Well, it doesn't help that all the TV spots make me think that this is a SCI-FI ADVENTURE, with all the bells and whistles such films include, not a comedy filled with mostly British humor
It's both. It's more a comedy than an adventure film, but it does take place in space, and sometimes things blow up. It's a British caper/farce, in space.
Heh -- just found this on IMDB:
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy movie is good. Really good. You just won't believe how vastly, staggeringly, jaw-droppingly good it is. I mean, you might think that Lord of the rings was an excellent way to reinvent a much-loved franchise by people who well-intentioned, completely understood what made the original popular - but that's just peanuts to the Hitchhiker's movie. Listen.
Until today, I had not seen the 3rd HGTG trailer where the narrator (who sounds a lot like Stephen Fry) outlines the structure of a movie trailer. It killed me. And seemed so appropriate to HGTG's particular humor.
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Oh, yeah, that's a perfect trailer. I adore it.
A friend of mine who's a big Anglophile is only showing the vaguest interest in maybe seeing it, since she's not a SF fan normally, nor a big fan of Pythonesque humor.
Given this bias, do you really think she would like it?
It is Stephen Fry
Ears like a steeltrap. That's what I have.
Plus? A keen awareness of how far behind the curve I generally am.
Ears like a steeltrap.
Q-tips tremble in fear....
Q-tips
= orgasmic
tommyrot, you made me giggle out LOUD
I always think of Resevoir Dogs as a Greek tragedy. If you ignore the flashbacks and flourishes, it certainly has the Aristotelian unities. Plus, lots of loyalty issues. And lots of blood.
All of these, definitely. Plus the Howard Hawks obsession with professionalism, and male codes of honor. Plus the first American dose of Hong Kong style action, with lots of bits lifted directly from (I think) City on Fire (with Chow Yun Fat). Also lots of texture from 70s American films, especially ones like
Straight Time
with Dustin Hoffman. The classic noir heist films: The Killing, Riffi, Asphalt Jungle. (Two with Sterling Hayden!) And of course, all of the Godard and French New Wave tics that QT rightly considers the motherlode of hipster cinema.
