>>The big disappointment was the Hitchhiker's Guide movie, but not unexpected. It was so properly Disneyfied (and of course, the "and disappeared in a puff of logic" was amputated)... the only real pleasure came from one really funny moment, and then from the fact that daughter and I were the only one in the audience who laughed :).
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>The problem with trying to do HGTTG is that most of what's great about the book is the way Adams writes. It's the little things and the way he says things that make it great. Sure the plot matters, but not nearly as much as his art. And that is pretty much uncapturable in a movie.

Oh it could be captured in a movie - the BBC series was spot on. It can't be done in a Hollywood movie, too many money constraints, too many times to show the latest Nokla cell phone three meters big, Disneyfy anything that's too unfitting the prescribed size... generally, euthanize the spirit and keep the action. Should be taught at the film academies as a sure fire way to make some money, not too much, and generally P'off millions of fans.