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I got the second book of that series that I posted about ages ago that was totally ripped from LotR, with a tower with a double meaning name that an evil wizard lives in, and this secret secluded wood with elves in it, etc. You remember the one? Haven't read it yet, but if it's still being ripped off I'll let youse know.
OMG DARTH MALIGNA WILL BE POSTING A SNEAKING TOUR OF MORDOR YAY! And check out her icon:
For explaination of funnyness go here.
Right. Hitchhikers. Well, I went into the theatre knowing that the books and radio series and TV series are all different and contradict each other, so I wasn’t expecting the movie to be exactly the same as the book. With that mind frame, I enjoyed the movie as a movie, and enjoyed picking up on the bits that I recognised from the books. Very funny, especially Marvin. And the random Guide entries. And Mum screwing her eyes shut every time a mouse appeared on screen. And there were trailers for Star Wars and some movie in which Orlando Bloom plays a Crusader. Also worked for Katrina and Erica who, prior to watching the movie knew only that the number 42 was involved. So, if you’ve never come across any manifestation of it before, you’ll still be able to follow the story and understand all the jokes and stuff.
The film started with dolphins clicking and whistling, and the Guide talking about how humans thought that they were the most intelligent life on Earth instead of the third most intelligent, and the second most intelligent is dolphins, and they knew the Earth was going to be destroyed and all their attempts to warn us were mistaken for tricks, and the last message was misinterpreted as the dolphin doing a double back flip through a hoop while whistling ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’, while the real message was ‘So long, and thanks for all the fish’. Cue opening credits, and the song ‘So long, and thanks for all the fish’. Which was kind of weird; “You’re not up to our intellect/ Which may explain your disrespect/ For all the natural beauty that surrounds you, or something like that/ So long, so long, and thanks for all the fish”
The Guide waffles on for a while, and we meet Arthur, and then we meet Ford, and they go to the pub, and Arthur tells Ford about this girl (Trillian) that he met at a party before she went off with some guy who said “I’m from a different planet, want to see my spaceship?” (Zaphod), etc. etc. Pretty much follows the book ‘till they get to the Heart of Gold. Then it turns out that Zaphod is looking for Magrathea because that’s the planet that the mice built Deep Thought on, and he has this little disk thingie that has Deep Thought going “The answer is 42, and I can’t calculate the Question, and you have to make a really huge complex computer with organic life as part of its matrix, and the name of this computer will be GARGLE SPLUTTER FILE DATA DELETED” so he’s going to Magrathea to ask Deep Thought where it was, and Marvin is comic relief but the audience don’t really like him much, and then they get hunted down by the Vogons because Zaphod kidnapped himself so they’re going to… arrest him… or something.
The Improbability Drive- Ha! I’m typing this in Word, and it wants to make “Improbability Drive” an address. Anyway, it takes them to this planet that believes in the Great Green Arkleseizure, and also happens to be run by the guy who was running against Zaphod in the Presidential election and called him stupid. For this reason, Zaphod decides to settle the score, and now the guy is a creepy spider android man with no eyes, and he has a disc with the co-ordinates for Magrathea, and he wants Zaphod to go and get (Dramatic Music: DUN DUN DUN) A Gun from Magrathea in return. And he takes Zaphod’s second head as a… I dunno, what would you call it? A deposit? Well, anyway for the rest of the movie Zaphod is all zoned out and stuff. More than usual.
Back to the Vogons. They track Zaphod down and try and kill him and Trillian gets captured and they’re going to feed her to that thing that the Guide says a Vogon won’t save his own mother from unless forms are filled out, triple signed, filed, lost, found, buried in peat for three months and used as firelighters. And the others take the little pod and follow the Vogon fleet, and as they’re walking to the city Arthur says ‘I think-“ but gets smacked in the face by this paddle. And then they all get smacked in the face with paddles because they’re thinking, and they run for the city and burst into the building, Arthur waving Marvin’s arm about and pretending it’s a gun, and going “Alright, where is she?!” And there’s this reception desk and the receptionist Vogon says “Who, the Head of Robot Arm Repairs?” And Marvin’s walking back to the pod with only one arm, whinging and going “How am I supposed to fly the ship with only one arm? Stupid humans.” And everyone laughs at him.
Back in the Vogon place, they’re interviewing Trillian and she says that she’s from Earth, and the Vogon who’s interviewing her says that it was destroyed, which she didn’t know because Zaphod hadn’t told her, and he’d told Arthur not to tell her, because (as we see when the Vogon shows her the demolition order) Zaphod was the one who signed the demolition order in the first place. Signed as “Love and kisses, Zaphod”. Apparently he thought they wanted his autograph.
