Thanks for this DB! 

@Ruckus  Your're welcome, dude, no problemo.

@Koog-meister   Rockwell qualifies as a dude perhaps?

@Koog-meister   Rockwell qualifies as a dude perhaps?

I would say so. Throw em on the list!

Fucking eh.

i suspect i will have to fire up the dvd player later tonight to enjoy the full movie now this thread has sparked my appetite

Its a great flick, zesty coitus with Trilian would be cool. Fuckin' eh!

agreed the film is flawed, not a patch on the original BBC series or even better the radio series (just worked out I must have been 8 when I first heard it), although I must admit you can't do any harm with the addition of Zooey.

The BBC Radio drama and Adam's books were British in flavor; British humor, British culture, British terminology - "like going Basil Stone round-a-bout on a moped." When Disney took it over (a decidedly American company) that changed the feel of the story to one strongly affected by American movie culture, but with an American attempt to leave in some of the British innuendo, so what they ended up with was a hy-brid movie of both cultures; that is to say American actors and American style trying to cope with and deliver some humorous British culture and view point.

It worked to some degree, but if you were like me, someone who has listened to the BBC radio drama for years, it took some getting used to. You could almost say the movie was only "inspired by" Douglas Adam's books and the BBC drama, but it was more than just inspired by it given that the movie did adhere to much of the, as meekon5 points out, itinerant fiddling of Adam's, who was famous for re-writing key elements of the story line after they had been published or performed.

Yes, there were British actors in the movie; but the fact of the American influence in it's production had a profound affect on what the final theater offering was. It's an American version of a strongly British story. I chock it up as another chapter in the now classic Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy franchise and history.

  Have to say; one thing they got right, the female form, Trillian.........

See - http://spacewiki.com/Trillian_%28Tricia_McMillan%29



Also check out - http://books.google.com/books/about/The_Hitchhiker_s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy.html?id=zhOCPwAACAAJ

A typical British round-a-bout...........




.....This is all just like my opinion, man.

DB Note; only Douglas Adams could come up with something like an "SEP" ...the "Somebody Else's Problem" field. See - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somebody_Else%27s_Problem

SEP field works for me all the time.

Fuckin' eh!