Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (2005)

Now that the dust has settled, what did we think of it?

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0/10

I thought it was fun. I don’t think Adams’ style of humor quite made it through the adaptation process. They changed weird things like having trillian get taken to vogsphere and having the vogons show up on magrathea. I would have preferred if they had gone to the restaurant at the end of the universe in the movie like they did in the first book instead of making that the sequel tease that never got made.

poor casting desu

Who didn’t you like? Zooey’s performance is the worst of the bunch but I don’t think there’s another weak link unless you don’t like mos def. I thought he was pretty good.

garbage

it's a pretty feel-good scifi movie and adapts the source material well and succeeds aesthetically. never got the hate desu

I loved it, fuck the haters. In fack, I'm gonna rewatch it tonight, thanks OP.

I saw it when I was 11 and liked it
I don't read books anyway

Mostly harmless desu

I liked Marvin's design and voice. I never saw the old TV version.

I got my first blowjob watching this movie. There were parents with their kids not too far away but nobody seemed to notice.
Good memories.

Absolute kino. Marvin and Arthur were perfect. If you cared about any other characters, you probably shouldn't have watched this in the first place.

Her name is spelt with fucking 2 o's? never noticed, and or universe yada yada, shiieeet.

Marvin sucked. Ford works better as a limey ginger.

I think a multi-million hollywood film should not get utterly blown away by a radio series.

A poor adaptation

The TV version still holds up.

maybe, just maybe, they should try an animated adaptation? Maybe the story and humor are more conducive to animation?
I know it needs to be a British creative team, Hitchhiker is very Brit in every way. What kind of animation though? I bet the "Flushed Away" animation team could make a good go of this! Shit, and if they could get the same actors back to voice it from that they'd be all set.

Should have focused more on adapting and less in shoving the new plot threads in.
It wasn't awful, and I know it was based on Adams' notes, but the movie really does suffer for it.

Excellent Casting choice

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extremely mediocre, just like every other time they've tried a film adaptation. the book just doesn't translate well onto the screen.

Based bookfag

I didn’t like the changes either.

the rape scene was a little over the top but other than that a solid flick to marathon on a weekend.

Good vfx. I didn’t mind the changes desu I didn’t want to just see the same story again. Cast was mostly good. Didn’t bother me they black washed Ford. The visual book they did if the story had a black Zaphod so it’s not like Adams didn’t play around with the races himself.
a few of the jokes fell flat but overall I liked it.

and the books didnt translate too well from the radio series. i'm old enough to have listened the first time round, and have pretty much consumed this in every form it's been adapted for - book, tv, even the vinyl albums. cant say i hated the film any more than anything else. it had some inspired choices - shynola make a fantastic job of the book graphics, i thought. Stephen Fry, Alan Rickman, Martin Freeman, and of course Sam Rockwell were all on good form. loved the sight gag with the knitted cast. didn't mind the movie overall.but of course in Hollywood there are no minor successes, only epic fails or epic wins. still think the pictures were better on the radio, tho.

Most critics of this are oldfags that can't stand anything deviating from what they expected (series, or books), whether the changes are for the better, or worse. You see this all the time in book adaptions, or reboots of older stories. Society is hung up on tradition, and pack mentality (E.g. religion, politics, sports). People for the most part are idiots OP, stop caring what the mass audience thinks/thought, and decide for yourself, don't be like them.

The plot and progression and other such things were passable I guess, but the real standout was all the little touches and details simply piled onto the movie for most everything. Pretty much every scene and set, everything is detailed out with little touches and apparent reasons for being. In subsequent viewings you notice it more, but near enough each scene it's the plethora of minor details that really give the movie such character.

On another note I knew a couple staunch fans of the book who hated it for the changes the movie took, but it made me think if you're such a hard fan of the books then enjoy the books for what they are. But if you'd read them like 10 times as they had, would you rather see a direct recreation of the same story again, or something new, more related material for the story? Especially in this case since Adams contributed to the movie.

Rockwell could play any caracter in that movie including females and it still would be an excellent casting choice.