With the others, there’s a queue to the reception desk. Because Zaphod’s the President, they can push through the queue, which contains the old Marvin from the TV show! and say they want a prisoner released. They fill in a form. The Vogon at the desk says that kidnapping the President excludes her from release. They say that Zaphod orders that Trillian be released. They have to fill in a Presidential Order of Release form. They keep cutting back to Trillian, who is being lowered into this cage with a nasty beast in it. The head Vogon gets the release form, and releases her, and there’s this woman with short black hair who keeps going around with the Vogons and trying to find Zaphod, and stopped them from shooting him on that other planet. I think she liked him.
Right. Trillian is released, and they fly away in their little pod with Marvin, and The Woman With Short Black Hair is going “Okay, let’s follow him!” And the Vogons are going “Yay, hunt him down, whoo!” And then a siren goes, and they all meander off for a one-hour lunch break, and The Woman With Short Black Hair is annoyed.
In the Heart of Gold, we enhance Arthur and Trillian’s relationship by giving them a touching conversation together. While Trillian is naked in the shower. Men in the audience pay attention.
They get to Magrathea, we get the nuclear-missile-turned-sperm-whale’s stream of consciousness and the bowl of petunias thinking “Oh no, not again”. They land on the planet and are in the snow, and Zaphod turns on a portal to another dimension and him and Trillian and Ford go through it but Arthur is too much of a wussy man, and when he finally does run through it it’s turned off, so he’s stuck by himself in the snow on a strange planet with a manically depressed robot. Marvin says it could be worse; imagine what it’s like being a manically depressed robot. Bill Nighy is funny in a “feeble would-be baddie, who’s really a nice guy” type of way. They take a different portal to the dimension where they manufacture planets. Marvin is left all by himself again, and the audience feel a bit sorry for him, this time.
Zaphod, Ford and Trillian meet Deep Thought, who has been watching TV. She says that there was another computer that was calculating the Ultimate Question, until the Vogons destroyed it. Trillian clues on- the Earth was the computer. Zaphod is crushed. Ford asks about DUN DUN DUN The Gun, and some stairs open up.
Slartibartfast is showing Arthur around the factory, and around the backup version of Earth.
Zaphod, Ford and Trillian find DUN DUN DUN The Gun, which is the Point of View gun. You point it at someone and pull the trigger, and the person instantly sees things from your point of view. It was commissioned by housewives, who were sick of ending every argument with ‘You just don’t get it, do you?’ They shoot each other with it, and we find out that Trillian likes Arthur, and was looking forward to finding out the Ultimate Question so that her life might make some sort of sense. AWWWW. And then some door opens and they’re about to be attacked, or something.
Slartibartfast takes Arthur to England on Earth V. 2.0, and his house is there, and they go inside and the other three are there, eating food and obviously drugged off their gourds. Arthur doesn’t seem to notice. The mice are there. Arthur has TEA THANK THE LORD. Slartibartfast doesn’t want to leave Arthur to die, but the mice make him because they suck. The strap Arthur to a chair and try to take his brain because they need it to boot up their new computer, and he says “why don’t you just make up a question, like ‘what’s six times seven’, or ‘how many Vogons does it take to change a lightbulb’? Or here’s one for you, ‘how many roads must a man walk down?” And the mice think that’s a good one. Then Arthur goes off into this speech about how it won’t make them happy, and the only question that mattered to him was one he asked himself a week ago ‘Is she the one?’ and the answer was ‘yes’, and that made him happy. The mice think that’s a load of bollocks, ask themselves why they should use a question from this man as the Ultimate Question, and decide to take his brain anyway, just to be on the safe side. He wrenches his arm free and bats the whizzy buzz saw thing away just as it’s about to perform a craniectomy. The other three wake up, and Arthur smushes the mice with his helmet.
THEN THE BLOODY VOGONS SHOW UP AGAIN. And Marvin’s there as well. The audience are happy, because they rather like Marvin now. And the Woman With Short Black Hair is there. They start shooting at the protagonists, and they run behind the caravan. Marvin is also walking toward the caravan. The Woman With Short Black Hair tells them to stop shooting, and this gives Trillian the chance to run out and try and shoot them all with the Point of View gun. Inside the caravan, Zaphod is trying to get the ‘spaceship’ to work by turning dials on the oven, which bursts into flames. He yells “Fire!” The Vogon leader takes this as an order to “Fire!” and they all start firing again, causing Trillian to drop the Point of View Gun as she and Arthur run for cover. I won’t tell you what happens next because it’s sad and funny at the same time. In the end, they restore the Earth and Woman With Short Black Hair hooks up with Zaphod, and they all go the Restaurant at the End of the Universe, leaving plenty of room for a sequel. I certainly hope that there’s a sequel, because Zaphod hasn’t got his head back yet.
And stay after the credits.
