@MichaelKingsfordGray Yeah, it is sad what they did to those women - www.npr.org/2017/03/24/521360544/the-supreme-court-ruling-that-led-to-70-000-forced-sterilizations. That is why I use the word carefully.
@@Dinonumber depends on what you are talking about? Originally I was commenting on how the yarn dimension was one of the best dimensions that the improbability drive would go though.
@@Dinonumber I can barely remember what I write from week to week, it is actually kind of nice to see a comment get brought up from that long ago. Can't remember, deleted, not much difference.
Yeah, well, just try to find your luggage after a long trip! (Trust me, it's not worth it, and what you do find, ain't the same luggage you started with, worse than Heathrow during Christmastime. Just make certain you keep your towel with you, don't even put it in the carry on bin!)
Every version of this, the radio show, the bbc mini series and this movie were wtitten by him. The reason , he said, that they are always different from the book is that he forgets about certain points and just goes with it.
Candy Chan If you know how to really use your budget you can do really amazing things, for example Repo the genetic opera had 8 mil, it still looked great, great effects, props, and costumes.
It doesnt go from point a to point b it pops out of the universe then pops back in anywhere you want it to and at any universal time in the universe and is interdimensional but it's not without its limit based on your ships hulls you still wouldnt get the whole universe, as in you cant go to every dimension or anywhere you want in the universe
Honestly, I preferred the trippy dreamlike moments of improbability described in the book and shown in the 1981 BBC tv adaptation, where it looks like they’re at beach of Southend England only the sea stay steady as a rock while the buildings wash up and down, Arthur loses his legs and left arm and Ford turns into a penguin. This was a missed opportunity to use CGI for a scene like that.
star wars: they jump into hyper space to travel between stars star trek: they create a warp bubble that allow them to fold the space around the spaceship. Dune: they use a drug to put the spaceship into a vision of utter weirdness so bizarre that the universe, dumbfounded, agrees with the ship warhammer: they travels thorought the hell itself to cross the galaxy hitchhinker's guide to the galaxy:
Well I disagree. If you expected the film to be made exactly the same as the television show that preceeded it by almost 25 years, then you were always going to be disappointed. Plus it would've been slammed as it wouldn't have tired to do anything new and stuck with how the tv series was made. And anyway, you shouldn't be comparing it to the television series, you should be comparing it to the original book. And in that respect, it was good.
The radio plays were different than the books. The TV show was different than the radio plays. The movie was different than the TV shows. Adams did this on purpose, because he liked screwing with his audience.
Actually improbability drive is possible, since everything is a probability wave and you can instantly pop into end of the universe(very low probability)..
Oh I wouldn't say that. He wrote most of it, and a lot of his spirit is kept in the film, the sofa gag, the guns, the guide entries are exactly the same. A lot of visual elements like the vogons run along the lines of an Adamish joke, the crushed up characters of politicians.
It also gives life to the Sun, which then gets killed by a professional maniac and causes the sky to turn red, forcing Jesus to restore normality manually.
I hear alot about how the TV series was better than the movie and the movie screwed up this and that or just screw up. I've seen the TVseries and I do think it's a little better, but I also think the movie did a very good job at not only bringing the vision to the big screen but also adapting the series into something that is acceptable for general audiences. although i think they could have done a little better with the dialog, but if it was a direct adaptation then it wouldn't be for everyone
@bazookoidben Not really of politicians, but of these miserable little men, who generally work for govorment agencies, who spend their entire lives in a cheap suit, filling out pointless forms and making sure everybody else is as miserable as they are
The Hitchhiker's Guide is a comedy. The big problem with the film was that it failed to understand most of the humour, and thus wasn't very funny. Therefore it pretty much failed at what was most important. Judging something like Hitchhiker's based purely on its visuals is very odd, that's not really what it's about.
Same here. I'm not that familiar with books (or radio plays) so I guess I wasn't too attached to the original source material. I thought it was very enjoyable. There's several jokes from it I still remember clearly (even though I saw the movie once 15 years which is a good sign. One in particular, the unexpected drop out of the airlock, I'd rank as one of my favourite visual gags ever.
@bimmjim I disagree. I was disappointed at the adaptation of Deep Thought also, but it did everything else much better. The sense of an alien (if you'll pardon the pun) and unfamiliar setting came across much better than in the television show, which just seemed like a cheap sixth form production of the book that dragged on far too long. The actors in the film were also so much better than those in the tv series.
