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

well i can also say that http://www.hsx.com shares of HHGTTG are very profitable.

Really looking forward to this, when's it due out then?

May 6th in the US and UK, dates around the world differ.

Oooh not long to wait then...

2005 is shaping up to be a year of good things...

PSP in Feb/March
H2G2 the movie in May
Baby in July (we hope)

Not necessarily in that order of importance...

Doctor Who in March
Star Wars in May

Congrats on the baby, btw

TVM, not that I had to do much the difficult part is yet to come...

Had forgot about Dr. Who...

Has everybody seen the first review of the film, its very positive, on the whole see: http://www.aintitcoolnews.com/display.cgi?id=19282

Argon0

Just read it and I'm not at all convinced!! Anyone out there in agreement?

I hate AICN so I'd agree that they're a bunch of twonks...

For Sure.

Although I think Jim Carey is a brilliant actor, he definitely does not suit the character of Arthur Dent!

For a few reasons
(a) He is not British
(b) He is too famous and type casted as a comedian- I think Arthur should be played by a relatively unknown British actor
(c)HE WOULD SHIT US TO TEARS AND RUIN THE hg2tg movie!

I'm sure there are many other valid reasons too???

Protistgirl, Arthur (and pretty much every other part) has been cast. See http://imdb.com/title/tt0371724/ for who got what.
Oberon2001

Indeed. The movie is out on April 29th so you'll all be able to see whether the choices were right. I think they were all excellent personally.

Tried to go and see it over the w/e but was all sold out (which can only be a good thing!)...

Make sure you go next weekend - a good second weekend will help chances of a sequel.

Well I'm going to try!

bit late now,it's already out.

...and it's very good,espesialy marvin (i'm so deperessed).

there is one now. . Was wondering though if there was ever an animated cartoon version, if not a highly detailed anime-esque style one would be really,really cool.

No, but there were comic books

sooooo?? what do you think of the film?
i personally liked the film, but not excessively, like the H2G2 series which was awsome.
i mean the film is H2G2 set in the present day, which makes it accesible, but obviously your gonna lose some of that stiff upper lip britishness that was part of the books 30 years ago. But this was a smart move as the film shouldn't be a rehash of the series.

One complaint though. I thought the humour was a bit dumbed down, and the humour that was taken from the original was a bit banal. like for instance when Ford and Arthur are in the air lock, and the phrase that should have been used would be:

Arthur - its times like these that i wish i'd listened to what my mother said to me.
Ford - what did your mother say to you?
Arthur - I don't know, i never listened.

genius

oh and
Arthur - so this is it we're going to die

Also why oh why did they have to throw in some love interest. the funny thing in the book was that Arthur "utterly failed to get of with" with the nice looking atrophysitist.

anyway other than that the film was good. not too much adherence to the film. a nice bit of originality with the point of view gun.