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Originally Posted by philandjan
. . . (whoever thought that HHGTTG could ever be put onto a screen, big or small, failed miserably) . . .
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Originally Posted by JSWolf
I've seen both the movie and the TV serial and I didn't care for the movie, but I did like the TV serial.
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I'll go further than Jon. Although the budget for special effects was only a nickle ninety-eight, the TV show nailed it. The actors had their roles down pat and the writing was so stellar (no pun intended) that the pitiful make-up and sets were easily overlooked. The big-budget Disney movie sucked. Marvin, especially, was a let-down on the big screen. He was cute. Marvin should not be presented as cute. In the TV show he was big, clunky, and looked perpetually depressed, which is how the Paranoid Android should look. I also didn't care for the liberties the movie took with the established story line.
BTW, have you listened to the radio series? As I'm sure you know, the radio series predated even the books.