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more H2G2 thoughts
saw it for the first time last night, not bad at all but not great.
Martin Freeman did a great job playing Arthur. Interesting take on the character, instead of the passive, naive idiot that Simon Jones played, this Arthur was more of a complete coward but with less of a neurotic edge. Interesting way to play him. Mark Wing-Davey is unsurpassable as Zaphod. I couldn't decide whether he-whose-name-I-forget was imitating Dubya or Billy Bob Thornton. He wasn't weird and alien, just moronic and unfunny. Zoey Deschanel is a straight brunette version of Ellen DeGeneres. Interesting, very pretty, huge glowing eyes, nice goofball sense of humor...but not exactly all there. Whatever happened to Trillian being an astrophysics major? Mos Def is a fairly good actor, I'm just still wondering what the hell he was doing playing Ford. Didn't do much with him. In fact, his lines were the most jarring part of the movie for fans of the radio and TV series. The weird-party-animal thing was totally absent in this Ford, and what we had instead was...someone who didn't seem to have that much to do in teh movie once he explains everything to Arthur. Slartibartfast: eh. Again, Richard Vernon can't be beat. Not sure what this version of him was supposed to be about. None of the futzy conflicted absentminded professor that amde the original so special. The Book: eerily like a younger Peter Jones, very well done. But the Guide entries (didn't stay for the one after the credits) were pretty blah, like they were just trying to zip through the TV stuff, which ironically enough had far better graphics and were a lot more fun. Did this movie actually have an ending, or did it just stop? At least Trillian and Arthur hooked up. Deep Thought: again, they really rushed through this and it seemed totally pointless, even if you know the story down cold. A big talking computer that watches TV, so ****ing what? Vogons: *now* we're talking. Infinitely better than the TV version. Funny, dead-on accurate job capturing the brain-dead bureaucracy and pettiness, priceless facial expressions. A blue-eyed rhinoceros? Love it But again, the Vogon Poetry thing was rushed and half-assed. It's almost like they were trying like hell to avoid anything that was emphasized in the previous versions but had to cover it to be able to stick to the original plot. Nice idea in theory (give us more stuff that we haven't seen instead), but...the new stuff was rushed too, so it didn't work. Malkovich: did that guy channel the 1975 Elton John or what? He was onscreen far too little. Overall: some great special effects, some very ordinary special effects, some uninspired acting and characterization, even less of a plot than the other H2G2 versions, and no real sense of the joie de vivre that Douglas put into everything he did. -- Terrell Miller "Suddenly, after nearly 30 years of scorn, Prog is cool again". -Entertainment Weekly |
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On Wed, 18 May 2005 22:28:11 -0400, Terrell Miller
wrote: Zoey Deschanel is a straight brunette version of Ellen DeGeneres. ....You mean Ted Danson? OM -- "No ******* ever won a war by dying for | http://www.io.com/~o_m his country. He won it by making the other | Sergeant-At-Arms poor dumb ******* die for his country." | Human O-Ring Society - General George S. Patton, Jr |
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On 2005-05-19, Terrell Miller wrote:
Zoey Deschanel is a straight brunette version of Ellen DeGeneres. Interesting, very pretty, huge glowing eyes, nice goofball sense of humor...but not exactly all there. Whatever happened to Trillian being an astrophysics major? Strangely, I can remember one or two astrophysics majors (as they would have been) who could be described as that... g (although most only checked "not exactly all there", I guess) -- -Andrew Gray |
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Andrew Gray wrote: Strangely, I can remember one or two astrophysics majors (as they would have been) who could be described as that... g Three words: Doctor Fiorella Terenzi. Pat |
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"Pat Flannery" wrote in message
... Three words: Doctor Fiorella Terenzi. Whatever launches your rocket |
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