5/3     Just watched the HHGTTG movie.  Brilliant.
        \_ I love the fact that kais motd has classified your post under
           academia/gradschool.
           \_ Yeah there weren't enough context on the subject, so it went
              down to the stupid Berkeley grad student thread below. I love
              down to the stupid Berkeley grd studnt thread below. I love
              how people start one topic and other stupid people start a
              completely different topic.                               -k
              \_ "watched ... movie"  isn't enough context?
                \_ It's enough but the stuff below pollutes the result
        \_ You're kidding, right?  Either you have criminally bad taste, or
           you are so blinded by the geek Koolaid that you are beyond hope.
           That shit was worse than Episode II.  More childhood memories
           tainted by Hollywood slime.
           \_ Whatever.  I enjoyed the books and my 1st printing of "Mostly
              Harmless" was signed by Adams when he visited Cody's.  I don't
              remember the books well enough to remember what vaguely was
              called plot, but I thought the movie did a good job of tying the
              jokes together with an actual plot.  The account of the whale was
              spot on, and the guide was great. -op
              \_ No, nothing about this movie was "great."  It failed utterly
                 to work as a movie, and worst of all it wasn't even funny.
                 I cracked a few smiles but never once laughed.  Standard
                 Hollywood pap.  I suppose you're going to run right out and
                 catch "The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl In 3D" that
                 was advertised before the show?
                 \_ So, do you have any argument other than "was not!"?
                    \_ I don't need one.  The movie makes Ishtar look decent.
           \_ Them's what makes horse races.
           \_ Having talked to many people, I see a strong correlation between
              people who loved/hated it and people who didn't read/read the
              book. It's like the Berkeley phenomenon, where grad students
              from 3rd world countries thought the quality of Berkeley housing
              was decent, whereas grad students from average American
              suburbs thought it was total trash.
              \_ My dataset includes seven people. All liked the movie. Five had
                 read (and loved) the books. FWIW. -- ulysses
              \- I dunno about that generalization ... i think plenty of "3rd
                 world grad students" come from the "servant employing  class"
                 while plenty of moneyed americans live in coop slime. --psb
                 \_ Yeah.  Cloyne towards the end of a semester could make one
                    pine for the third world.
              \- I dunno about that generalization ... i think plenty of
                 "3rd world grad students" come from the "servant employing
                 class", while plenty of moneyed americans live in coop slime.
                 \_ Yeah.  Cloyne towards the end of a semester could make one
                    pine for the third world.
                    \_ Amusingly, I left Cloyne after 3 semesters for a third
                       world country (and it was an improvement). -emarkp
              \_ Well, I for one loved the books, and I thought the movie was
                 pretty decent. Definitely not "worse than Episode II". But
                 not classic either. Funny, but could've been funnier.
           \_ Or maybe it just sorta depends....link:csua.org/u/byf
              \_ I think that actually hits it right on the head.  I enjoyed
                 the bits I couldn't quote verbatim best because they were
                 different and, yes, I thought funny.  I enjoyed the movie
                 quite a bit while watching, though afterwards I realized
                 that the bits they added/changed often weren't thought through
                 very well.  I mean.. not that DNA's stuff was always completely
                 thought through, but he usually provided explanations later.
                 --dbushong