Posted on 05/05/2005 9:12:29 PM PDT by ArcLight
Well, you can all relax. While ROTS isn't a masterpiece, it's pretty darn good.
I managed to slip into a preview showing earlier today and had a thoroughly good time. Yes, it's pretty grim in places. Yet if anything, I'd say it wasn't grim enough.
The opening battle will have your jaw hitting the floor. Wall-to-wall butt-kicking on a cosmic scale. And the betrayal of the Jedi...well, it really, really hurts. Even when you know it's coming, it hurts.
Oh, yes. This one's a keeper.
I have no interest in seeing Hitchhiker's Guide. I remember the BBC TV series which was wretched. If the Beeb couldn't get it right, I knew Disney wouldn't.
Remember that the whole thing originated as a series of radio plays. It was perfectly suited to that medium; by comparison, Adams' books seem lifeless. So I knew what to expect from a movie adaptation and saved the money and time.
Yep, should add a nice symmetry to the epic.
Not really, just envious and I hope you had a great time.
The Hitchhiker's Guide movie was a bad idea from the git-go. There is no way to do even one percent of the humor in that story in the visual medium. That is just not what it is all about. I am amazed that Douglas Adams had anything to do with the project. They must have thrown some serious money his way...
The menagatrois between Padme, Jar-Jar, and Yoda was revolting.
Samuel Jackson as Mace Windu says "mother f***er too many times.
Ewoks and Wookies start breeding.
Yeah, yeah... like that's the first time I ain't made no sense.
I would say that $.17 is low.
Very true. The central point of the Hitchhiker's Guide stories is satire, and a Hollywood movie just doesn't lend itself to it. It was doomed from the start, and I'm not going to give money to Hollywood (read: the DNC) for no reason at all.
Do we ever find out what that shiny thing is in the briefcase ?
Oh, that is just sick....
Inventive, but sick.
Truthful, too.
Er...Gridlock, Douglas Adams is dead. So if Disney bought the film rights from him, that Michael Eisner guy is even more powerful than we thought...!
That's nothing. I've already seen the sequel!
Yes, but Adams wrote the screenplay for the movie before he died. That's the screenplay they used (or at least started with).
I dunno why there's so much antipathy for the movie. I saw it last weekend and had a great time. There's always ways to do it differently... but I thought it was fun and stayed pretty much true to the spirit of the books.
Two of my favorite SW ships were in the novelization: Carrack class cruisers (Introduced in The Truce at Bakura) and Dreadnaught class Heavy Cruisers (Introduced in Book 2 of the Thrawn Trilogy). Were they in the movies?
I have no idea what you're talking about. I'm a Star Wars fan, but I haven't memorized all the ship classes. The Republic does have a big wedge-shaped ship that can land...is that what you mean?
Solved that, sort of, years ago when I bought a lifetime pass to our theater. Still have to buy popcorn, but those profits stay here in town with our flaming-leftie theater owner, who gets copies of right-wing-perspective movie reviews from some malcontent with a lifetime pass.
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