I'm New here and Im a Hoopy frood.

I also always have my towel and will travel.

Is there any other Douglas Adams Fans out there?

Im new to the board and Im not seeing any more recient post about Being a Hitchhiker or the Number 42.

Also.... if there are fans here......... what did everyone reciently think of the new movie? :)

Good to see some new blood around here, welcome to sciforums! I ask you to participate in the Star Trek vs. Star Wars thread, and I challenge you to read every single post in it!

I'm a fan and even though I haven't seen the movie, I just KNOW it's been butchered.

'nuff said.

.
I wouldn't say the movie was butchery by any means.

Needless to say, having read the book, you will note some omissions, but nobody is going to make a 5-hour film just so they can put every little detail in it.


;)

In my opinion, the man was a hack. I simply hated his writing style and I thought he couldn't create a plot to save his life. On top of that, it was nihilistic as all hell.

In my opinion, the man was a hack. I simply hated his writing style and I thought he couldn't create a plot to save his life. On top of that, it was nihilistic as all hell.


Clockwood:
You go to hell. You go to hell and you die!

Seriously though. You don't like adams? How can you not? What about prachet?

Who-ho.
In my opinion, the man was a hack. I simply hated his writing style and I thought he couldn't create a plot to save his life. On top of that, it was nihilistic as all hell.
Why so harsh on Adams?

That's like defaming a coloring book for not taking art too seriously.
True, his background is in literature but then again so is Rowling's and Dahl's
And if he is "nihilistic as all hell" then I wonder why it was that I first learned to crack a smile at science when I first read the Guide.

All that physiscs and math makes you either too serious or romantic for the wit behind an existential elevator.

How can you not like Adams? And who the hell is prachet?

In my opinion, the man was a hack. I simply hated his writing style and I thought he couldn't create a plot to save his life. On top of that, it was nihilistic as all hell.

the plots of his books were amazing?!have you read dirk gently's holistic detective agency?the man was close to genius with parody too.,
i thought the film was good,the first bit with the dolphins was unnecesary and trillian was poo and the sound was crap but other than that,good.the bit with the whale was done well too.

Terry Pratchett (http://www.terrypratchettbooks.com/)

The best thing about books in the It's So Insane That It Seems Sane genre is that there are UNFORGETTABLE characters. I am never going to forget characters like Wowbagger or Lu-Tze.

Hmm I'm more a fan of DEATH. But basicly I like all his books.
But I rather think lu-tze is one of his lesser characters. I recently readed the thief of time, and I liked it alot. Especially Myria Lejean
Lu-tze actually seems to be a slightly modified version of Rincewind don't you think.

In the 3rd Hitchhikers book, Life The Universe & Everything. When Arthur is talking to Ford when theyre stranded on Prehistoric Earth i said to myself "i think Martin Freeman would make a good Arthur Dent" and this was WAY before the movie even began pre-production. and guess who they chose as Arthur Dent??

Martin Freeman!!

Coincidence?
I Think Not.....

Coincidence?
I Think Not.....

god?

I like the scene when they start eating their towels on that planet . And they start descibring the flavors of the defrent parts on it.
But at least there is one other that didn't imagen that ford Prefect would gave been a black guy. No offence on black guys offcourse.

Are there any other authors like Terry Pratchett and Douglas Adams?

Well Terry Pratchett and Douglass Adams aren't exactly the same. But the Monty Phyton, and stuff like Black Adder comes close but thats yust British humor.

Robert Rankin I believe comes close to Adams and Pratchett, though he has his own individual style. Personally I tried one of his books and failed to finish it.

pratchett is god!!!!!!!!!!!! God i love those books, adams is ok the books seemed to me to be alot darker than the film. The producer seemed to want it to have a happy ending for one thing which the books DONT have but the whole way through it didnt seem as sarcastic as i took the books to be


orcot what about yes minister

actually I never saw that unfortunately. As a parady it's probebly better then: Thats my Bush, but for that matter pretty much anything is better.
On first sighed I would say that this lookes more like stiff british humor similare to you rang my lord then the absurd humor of pratchett and adams.

But who I'm I to judge.

I actually never read any books of Douglas adams, but I have/had (I'm not sure actually) the radio play on my coputer (viva Mirc)

"Yes Minister" is kind of satire, on the British state and how it is run. What makes it more entertaining is that it is quite close to how things were run in those days.

Well it certainly never aired in Belgium. Maybe afther they introduce digitale TV. Ack that thing will costs another 225 euro. And I don't even know if I can use it for more then 1 TV.
But right now they are replaying the black adders again. There at the 3de season right now and it's the first time I'm actually following them.

3rd season? I believe blackadder makes it to Belgium in the 4th series, though I cant remember. As for "yes minister", I dont know if many people outside the UK would get them at all. If you look on amazon you might be able to find the books of the tv series, which follow the series very closely.

Well the whole point on Black adder is that he never makes it to the top :p . But youre right that they do play the fourth season, during WWII I have seen some of them. But I never wreally followed it.

As for "yes minister", I dont know if many people outside the UK would get them at all. If you look on amazon you might be able to find the books of the tv series, which follow the series very closely.
Well, at least it is known in some parts of the Netherlands, where our cable providers present us BBC 1 and 2. I vaguely remember it being aired by a Dutch channel too, but i could be wrong.

Well, at the end of the 4th series, in WW1, not 2, Blackadder does make it to the top, kind of.
(I expect only people who have seen the show to know what i mean.)

What about Joseph Heller?

Heller? All I've read of his is "something happened". I would say that it and "Catch 22" are substantially different in outlook and culture from Adams et al. Possibly he had some influence on the later english writers, but I dont know.

guthrie it definitly doesnt just air in the UK. I live in australia and we get (occasionally) yes minister, that one with judy dench (and the guy who played the Admaral in tomorow never dies), black adder and heeps of other shows from the BBC British humor is SOOO much better than yanky humor (although mash is cool too)


Hey whats that TV program that was based on a department store???

Well the whole point on Black adder is that he never makes it to the top :p . But youre right that they do play the fourth season, during WWII I have seen some of them. But I never wreally followed it.
Actually, Edmund becomes the Prince of Wales in the third series after he swaps clothes with the real Prince in order to fight a duel. The real prince gets shot, the mad king sees Edmund as his own son, and that's that.
I found it rather interesting to see Edmund get progressively smarter and more cynical, and Baldrick getting dumber as time goes on. The first Baldrick was actually quite conniving.

Actually he's still quit smart in the beginning of the second season. But he's loosing his wit verry fast.

My favourite bit of the hitchhiker's guide is the bit in book 1 with the babel fish...incredibly funny!

rather short don't you think.
What did you think of the scene when beeblebrox was trown into the interstellar vortex, that would compare his ego with the entire size of the universe. And it turned out his ego was bigger. Loved that scene with the walk toward it.

<3 the books.

</3 the film.

The improbability drive seems a much more fun way to travel through space and time than say hyperdrive, the hitch hikers books are great also the TV series was good to and worth checking out even if just for novelty value.
Blackadder 4 was WW1 not WW2.

I'm about 50 pages into The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy.

Better late than never.