Mr. Steal Yo Girl the Heart of Gold is basically a ship that can (with the improbability drive) can go at infinite speeds, arriving at literally any destination instantantly, whether it would be the nearest planet or the nearest galactic supercluster. The reason why you see random things when the ship arrives at a destination is because it just went through multiple different dimensions/realities.
The TV series was much better than this more recent movie version. This version really screwed up the part about the turning on ceremony of the computer called Deep Thought.
That transition of Arthur throwing up yarn and seeing his hand become human in that take, was amazing.
Looks like at the scene cut, he's wearing a wool glove. Pretty clever!
at the very least its only yard that you'd have to cleanup. no stinky acrid cocktail of digested food/drink.
gredangeo ドクターフー ❓
Corwin Waldron yeah, you look closely you can see him pulling his arm out of the glove.
Good eye!
I love that in the credits there’s a person credited for the crochet.
That’s my favorite part of the film!!
They knew what was important.
that was a lot of crochet work to be done so they better have gotten a spot in the credits
And a wonderful game it is too, if you have the balls for it....
@@TheArcher101 I understood that reference
The transition between yarn puppets and normality is perfectly smooth.
That point where the yarn in his mouth ended was smooth because of the pints!
Or we should say
Its perfectly "normal"
"Normality, we can talk about that until the cows come home,"
"What is normal?"
"What is home?"
"WHAT'S A COW?"
Magrathea!
No, this is Vogsphere.
@@michaelgreenwood3413 *No, this is a Gigantic baseball*
The improbability drive is still my favorite take on interstellar travel.
Ford, you're turning into a penguin. Stop it.
Peengueen
The entire chapter of that first Infinite Improbability Drive was such a trip
0:19 the chillest reaction to being turned into a sofa 😂😂😂
Well, for like two seconds lol
Good posture, relaxing, I bet for the time it lasted those two felt sofa king good
I remember that there was an ad from a toy magazine and they were selling plush versions of the characters. Now I really want to order a Marvin plush.
I hope that he says depressing quotes when you press his hand
This is one of those movies where you show people random scenes out of context just to see their confused reactions XD
That's how I got here.
There is no context to this movie or the books. They just exist
Did you know the DVD actually comes with an Improbability Drive option in the menu that sends you to a random scene?
Thank you Douglas Adams for my favorite type of FTL propulsion. I keep imagining Star Trek ships and crews dealing with an improbability drive.
A Picard plush. "Make it sew."
I think that happened and turn into Orville.
@@Nighthawke70 Tea Earl Grey.
@@druunderwood5602 The Orville isn't a parody. It's a Bulgarian Ripoff you find in a Salvation Army bin for a dollar.
When they turn into yarn is one of my favorite movie scenes of all time. I love how he says "Is that going to happen very time we push that button?"
Improbably drive from madness combat in Star Wars
The concept of the Improbability drive is from madness combat, something hitchhikers guide to the galaxy would shamelessly steal 24 years earlier
"Ah, I think the Earth-man's about to be sick."
The Improbability Drive... a good way to spend a Friday night.
I always loved the yarn dimension it looks so inviting and cozy
very probably we've hit some kind of inter-dimensional loop
@MichaelKingsfordGray Yeah, it is sad what they did to those women - www.npr.org/2017/03/24/521360544/the-supreme-court-ruling-that-led-to-70-000-forced-sterilizations. That is why I use the word carefully.
What the hell happened here?
@@Dinonumber depends on what you are talking about? Originally I was commenting on how the yarn dimension was one of the best dimensions that the improbability drive would go though.
Yeah four years ago, then yesterday someone called you a moron. It feels like years of discourse have been deleted
@@Dinonumber I can barely remember what I write from week to week, it is actually kind of nice to see a comment get brought up from that long ago. Can't remember, deleted, not much difference.
I kinda love the infinite improbability drive.
I need it
@@TheEmeraldMenOfficial
we all need the hhgttg universe irl
Yeah, well, just try to find your luggage after a long trip! (Trust me, it's not worth it, and what you do find, ain't the same luggage you started with, worse than Heathrow during Christmastime. Just make certain you keep your towel with you, don't even put it in the carry on bin!)
Yeah Infinite speed but crazy Things
Every time someone tries to do one of those long memes with a bunch of random references, I assume they use the Infinite Improbability Drive.
Now you mentioned it, I can't stop thinking about wanting a Marvin plushie, and it need to come with Alan Rickman's Voice!
Well, seeing as how Douglas Adams wrote the movie, I'd say it's a more accurate version, seeing as how he made the changes himself.
