Lies, Damn Lies

Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy

The earth explodes, the theme tune cuts in, and the Hitchikers guide to the galaxy floats across the screen. A little tear comes to my eye.....

That was probably my favourite bit in the entire film, apart from every single bit with Marvin, who was awesome. This is a good film. Its got a fair bit of the flavour of the books, and is reasonably funny. The only problem is, is that I know the books intensively well. I know the radio series pretty well, and I've seen the television series several times through (look out for the in-jokey marvin in the vogon queue). None of them, to be fair, are quite the same as each other- the plots vary from each other, depending on exactly what Douglas wanted to do.

So changing the plot for the film, I suppose, is fair enough. But changing the characters? Sorry, but Arthur and Trillian never had a chance of romance. The whole point of Hitchikers guide is how pathetic Arthur is, at least, to begin with. Admittedly, he does get it on in So Long and Thanks for all the Fish, in my opinion the best book of the series, but thats after hes learned and changed. I dunno, that just frustrated me somewhat- I don't think Hitchikers has a need for a romance, but I suppose that theres got to be some central thread to what were admittedly very chaotic (and actually, apart from the afore mentioned So long, very bleak) books, but meh.

Still, there was some good imagining of the characters- Alan Rickman as Marvin, and Stephen Fry as the book were genius. I dunno, I had to see it because it was another part of the Hitchikers story. I mean, I have played on the text based adventure game! Which, incidentally, is excessively hard. But I suppose I would reccomend going to see it.

posted by Mr K @ 2:29 pm