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

When I looked at this morning's papers in the Students Union shop, I was pleased to see the words 'DON'T PANIC' in large, friendly letters. Unfortunately, it was the front page headline on the very unfriendly 'Daily Mail' , heading their take on the latest bird 'flu scare. (I didn't read the story, but I imagine the 'Mail' thinks it's all the fault of asylum seekers.)

The director's cut is about 50 minutes longer. The main differences are:

1) the woman who is with the adult Salvatore at the beginning of the original release and never seen again for the whole movie has a role to play in the director's cut.
2) There is a love story with Salvatore as a young man that is absent from the original release.
3) The original release goes in the order - present day, rememberance of childhood, present day. The director's cut jumps back and forth between Salvatore's present and his past, and we see how the latter influences the former.

The downside of the director's cut is that it is nearly 3 hours long, which in my book is too long for a cinema release. The first time I saw it in that form I didn't enjoy it as I desperately wanted to have a pee for about the last 40 minutes, but couldn't leave the auditorium as I was the cinema's fire officer and had to be present until the end of the film and all of the patrons had left.

Thanks GB! I'd love to see that version so perhaps I'll have a look for it on Amazon. It's one of my favourite films of all time - it would be great to see an 'expanded' three-hour version.

I agree that 3 hours without an intermission is way too long for a cinema release. Poor you!


az

GB? That was meant to be GD, which I then confused with BG, not to mention Annie up there. *waves to Annie*


az

*waves back*

I thought for a moment there, that you were thanking me for my impersonation of someone who desperately needs a pee.


(which is no laughing matter)

Moral: Never pass up a chance to pee.

Just posting this here because there are other people subscribed to GD's journal than mine.



I've got a newspaper freebie DVD today, won't post the name of the paper unless asked, but it's "Maybe Baby" starring Joley Richardson, Hugh Laurie, Rowan Atkinson, Emma Thompson, Dawn French, Joanna Lumley..

Can't wait to watch it!

Well that's 2 hours of your life that you'll never get back again

As I said to my husband yesterday after seeing an ad for that - nothing could ever induce me to purchase that particular paper...

Oh dear, that bad is it? Oh well, I've nothing better to do tomorrow morning.

Sorry kelli, didn't mean to offend, I thought I was helping those who might otherwise miss a bargain.

* googles for which paper is doing the giveaway *

Oh yes, that one is a bit close to the mark.

I'm not averse to buying unusual papers just for the freebies, but that one would be a big step!