Hitchhiker's Guide Ramblings

[tallulahgs]

Liked Ford and Arthur. I'm beginning to think Arthur is kind of a difficult part to play, because neither of the two guys I've seen doing it I've felt got it totally right, but this one was okay. He did a decent job. Ford kept hugging and patting everyone, kind of odd, made me think of slash subtext. Bill Nighy was very good. Special effects were great, especially the Vogon buildings and the planet-making factory.
I didn't like Zaphod very much, but I think this was because he was nothing like how I'd imagined him. Just... really wasn't. I was thinking of someone younger, more surfer-like and less insane. (Haven't read the first book for years, though, so my perception could be off.)
Trillian... arrrrgh. No, I'm sorry, I just thought she was a whiny, show-off little brat. And I didn't like the romance. I didn't feel like her and Arthur connected on any level apart from the physical. I also thought it was kind of unconvincing that Arthur would reject getting his old normal life back. That's what he wants - normality.
Marvin was lovely. Alan Rickman did a great job.
I liked the way how the scene with the feast had these ominous subtexts to it even before the mice turned up.
I found my attention drifting a bit during the scenes on the Heart of Gold, perhaps because it felt like the actors weren't totally comfortable with who they were playing and how the characters interacted.
The Guide itself was done very well.
All in all, not amazing, but likeable enough.


And lo, the PMT has gone, and I no longer feel depressed. This PMT was more insidious than normal. Normal I know it's PMT that's making me want to punch people.

Comments

[kai-the-great.livejournal.com]

Hmm... See, Zaphod was exactly how I'd imagined him, wheras Ford... I could not get my head round the fact he didn't have ginger hair... But yes the heavy petting and the flowers, that's just asking for slash... I thought Bill Nighy was great as slartibartfast, but is it just me, or did they completely change the plot of the first book? I started watching it and I was like
"WTF? What's with the lemon on Zaphod's melon?" (sorry... I tend to call heads melons when I get into rant mode)

But that so long and thanks for all the fish song was catchy...

[tallulahgs]

Ah, well, it must just be me then with Zaphod. I thought Ford being black would bother me a lot more than it did, actually (but then, I only watched a very small part of the TV series).
Yeah, they did. That Humma guy was quite... random as well.
It was... darn it, now I'm humming it!

[disks-smilie.livejournal.com]

I liked Zaphod personally (Sam Rockwell, who was in Galaxy Quest with Alan Rickman, played him pretty much as I imagined him when I read the books years ago). Though there were some lefts-and-rights about the movie that clearly were different from the book (but as one of the writers or artists on Exterminatus Now pointed out, no two versions of Hitchhiker's Guide are identical), I enjoyed how the movie progressed and how it clung mostly to the story I had read and left an opening for more a sequel. The only thing that really bothered me was them removing Zaphod's second head...not because it never happened in the book, but because it was weird and a little gross.

[tallulahgs]

I'm prepared to admit the Zaphod-dislike is just me, but I still hate Trillian. (All right, possibly that's just me as well :p)
Yes. Especially as the head appeared to be located somewhere in the region of his throat... X_X