Heretical thoughts

[Yellow Fang]

Contrary to received wisdom, I think the TV version of Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy was better than the radio series. It had the joke about the cow that wanted to be eaten, as well as the rock star who was being dead for a year for tax reasons.

Also, I did not think Laurence Olivier was a great screen actor. He was either so 'good', he made everyone else look wooden, or else so restrained he seemed wooden himself. The only role I thought he was good in was the dentist in Marathon Man.

What other heretical thoughts do you have?

 

[Profpointy]

Contrary to received wisdom, I think the TV version of Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy was better than the radio series. It had the joke about the cow that wanted to be eaten, as well as the rock star who was being dead for a year for tax reasons.

Also, I did not think Laurence Olivier was a great screen actor. He was either so 'good', he made everyone else look wooden, or else so restrained he seemed wooden himself. The only role I thought he was good in was the dentist in Marathon Man.

What other heretical thoughts do you have?

Disagree on Hitchikers', the original was and is the best. Caught it first time round from episode 2 and after a "wtf is this?" moment have been a fan ever since. Was lucky to seem Adams do the opening speech at the mobile ohone conference, not long before his untimely passing. Wasn't just jokes and fun but a serious insight into out industry - he was himself a bit of a gadget nerd. Certainly made Branson's speech at the same event seem very feeble.

Party agree on Olivier - but he's also good in Sleuth, and maybe Rebecca. His dick 3 is a feeble thing these days compared with McKellern's or any number of stage versions I've seen.

 

[ianrauk]

Bladerunner the movie is the height of boredom.

 

[Profpointy]

Bladerunner the movie is the height of boredom.

now that's just contrary and silly rahter than heretical

 

[Chromatic]

Pulp Fiction, utter shite.

 

[captain nemo1701]

Contrary to received wisdom, I think the TV version of Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy was better than the radio series. It had the joke about the cow that wanted to be eaten, as well as the rock star who was being dead for a year for tax reasons.

Also, I did not think Laurence Olivier was a great screen actor. He was either so 'good', he made everyone else look wooden, or else so restrained he seemed wooden himself. The only role I thought he was good in was the dentist in Marathon Man.

What other heretical thoughts do you have?

There are many different versions of HHG, but for me the original radio series is the best. The TV version only covered the first radio series and is very good, following the radio show closely with some minor changes eg. Radio series ended with them nicking ship belonging to a super-evolutionary alien. TV series altered it to a stage prop used by the band 'Disaster Area' diving through a star. Disaster Area are modelled on Pink Floyd, who were mates with Adams and they got him on stage in 1994 to play with them at Earls Court (Pulse tour) - he was 42 at the time. There's also a Floyd reference on the double album version, for those who still have it on vinyl ("Ford, that robot can hum like Pink Floyd" line). The movie however, is utter Dingo's kidneys (ie cr*p).

My other heretical thoughts are:

The Office wasn't funny.
Football is boring and there's nowt exciting about watching millionaires kicking a bag of air around a lawn.
Coronation Street is way, way beyond it's sell by date.

 

[ianrauk]

now that's just contrary and silly rahter than heretical

LOL, I knew it wouldn't take long.

 

[raleighnut]

Pink Floyd were utterly crap once Roger Waters left.

 

[MiK1138]

Bob Geldolf's vocals in Pink Floyd The Wall movie are much better than Roger Waters on the Album

 

[Dave 123]

Kate Bush. Wailing cow.

 

[shouldbeinbed]

The Beatles are s**te

 

[jefmcg]

Pulp Fiction, utter shite.

My heresy: Pulp Fiction is the last good movie that Tarantino made. Goddamn, hate Jackie Brown.

HHGttG: everyone (who likes it) likes it best in the form they first experienced it. So, for me that is the radio series, for others the books, for some the TV series. I doubt anyone got into it via the movie, which was not good.

Saw Douglas Adams live a long time ago. Very pleasant, but still remember him telling an urban myth as a true story that happened to him. He later included it in a book.

 

[jefmcg]

Also

Terminator is a better film than Terminator II. In fact, T2 ruins the perfect circle of T1.

The Black Adder is better than Blackadder II.

 

[MontyVeda]

Pink Floyd were utterly crap once Roger Waters Syd Barret left.

FTFY

 

[Inertia]

Stanley Kubrick was overrated