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Pham Nuwen posted:It was fine, the main problem is that a movie can't possibly capture the real magic: being 13 and reading the book for the very first time. Also a huge amount of the charm of HHGTTG is in the dialog, which should be obvious when you realize the novels are based on radio scripts. A movie really is the worst possible format for a HHGTTG adaptation because the dialog has to be paired back to the minimum. One of the most obvious examples is the beginning, where instead of a long verbal sparring match between Arthur and the construction foreman that Ford breaks up with some clever negotiation (the 80s TV series did the best version because Ford convinces the foreman to take Arthur's place in the mud in front of his own bulldozer) he just shows up and distracts them with a shopping cart full of beer. This is a cheap but kinda of amusing gag on its own, even if it feels a bit too much like a early 90s beer commercial, but it doesn't really work in the framework of the story I don't think. IIRC the film was produced using a fairly early draft script because it was the last one Douglas Adams had worked on before his death. Had he lived he might've tightened it up a bit. Visually and casting-wise (except you, Martin Freeman) it was quite good.
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Rockman Reserve posted:who tf is calling a Coen Brothers movie bad The Ladykillers was an immensely disappointing misfire. Almost nothing in it worked.
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