It is not.
Is it?
No, it's not. I think.
I tell you I have this theory. It goes where, you're the one who's not my sister. Cuz mom adopted you from a shoe box full of baby howler monkeys, and never told you cuz it could hurt your delicate baby feelings.
Dawn ,'Selfless'
Buffista Movies 4: Straight to Video
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Dana - Apr 07, 2005 2:35:49 pm PDT #1554 of 10002
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Invisible Green - Apr 07, 2005 3:00:31 pm PDT #1555 of 10002
What???
§ ita § - Apr 07, 2005 3:20:18 pm PDT #1556 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Frankenbuddha - Apr 07, 2005 5:00:25 pm PDT #1557 of 10002
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Although I'd have paid folding money to see Sam Peckinpah's CROCODILE DUNDEE. And I think I'm not alone on that one.
Gris - Apr 07, 2005 7:22:52 pm PDT #1558 of 10002
Hey. New board.
Just watched The Iron Giant finally.
Brad Bird can completely and totally have my babies. Or vice versa. I'm flexible.
DavidS - Apr 07, 2005 9:05:08 pm PDT #1559 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
JZ and I saw Sin City tonight. She was disturbed that I was laughing as one of the bad guys came to his gory and gibbety end. She thought the movie's world was sorrowful.
I had to leave the theater during the torture scene in Reservoir Dogs. Nothing in this movie (which had scenes which were far more gruesome but far less humanly scaled) even tweaked me mildly.
First of all let me note that his movie is not Noir. This movie is a big Catholic passion play. It's a meditation on how much fleshly suffering you are willing to endure to be good. And not good in the eyes of the world, but to die justified. That is not Noir. Noir is Calvinist, fated. You don't die redeemed. You die because you fucked the wrong girl. You die because you made some stupid little half-assed mistake.
How many wounds to the male genitals were there in this movie? Six or seven at least. Because dicks are evil. Again...Catholic. Wounding the flesh again and again.
Anyway, it was gorgeous and fancifully badass. Bruce Willis is right about at the point where people are going to look at the whole of his career and start talking about him the way they talk about Harrison Ford. Except Willis is a better actor. But he's got that kind of resume now.
Fiona - Apr 07, 2005 10:56:16 pm PDT #1560 of 10002
Big long Hitchhiker's article from the Guardian.
Jim - Apr 08, 2005 12:54:20 am PDT #1561 of 10002
Ficht nicht mit Der Raketemensch!
Uh-oh. If they think the existing H2G2 fandom is enough to sustain a Hollywood movie, as that piece implies, they're fucked.
Fiona - Apr 08, 2005 1:07:44 am PDT #1562 of 10002
Yes. This:
Best of all, the film stays true to the essential spirit of Adams' writing - almost to a fault. With its whimsical musings, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a sci-fi blockbuster only insofar that Slaughterhouse Five might be described as a sci-fi novel, or Citizen Kane as a film about newspapers. It left me wondering what today's all-important youth demographic will make of it.
...doesn't necessarily bode too well.
Sue - Apr 08, 2005 3:21:03 am PDT #1563 of 10002
hip deep in pie
The previews I saw was that I fear they're going to replace the drollness and dry absurdity of the book with stuff that's more slapstick. Not that there isn't some elements of broad humor there, but it's the smart humor that made me fall in love with the book.
Also, too many American actors.