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Apr. 28th, 2005 11:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sebastiennei just got back from seeing the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
it was entirely made of joy. there are so many wonderful things that i just can't write about here because half of their joy was the joy of the unexpected. but they've kept old concepts, integrated new ones, changed things, left things the same, and all the while it's still about arthur's quest for a nice hot cup of tea. the music is so good i walked back to college skipping and singing with laurie, there were new jokes so good they got rounds of applause. anna chancellor is in it! with a dommey black suit, black hair, red lipstick! and i realised, the awful body-shape of marvin makes sense - why would the sirian cybernetics corporation have made him anything other than as shiny and new and stylised as the rest of the ship?
when they left the heart of gold in the escape pod, i was irrevocably reminded of starbug leaving the red dwarf. zaphod is the cat (snappy suits, narcissitic drivel), trillian is kochanski and marvin is kryten. ford and arthur don't fit so well, but i guess lister is the last man alive and so, technically, is arthur. indeed, there are a lot of similarities, when you start to think about it too hard, like i do.
there is also a new orange add - people who don't go to the cinema in the uk, these are basically adverts for orange which take the format of a film pitch being rubbished for not containing enough mobile phone product placement, with the tagline, 'don't let a mobile phone ruin your movie - switch it off'. let's just say, it references star wars, and it got a round of applause from the audience. an advert. practically got a standing ovation. i love the crowd of oxford geeks who were in that cinema tonight. although, i must add, i was at the very front of the queue going into the auditorium.
it was entirely made of joy. there are so many wonderful things that i just can't write about here because half of their joy was the joy of the unexpected. but they've kept old concepts, integrated new ones, changed things, left things the same, and all the while it's still about arthur's quest for a nice hot cup of tea. the music is so good i walked back to college skipping and singing with laurie, there were new jokes so good they got rounds of applause. anna chancellor is in it! with a dommey black suit, black hair, red lipstick! and i realised, the awful body-shape of marvin makes sense - why would the sirian cybernetics corporation have made him anything other than as shiny and new and stylised as the rest of the ship?
when they left the heart of gold in the escape pod, i was irrevocably reminded of starbug leaving the red dwarf. zaphod is the cat (snappy suits, narcissitic drivel), trillian is kochanski and marvin is kryten. ford and arthur don't fit so well, but i guess lister is the last man alive and so, technically, is arthur. indeed, there are a lot of similarities, when you start to think about it too hard, like i do.
there is also a new orange add - people who don't go to the cinema in the uk, these are basically adverts for orange which take the format of a film pitch being rubbished for not containing enough mobile phone product placement, with the tagline, 'don't let a mobile phone ruin your movie - switch it off'. let's just say, it references star wars, and it got a round of applause from the audience. an advert. practically got a standing ovation. i love the crowd of oxford geeks who were in that cinema tonight. although, i must add, i was at the very front of the queue going into the auditorium.
