Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy :(
#1
Posted 12 April 2005 - 07:32 PM
Short and non-spoily
Long and supah-spoily
I'm gonna go into the corner and cry now.
- Tagline for Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter
You've read it, you can't un-read it. Stay tooned for more
TALES OF INTEREST.
I like to be part of the crowd so I want to say that Icey is the best guy ever
#2
Posted 12 April 2005 - 07:36 PM
#3
Posted 12 April 2005 - 08:17 PM
...
...
(*sputter, choke*)
HE ONLY HAS ONE HEAD!
And only two arms! Goddammit all!
Chyld is an ignorant slut.
- Campbell Bean (David Tennant), Takin' Over the Asylum, 1994
#4
Posted 13 April 2005 - 06:06 AM
On the happy side the BBC radio 4 is broadcasting the adaptation of the last books from may 3rd onwards, along with whatever original cast members are still clinging to life
#6
Posted 13 April 2005 - 01:32 PM
If somebody suggests hitchhiking I will gag them with my towel.
Chyld is an ignorant slut.
- Campbell Bean (David Tennant), Takin' Over the Asylum, 1994
#8
Posted 30 April 2005 - 12:06 PM
Overall.... mostly harmless.
On the side:
The acting was.... ok. It was a little poor at the beginning (IMO), especially Mos Def, but got better as the movie progressed.
Marvin was not half as bad as I thought he would be... though I still have troubles coming to terms why he looks like a midget in a 1950's spacesuit.
And Zahpod does have 3 arms and 2 heads.
#9
Posted 30 April 2005 - 12:16 PM
JM's official press secretary, scientific advisor, diplomat and apparent antagonist?
#10
Posted 30 April 2005 - 12:32 PM
There is definitely missing in Hollywood an understanding of how British humour works. This obsessive need for romances and gratuitous happy endings is dreary; also I would have preferrd the desultory narrative of the radio play to the standard hero/villain plot that the movie offered. I went in with high expectations, and while I like the look, and all of the actors are bang-on, I sure didn't like what they did to Zaphod's character and I sure sure didn't llike what they did with the Vogons. All the extra stuff added to give it a Hollywood ending (a total nonsense one by the way, but at least no more nonsense than the last two novels) only took away more of my favourite lines. Overall effect being that is seemed a bit rushed. For instance, in the film Ford never explains how they managed to get a lift from the Vogons, and the Babel fish story is lacking its punchline. And so on.
#11
Posted 30 April 2005 - 12:57 PM
It's a shame too, because Restaurant at the End of the Universe was my favorite of the books, and they probably won't make that since this won't be a big success.
#13
Posted 30 April 2005 - 02:11 PM
It was just...meh.
#15
Posted 30 April 2005 - 03:20 PM
Chyld is an ignorant slut.
- Campbell Bean (David Tennant), Takin' Over the Asylum, 1994