The BBC did a movie that, if memory serves, combined Hitchhiker's and The Restaurant at the end of the Galaxy into one movie.
After watching this adaption it is tough to Doug Adam's four book trilogy and turn them into movies. For me the book's are very brilliantly cerebral and not visual. It really isn't based on scenes as much as absurdity and parody.
The BBC vsrsion was quite well done. It was certainly less slick than fhis movie, very 1970's Dr Who, but it captured HGttG very well.
shareSee, that's just insulting. The show was insulting and saying it was anything but insulting, is insulting
sharenope. the tv series nailed it. everything they did, they got right. the low budget does not matter, since the animations were spot on, the cast was amazing and most importantly they caught the spirit and the humor of the books.
share"four book trilogy" lol
shareAnd as there now are five (proper) books, then this is, as they say, an ever increasingly inaccurately named trilogy :)
Yes there is a sixth book out there, I am told, but who cares about something written by some fourth rate rent-a-writer who has been told to imitate the late great Douglas Adams?
And, as I understand it, fails pretty badly in his attempt.
Yes there is a sixth book out there, I am told, but who cares about something written by some fourth rate rent-a-writer who has been told to imitate the late great Douglas Adams?
the first 3 books are great. the 4th is different. i stop at 3, it ends nicely there.
shareWhen the 4th book was released: "So Long and Thanks for all the Fish" the tag line was the 4th book in the trilogy. Very Doug Adams.
shareIt ended up being five. When Mostly Harmless (book 5) was published it was billed as the "fifth part of the increasingly inaccurately named Hitchhiker Trilogy" or some such.
shareIt was a television series made on a shoestring budget. It was the type of production where you'd see the set shake. The Zaphod Beeblebrox actor had an expressionless paper mache head on one of his shoulders. And my memory is that it was much better than this disappointment of a movie and actually entertaining.
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