Who's read "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" by Douglas Adams?

Question

And how do you think it compares to the movies (older or remake)?

Answer 1

OK, there's always got to be at least one crackpot to answer every question, and I guess I'm it for this one. I have read the book and seen the movie. Yes, I would say that the book is better than the movie, but that is true in most cases. However, (and here's where the crackpot part comes in) I did like the movie as well. There, I admitted it! Granted, it could probably have been better, but I enjoyed it nonetheless. The problem with book vs movie is that with a book, you have a basic description of things and places and events, and then the rest is up to your imagination. In a movie, the imagination part is basically taken away, and you're dealing with someone else's 'vision' of what happened or how things happened. And "never the twain shall meet", as they say. So, I liked both book and movie, and now I'm gonna get the heck outta here before I get strung up by my toes!

Answer 2

I think the most current movie did a good job of trying to present the story well, although I think the love angle seemed a bit forced. I was surprised to learn that it was more part of Douglas Adams original radio scripts that were forerunners of the books themselves.

The books though, are much better than the movie (or any movies probably could be) since there is so much humor in the very language and how the books are written. Much of it is kind of intellectual and told from a narrator's point of view which is charming in the book, but inevitably slows down any movie.

Another problem with the movie is that the plot itself is not as funny visually as it is in narrative. Basically the idea that the Earth is destroyed (and then gets "remade"), is ironic and funny when someone tells you about it, but its not quite humourous when you see the thing actually happening. Also the movie has the Earth being rebuilt (people and everything), by the end while it took three books to build up to that which worked a lot better.

Answer 3

The original script was for a radio play on BBC. Later it was made into a TV series. It became so popular, it was then spun off into many forms.

The most recent movie disappointed me, but I'm a purist. There is a great CD collection of the books, read by original cast members and including an interview with Douglas Adams. Well worth obtaining.

edited to add: the radio series came BEFORE the book.

Answer 4

confident, I liked the e book, and confident i presumed it exchange into humorous... in certainty sometimes it made me snort out loud, enormously on the commencing up... even although, although I had appeared in any respect 3 books that are meant to make up a trilogy with the "Hitchhiker's instruction manual," i presumed the only e book exchange into sufficient for me and returned the others to the library unread. i'm going to have missed some thing rather sturdy, yet have heard considering that e book #2 is okay, yet e book #3 would desire to be skipped-- so i think I did very properly. It exchange into exciting, and "the instruction manual" seems to have elderly properly!

Answer 5

the movies were terrible, the book was way more in-depth than the movies. if they truely wanted to make a GOOD movie based on the book it would have been at least 5 hours long.
book all the way

Answer 6

well, i read the trilogy (then, later, quadrology) about 20 years ago and i really don't see how ANY movie could encompass the scope of the books.

more directly, i think that, while i quite enjoyed the books, the movies sucked it.

Answer 7

I did when I was in high school. I think the book was much better than the movie!!

Answer 8

I did enjoy the most recent movie; however, the cinema in your head while you read the trilogy is unbeatable!

Answer 9

I wasted almost 2 hours watching the piece of crap movie - you think I am gonna waste more reading the book?

Answer 10

yes and the movie was not as good.