h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I'm looking forward to getting the DVD, once I've everything else out of the way!

I've not moved house for 2 years, when I moved not only my student accomodation but also my home accomodation at the same time - that was complicated, and I still don't know where most of my stuff is! But this time should be a lot easier. It's all happening this weekend!

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Good luck moving, I remember siting down late at night in our new house(houses) and having the feeling that ther's a lot more work still to do

I've just got the Tank Girl DVD, not that I can really afford it but....... no real extra's but I like it

Hopefully moving won't be too bad - I'm pretty much moving only one room, which makes life a lot easier.

Tank Girl... Not sure I know that one...?

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I enjoyed moving it ws the sorting out I didn't like so much

tank girl is based on the comic book I don't think it did so well in the cinema is got lori petty and Ice t in it I think I like it

i seem to qutie like the comic book I don't know if I said but I got spawn and the x-men aswell.

I saw deep blue sea the other day and the apartment not so much sci-fi but its and old black and white one with jack lemmon, its quite good

Getting ready to move is fine, it's just the worry of how I'm going to move all the boxes, as well as 2 chairs, when I don't have a car and can't afford a removals van. Looks like I'm going to do a lot of walking on Saturday & Sunday!

Have you seen Mystery Men? I enjoyed that a lot, and it's definately a comic.

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well have fun

ery men not bad

here's a question can you think of a film that CAME OUT ABOUT THE SAME TIME AS INDEPENDANCE DAY, SAME SORT OF PLOT AND NOT MEN IN BLACK OR MARS ATTACKS,

I've been trying to think of it all day I'm sure there is one

I can't really think of one at the moment, if I can think of it, I'll let you know.

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I'm starting to think I imagined that film,

So how did the move go alright I hope,

I've bought yet another DVD this time well worth it Paul McCartnet live at the cavern the set he did a couple of years ago which was also broadcast on the internet, not that I saw it, Its the same stuff as the Run devil run album more or less, with the same band and also does twenty flight rock, and I saw her standing there, not bad short but good, there's a couple of nice extra's aswell, I think that douglas adams was in the audience also.

Yes he was, I remember that he took photos of it and put them in an article off his page, which I admired. I saw the concert and recorded it when it was on TV - I just left the video recording, and ended up with a film on the end of the tape called "Secrets", an Australian film about a few Beatles Fanatics in Australia who end up locked in the basement of the hotel in which the Beatles are staying. Very weird.
I was disappointed with "Run Devil Run" as an album, the McCartney songs weren't as good as the ones in "Flaming Pie", I felt, and I've never really been enthusiastic about cover versions, especially if I know the original. (I feel Madonna's "American Pie" was a crime punishable by Death). But "No Other Baby" was a definate exception - a gem of a song in my view.

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I never knew that it had been on tv, or maybe I did and at the time missed it

as to covers, most of the time I see little point in them, geri halliwell's its raining men, was little different to the original only slightly worse,

the only thing is that if it had not been for listening to beatles version of songs I would never listened to the originals, and when its live its not so bad as i love the music

I went to see tomb raider at the cinema, not bad, not entirely great, but I'll get the DVD when it comes out

Last film I saw in the cinema was "2001: A Space Odyssey", and the next film I hope to see in the cinema is "Doctor Strangelove: Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb" on Sunday as my local has a Kubrick season on at the moment, but I was thinking of seeing Shrek and even Tomb Raider eventually.

I almost always prefer the original song to a cover version, but I hat all versions of "It's Raining Men". Mainly because when I was in Halls of Residence 3 years ago, my room was next to the bar. This meant that every night I heard the local tarts' karaoke session - every night they sang "Angels" and "It's Raining Men", and every night it was worse than the night before. It was torture!

But you're right about the Beatles covers - and I must admit I prefer many of their covers to the originals. And sadly, although I've always respected Bob Dylan as a great songwriter, I prefer his songs when other people are singing them. I feel he can write great songs, but his singing's appaling. I wish I didn't feel that way, but, alas, I do.

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so how was 2001 on the big screen, worth going to see if they get round to showing it at my cinema?

I kinda know what itrs like to have songs played at you constantly, they have the radia on where I work, and its a local station I think with only a few songs, they start to play a song, you like it, you love it, it starts to get on your nerves, you hate it, you want to kill the people who sang it, and so on

yeah the beatles covers are good, bob dlyan, he's ok I've got the best of and an album, or two maybe, do you like simon and garfunkle?

Sorry it's taken so long to reply - I've not had an internet connection until now! Moving house seems just one hassle after another, but I think it's starting to work out now. Just need to get UK Gold as I'm suffering Doctor Who withdrawal!

2001 was definately worth seeing on a big screen - there's so much detail that on a small TV (and mine, alas, is not widescreen) that you just miss and it was a treasure to see so much for the first time amongst the familiar.

I've not really listened to as much Simon and Garfunkle as perhaps I should - in fact, at this moment my mind's pretty much gone blank about them. I've heard them in the past, but never really took any notice at all. I'm very good at forgetting all about things which don't interest me - not one of my strong points!

