Just got back from the 9:30 show, i went in with extremely low expectations, thinking "this is gonna’ suck bigtime, they don’t know where their towel is, they’re gonna’ Belgium it up (sorry about the horrible profanity there
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well, my fears were completely unfoundedLOVED it, there were plenty of inside jokes, the original BBC tv series Marvin was a welcome surprise, sadly no one else got it, i had to explain it to the group i was with after the movie why i found the queue on Vogsphere so amusing…
Vogon beuracracy is just as horrible as they make it seem in the book…
i like the way they presented the functioning of the Improbability drive (shades of the Red Dwarf Polymorph ep on the shape changing…)
Arthur, i think i’m a sofa…
i know how you feel…
notice Zaphod was eating Starbix cereal when we first see him, and it was the fancy box Starbix, must be before the Editor of the Guide sent the Guide backwards in time and sued the Starbix company for infringing Galactic Copyright laws…
i was resistant to the New Marvin at first, but Rickman did a commendable job portraying Marvin and his dislike of organic lifeforms (loved his subtle mutterings
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Deep Thought’s new voice caught me off guard, was expecting a DEEP BOOMING VOICE (that sounds like a 7 foot tall man who has been smoking cigarettes since childhood)
i did notice, however that…
the POV Gun/Humma/Milliways thread was left unresolved, can you say “sequel”…
i plan to see this one multiple times and WILL be buying it on DVD
loved the simple dedication at the end of the film…
For Douglas
i think Douglas would have been happy with the result
my rating, on a scale of 1-10, i give it a…
42
(hey, you knew that was coming, right? 