a sequel. And specially boycott the DVD rentals and DVD sales, for that’s is where they always expected to see a profit.
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HOLY COW, would you of still said that if it was another movie studio who did this film? Every film project has its delays. And as for mass merchandiceing??? there is not too much merchandice from the film, if Disney wanted to promote this and to try to get a big return, there will be alot more merchandice for the movie and they would of used the Disney name and not Touchtone.
so yeah, thats my rant, but thoes are just my thoughts, I could be wrong =P
