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― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 3 January 2005 19:13 (nineteen years ago) link

The soundtrack should be "Jezebel" on eternal loop.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 3 January 2005 19:13 (nineteen years ago) link

i've not read, heard or seen this. however, i did catch the last 10 seconds of the movie trailer this weekend. please explain teh premis and cry over the release of the sure to be unworthy film now.

― Emilymv (Emilymv), Monday, 3 January 2005 19:16 (nineteen years ago) link

The "preview" I saw didn't actually have any footage from the movie in it: LAME.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 3 January 2005 19:17 (nineteen years ago) link

"Jezebel" should be the soundtrack to EVERY movie, starting with "Fat Albert".

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 3 January 2005 19:18 (nineteen years ago) link

you really ought to read it, emily. the first book in the trilogy is really, really good. and the 2nd and third aren't too shabby either. i don't think i bothered to read the last one. also, the salmon of doubt is a good collection of Douglas's other writing.

― Ian John50n (orion), Monday, 3 January 2005 19:18 (nineteen years ago) link

more info please. if someone can quickly summarize the basic plot, sans spoilers, i would really appreciate it.

― Emilymv (Emilymv), Monday, 3 January 2005 19:21 (nineteen years ago) link

"plot" is not the point

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 3 January 2005 19:23 (nineteen years ago) link

ok. then tell me about the characters or setting.

― Emilymv (Emilymv), Monday, 3 January 2005 19:25 (nineteen years ago) link

earth destroyed by intergalactic bulldozer making room for intergalactic super highway. hilarity ensues.

characters: british, robot and alien
setting: space

― Ian John50n (orion), Monday, 3 January 2005 19:25 (nineteen years ago) link

Gabbneb OTM.

The basic plot: A man wakes up one morning and finds himself thrust into an intergalactic cosmic headfuck farce that starts with the destruction of the world and then proceeds to get weird.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 3 January 2005 19:26 (nineteen years ago) link

From memory from a long time ago, but a dude (Arthur Dent) is saved from the Earth, which is being detonated by aliens to make way for a highway, by his friend, who he is unaware is an alien. They galivant around the universe having adventures. There's a depressed robot involved somehow.
xpost, now useless, but posting anyways because such is the internet.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 3 January 2005 19:27 (nineteen years ago) link

thanks. is the humor monty python-esque or no?

― Emilymv (Emilymv), Monday, 3 January 2005 19:30 (nineteen years ago) link

don't give it all away!

the story also involves bad poetry, tea and an extremely cool dude with two headaches

the humor is not particularly monty python-esque, but not totally unrelated

just read it

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 3 January 2005 19:36 (nineteen years ago) link

It was really funny when I was 13, I wonder if it would hold up?

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 3 January 2005 19:39 (nineteen years ago) link

It holds up. I should know.

Emily -- the time it will take you to read all the books will be enough to see you through the birth of yer wee one.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 3 January 2005 19:40 (nineteen years ago) link

ok, i will read it as soon as i find a copy. what is the first book in the series?

― Emilymv (Emilymv), Monday, 3 January 2005 19:57 (nineteen years ago) link

The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 3 January 2005 19:57 (nineteen years ago) link

i want to read it again

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 3 January 2005 20:00 (nineteen years ago) link

tricky title. good thing i asked.

― Emilymv (Emilymv), Monday, 3 January 2005 20:12 (nineteen years ago) link

I just read above a lot of people thought the TV show was cheesy, but I think it's fantastic, and that the cheese even adds to the effect. My dad rented it when i was 10 or so and I remember being mostly interested in the graphic effects. I found a copy of the series in a thrift shop a few months ago and they seem even more amazing to me now. Viva La Vectors!

― Adam Bruneau (oliver8bit), Monday, 3 January 2005 21:13 (nineteen years ago) link

Oh, I LOVE the actual guide entry effects, that's great animation.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 3 January 2005 21:16 (nineteen years ago) link

I could've sworn that I mentioned this on another thread, but just to mention - back in June I saw that they were filming at the huge Masonic Temple in Covent Garden. All the equipment trucks were a giveaway - the permits were for "Mostly Harmless Productions". I didn't see much except for someone in a strange green robe at the doorway.

― Girolamo Savonarola, Monday, 3 January 2005 21:17 (nineteen years ago) link

Was a huge huge fan in junior/high school. The last time I read the guide was like November 3 or 4, post-election depression, looking for comfort reading. It didn't hold up but then perhaps nothing would have gotten me out of my funk. :(

― teeny (teeny), Monday, 3 January 2005 21:23 (nineteen years ago) link

three years pass...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7619828.stm

Children's author Eoin Colfer has been commissioned to write a sixth instalment of the Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy series.

Mostly Harmless, the last Hitchhiker book, was written by its creator, the late Douglas Adams, 16 years ago.

Now Adams's widow, Jane Belson, has given her approval to bring back the hapless Arthur Dent in a new book entitled And Another Thing...

Eoin Colfer, 43, is best known for the best-selling Artemis Fowl novels.

― the usual olfactory abuse (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 17 September 2008 08:10 (fifteen years ago) link

"My first reaction was semi-outrage that anyone should be allowed to tamper with this incredible series," he said.

"But on reflection I realised that this is a wonderful opportunity to work with characters I have loved since childhood and give them something of my own voice while holding on to the spirit of Douglas Adams."

Clearly I am also at first reaction stage.

― the usual olfactory abuse (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 17 September 2008 08:11 (fifteen years ago) link

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/45024000/jpg/_45024052_721e5eb3-cc4b-4642-8d44-734f8fbba5aa.jpg

l-r: shit-eating grin, douglas adams

― the usual olfactory abuse (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 17 September 2008 08:15 (fifteen years ago) link

what

― Assault! Assault! (King Boy Pato), Wednesday, 17 September 2008 09:06 (fifteen years ago) link

> Now Adams's widow, Jane Belson, has given her approval to bring back the hapless Arthur Dent in a new book entitled And Another Thing...

she also said, according to radio4 this mornig, that she thought dna would hate the idea.

(pat nevin was great immediately afterwards though, comparing ronaldo to zaphod)

― koogs, Wednesday, 17 September 2008 10:27 (fifteen years ago) link

Mice: Now, to business!
Humans: TO BUSINESS!!!
Mice: What are you doing??
Zaphod: Oh sorry, we thought you were proposing a toast.

― moley, Wednesday, 17 September 2008 10:38 (fifteen years ago) link

eleven years pass...

RIP to Stephen Moore aka Marvin the Paranoid Android. Forever indelible (and as I muttered on another HHG thread a couple of months back, the audiobook recordings he did are kinda definitive in my mind).

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 12 October 2019 18:12 (four years ago) link

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