The answer
April 29th, 2005 at 3:53pm |
To the question of whether I went to the new Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy movie is yes, and the question of whether I loved it is double yes.
Am I excited? Yes.
New material mixed in with the familiar. Well worth the stamp of Hitchhiker’s. Not disappointed, not one little bit.
Will I probably see it again?
What do you think? I’ve got 42 tattooed on my back, and the original Hitchhiker’s logo on my ankle.
Posted in The answer to the question, Under the influence
Thanks for the review. I was wondering how quickly you would get around to seeing it. We’re re-listening to the radio series at the moment to get ourselves primed for the movie. Its become a nightly ritual in the last two weeks. Really fun stuff…
I could’ve given a longer review, I suppose, but I really didn’t have the time.
How fun, listening to the radio series again.
Makes me remember how brilliant and funny Adams was.
It’s also too bad that he never got to see his movie made, after all those years of talk.
After he died, I wondered if he hadn’t really died, but went where Elvis did in Mostly Harmless.
Maybe he really was taken by aliens.
Mel, I hope to see the movie soon! Thanks for the brief review.
Actually, I think that if there is a movie that Melissa is prepared to write a long 300 word review of, this is it.
With all of the half-assed reviews of the film out there, someone needs to set the record straight…How about it?
Fine!
Fine. I will. Lemme go see it again, first.
It’ll be hard, but I can force myself to do it.
Or cobble together something, I suppose. But Todd, I’m not the same kind of reviewer you are.
okay dokey
Artichokey!
I hadn’t read your comments before writing my review. Mine is going to look pretty silly beside yours, I think. I guess I ought to get around to reading these books finally!
This being something I’m so excited about, I’m trying to do it justice. So I need to step back, and make it all make sense. So it’s not just me babbling incoherently about how funny I thought the movie was, how funny the books are, or me saying how if you haven’t read them in a long time or indeed at all, you need to stop what you’re doing RIGHT NOW and go do it.
I’m going to stop what I’m doing RIGHT NOW and go do it. I mean read, of course. I’m going to check a copy out of the library.
Hey, that’s not reading. That’s checking out. Then working. You liar you.
Heather, I checked out a long time ago. I’m long gone
As it turned out, the library’s newest copies were either checked out or missing. So I bought a cheap paperback next door at the Trover Book Shop on my lunch break. And I did begin reading it…already I can see there are quite a few differences between book and film. Not that they matter.
I yearn to see this film…though I don’t have the tattoos to prove it, I am and forever will be a devoted Hitchhiker fan. And, Melissa, if you say it is good, I totally trust you and know I won’t be disappointed.
And, Matt, good for you for finally reading the book(s). And you MUST read The Long Dark Tea Time of the Soul once you’ve finished all the Hitchhiker books (as you will, I’m sure). Tea Time rivals Hitchhiker in my opinion.
Still sad that Adams died, that his genius is gone from this world, but perhaps we’ll meet up one day at the Restaurant at the End of the Universe…
That’s it! I am going to watch it after work on Friday with my dad. I made him agree to it so I do not wind up like Matt sitting in the movie theatre looking for my glasses and missing the last 20 minutes of the movie.
Are you going to put your Dad in charge of an extra pair of glasses?
I was really pissed about losing that contact. It really screwed things up. I couldn’t believe it, of all times for the damn thing to roll up in my eye. You know how sometimes a contact will disappear up behind your eyelid, well that’s what happened to me. So I spent a long a time trying to roll it back down. Then it popped out of course, and I had to try to get it back in before it dried out. No luck. Missed at least fifteen minutes of the end.
Got your e-mail - you are so right - thanks! We went Saturday night (in New Jersey, but that’s another story). As you might imagine, I thought Marvin was a hoot, and although some things escaped me entirely, on the whole I liked it and would see it again.
“Incredible. It’s even worse than I thought it would be.”
For even more fun, go to the movie site - Marvin is ticklish!
No, I do not know what it is like to have a contract roll behind your eye. Unfortunately, I am unable to wear contacts due to severe allergies. However, a contact rolling behind your eye/eyelid sounds incredibly uncomfortable and I envy you in no way!
I’ve had problems with my contacts. I hear you.
I was afflicted by a full bladder toward the last half hour of the movie. So while I was enjoying the movie, part of me was going, man, I shouldn’t have had that tub of rootbeer. But I couldn’t leave…
Mel, now having the full bladder is something that I can “fully” relate too!
A tub of rootbeer…now that’s a funny image. I sort of imagine you sitting there in the theater twisting and squirming like a woman in a hemorhoids commercial.
I’ve had that experience before as well, however. There are few movies I would actually suffer through with the urgent need to piss, but Hitchhiker’s is one of them. I wouldn’t get up from a Star Wars movie, either, even if it starred Jar Jar in an Ewok adventure.
I wasn’t noticeably squirming but it was definitely interfering with my enjoyment. … So that means I’ll have to go tonight, without anything to drink.
A new Star Wars movie I definitely wouldn’t go to the bathroom for (even though I’d probably grumble because the pop cup would have a big darth vader on it and I would’ve paid twice as much for the honor.) A Star Trek, definitely not. I did go to the bathroom in one or more of the Star Wars rereleases, only because I’d seen the movies so many times, I knew when to time it during a dull bit and hoped that I wouldn’t miss the new bits. My brother, on the other hand, went just before the racing scene in Jedi!