I got the second book of that series that I posted about ages ago that was totally ripped from LotR, with a tower with a double meaning name that an evil wizard lives in, and this secret secluded wood with elves in it, etc. You remember the one? Haven't read it yet, but if it's still being ripped off I'll let youse know.
OMG DARTH MALIGNA WILL BE POSTING A SNEAKING TOUR OF MORDOR YAY! And check out her icon:
For explaination of funnyness go here.Right. Hitchhikers. Well, I went into the theatre knowing that the books and radio series and TV series are all different and contradict each other, so I wasn’t expecting the movie to be exactly the same as the book. With that mind frame, I enjoyed the movie as a movie, and enjoyed picking up on the bits that I recognised from the books. Very funny, especially Marvin. And the random Guide entries. And Mum screwing her eyes shut every time a mouse appeared on screen. And there were trailers for Star Wars and some movie in which Orlando Bloom plays a Crusader. Also worked for Katrina and Erica who, prior to watching the movie knew only that the number 42 was involved. So, if you’ve never come across any manifestation of it before, you’ll still be able to follow the story and understand all the jokes and stuff.
The film started with dolphins clicking and whistling, and the Guide talking about how humans thought that they were the most intelligent life on Earth instead of the third most intelligent, and the second most intelligent is dolphins, and they knew the Earth was going to be destroyed and all their attempts to warn us were mistaken for tricks, and the last message was misinterpreted as the dolphin doing a double back flip through a hoop while whistling ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’, while the real message was ‘So long, and thanks for all the fish’. Cue opening credits, and the song ‘So long, and thanks for all the fish’. Which was kind of weird; “You’re not up to our intellect/ Which may explain your disrespect/ For all the natural beauty that surrounds you, or something like that/ So long, so long, and thanks for all the fish”
The Guide waffles on for a while, and we meet Arthur, and then we meet Ford, and they go to the pub, and Arthur tells Ford about this girl (Trillian) that he met at a party before she went off with some guy who said “I’m from a different planet, want to see my spaceship?” (Zaphod), etc. etc. Pretty much follows the book ‘till they get to the Heart of Gold. Then it turns out that Zaphod is looking for Magrathea because that’s the planet that the mice built Deep Thought on, and he has this little disk thingie that has Deep Thought going “The answer is 42, and I can’t calculate the Question, and you have to make a really huge complex computer with organic life as part of its matrix, and the name of this computer will be GARGLE SPLUTTER FILE DATA DELETED” so he’s going to Magrathea to ask Deep Thought where it was, and Marvin is comic relief but the audience don’t really like him much, and then they get hunted down by the Vogons because Zaphod kidnapped himself so they’re going to… arrest him… or something.
The Improbability Drive- Ha! I’m typing this in Word, and it wants to make “Improbability Drive” an address. Anyway, it takes them to this planet that believes in the Great Green Arkleseizure, and also happens to be run by the guy who was running against Zaphod in the Presidential election and called him stupid. For this reason, Zaphod decides to settle the score, and now the guy is a creepy spider android man with no eyes, and he has a disc with the co-ordinates for Magrathea, and he wants Zaphod to go and get (Dramatic Music: DUN DUN DUN) A Gun from Magrathea in return. And he takes Zaphod’s second head as a… I dunno, what would you call it? A deposit? Well, anyway for the rest of the movie Zaphod is all zoned out and stuff. More than usual.
Back to the Vogons. They track Zaphod down and try and kill him and Trillian gets captured and they’re going to feed her to that thing that the Guide says a Vogon won’t save his own mother from unless forms are filled out, triple signed, filed, lost, found, buried in peat for three months and used as firelighters. And the others take the little pod and follow the Vogon fleet, and as they’re walking to the city Arthur says ‘I think-“ but gets smacked in the face by this paddle. And then they all get smacked in the face with paddles because they’re thinking, and they run for the city and burst into the building, Arthur waving Marvin’s arm about and pretending it’s a gun, and going “Alright, where is she?!” And there’s this reception desk and the receptionist Vogon says “Who, the Head of Robot Arm Repairs?” And Marvin’s walking back to the pod with only one arm, whinging and going “How am I supposed to fly the ship with only one arm? Stupid humans.” And everyone laughs at him.
Back in the Vogon place, they’re interviewing Trillian and she says that she’s from Earth, and the Vogon who’s interviewing her says that it was destroyed, which she didn’t know because Zaphod hadn’t told her, and he’d told Arthur not to tell her, because (as we see when the Vogon shows her the demolition order) Zaphod was the one who signed the demolition order in the first place. Signed as “Love and kisses, Zaphod”. Apparently he thought they wanted his autograph.
