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Message 7 of 29 (204246)
05-02-2005 5:32 AM 		Reply to: Message 1 by Yaro
05-01-2005 8:27 PM

only slightly disappointed
but then again i haven't read the books in a while. maybe it's time to again.
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They did tack on a cheesy love story though. I could have done without that.
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must have skipped a book towards the end of the series. one of them is ALL love story. well, love story, and some flying.
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i'm sort of disappointed that they had to stick it in in case the later movies aren't made. what i'm even more disappointed about were the jokes they took out.
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where was the second half of the babelfish joke, regarding god, logic, and intelligent design? where were the monkeys and their script for hamlet? and wasn't there a bit on magrathea about putting dinosaur bones into the planets to mess with us old-earthers? i guess they took out all of the religion/creationism jokes. i'm hoping for a director's cut with them in it...
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also, zaphod's appearance did throw me off.
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05-02-2005 1:12 PM 		Reply to: Message 12 by Andya Primanda
05-02-2005 10:25 AM

The cheesy love story, so not DNA
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am i the only who (somewhat vaguely) remembers mostly harmless?
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05-02-2005 1:35 PM 		Reply to: Message 15 by gnojek
05-02-2005 1:32 PM

I don't care how well a movie sticks to a book, so that's not why I was disappointed.
I just thught the movie should have been funnier and wittier than it was.
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agreed. there were several opportunities for jokes that they just missed.
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05-02-2005 1:36 PM 		Reply to: Message 16 by Wounded King
05-02-2005 1:34 PM

I think you mean, 'So Long And Thanks For All The Fish'.
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i might, yes. like i said, been a long time.
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05-06-2005 2:45 AM 		Reply to: Message 23 by Tusko
05-05-2005 9:33 AM

I thought that Marvin was inappropriately cute, even if the costume was cool.
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i thought the exact opposite.
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i thought the whole brain-size thing was a figure of speech.
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05-06-2005 7:15 AM 		Reply to: Message 25 by Tusko
05-06-2005 4:34 AM

well, as in i always thought marvin was kind of meant to be endearing. maybe not overly cute -- but that's mostly because of the costume. i mean, he was like a 50's retro-futuristic teddy bear. giant heads connotate babies, and babies are cute.
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fix the proportion issues, the bad level of cuteness goes away.
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05-06-2005 7:36 AM 		Reply to: Message 27 by Wounded King
05-06-2005 7:22 AM

he'd be sort of terrifying if it weren't for the depressed harmless personality.
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i mean, giant babies and teddy bears are downright CREEPY!
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