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how did you survive without the internet, I can hardly go without for a few minutes

well if they do show 2001, I'll go, and planet of the apes is out now or soon, i perefer the original, already though

yeah I never take a oyt of interest in suff that i'm not currantly interested in, and I've kicked myself for this, missed opertunities

I never though about simon and garfunkle, but i really like them and simon's solo work,

just watched alien ressurection, can't remember if we've talked about the films, but its not bad

nicwe to hear from you

The trouble about surviving without the internet is that it's surprisingly easy when you have to, yet as soon as you have the barest opportunity to go online again, you're hooked as if you'd never left. So I should be here non-stop again now.

I expect that I too will prefer the original - I'd like to know how it compares, and what they plan to do. Nothing could beat the ambition behind the perfect cyclic series of films they created, though. As far as visions of sequels go, that has not been equalled.

No, we haven't talked about the "Alien" series, but it's one I enjoy. I've got them all recorded off television, and I watch them now and again. I prefer "Alien" as it is far more atmospheric, but I don't think that "Alien 3" is not as bad as it's reputation has portrayed. It's a shame that David Fincher was not given a free reign. The other drawback was the lack of a single script - their policy of getting two writers to write 2 scripts and then combining the best bits of both did not really work out.

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I've been having trouble with the internet lately, I've got connected but not been able to get anything, now thats annoying

the apes series of film ws good although i think the sequals got worse and cheaper, though conquest wasn't so bad, a bloke at work said (of pictures from the new ape film in the paper) that the apes werre better because they looked more evil, but that isn't how they're suposed to, they were less evil than the humans were

I thought that alien 3 was highly though of till now, when people at work said it was crap, I quite liked it, I didn't know that that was how the wrote it, I watched them all in turn a few months ago, could be a year now actually, I had alien and 3 taped, and i bought 4 and the aliens came on tv, I was a little dissapointed with 4 first but now quite like it, the ending have all been good, vey fitting

I would love the dvd boxed set, but its something like £60 so it'll have to wait and i hear that aliens has some extra footage in it.

what are you reading?

From what I've heard, Tim Burton won't be making a re-make, but will be doing something similar, but different. From his previous films such as "Batman", "Nightmare Before Christmas", "Edward Scissorhands" and "Sleepy Hollow", a dark and brooding effect would be expected, but I think it will have quite a different message than the original. We'll have to see. I wonder if it will win an Oscar for Best Make-Up like the original did so controversially in 1969..

I've only seen "Alien Ressurection" once - it was one of the films I wanted to see in my local cinema (which only had one screen), but never came out there as they showed "Titanic" non-stop for 6 months. (I also missed "Starship Troopers"), so it is the one I have seen the least. I think it is the weakest of them, but it did have several good points. Sigourney Weaver apparently agreed to make another 2 films when she signed up for Alien Ressurection, so I wonder when number 5 will be out? But yes, if I had the money, that's one DVD set I'd get, after "2001: A Space Odyssey", "Yellow Submarine" and a few Doctor Who.

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unbeliveable

I went into twon today, in to mvc and they had all the alien DVd's for 2 for £25, £24 cheaper than the boxed, I went into virgin, alien 3 as a 2 for "25, I went into a second hand shop, alien ans aliens for £10 each, so I got them, I went into gamezone, alien 3 and resurection £9.99 and £11.99, but i didn't get them, if there there next week.......,

I wanted to read the original apes book but couldn't find a copy, the apers wweere mopre advanced and the statue of libery wasn't in it I think, so we shall see.

I also saw a dvd of pratchetts wyrd sisters, a cartoon, have you seen it?

I'd love 2001 on dvd and yellow submarine but I have touble justifying buying them (he says after getting two alien ones today) but the trouble is having seen them a few times I wouldn't watch them so much.

you heard about paul MC getting engaged?

Sounds a good deal - all I did today was walk around the beach. Beaches seem very boring when you've lived on the doorstep of one of the best in Britain all your life, and where you are is nothing but beach. But still it was a good day.

I haven't read the book of the original - and I didn't watch the TV series either. All I know of it were the original films, which I saw on sale as a box set in Forbidden Planet for £20 for all. If I had money I would have got them. Why is it that all the best deals occur when you cannot afford them? Always the way...

Yes, I saw "Wyrd Sisters", both when it was on the first time, and when it was on around 3am last Christmas I recorded it, as well as "Soul Music" which was on the next night. What was on the DVD? I actually saw them both before reading the novels, so I was quite impressed. Others who read the novels first were disappointed, but I think it's worth seeing.

Yes, I had heard about Paul's engagement - I wasn't surprised as there'd been so much talk in the papers about the possibility, as well as the news of his recording "Blue Skies", that love-song album out somewhen. I hope they're happy together, she seems quite nice.

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up late tonight,

I haven't walked along a beach for a while i lke to watch the sea, but don't much get the chance, I did meet an old friend today, he's very different to when i first knew him

i never saw the tv series, I'd like to just to see what its like, I've orded the boom off amazon as well as the next coupl of terry pratchett books i need,

I know the second hand shop I go in has nothing for weeksd then it all comes at one ahhhhhhhhhhh

In haven't got as far as soul music and I didn't look at the extra's, just a quick glance relly if they come on again I'll have a look

yeah paul's girl freind seems nice, I'll be looking out for the album

and I hear george isn't too well.....