On 5/8/05, Russell Chapman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Robert Seeberger wrote: > > >Warren Ockrassa wrote: > > > > > >>That doesn't change my opinion of the movie. It was bad. Bad, bad, > >>bad. > >> > >> > > > >Still have not seen it myself. > >But you are the only person I've run across so far who dislikes it > >greatly. > > > > > Oh, bad doesn't begin to describe it. I'm a fan of all things DNA, but > my wife is a complete novice - never read the books, never seen the TV > shows. And both of us hated it.
<delurking> I just got back from seeing it. I thought it was OK; not great, but not terrible either. Disappointing in that I think it could have been better, or at least funnier than it was (In particular, the guide entries didn't strike me as funny as I remember them from the books or the tv show). I would certainly have filmed things differently and explained things better. But at the same time I don't think it's an easy book to bring to the screen. I was a fan of the books and enjoyed the cheesy BBC tv series (I never heard/read the radio series version) and I wasn't appalled by the changes, but it's been a very long time since I read the books, and I'm not a hardcore fan. I admit that if they had made the same scale of changes to the LOTR movies as to THGTTG, I'd probably have been outraged even if they had been cooked up by Tolkien himself. BTW, did anyone else pick up on the Zaphod/George-W-Bush thing? -Bryon _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
