Vogon Stapler replica from the Hitchhiker's Guide

It seems like for every Hitchhiker's Guide movie fan, there are two book guys who are just not really feeling it—no surprise there. But we have a feeling they're still preparing to jettison that Red Swingline anyway, now that for a mere fifty bones you can get a prop replica of the Vogon stapler. It's a limited edition of only 1,000 signed pieces, so make sure you get on it fast before it's put to work condemning Earth to an obvious late-70s metaphor for progress in infrastructure at the expense of the everyman.

[Via TRFJ]

[n8 @ Dec 19th 2005 12:53AM]

Wait, there are people who "feel" this movie? I saw it and it was a disaster on every level. It doesn't surprise me that they have to sell off the movie props to make up the production costs. Wake me when the HoG is on ebay.

[Ryan @ Dec 19th 2005 12:53AM]

Pretty old news, but cool none the less.

I actually enjoyed the movie, it was refreshingly different. As I tend to say about most book to movie adaptations though, the book was better.

-Ryan

[furtim @ Dec 19th 2005 12:53AM]

The book was *different*. I don't think a direct comparison between the two. Two completely different media. I did think the movie was quite enjoyable and funny on its own merits, and that's about all a book to film translation can really hope for.

[Nat @ Dec 19th 2005 12:53AM]

Ya. Actually alot of people loved this movie. amazing what happens when people have opinions different than you.

[Ben @ Dec 19th 2005 12:53AM]

It doesn't actually stamp, does it? If not, what's the point?

[MaxSMoke @ Dec 19th 2005 12:53AM]

It was a nice movie but it had NOTHING to do with the Book. You could literally see where the screenplay writer went through with a Yellow Highlighter. marked the tiny sections of the books and Adam's own screenplays he wanted to keep, before he took out the rest of the book, shredded it, ate it, crapped it out, and flung it at HHGG fans like monkeys in a zoo.

A little inside info: Adam's did many screenplay versions for HHGG before his untimely death. (Or maybe it was very timely, since it spared him having to see the movie....) But the guy that finally DID write the movie was the same guy that wrote the screenplay for Chicken Run, the animated movie about Chicken's trying to "Fly the Coop". That's why HHGG was reduced down to a clich?iddy flick, full of bright colors and flashing lights, designed to stop all higher brain functions and vaguely convince you that you've seen something with Douglas Adam's name attached. In reality, it's more of a candy coated enema for 5 year olds.

Well, perhaps I'm being TOO NICE, but what I really think of it would have to be expressed with so many foul words, I'd have to curse in 5 different languages and invent a few new words along the way!

[Tim @ Dec 19th 2005 12:53AM]

Well it was a radio show before it was a book anyways...