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Tuesday, May 17, 2005 → by Danieru
Watch the badly conceived movie version of that most beloved of books, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (find my comments on this awful spectacle in the comments section - here).
Follow this with a viewing of the 6th film in that most over-rated of sci-fi pantomimes, Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith.
And finally... learn in horror that the first "true to the original" Philip K Dick movie has had its release date put back until 2006! - (A Scanner Darkly: click here for the incredible looking trailer).
Come on Hollywood! What kind of sci-fi derailment are you heading for here!? I ask every reader of this post, sci-fi fan or not, to give me reasons to be positive. Or, if you are more inclined, tell me why my opinions suck. I like a huge steaming dollop of criticism every now and again...
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I feel i must respond personally to claims made by some people that the new hitchhiker's film is good. it isn't. it is one of the worst conceived pieces of badly edited humourless trash i have ever had the displeasure of waiting for release. my disappointment is something which i will take with me to the grave. where was the humour you ask? well, they took it out, not simply by altering the script (they made a vaild attempt to
crucify every carefully crafted 1 liner into a poorly executed no liner) but by missing the entire basis of all humour on the planet : timing. comedy is
about timing, British comedy doubly so. the outcome is a slapstick rendition of a near perfect story. There are no custard pies in the movie, because the entire movie is one big custard pie, thrown in the face of Douglas Adam's fans everywhere. Terry Gilliam could have made this film 10 years ago, Spike Jonze WAS set to direct this film, that neither of them got the chance in order that the two bit comedic soul destroyers Jennings and Roach could tear it limb from limb is a fact that will haunt me well into my next reincarnation and the reincarnated nightmares of my (metaphorical) children
and their (even more metaphorical) children's children.
so there
May 17, 2005 5:30 AM
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