Saw the movie version last night....started out strong, then fizzled... 
It's not the whole story either. Most of the narrative is missing
(like the explanation of the inventor of the "Probability Drive" accidently creating an infinite number of monkeys on type writers.....my
favorite part). And of course they forced a love story in....
Oh well they gave it a go.....
Fletch,
as i say about all good books, just stick to the damn book! films are, at best, reflected glory, and usually loose something.
Like the lord of the rings, a good movie but it would've been better if they just left it as it happened in the books...
I'm still reading the guide trilogy, I'm on book 4. Only one left to go.
There was a bit of girlie interest with Trillian so it's not
too far out I suppose.
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Originally posted by JoelP
as i say about all good books, just stick to the damn book!
Gazza's right, it hit Radio 4 before it hit paperback.
ah well...
was the radio stuff the same thing, or is the book an evolution from it?
I listened to it on radio first time round, that's why I bought the books and I'll go and see the movie as well. You have to embrace new
technology not live in the stone age
Haven't heard it all, but it's pretty similar, similar to the TV show too.
I thought the book came first...but there we go. One of my favourite all time books, I have heard the radio version as well, but its pretty much
identical to the book...
Will go and see the film, just to see what its like.
David 
The trailers look good. If you've not seen them they're here.
The Lord of the Rings trilogy is probably the most overated i've ever had the misfortune to sit through. Does Police Academy count as a trilogy
because that was/ still is better!
Looks like the hitchhikers guide to the galxy isn't the only classic-book-into-big-budget-film this year. I see Steven Spielberg and Tom Cruise
are doing The War of the Worlds...
http://www.apple.com/trailers/paramount/waroftheworlds/
ATB
Simon
HHGTTG...
worst acting ever - and how can they take some of the funniest materiel ever written and still make it fall flat on it's face ?
in a word bloody awful (yes I know thats 2)
In the showing i went to 5 people walked out and i counted three asleep at the end...
i thought it was pretty good, but then I'm happy to look at it on its own, rather than compare it to the book/radio/comic/stone tablets....
I suppose that the old-timer book purists are never going to be happy with new-fangled moving pictures!!
saw the film last night. Film was OK ish but the experience was bizarre - auditorium was FULL of middle aged middle class types (like me...) who were
silent. Weird weird weird - never been to a film show like it.
Liked marvyn & slartybartfarst, the rest didn't quite work & the "love story" was slapped on like a band aid.
Bob