   Hitchhiker movie
  I've never read the book. Can it translate well to movie form? I just a teaser for it, and it's hard to tell.   
  You can also get all 5 books as MP3 on suprnova. Which is what I did. Well worth the time it took to download.   ;  There's nothing to prevent the main story from becoming a movie.  Its a very straight forward book.  However, all of the humor will be lost.  There's no way they can capture Adams wit on film.CM   ;  I agree; I think the vast majority of the humor value will be lost, because it's largely based on written humor, spellings of things even, etc.   ;  Damn, you two beat me to it. BBC (I think) did a series (well, they added up to a movie) which is good, but some of the great narrative humor "The ships floated in the air just the way bricks don't" will translate to hovering yellow ships. Therefore, it's not quite as funny. The depressed robot is still funny though [grin]. Anyway, I'd recommend you to read the books- they're really funny! [smile]   ;  I think it can be done fairly well, but it'd be quite tough.  The big thing that struck me while reading them is the sheer randomness of [sometimes] clever solutions to all the incredibly random problems that occur.  Movies can definitely do random.  The question is can they get much of the same feel to that randomness.  Dude Where's Your Car style isn't gonna cut it, obviously.Whatever the case, I'm not expecting much, and thus I might be pleasantly surprised.   ;  I think a lot of the humor will stay intact. Arthur's, Ford's, Marvin's and Zaphod's lines comprise a good 50% of the book's humor right there.   ;Quote:Original post by Code_DarkDamn, you two beat me to it. BBC (I think) did a series (well, they added up to a movie) which is good, but some of the great narrative humor "The ships floated in the air just the way bricks don't" will translate to hovering yellow ships. Therefore, it's not quite as funny. The depressed robot is still funny though [grin]. Anyway, I'd recommend you to read the books- they're really funny! [smile]Both the television series and the radio series came before the books, and they were both superb (I'd watched and listened to both before ever reading the books). All the narrative humour was all brilliantly taken care of by Peter Jones as the book, and he reads the line "they hung in the air exactly the same way that bricks don't" in the first episode.   ;  I have the BBC radio edition on tape, abridged - but its not as good as the other version I have - read by Douglas Adams. Heres a link to it on Amazon;Episode 1 of 12 of the radio play. It will probably be pretty slow, but whatever.   