Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy :(
#31
Posted 05 May 2005 - 06:22 AM
JM's official press secretary, scientific advisor, diplomat and apparent antagonist?
#32
Posted 05 May 2005 - 10:46 AM
And the soonest I'll be able to see the movie will probably be Saturday.
Chyld is an ignorant slut.
- Campbell Bean (David Tennant), Takin' Over the Asylum, 1994
#33
Posted 06 May 2005 - 09:09 PM
Overall, I did like the movie, but there were some things that I didn't care for at all. Everything that's been mentioned sums it up nicely. However, I doubt that I could have done any better, so no complaints overall.
#34
Posted 06 May 2005 - 09:16 PM
All in all, I blame the meat packing industry for it's push of smushed whale meat. They funded the whole thing.
This post has been edited by Slade: 06 May 2005 - 09:17 PM
#35
Posted 07 May 2005 - 07:08 PM
Screw you all, I loved it.
Yes, I did. Sure, compared to the book...well, it can't hold a candle to the book, let's face facts, but when I go to see a movie adaptation of a book - no matter what I'm thinking beforehand or how much I bitch about differences and what they did wrong - when I step into that theater my mind purges itself of all expectations and fangirl hang-ups about canon and continuity, and I judge the movie for what it is all by itself. I don't compare them, I just let it stand on its own (that's how I was able to love things like Prisoner of Azkaban so much). So by itself, I loved it and thought it went rather well. (...Except for the romance-y bits - I could have done without that.) I can't hold them both to the same standards - I can't allow myself to do that. If I do, I'm just setting myself up for disappointment.
And I loved Zaphod Beeblebrox. Loved him. At some point (especially after he got his second head cut out) I just couldn't stop thinking "That is adorable." ...I can't help it, I have a "thing" for that sort of stuff...
And just the fact that he did have the second head and third arm...well, there's my main hang-up pushed aside.
Chyld is an ignorant slut.
- Campbell Bean (David Tennant), Takin' Over the Asylum, 1994
#36
Posted 08 May 2005 - 01:36 AM
Also, I've only seen a few old pictures once several months ago, but when they were trying to rescue Trillian, was that robot in the queue the orginal Marvin? It just looked so familiar...
Chyld is an ignorant slut.
- Campbell Bean (David Tennant), Takin' Over the Asylum, 1994
#37
Posted 08 May 2005 - 04:36 AM
#38
Posted 08 May 2005 - 02:44 PM
Chyld is an ignorant slut.
- Campbell Bean (David Tennant), Takin' Over the Asylum, 1994
#39
Posted 09 May 2005 - 09:16 PM
i haven't seen it, but if ford shows up with a trolley of beer to distract the workman, rather than that brilliantly elaborate, laying in the mud bit... then it's all fucked.
"In... as you say... the mud."
and the restaurant at the end of the universe? changed it's namesake to geographical instead of temporal.
it's like the movie was made by someone who has had listened to someone try and recount the show to him while in a pub ten to fifteen years after last seeing it themselves...
it's probably an entertaining film if you haven't enjoyed the radio, books, or TV series...
the radio works because you can't see all the crazy things the characters are reacting, in the TV series the actors do such a brilliant job, and the book itself is just brilliant...
but the insufficient references to Oolon Colluphid's central theme on his ultimate proof of the non existence of god based on the existence of the Babel fish is just reckless...
a joke that i was going to transcribe here, but then thought it better that you ALL go out and purchase the DVD of the television series!!!
RIGHT BLOODY NOW!!!
This post has been edited by barend: 09 May 2005 - 09:18 PM
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#40
Posted 09 May 2005 - 09:46 PM
Chyld is an ignorant slut.
- Campbell Bean (David Tennant), Takin' Over the Asylum, 1994
#42
Posted 10 May 2005 - 05:32 AM
#43
Posted 10 May 2005 - 03:57 PM
Chyld is an ignorant slut.
- Campbell Bean (David Tennant), Takin' Over the Asylum, 1994
#44
Posted 11 May 2005 - 06:09 AM
JM's official press secretary, scientific advisor, diplomat and apparent antagonist?