With the others, there’s a queue to the reception desk. Because Zaphod’s the President, they can push through the queue, which contains the old Marvin from the TV show! and say they want a prisoner released. They fill in a form. The Vogon at the desk says that kidnapping the President excludes her from release. They say that Zaphod orders that Trillian be released. They have to fill in a Presidential Order of Release form. They keep cutting back to Trillian, who is being lowered into this cage with a nasty beast in it. The head Vogon gets the release form, and releases her, and there’s this woman with short black hair who keeps going around with the Vogons and trying to find Zaphod, and stopped them from shooting him on that other planet. I think she liked him.
Right. Trillian is released, and they fly away in their little pod with Marvin, and The Woman With Short Black Hair is going “Okay, let’s follow him!” And the Vogons are going “Yay, hunt him down, whoo!” And then a siren goes, and they all meander off for a one-hour lunch break, and The Woman With Short Black Hair is annoyed.
In the Heart of Gold, we enhance Arthur and Trillian’s relationship by giving them a touching conversation together. While Trillian is naked in the shower. Men in the audience pay attention.
They get to Magrathea, we get the nuclear-missile-turned-sperm-whale’s stream of consciousness and the bowl of petunias thinking “Oh no, not again”. They land on the planet and are in the snow, and Zaphod turns on a portal to another dimension and him and Trillian and Ford go through it but Arthur is too much of a wussy man, and when he finally does run through it it’s turned off, so he’s stuck by himself in the snow on a strange planet with a manically depressed robot. Marvin says it could be worse; imagine what it’s like being a manically depressed robot. Bill Nighy is funny in a “feeble would-be baddie, who’s really a nice guy” type of way. They take a different portal to the dimension where they manufacture planets. Marvin is left all by himself again, and the audience feel a bit sorry for him, this time.
Zaphod, Ford and Trillian meet Deep Thought, who has been watching TV. She says that there was another computer that was calculating the Ultimate Question, until the Vogons destroyed it. Trillian clues on- the Earth was the computer. Zaphod is crushed. Ford asks about DUN DUN DUN The Gun, and some stairs open up.
Slartibartfast is showing Arthur around the factory, and around the backup version of Earth.
Zaphod, Ford and Trillian find DUN DUN DUN The Gun, which is the Point of View gun. You point it at someone and pull the trigger, and the person instantly sees things from your point of view. It was commissioned by housewives, who were sick of ending every argument with ‘You just don’t get it, do you?’ They shoot each other with it, and we find out that Trillian likes Arthur, and was looking forward to finding out the Ultimate Question so that her life might make some sort of sense. AWWWW. And then some door opens and they’re about to be attacked, or something.
Slartibartfast takes Arthur to England on Earth V. 2.0, and his house is there, and they go inside and the other three are there, eating food and obviously drugged off their gourds. Arthur doesn’t seem to notice. The mice are there. Arthur has TEA THANK THE LORD. Slartibartfast doesn’t want to leave Arthur to die, but the mice make him because they suck. The strap Arthur to a chair and try to take his brain because they need it to boot up their new computer, and he says “why don’t you just make up a question, like ‘what’s six times seven’, or ‘how many Vogons does it take to change a lightbulb’? Or here’s one for you, ‘how many roads must a man walk down?” And the mice think that’s a good one. Then Arthur goes off into this speech about how it won’t make them happy, and the only question that mattered to him was one he asked himself a week ago ‘Is she the one?’ and the answer was ‘yes’, and that made him happy. The mice think that’s a load of bollocks, ask themselves why they should use a question from this man as the Ultimate Question, and decide to take his brain anyway, just to be on the safe side. He wrenches his arm free and bats the whizzy buzz saw thing away just as it’s about to perform a craniectomy. The other three wake up, and Arthur smushes the mice with his helmet.
THEN THE BLOODY VOGONS SHOW UP AGAIN. And Marvin’s there as well. The audience are happy, because they rather like Marvin now. And the Woman With Short Black Hair is there. They start shooting at the protagonists, and they run behind the caravan. Marvin is also walking toward the caravan. The Woman With Short Black Hair tells them to stop shooting, and this gives Trillian the chance to run out and try and shoot them all with the Point of View gun. Inside the caravan, Zaphod is trying to get the ‘spaceship’ to work by turning dials on the oven, which bursts into flames. He yells “Fire!” The Vogon leader takes this as an order to “Fire!” and they all start firing again, causing Trillian to drop the Point of View Gun as she and Arthur run for cover. I won’t tell you what happens next because it’s sad and funny at the same time. In the end, they restore the Earth and Woman With Short Black Hair hooks up with Zaphod, and they all go the Restaurant at the End of the Universe, leaving plenty of room for a sequel. I certainly hope that there’s a sequel, because Zaphod hasn’t got his head back yet.
And stay after the credits.
