I found KoH to be lacking explanation in some parts. Like I needed to have studied The Crusades before watching. Didn't quite understand or believe some of the motivations.

Other than that, Vonnie K is me.

I only ask because it makes me deliriously happy that it's still making you deliriously happy after five viewings.

The movie has so many flaws, but it's just so...Hitchhikery!

Yesterday I went to two different stores looking for Yarn Marvin, but there were none to be found. (Though the guy at Suncoast told me he'd seen them at their Queens location, I don't know if I'm motivated enough to go to Queens for a doll.)

I also saw the trailer for The Island on the big screen for the first time today, and oh my how I am ashamed to be looking forward to a Michael Bay movie. It's just mean of them to follow up shots of multiple wet Ewan MacGregors with "From the director of Pearl Harbor and Armageddon..." I feel dirty.

My primary thought, after KoH, was "Everything Orlando needed to know to play this part, he learned from Viggo Mortensen". We had a whole series of jokes on the theme.

Saw Hitchhiker's today. Meh. The pacing didn't work for me. The clever lines and the funny lines kept getting stepped on. I chuckled a couple of times, but I wasn't rolling on the floor the way I did when I listened to the radio show.

I would have predicted a larger second week dropoff for Hitchhiker's myself:

1.Kingdom of Heaven (2005)$20M$20M 2.House of Wax (2005)$12.2M$12.2M 3.The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005)$9.13M$35.1M 4.Crash (2004)$9.1M$9.1M 5.The Interpreter (2005)$7.5M$54.1M 6.xXx: State of the Union (2005)$5.4M$20.8M 7.The Amityville Horror (2005)$3.15M$60.1M 8.Sahara (2005)$3.1M$61.3M 9.A Lot Like Love (2005)$3.04M$18.8M 10.Fever Pitch (2005)$2M$39M

I went to see Kingdom of Heaven too!

I wondered if Ed Norton was the King of Jerusalem -- he is listed in the IMDB but with a name, not a title.

I also had a question about beheading of suicides -- did they really do that? Is it because it is against the law to commit suicide? Naturally, I got vampire prevention vibes off of that but I get that probably wasn't the reason.

Sumi, I read that it him was but he was uncredited.

I just started watching the BBC Hitchhiker's for the first time -- much, much better in some ways, painful in others (BBC!Trillian is indefinably irksome to me, and Zaphod's mannequin head wobbling on his right shoulder is taking a powerful lot of getting used to), but overall very much its own entity, a distinct and independent creature that's able so far to peacefully coexist in my brin with the movie without either version stepping on the other's toes.

Except Marvin. I can't hear a single one of BBC!Marvin's lines without hearing how Alan Rickman said it and wanting to scamper off to the theater to hear him say it again. Of all the performances in either version, his is the one that's forcibly obliterating all others -- haven't heard any radio Hitchhiker's yet, but I'm sure it will be just the same, with Rickman remorselessly trampling the competition. So fretful, so sullen, so unbearably perfect.

Now I want a yarn Alan Rickman.

GoF. Where the hell have I seen Miranda Richardson? I read her whole iMDB resume, and I can't place her for the life of me. Maybe I just recognize her from discussion?

I can't wait for GoF.

t Harry Potter whore

All over the place, notably as the sex-crazed Queen Elizabeth in Blackadder. Also as Mme. Giry in POTO. Also as the romantic lead in The Apostle.