God's Not Dead

It's been a while since I've read that book.

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... I don't think I ever managed that. Adams isn't on my list of favourite writers, but purely by cultural osmosis, is the answer to that question still 42?

Yep. The Ultimate Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything is 42. It's the Question that no one knows.

Bah. Everyone knows that question. It's the first question, the oldest question in the universe, hidden in plain sight.

Doctor Who? Doctor Who? DOCTOR WHO!!!

edited 7th May '14 4:39:42 AM by TamH70

Actually, t'is older and more mysterious by far.

What do you get when you multiply six by nine?

Of course, don't you know anything about ALCHEMY?!- Twin clones of Ivan the Great

I always thought it was How many roads must a man walk down?

Arthur just pulled that out of his ass so the mice wouldn't cut out his brain. Mine is what the Earth generated on it's own.

Of course, don't you know anything about ALCHEMY?!- Twin clones of Ivan the Great

No, that's what you get when all the idiots from Golgafrinchan (Spelling?) crash on Earth and replace the people who were supposed to figure out the question. It's amazing that something relatively coherent came out of it, but it's still not very useful.

Not Three Laws compliant.

The Question and the Answer are mutually exclusive. If they were both known at the same time, they would cancel each other out and take the Universe with them, which would be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. Of course, there's a theory that this has already happened.

A least in the H 2 G 2 universe, God did leave a final message for His creation, in thiry-foot tall fiery letters.

edited 7th May '14 7:48:03 AM by Lawyerdude

What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly.

I thought God didn't exist in the HHGTG universe? Didn't the babel fish disprove his existence?

edited 7th May '14 10:08:44 AM by DrDougsh

I don't know how much I'd trust a proof from somebody who also tried to prove that black is white. Although I do regret learning that "Zebra crossing" means "crosswalk" and not a place on the road where herds of zebras regularly cross. There's just something inherently hilarious about being stampeded by a herd of zebras crossing the road.

Well, obviously it wouldn't be funny if it happened to me or somebody I liked.

edited 7th May '14 10:46:38 AM by Lawyerdude

What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly.

What ?! I thought that too! Aww

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I...I spent a good twentieth of my childhood trying to understand that joke.

Holy hell.

Fire, air, water, earth...legend has it that when these four elements are gathered, they will form the fifth element...boron.

Shoulda checked the British English page.

Schild und Schwert der Partei

I was too busy being six.

Fire, air, water, earth...legend has it that when these four elements are gathered, they will form the fifth element...boron.

That's the best retort I've ever seen

In all honesty, back when I first read the book, I didn't even know there was anything but the book series (the 200X-released movie notwithstanding). I had no idea there was a radio show, TV series, video game, etc. I thought the books were the big thing.

I should probably reread it, though, especially since I haven't read the rest of the series yet either.

edited 7th May '14 2:18:02 PM by Odd1

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So has anyone here actually seen the movie?

What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly.

What about Pelican Crossings? Just mention THOSE to a six year old.

The Hitchhiker's Guide movie? I haven't, but I've heard mixed things about it.

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It's a decent adaptation. Doesn't follow the first book to the letter, but it does an OK job.

Actually I was wondering if anybody here has actually seen "God's Not Dead". But yes, I did like the Hitchhiker's Guide movie, despite its variants from the source. I also saw the BBC series and read all the books up through "Mostly Harmless". I haven't listened to the radio series though. Although when adapting the Guide series to another format, you can excuse variations because the Guide universe includes parallel and alternate realities as well as Unreliable Narrators. So who's to say which version is "right"? Heck, in-universe, the Guide itself contains much that is apocryphal, or at least wildly inaccurate.

edited 7th May '14 8:41:39 PM by Lawyerdude

What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly.

From what I've heard, Adams cowrote the script himself before he kicked the bucket, and I'm generally not too averse to adaptations that change things up for a different medium if they're explicitly signed off on by the author, not unless they outright ruin it. From what I've heard, there's nothing too terribly blasphemous about the movie, so that's definitely a good thing

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The problem with the H 2 G 2 movie isn't that it deviates from the other versions (that's just tradition); the problem with it is that it isn't funny. There is exactly one good joke: on the Vogon homeworld, anyone who has an idea gets hit on the back of the head with a flyswatter. The rest of it is just blargh. It hits a bunch of the standard points (Infinite Improbability Drive, Marvin, Magrathea, so long and thanks for all the fish), but sucks all the humour out of the situations. It's simultaneously too straight and too gurning for a laugh. It's like watching a boring person rattle through half-remembered Monty Python sketches, as if just saying the right words in the right order and remembering all the catchphrases will make them any less tedious.

It's very much like an American remake of a British TV series.

The guy who plays Ford is OK. Casting an American for that part (and for Zaphod... basically, all the 'cool' aliens can work as Americans) was actually a pretty good idea. But overall, the thing just didn't work: the script was too weak, and the actors weren't good enough to save it (they would have had to have been great to have done so).

edited 8th May '14 3:21:47 AM by imadinosaur

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

I'm trying to think of who's in it, but all I can remember is Zooey Deschanel as Trillian, if I remember correctly?

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Now to be fair to the movie, the flyswatter joke was really fucking hilarious.

Oh really when?