In addition to 42, the movie answers the oft neglected question of, "what's the last thing to go through a whale's mind?" How ironic that the answer would be a question. Well, on Deep Thought, maybe it is just the flippy thing.
Posted on 04/28/2005 10:44:46 AM PDT by js1138
Starring: Martin Freeman, Sam Rockwell, Mos Def, Zooey Deschanel, Bill Nighy, Anna Chancellor, John Malkovich, Warwick Davis, Alan Rickman (voice), Stephen Fry (voice)
It opens with a perfectly choreographed dolphin musical number, and ends with the disembodied head of deceased author Douglas Adams. This is the long awaited adaptation of his novel, “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy,” and as the dolphins flawlessly perform their rendition of “So Long and Thanks for All the Fish” you’ll realize you’re in for one hell of a ride. Don’t panic. It only gets a little weirder.
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In addition to 42, the movie answers the oft neglected question of, "what's the last thing to go through a whale's mind?" How ironic that the answer would be a question. Well, on Deep Thought, maybe it is just the flippy thing.
"If/when you do go, tell me this... do you think the Zaphod B. actor is mimicking GWB in his language... I found it unmistakable that he was doing a GWB impersonation, not with his ~look~ obviously, but with the cadence of his language."
No, I think you've only developed a case of thin skin. He talks like an amalgamation of Jeff Foxworthy and the other 'redneck joke' comics mixed in equal parts with frantic coked-up L.A. movie agent.
I thought the big Z was done VERY well; the sort of guy who everyone reacts instinctively well to, but whom everyone would be appalled by if they took 30 seconds to consider him.
If you want a parallel in modern politics, it's not W, but his predecessor. :)
You read me wrong.... I thoroughly enjoyed his performance, no offense at all, and I still think he reminded me of W. Playing it like W is ~funny~ not offensive to me.
You should rent "spirited Away". You have nothing to lose but $4. A dollar says you will be bug-eyed wondering what will happen next.
I'll keep an eye out for it. I haven't watched an animated movie for years.
*sigh*
Or more accurately, up from his chest...
Although you do get extra points for using busts and chest in the same sentence...
I should be an author.
You are. But unfortunately FR doesn't pay much. Cheaper than Vantge, though, and reaches a bigger audience.
every once in a while you get the chance to do something great like that, and when the opportunity arises, you just have to take it.
That said, I saw the movie friday night. I enjoyed it. I forgot just how subtle and zany Adams was with his humor, at the same time. The visuals in this motion picture were amazing, especially during the sequence with slartibartfast at the "planet factory."
I wouldn't say Rockwell was trying to do GW in his Beeblebrox role. I was thinking more along the lines of a used car salesman/agent mixed with the smarm of Bill Clinton.
You could be Author Dent...
Some ignoramus brought and his brother brought their two boys into the movie with them. They were there in their pajamas and cowboy boots. One of them had a mohawk haircut. Apparently that is all the rage in KY elementary schools these days. They were neither one older than 5 years of age, and didnt understand a thing about the movie. One of them actually asked, as the movie started "Is this a true story, did all this really happen, dad?"
You shouldn't bring kids who can't read yet to a movie based around a book. (The Polar Express being the one exception to that rule that I've found).
I thought the movie was rather like Vogon poetry.
I liked it...
I disagree. You can see the cynicism ALL over the place in that movie. The vogons show his distaste for government, very clearly. The church of the white hankey, for organized religion. Its very clear.
I agree. I think she must have it in her contract that she's got a shower scene in every movie she's in. She had one in ELF, too.
If FR had a custom planet, it would be a pajamahedron.
Indeed!
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