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Weekend Stuff
May. 5th, 2005 03:33 amSunday Kit came over, which was cool as we haven't seen him in several weeks, due to the pirate show he was working on eating his life. Now that he's mostly released from its clutches we'll hopefully see a bit more of him.
We ended up going out for a bite to eat, and then went to see The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy. Both Kit and PreZ have read the books, and have seen and heard the tv and radio shows, so I was the only one with very little previous exposure. I'd heard some of the radio episodes that PreZ has played, but that's about it. The movie was okay, it was amusing enough and it certainly wasn't as bad as some reviews had made me worry it would be, but it seemed to lack something. I think it was![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
catdraco who used the response 'meh', which is fairly on target for large portions of it. It just seemed a bit anemic, lacking in zest, or spice, or whatever you want to call it.
Roger Ebert of course manages to capture the sentiment perfectly: It is not an evil movie. It wants only to be loved, but movies that want to be loved are like puppies in the pound: No matter how earnestly they wag their little tails, you can adopt only one at a time.
One thing I really disliked was the design of Marvin. Not that I have any particular affinity to the BBC's rendition of him, so that's not it, but he was just way too clunky. It was a design that would have worked better, for me, if he'd been maybe 3 feet tall, not 5+ (seeing as he was almost as tall as Trillian if memory serves). And surely they could have come up with something better than some blimpy suit into which they stuck Willow*. It just seemed as impractical a design as the robots/aliens at the beginning of The Fifth Element... doesn't look too bad, but moves at the staggering pace of a snail, and looks about ready to fall over if gently nudged.
And then there were just a bunch of things in the movie that didn't seem to go anywhere, seemed inserted for no good reason, or just weren't explained. But I guess I can leave those complaints up to the bigger, or rather actual, HHGTTG fans...
* Yes, really... the actor Warwick Davis, who played Willow, was in that suit.
We ended up going out for a bite to eat, and then went to see The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy. Both Kit and PreZ have read the books, and have seen and heard the tv and radio shows, so I was the only one with very little previous exposure. I'd heard some of the radio episodes that PreZ has played, but that's about it. The movie was okay, it was amusing enough and it certainly wasn't as bad as some reviews had made me worry it would be, but it seemed to lack something. I think it was
catdraco who used the response 'meh', which is fairly on target for large portions of it. It just seemed a bit anemic, lacking in zest, or spice, or whatever you want to call it.Roger Ebert of course manages to capture the sentiment perfectly: It is not an evil movie. It wants only to be loved, but movies that want to be loved are like puppies in the pound: No matter how earnestly they wag their little tails, you can adopt only one at a time.
One thing I really disliked was the design of Marvin. Not that I have any particular affinity to the BBC's rendition of him, so that's not it, but he was just way too clunky. It was a design that would have worked better, for me, if he'd been maybe 3 feet tall, not 5+ (seeing as he was almost as tall as Trillian if memory serves). And surely they could have come up with something better than some blimpy suit into which they stuck Willow*. It just seemed as impractical a design as the robots/aliens at the beginning of The Fifth Element... doesn't look too bad, but moves at the staggering pace of a snail, and looks about ready to fall over if gently nudged.
And then there were just a bunch of things in the movie that didn't seem to go anywhere, seemed inserted for no good reason, or just weren't explained. But I guess I can leave those complaints up to the bigger, or rather actual, HHGTTG fans...
* Yes, really... the actor Warwick Davis, who played Willow, was in that suit.