Hitchhikers

[altariel]

Mr Altariel and I went to see The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy this afternoon (I had already been to see it earlier in the week with glitterboy1).

About ten minutes in, the bulb blew in the wondrous digital projector (advertised as such before the film started). The sound carried on. "D'you know," quipped Mr A., "this would make a good radio series."

I liked it, despite the daft bits. Mr A. liked the Vogons and Trillian but not nasty Mr Zaphod. Something for all the family, except perhaps the extremely confused five-year-old boy sitting next to us. Did Mr A. mention he liked Trillian? I think he may have.

Comments

[applegnat.livejournal.com]

I saw Finding Neverland at last today and it made me weep buckets. It was a great film, though.

Movies are funny things.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Does that have Johnny Depp in it?

[applegnat.livejournal.com]

It does, it does! *struggles to impress upon you it's having of Johnny Depp in adequate terms*

[bill-leisner.livejournal.com]

The sound carried on. "D'you know," quipped Mr A., "this would make a good radio series."

LMAO!!

[altariel.livejournal.com]

;-D

[ithilwen.livejournal.com]

Why is it that good movies always come out in spurts? Right now there are several playing that I'd like to see, and I probably won't manage to catch half of them before they leave the theater. Then weeks will go by without anything watchable playing in town. "Tis most annoying!

[altariel.livejournal.com]

There's been a bit of a drought up till now, hasn't there? At least we have a bit of a breathing space before Serenity.

[ithilwen.livejournal.com]

With movies, it's always either a drought or a flood (with the floods inevitably coming at the times you're busiest and least able to catch a film). Why can't it be a steady trickle instead?

[popehippo.livejournal.com]

I found the movie really awesome. This could be, however, that I read the book once three years ago and only remembered

A) Marvin

and

B) 42.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Those are some fairly memorable bits of the book, though! My brother indoctrinated me into the book some time in the early 1980s, but it's the TV version that I really think of when I think of HHGG.

[terri-osborne.livejournal.com]

I wasn't too keen on Zaphod at first, but he eventually grew on me.

As for Mr. A's quip, very, very funny. :)

[altariel.livejournal.com]

I enjoyed the film a lot, but I think Mr A.'s quip may well have given me the best LOL of the evening.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Trillian had to be better than the airhead squeaky-voiced original. And she was, very. I agree about the Vogons too, they were strangely likeable en masse.

[kalypso-v.livejournal.com]

the airhead squeaky-voiced original

That wasn't the original. That was the TV Trillian. Radio Trillian (and indeed Book Trillian) had a nice, sensible-sounding voice. And even TV Trillian wasn't really an airhead, they just dressed and voiced her that way.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Ah. TV Trillian annoyed me profoundly.

I haven't listened to my old tapes from local radio for so long, but I've ordered the audio CDs from various places not the BBC shop this week--and the TV series DVDs too, having remembered hearing about the cool crossover scene in the extras.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Excellent icon.

[kalypso-v.livejournal.com]

I'm into crossover icons just now!

[altariel.livejournal.com]

The Vogons lumbered very well. They reminded me of the Skeksis from The Dark Crystal. And the bits of Vogon bureaucracy were like Brazil.

[fifitrix.livejournal.com]

I'm glad I'm not the only one who liked it overall.
There were clearly things wrong with it. (Zaphod wasn't great and don't get me started on the casting of Ford. I liked Mos Def in The Italian Job alot but he was bland and crap in this).
They also missed out the whole "god disappears in a puff of logic" bit with the babelfish - which lets face it is THE kiss ass bit of that sequence.

That said there was alot to like. I loved Stephen Fry as the book, although I preferred the TV series graphics for some reason. I thought Marvin was superb. Trillion was immensely likeable and Martin Freeman did a great job as Arthur. Liked the Vogons and loved Slartibartfast.
Thought the effects were fantastic (other than the aforementioned book sections) - particularly the planet building bits were excellent.

Also - nice to see they found an undeveloped quarry to shoot in for Vogsphere.

It wasn't the best thing I watched at the weekend though. The best thing I watched was the final episode of Hustle. Maybe one day I'll see it coming but not so far... ;)

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Now I liked Mos Def - he got Ford's complete coolness for me. I agree Bill Night was brilliant, and the shot of the Magrathean factory floor was the best in the film. The queueing bits on Vogsphere reminded me of Brazil.

I think the last episode of Hustle was better too, tho' ;-D

[crossbow1.livejournal.com]

I loved Zaphod and Ford. I thought Trillian was a definite improvement over the previous incarnations - she never had much personality in the books or the radio play, and she was downright irritating in the BBC miniseries.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Ford worked well for me, Zaphod much less so. I really liked this version of Trillian too.