To me the funniest moment was the guy who was painting Ayers rock by hand. They should have focused more on bizarre visual humor like that, and less on copying lines directly out of the book. I would recommend it, but I’m not going to see it a second time.
How about using the fire hose to fill the oceans? 
That’s essentially it. Opportunity cost is an economic term which refers to what you missed out on by making a particular decision. If you come to a fork in the road and go right, the opportunity cost is what you would have encountered if you’d gone left (unless you’re visiting Yogi Berra, but never mind that).
Yeah. One guy to fill the oceans and about sixty-three to rebuild Arthur’s house.
It’s these kinds of priorities that tell you a lot about how our world was set up. :rolleyes:
Yeah, I’d agree, although I thought Alan Rickman’s voice was good. One thing I did find amusing was that the BBC Marvin was in the queue of creatures on the Vogon planet.
And I liked the Ayer’s rock joke too.
The characters just seemed a bit different - I’d always felt in the book that Ford (and to a certain extent Zaphod) was confident and didn’t get in a flap, and “knew where his towel was”. He had been all over this big Galaxy, and whatever trouble they were in wasn’t nearly as bad or complicated as anything he’d been in in the past (and if it was, hey, he could handle it). Didn’t get that from the film.
Similarly, Arthur was scared of everything, it was all outside of his worldview, he didn’t understand, “we’re all going to die”. In the film, he seemed to be resigned to whatever was happening. He also lead the way on the Vogon planet - not the Arthur I saw in the books.
It’s been ages since I read the books though, so I may be looking back with rose-tinted glassed.
glasses.
Sigh. Preview is my friend.
<bump n’ grind>
Finally caught it yesterday, in the last theater in Manhattan that’s playing it. Theater was pretty small but about 2/3 full. The audience laughed along and enjoyed it a lot and it got a smatter of applause at the end.
Pretty OK; I always enjoyed Rockwell, although he certainly was playing only the frat-boy aspects of Zaphod. Liked Trillian a lot, but sure didn’t see all those aspects of her in the books. I actually enjoyed Mos Def’s Ford just fine, but I agree he was much less confident and knowing than he could have been (I kept thinking about Ari’s “Hug it out, bitch!” during the hugging scenes). Martin Freeman was good–a little more fear, a little more wry edge, and he would have been great. He sure looked like an Arthur. Marvin–just close your eyes and listen to Rickman and he was fine, otherwise, bleah. That cute li’l guy sure didn’t look like he had pain in his diodes all down his left-hand side.
Too much Vogonhood. They’re like ST’s Borg–the filmmakers greatly overestimated how interested I was in those guys.
Nice seeing Marvin 1.0 and Simon Jones’ face for cameos. Stephen Fry is always a plus.
Very annoyed that they didn’t explain or resolve the Earth’s role as the super-computer very well. Don’t want to spoil, but it could have been made a lot, lot, sharper. Didn’t like the ‘squash!’ either. But Helen Mirren’s voice was cool.
My favorite part, as it seems to have been for many, were the Magrathea factory scenes. Bill Nighy’s Slartibartfast was just right, and the factory floor was awe-inspiring.
Do I want to see it again? I dunno. DVD? Maybe on sale. Enjoyed myself for a couple of hours on a hot Sunday afternoon, but was not blown away.