Every version of this, the radio show, the bbc mini series and this movie were wtitten by him. The reason , he said, that they are always different from the book is that he forgets about certain points and just goes with it.
I had no idea they were all written by him my mind has been blown
There’s no such thing as an accurate version. All the versions start diverging near the end of the Magrathea sequence and they’re all equally valid.
I thought he died years before the movie was made
Of course an in-book explanation would be: It's happening somewhere down the dimensional axis.
_Ford?_
Yes?
_I think I’m a sofa._
I know how you feel.
@@optillian4182 AAAUUUUUGH AAAUUUUUGH
0:49 is such a cool in-camera effect
Plushie Marvin is just adorable :3
In all probability, the only scene that didn't go completely over my head when I first watched this.
I was like 9 years old, okay?
Two of my favourite scenes from this film.
Better than Fifty Shades of Shit. No seriously, its budget is around the same amount as Fifty Shades and it looks better.
Candy Chan If you know how to really use your budget you can do really amazing things, for example Repo the genetic opera had 8 mil, it still looked great, great effects, props, and costumes.
BudokaiMan 1200 Never seen the film but I want to see it so badly.
that's....random
What's worse is you can't recycle or throw those books out because of the material it's made from.
This has to be one of my favorite things in the books and the movie XD
That last shot... So awsome
Best Way to Travel
You still cant go everywhere in the universe with or every dimension or every alternate dimension
I just realized that Brit is also Bilbo.
they look cute as yarn lol
I SO want a Marvin plushie...
one of my favorite scenes in the movie!! LMAO
this and the falling whaile =)
I was brought here by Everything, Everywhere, All At Once.
The yarn scene is kinda trippy
0:40 I want a doll of Marvin! 8D He looks SO CUTE!
@MichaelKingsfordGray Thank you for contributing absolutely nothing relevant to the conversation.
It doesnt go from point a to point b it pops out of the universe then pops back in anywhere you want it to and at any universal time in the universe and is interdimensional but it's not without its limit based on your ships hulls you still wouldnt get the whole universe, as in you cant go to every dimension or anywhere you want in the universe
Well ya since the universe is infinite you can't be everywhere. Just places marked.
"I think I'm a sofa." heheh
bestest movie ever!
(:
did it work? are we there?
Honestly, I preferred the trippy dreamlike moments of improbability described in the book and shown in the 1981 BBC tv adaptation, where it looks like they’re at beach of Southend England only the sea stay steady as a rock while the buildings wash up and down, Arthur loses his legs and left arm and Ford turns into a penguin. This was a missed opportunity to use CGI for a scene like that.
I just realized that on the first one al the oohs and aahs were some form of chair and they were sofas
Even though many aspects of the movie was pretty lame, these scenes were gold though.
This is why this is my favourite film.
"I know how you feel" 🤣
"Ahhhhhhhh!"
Their ship looks so much like a Saccorhytus.
star wars: they jump into hyper space to travel between stars
star trek: they create a warp bubble that allow them to fold the space around the spaceship.
Dune: they use a drug to put the spaceship into a vision of utter weirdness so bizarre that the universe, dumbfounded, agrees with the ship
warhammer: they travels thorought the hell itself to cross the galaxy
hitchhinker's guide to the galaxy:
Well I disagree. If you expected the film to be made exactly the same as the television show that preceeded it by almost 25 years, then you were always going to be disappointed. Plus it would've been slammed as it wouldn't have tired to do anything new and stuck with how the tv series was made.
And anyway, you shouldn't be comparing it to the television series, you should be comparing it to the original book. And in that respect, it was good.
The radio plays were different than the books. The TV show was different than the radio plays. The movie was different than the TV shows. Adams did this on purpose, because he liked screwing with his audience.
IamTheWillrus: The radio series came before the books, actually.
And the computer game was different from all other versions. It is now canon that no two versions of the Hitchhiker's Guide can be exactly the same.
Now I gotta vomit yarn
In the third book, Life the Universe and Everything, we learn why the bowl of petunias said "Oh no. Not again." See page 95 of 161.
Poor Agrajag.
What a great Texas Switch.
OMG! 0:42 Look at marvin!! XDD
0:35 The K-Factor! (From TV burp!)
One of my biggest regrets in life was not buying the tie-in yarn figures from this movie...
