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Science Fiction » alt.fan.douglas-adams » Another review
| Another review [message #296] |
Mo, 11 April 2005 09:44 |
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I was on a screening in the BAFTA building in London on February 24.
Loads of people there, one of which was Martin Freeman.
Bearing in mind all the way that this was a rough cut of the movie,
with not all the FX finsihed and the music score not all there, I have
never seen anything quite like it, and nothing springs to mind to
compare it with. Did I like it? Yes I did, very much. Did I laugh? Oh,
yes indeed I did. Very much so.
The movie unfolds in a furious pace, the only actual breathers being
the brilliant and funny Guide entries and the not very prominent but
still emphasized love story between Trillian and Arthur. It all takes
off ferociously from the start, and just keeps going.
And there's something for everyone there. For the hardcore fan; cameos
by Douglas' mum, details in the background which you discover with a
start and makes you laugh (if you like the idea of a temple being
designed after a model of Douglas' nose, wait until you see the
Magrathean factory floor and one of the planets under construction
there...). And there's also a cracking new story for those who haven't
heard of Hitchhikers before.
So, was there anything disappointing about the movie? Yes, there are
one or two details that I thought did not come across or should have
been reconsidered in the movie, and that's a bit sad. There are also
quite a few nice bits left out, but expecting a fundamental adaptation
of the books/radio show would simply be stupid.
In relation to my anticipations and hopes, which have been huge and
demanding since the beginning of this project, and also considering
that it was an unfinished rough cut and not the final product, I give
it 3,5 bordering to 4 out of 5.
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| Re: Another review [message #300 ] |
Mo, 11 April 2005 14:01 |
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I'm thrilled to hear an objective review of the movie rather than the
"it's not pure hitchhikers as it is in MY mind therefore it's terrible"
sort of thing that's bandying around.
>From what I've seen on the trailers and read on sites etc I'm really
looking forward to it. The really nice thing about the film is, of
course, it's based on the scripts for the film that Douglas had
actually written. I think he'd gotten through at least 3 drafts and he
*himself* had dropped out a lot of things he didn't think were worthy
of a movie. Infact the fella (apologies for I forget his name) who
completed the screenplay as used in the movie read through the books
and listened to the radio play and put thing *back* in that Douglas
left out!
But as you say, there's always going to be adaptation and differences
as it's moved to yet another different media - one that will bring the
original radio play and books to a lot more people and that, regardless
of what anyone may say about the film, cannot be a bad thing :-)
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| Re: Another review [message #301 ] |
Mo, 11 April 2005 17:44 |
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<vengofett [at] gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1113220792.167575.273830 [at] l41g2000cwc.googlegroups.com...
> I'm thrilled to hear an objective review of the movie rather than the
> "it's not pure hitchhikers as it is in MY mind therefore it's terrible"
> sort of thing that's bandying around.
That's what that one negative review on AICN was, so I just ignored it.
>>From what I've seen on the trailers and read on sites etc I'm really
> looking forward to it. The really nice thing about the film is, of
> course, it's based on the scripts for the film that Douglas had
> actually written. I think he'd gotten through at least 3 drafts and he
> *himself* had dropped out a lot of things he didn't think were worthy
> of a movie. Infact the fella (apologies for I forget his name) who
> completed the screenplay as used in the movie read through the books
> and listened to the radio play and put thing *back* in that Douglas
> left out!
Karey Kirkpatrick is his name sir. And Douglas, counting all the drafts he'd
worked on, did three drafts in the eighties, two drafts in the mid-nineties
and one draft in the summer of 2000. None of them worked, but Karey's did.
> But as you say, there's always going to be adaptation and differences
> as it's moved to yet another different media - one that will bring the
> original radio play and books to a lot more people and that, regardless
> of what anyone may say about the film, cannot be a bad thing :-)
No disrespect to MJ or anything (if you read this, MJ, you know I'd never
disrespect you) but that's what I don't get about his review. He was
preaching Robbie Stamp's philosophy of, "Every version of Hitchhiker's is
different and this movie is no different." And his review seemed to complain
about everything they changed. Plus, he said on his set visit report that
Martin, Mos, and Sam were all nice guys and they were, "Fantastic actors who
on the basis of this scene fit their casting roles to a T." And I would
agree with that. His final verdict on them I dunno about, I've seen the
trailers, they all seem fine. I was always so impressed with the choice of
Sam Rockwell as the Big Z that I threw out anyone else I had in my mind to
play him.
And some people may complain about Lunkwill and Fook being kids, but haven't
you ever seen superintelligent children before? In the very first Doctor Who
serial, Ian Chesterton complains to the Doctor that he's, "Treating us like
children." and he replies, "Am I? The children of my civilization would be
insulted!" So it's not unreasonable there'd be kids who have computer
degrees in outer space :-)
I'm confident I will like the movie and I implore others to stay open-minded
for two weeks.
But folks need to bare in mind, MJ Simpson may be the world's leading
authority on the subject, but he's not the world's foremost movie critic.
Just because he didn't like it doesn't mean lots of other people won't, so
we shouldn't, like some trolls have, let his review be the absolute and
final word on the film for us.
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