Subj : Re: Hitchhikers Guide
To   : Sniper
From : Finnigann
Date : Tue May 31 2005 07:12 am

-=> With interpidation and the MAGIC of QWK Mail Sniper wrote to Angus Mcleod
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 -=> Angus Mcleod wrote to Finnigann <=-

 AM>   Re: Hitchhikers Guide
 AM>   By: Finnigann to All on Mon May 30 2005 01:54:00

 > The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
 >
 > Is great. My son and I had the entire theater to ourselves. We laughed out
 > loud many times. (British humor, ya gotta love it).

 AM> Goody!  I heard the reviewers say it wasn't all that funny.

 AM> Yanqui reviewers, I assume -- no sense of humour.

 > I give it a ten out of four stars.

 AM> Can't wait!

 Sn> It wasn't great, but, I liked it.  It Kinda, sorta, followed the
 Sn> book... For the most part, but, no movie has ever done a book
 Sn> justice.

 Sn> The comedy portions were good... but even then, if you haven't
 Sn> read the book, alot of it will probably go over your head.

 Sn> After the movie, I was talking to some other viewers and they
 Sn> thought it sucked, and after further questioning, found they
 Sn> hadn't read the book. They couldn't keep up with the twists and
 Sn> turns.  My family also didn't like it.  They didn't understand it
 Sn> at all.  :)

 Sn> I wouldn't give it such a high rating, maybe 3 1/2 out of 5
 Sn> stars.  Some of the CGI stuff was pretty good, but overall, there
 Sn> were just too many missing parts that explained some of the major
 Sn> portions better.

                                                           
Well did you have the entire theater to your self? It makes a
difference.

I have not read DA's book... what is the title of the other book? I read
parts of that one I think, it was so long ago. Anyway. I knew enough to
'enjoy' but not enough to 'expect'

It was a delightful afternoon.




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