Ah, i get it. Normality, what is normal present as "reality". This isn't to say that this is how the objects are really, but how they are normally. :D
Somewhere, there's a crochet Marvin the Paranoid Android doll and I WANT IT
Is it ironic that I got an ad with Stephen Fry in it with this
Missed the part where the two missiles turned into a bowl flowers and a "surprise looking whale"
That's what I was doing. I wasn't talking about the TV series.
Quantum Physics at it's finest. Heh heh!
Me too! : D
"aw, c'mon"
Whim whim whim improbably
Actually improbability drive is possible, since everything is a probability wave and you can instantly pop into end of the universe(very low probability)..
Great movie
Great shroom movie
Take a seat we are going places.
Oh I wouldn't say that. He wrote most of it, and a lot of his spirit is kept in the film, the sofa gag, the guns, the guide entries are exactly the same. A lot of visual elements like the vogons run along the lines of an Adamish joke, the crushed up characters of politicians.
Could've been worse. Could've been turned into Ashen's sofa. You'd feel so dirty and used.
"we have normality" then 2020 happened 😐
little big planet voice :)
Does the Improbability Drive teleport them but also turn them into various objects?
was that John Watson's actor from Sherlock?
yes, it's Martin Freeman - Bilbo Baggins from The Hobbit-Movies aswell.
And... the other guy from the Cornetto Trilogy.
And from "Love Actually"
agolloh
takes you wherever you don't want to be
It also gives life to the Sun, which then gets killed by a professional maniac and causes the sky to turn red, forcing Jesus to restore normality manually.
I hear alot about how the TV series was better than the movie and the movie screwed up this and that or just screw up. I've seen the TVseries and I do think it's a little better, but I also think the movie did a very good job at not only bringing the vision to the big screen but also adapting the series into something that is acceptable for general audiences. although i think they could have done a little better with the dialog, but if it was a direct adaptation then it wouldn't be for everyone
@hulk239239 we all want a sock puppet Marvin.
@bazookoidben Not really of politicians, but of these miserable little men, who generally work for govorment agencies, who spend their entire lives in a cheap suit, filling out pointless forms and making sure everybody else is as miserable as they are
normality? I am not sure if I even know what that means anymore.
THIS SHIT WAS WRITTEN BY STONERS
The Hitchhiker's Guide is a comedy. The big problem with the film was that it failed to understand most of the humour, and thus wasn't very funny. Therefore it pretty much failed at what was most important. Judging something like Hitchhiker's based purely on its visuals is very odd, that's not really what it's about.
No flowers??
I don't know why this movie got panned. I thought it was pretty damn funny. I don't care if it isn't that close to the original.
Same here. I'm not that familiar with books (or radio plays) so I guess I wasn't too attached to the original source material. I thought it was very enjoyable. There's several jokes from it I still remember clearly (even though I saw the movie once 15 years which is a good sign. One in particular, the unexpected drop out of the airlock, I'd rank as one of my favourite visual gags ever.
It's pretty damn close to me. I enjoyed it somewhat.
LOL!
My cat does the same thing.
マーヴィンが可愛い。
(ﾉ≧▽≦)ﾉ
@bimmjim I disagree. I was disappointed at the adaptation of Deep Thought also, but it did everything else much better. The sense of an alien (if you'll pardon the pun) and unfamiliar setting came across much better than in the television show, which just seemed like a cheap sixth form production of the book that dragged on far too long. The actors in the film were also so much better than those in the tv series.
@hulk239239 they have them online-
Why does this sound like LBP
yeah the movie was good. I liked it. though I know certain aholes who hated it just beacuse they could
I'm scared
Wonder how they made the wool scene?
Stop Motion.
i hope they dont turn in big ass piece of shit XD
im so fucking confused
Mr. Steal Yo Girl the Heart of Gold is basically a ship that can (with the improbability drive) can go at infinite speeds, arriving at literally any destination instantantly, whether it would be the nearest planet or the nearest galactic supercluster. The reason why you see random things when the ship arrives at a destination is because it just went through multiple different dimensions/realities.
@bimmjim really
I still like ludicrous speed better.
They went to plad.
This about the only funny scene of the remake. Its classic though
Not a movie remake. But a remake of a tv series.
@bimmjim HEY MAN!!!! 42!!!
The TV series was much better than this more recent movie version. This version really screwed up the part about the turning on ceremony of the computer called Deep Thought.
Every time I think of atheists and their Brute Fact Universe bable I think of this clip from the movie. LOL
i don't know why i hate the word athesist for some reaso n
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thay shude don the ship like the book runing she shape and vogon yellow and luppy not borge cube shape