Jolt Country

12:45: learn that HHGTTG is playing at the local theater and make plans to go see it at the Saturday viewing.

3:20--find out that the time of the big everyone-goes-and-watches viewing has changed to6:00 on Friday.

5:00: make sure that I am, in fact, getting a ride to this theater to watch this fascinating movie.

6:00: get shafted by my "ride" and spend the next two hours playing Wing Commander Secret Ops and Marvel VS. Capcom II, drinking pure Taquila by the gulp cup wile everoyne else has fun. Make cunning plans to loor my female friends (who are much cuter than the ones I was originally going with anyway) to catch a Saturday showing.

Stay tuned on this situation as it develops!

Thought you were blind...




THE
THINGS THAT BUMP IN THE
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AARDVARK

So I'm told.

Update! Cute female friends were unavailable to go see movie with, so liklyness of me seing the movie in theaters just plummeted! I will regardless update this thread with random pointless observations when I should be reviewing the movie, just to annoy everyone. Stay tuned!

How do you know they're cute?

How do you know they're female?

Here's my own take on the movie.

I really wanted to see it the instant it came out. I mean, this is incredible that it's here. It was in development hell for a period longer than some of you have been alive. Well, some of the snakes, anyway.

So I downloaded all the trailers and caught everything I could. I noted that it was coming out April 29th. Horray!

While seeing a movie a couple weeks ago the trailer said it was coming out May 6th. No sweat, so it got moved back a week. I'll catch it then!

... And you can imagine my surprise when I saw the thing advertised on a theatre viewable from I-25 if you are going 3MPH, which I always am.

Way to go, Filmsteins. HURRRRhfff why aren't the theatres packed!!?!?!? I don't know!!! ^___________^ !!!

UPDATE: I still have not seen this movie.

Because of this, I'd like to request something which will probably be as good as HHGG the movie; I would like Lysander to please spell "Zaphod Beeblebrox."

No helping!!!

Ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooh.

Unbelievable maggot reviews HHGG:

http://www.planetmagrathea.com/longreview1.html

Wow. What a frothing.

When the guy goes on and on about the NOKIA phone and I'm like, "There was a phone?" well, it's obvious who is not in their right mind. And it ain't me.

Saw it last night, seeing it again tonight. **** out of 5.

Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:Unbelievable maggot reviews HHGG:

http://www.planetmagrathea.com/longreview1.html

Wow. What a frothing.

Wow. That guy needs to get laid, <i>pronto</i>.

Bruce

Obviously the critic was a deep, deep Doug Adams and wanted the movie to play out in every way, down to the last detail, and have it shown on the movie screen exactly the way he imagined the book in his head.



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AARDVARK

bruce wrote:Wow. That guy needs to get laid, <i>pronto</i>.

I could put up with the pathetic, jealous ramblings of those sad types who feel the need to criticise something they haven't read, describing something they haven't seen. But what has broken my will is the vitriolic personal abuse and libel which has started spreading across the net from various individuals who don't know me.

AArdvark wrote:Obviously the critic was a deep, deep Doug Adams and wanted the movie to play out in every way, down to the last detail, and have it shown on the movie screen exactly the way he imagined the book in his head.

I have been widely criticised for wanting the film to exactly replicate the book, even though I never suggested any such thing, and I have been quoted as saying other things that I have never said. None of these are even slightly true and some of them, under other circumstances, would be actionable. If I can read these things, other people can read them too.

Planet Magrathea wrote:

bruce wrote:Wow. That guy needs to get laid, <i>pronto</i>.

I could put up with the pathetic, jealous ramblings of those sad types who feel the need to criticise something they haven't read, describing something they haven't seen. But what has broken my will is the vitriolic personal abuse and libel which has started spreading across the net from various individuals who don't know me.

Well, as Our Fearless Leader would say, "Mission Accomplished."

Bruce

Planet Magrathea wrote:

bruce wrote:Wow. That guy needs to get laid, <i>pronto</i>.

I could put up with the pathetic, jealous ramblings of those sad types who feel the need to criticise something they haven't read, describing something they haven't seen. But what has broken my will is the vitriolic personal abuse and libel which has started spreading across the net from various individuals who don't know me.

Welcome to the Internet.

Planet Magrathea wrote:I have been widely criticised for wanting the film to exactly replicate the book, even though I never suggested any such thing, and I have been quoted as saying other things that I have never said. None of these are even slightly true and some of them, under other circumstances, would be actionable. If I can read these things, other people can read them too.

This is hilarious. He never "suggested" anything like that. Sure! Suggested is all based on interpretation, and his is that he comes out smelling like a rose in all this.

Unfortunately, to those people who read his four-screen diatribe it's obvious that he wanted the BBC actors, right down to Beeblebrox's paper mache head, all reading the book together. I'm not going to say that some good lines weren't inexplicably cut, but the fact that the bulk of this movie is new kicks ass. I remember leaving the theatre after seeing Spider-Man saying, "Yup, just how I imagined it. Every last bit of it."

And for goodness sake, how anyone can claim to be this huge fan of HHGG without realizing that there are new parts in the radio show, book, TV show, game and now movie is stunning. I know the guy realizes it intellectually, but that's the extent of it. No, what it comes down to is that this guy felt he was the world's biggest HHGG fan and when there was new material in the movie he all of a sudden was on the same ground as the rest of the unwashed masses.

Was it like this when LotR came out? I never read any of the books so the movies were my first exposure to the material. I imagine the screeching was pretty bad, though. Man, the Internet needs to go away sometimes.

Belated weekend update!

I got the old Hitchhiker's GUide BBC series on DVD.

This has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with the current topic, but I'm posting it anyway just so that I can be said ot have posted something of basic topicality in this thread that I've started two weeks ago.

It is worth it for the Theme Tune.

Hey, Lysander, want t oplay X-Com sometimes?

How?

I just thought I might, y'know, win for a change.