ozbreaker
Bluelighter
I think it should have been called "4 weddings and a guide to the galaxy" or "The Guide Actually!"
It was umm a very poor to woeful imitation of the series. I think the director was restrained by not wanting to copy the series whilst giving it the same look and feel as well so it makes it harder.
My issues were:
on the plus side:
So i came out of it not completely hating it as i understood there is way too much to cram into a movie and also why they put the love bit in, so it was a meh i won't rush out to watch it again but it wasn't a total waste of space. I wanted to watch the original tv series instead.
It was umm a very poor to woeful imitation of the series. I think the director was restrained by not wanting to copy the series whilst giving it the same look and feel as well so it makes it harder.
My issues were:
- Arthur Dent was for too competent. He's Arthur Dent. Arthur Phillip Dent that spends the entire series in quest for a nice cup of tea and spends most of his time saying stupid things along the lines of "So this is it, we're going to die".
- Zaphod looked and acted like a stupid idiot rather than the ubber-cool frude(sp?) that we've come to expect.
- Ford was impotent as a character - not enough worldliness.
- The plot line lost it with the love story.
- The vogons were weak - not as officious and pointless as they are in the book by far.
- Too much was trying to be crammed into a short movie - which is probably a large part of the problem. Not enough time to properly develop ideas and the asides of pointless facts which is the whole point of the book.
on the plus side:
- The public service portrayal was excellent in that whole 'funny cos it's true way'
- The marvins voice was perfect - i forget his name now but the surliness he brought forth in dogma was perfect for this role.
- I liked the look and feel they adopted for the movie - giving it a similarish tinge to the original series.
- The mushrooms that were created on the new earth looked familiar
- Making loud smart arsed comments about he govt anti-drug scare campaign that was screened just before.
- Having the "Zaphod's just this guy you know" line in the movie
So i came out of it not completely hating it as i understood there is way too much to cram into a movie and also why they put the love bit in, so it was a meh i won't rush out to watch it again but it wasn't a total waste of space. I wanted to watch the original tv series instead.