The Hitchikers guide.....

Jetfire · Post by **Jetfire** » Sat Apr 30, 2005 7:37 am

Loved it. Brilliant. A few great new jokes (mostly visual) and Zooey Deschanel is lovely. It's very well cast and a bit different but thats really good and it works really well. The best jokes are often the new ones.

It's nicely a random, funny and insane journey through the universe. Go watch it.

Tired Tracks · Post by **Tired Tracks** » Sat Apr 30, 2005 4:29 pm

I loved the easter eggs they added, look for them!

Optimus Prime Rib · Post by **Optimus Prime Rib** » Sat Apr 30, 2005 4:53 pm

DONT DO SPOILERS YET! I had request yesterdy off SPECIFICALLY to watch that movie and I did not get the day off..

Laser Rod Optimus Prime · Post by **Laser Rod Optimus Prime** » Sat Apr 30, 2005 6:11 pm

Simply put, the opening scene with the dolphins singing was great.

See, no spoilers....

yet.

Jetfire · Post by **Jetfire** » Sat Apr 30, 2005 8:10 pm

Optimus Prime Rib wrote:DONT DO SPOILERS YET! I had request yesterdy off SPECIFICALLY to watch that movie and I did not get the day off..

Just don't read the thread until you have seen it then. Not hard.

Autobloke · Post by **Autobloke** » Sat Apr 30, 2005 8:20 pm

Here's the REAL Hitchiker's guide.
Do this:

IronHide · Post by **IronHide** » Sun May 01, 2005 2:07 am

Was impressed.

Kinda curious if they plan on making other movies.

Also, did anyone notice Sam Rockwell sounded like he was trying to impersonate Bush's voice?? Maybe it's just me....

Autobloke · Post by **Autobloke** » Sun May 01, 2005 5:49 pm

Don't like the new Marvin design - he looks too happy. And (shudder) cute.

Post by **Computron** » Mon May 02, 2005 6:09 pm

The Whale Drop was nicely done.

I'll call it ground! I wonder if it will be my friend?

Brendocon · Post by **Brendocon** » Mon May 02, 2005 9:45 pm

New stuff was good, though the bulk of the pre-existant stuff felt too much like a retread of the tv series (the exact same lines in many cases, which just felt odd being spoken by new voices). Bill Nighy and Alan Rickman just felt like they were trying to do impressions of the characters.

Marvin felt... wrong, somehow. Voice aside, I just couldn't buy this big bright-white big-headed thing as a paragon of cynicism.

The Arthur/Trillian thing felt over-sentimentalised... though it's been a while since I read the books.

Thought the dolphin song was naff, personally.

Huge bits of exposition were missing, though not particularly integral to the plot, it felt half-hearted without them. The necessity for the towel, etc. Arthur using the improb drive to save them felt cheap without the "it was nothing" gag afterwards. Resistance is futile, the poetry, etc... they felt like an anticlimax without the payoff that I'm used to.

Yes, I know it's different blah blah... it just felt odd without those things. The towel is necessary to the plot, dagnabit! And no mention of penguins.

The lemon juicer was mildly amusing.

Two and a half stars. Even on its own merits I'd give it the same rating - the romantic thing felt forced and unnecessary, the vogons just got annoying, why would a door sigh when happy?, and why is Ford so hung up on towels? And why is the pub landlord so quick to believe him about the world ending? He hardly presented compelling evidence.

And Zaphod's "laugh at his own lines" delivery was annoying. "If there's anything more important than my ego onboard..." should not break down into a fit of giggles halfway through...

sprunkner · Post by **sprunkner** » Mon May 02, 2005 10:01 pm

There was so much in the movie that it was hard for me to say whether or not it was bad or good. It was certainly worth five bucks, much more than any other movie I've seen in a while. I thought some things worked really well and were really funny, like the line and the forms to release Trillian, while other things, like the romance, felt squeezed in with everything else.

Eline · Post by **Eline** » Tue May 03, 2005 6:41 am

Why don't we have this movie in our cinemas?!!!

I have been reading all the books quite many times

*thinks about buying a plane ticket*