Hmm, that might indicate a chance of having the book translated into Chinese. Now that would be one hell of an odd read.
I’ve read the books, heard the radio series and seen the television series. I thought the only thing missing from the movie was the line: “That’s the most sensible thing I’ve heard all day”.
Most of the time I was the only laughing in the movie theater.
So once again I may well be alone. I need a point-of view gun.
The Taiwanese only laughed at the visual slap-stick humour.
I thought they should’ve had the part where God disappeared in a puff of pure logic in it. But I still thought the movie was awesome.
I just saw this movie…
I didn’t get it. :s
Neither did most of the Taiwanese audience…I’m being generous…none of the Taiwanese audience got it. Kind of reminded me of the people who saw The Fellowship of the Rings and complained that the director was obviously going to make a sequel because they left the ending wide open. In other words, reading the books will help you get it.
The planet factory on Magrathea was breathtaking. Definitely the best part of the movie. Glad they left in the bit about the whale and the bowl of petunias…disappointed they took out the bit about argument for the evolution of the babelfish being the downfall of God and the bit about humans believing themselves more advanced than dolphins for inventing among other things war and New York City while dolphins played all day and dolphins believing the reverse for the very same reasons…especially with that stupid opening sequence song.
Alan Rickman as Marvin’s voice and Bill Nighy as Slartibartfast were excellent casting choices. Wonder if they’ll do The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, provided they don’t screw it up and make it at the location of “the end of the universe” rather than the intended meaning of at the time of “the end of the universe”. My suggestion to the person who writes the screenplay for that one is to read the bloody book.
I also wouldn’t mind seeing Adams’ The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul made into a book.
Oh yeah, and where was the great line when they landed on the Vogon ship where Ford tell Arthur they’re safe (in the movie) and Arthur asks him where they are and Ford informs him they are on a ship in a Vogon construction fleet (also in the movie) and then Arthur says, “Ah, this is obviously some strange use of the word ‘safe’ that I wasn’t previously aware of.” (not in the movie) I held my breath waiting for that line after hearing the dialogue moving towards it, but it never happened. :fume: So many good lines were cut out yet so many stupid things happened. Arthur and Trillian falling in love? Whose idea was that crap?
I suspect ImaniOU aimed her point-of-view gun my way. She should have used it in the movie theatre.
When I saw the film the Taiwanese only really laughed at what is described as physical violence in this clip.
because all my favorite characters died…the whale, the crab, and the mice(sortof)
The mice died? Knowing that they were pan-dimensional beings, I’m sure they could handle 2-D. 
And what about the bowl of petunias?
I feel sorry for the petunias, having to die again.
I just realized, I don’t think there was anything in the movie about Earth being “Mostly Harmless”. Perhaps my attention was just focused elsewhere at the time though.
No, you’re right. One of the core jokes about Ford’s years and years on Earth as a field researcher for the Guide was excised completely in favor of adding stupid lines like “Freeze? I’m a robot, not a refrigerator!”
Tetsuo, that line was put in for the people who would fail to find the humor about the bowl of petunias.
I’ve been reading The Salmon of Doubt, having read every other novel Douglas Adams has ever written, and it’s sad to think that he was so optimistic about the movie and all the hard work he put into getting it on the big screen. He also had something interesting to say about the pitch of humor in the HHGTG stories (of which he said he liked the TV production of it the least and couldn’t decide if he liked the radio or the books the best)…I don’t have my copy of SoD handy, but I will post the quote later. It, like most of Douglas Adams’ works is very humourous and blatantly true.
It’s a bloody shame he died so suddenly and so long before his time. I’m half expecting him to still be alive and learn that he didn’t really die of something as preventable as a fatal heart attack. It seems very aniclimatic that someone so great could be taken out by something so mundane.
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Most of the time I was the only laughing in the movie theater.
So once again I may well be alone. I need a point-of view gun.[/quote]
The Taiwanese in my audience surprisingly laughed at most of the jokes. I enjoyed the movie quite a bit actually, it made me want to read the books again.