Post by In_Stereo on Sept 25, 2005 20:11:01 GMT -5
This is a discussion thread for the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy movie, one of my new favourites. Yeah, there was a lot in there that wasn't in the book, but I was still laughing. There were only two things in this film that I still can't watch:
1. The segment with John Malkovich as the religious leader Humma Kavula. You could tell the writing style was thirty years older; whereas so far it was a fun twenty-year-old guy writing about drinking, sex, and two-headed aliens, it now became a bitter old guy who decided to get political and act pissed off at religion. That's what turned me off to Adams later in his career; he decided he was this big environmental activist and wrote that book Last Chance to See, and did that stunt where he climbed Kilimanjaro in a rhino suit. Doug: stick to "Eccenrica Gallumbits, the triple-breasted whore of Eroticon Six" and stay away from this political crap.
2. Two words: Mos Def. The role of an aging British white guy (as was outlined, I believe, very clearly in the first book) goes to a trashy black rapper. It's hard to listen as he mumbles some of the greatest lines in comic literature. The line "Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so," becomes, "Tahmsnillsin. Lnchahmdblso."*
Though Sam Rockwell stole the show as Zaphod, even if his personality strayed a little from that in the book. "I'm gettin' a lot of hostility from you, Alex or Arnold. You ever try yoga?" Martin Freeman was great in The Office, and since he was playing essentially the same character here, he was fun to watch. And, of course, the "So Long and Thanks for All the Fish" number really brought down the house; I could listen to that all day.
OK, enough about me. What did you think?
"Go on a hunch from a man whose brain is fuelled by lemons?!"
(long pause) "Who're we waitin' for again?" (longer pause) "No, I'm serious."
Arthur:"We can talk about normality until the cows come home."
Ford: "What is normal?"
Trillian: "What's home?"
Zaphod: "What're cows?"
In In Stereo Stereo
*I have just noticed how easy it is to call me racist, especially since I have never acted satisfied with a single black performance in a film. I would like to assure you this is patently untrue. I only dislike when they take parts that were deliberately written for white people. What I'm saying is that I'm sure Douglas would mos' def never have given Mos Def the part.
1. The segment with John Malkovich as the religious leader Humma Kavula. You could tell the writing style was thirty years older; whereas so far it was a fun twenty-year-old guy writing about drinking, sex, and two-headed aliens, it now became a bitter old guy who decided to get political and act pissed off at religion. That's what turned me off to Adams later in his career; he decided he was this big environmental activist and wrote that book Last Chance to See, and did that stunt where he climbed Kilimanjaro in a rhino suit. Doug: stick to "Eccenrica Gallumbits, the triple-breasted whore of Eroticon Six" and stay away from this political crap.
2. Two words: Mos Def. The role of an aging British white guy (as was outlined, I believe, very clearly in the first book) goes to a trashy black rapper. It's hard to listen as he mumbles some of the greatest lines in comic literature. The line "Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so," becomes, "Tahmsnillsin. Lnchahmdblso."*
Though Sam Rockwell stole the show as Zaphod, even if his personality strayed a little from that in the book. "I'm gettin' a lot of hostility from you, Alex or Arnold. You ever try yoga?" Martin Freeman was great in The Office, and since he was playing essentially the same character here, he was fun to watch. And, of course, the "So Long and Thanks for All the Fish" number really brought down the house; I could listen to that all day.
OK, enough about me. What did you think?
"Go on a hunch from a man whose brain is fuelled by lemons?!"
(long pause) "Who're we waitin' for again?" (longer pause) "No, I'm serious."
Arthur:"We can talk about normality until the cows come home."
Ford: "What is normal?"
Trillian: "What's home?"
Zaphod: "What're cows?"
In In Stereo Stereo
*I have just noticed how easy it is to call me racist, especially since I have never acted satisfied with a single black performance in a film. I would like to assure you this is patently untrue. I only dislike when they take parts that were deliberately written for white people. What I'm saying is that I'm sure Douglas would mos' def never have given Mos Def the part.