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You all know that the TV show that was done of Hitchiker's... (and, whatever else it might not have done right, the actor playing Arthur Dent was perfection - the issues I have with the rest I just think of as an homage to Dr.Who and let it go) is available on DVD, right
Alas, a bad movie: White Noise . Save yourselves. Don't go. It was like they hired three writers to each do a script based loosely around a cool, spooky concept and then they filmed parts of each one and stuck them together. It was not scary, and it made no sense. I'm disappointed; I wanted to be scared. What a waste of a good idea.
Oh, duh. Missed the "tv" in there. Too much skimming. No biscuit.
What a waste of a good idea.
Was it a good idea? It seemed like a cheap knockoff of The Ring and The Sixth Sense.
The idea being the EVP stuff. Which seems like a good idea for a horror movie to me because it freaks me way the hell out.
I couldn't say it was even a cheap knockoff of either of those movies. It brought neither to mind.
Huh. I've just found a movie I had to turn off before the halfway point.
Elf.
I know it got decent reviews, and a lot of people liked it, but man... it was PAINFUL.
Now I have to find something else to watch.
Oh dear. I just got it from Netflix.
Oh dear. I just got it from Netflix.
So did we. I'd heard good things...
But I started twitching early on, and couldn't stop.
I have no desire to find a copy of Mostly Harmless, though.
I liked it much more than So Long..., but I read it twice in a row, and there are some stealth jokes that only make sense if you know what's going to happen later. It's more like a Dirk Gently book than H2G2, with fewer one-liners and more jokes that are almost puzzles.
I mean, I get why it's not to everyone's taste, but that sort of thing is catnip for me. [insert "Why I liked Sahjhan" dissertation here]
I liked it much more than So Long..., but I read it twice in a row, and there are some stealth jokes that only make sense if you know what's going to happen later. It's more like a Dirk Gently book than H2G2, with fewer one-liners and more jokes that are almost puzzles.
I thought it was okay, but it had the misfortune of being read the same weekend I read Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers and Better Than Life (the incredibly funny and wonderful first two Red Dwarf novels--sadly, reading the other two prove that Grant and Naylor are better together than apart), and it suffered in the compare.