Now to finish what I started before I forget :)

- Kung Fu Hustle

This is a fun movie, plain and simple. This is more of what I wanted Shao-lin Soccer to be like, and now we get this, and it's bigger and better. The plot...well, it's a kung-fu movie, the plot is that people kick the crap out of each other. To THE EXTREME! Though it made me wonder about kung-fu plots, and its relative, the whole Dragonball saga - why is it these "warriors" seem to want nothing more than to fight each other? I mean, challenging yourself is one thing, but really...
Number one in China for a reason!

- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

I loved this movie. Of course, I have to love it, being a fan of the entire Hitchhiker's series. I just didn't love the movie 100%, let's say. I think my main gripe about the movie is that, because I am so intimitely familiar with the story, the fact that they transcribed much of the text verbatim into the movie left me feeling a little empty...it didn't offer me anything new. (Except, of course, the actual new parts...ie. the POV gun.) [And I should mention here, when I say "they", I do know Adams wrote much of the screenplay himself.] I did find it fun to notice all the little tiny bits they threw in as almost background details, which in the book took up entire chapters to explain. Such as Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz's broken-back-gazelle chair and smashing the jewelled scuttling crabs.

I wasn't entirely thrilled with Zaphod's treatment. I liked the explination of the second head (using it to store non-Presidential-type thoughts), but I didn't like how it was occasionally fighting for control over the rest of his body, and the fact it could just be removed (so they didn't have to bother with it for the rest of the movie).

And would it have killed them to add a little reverb to Alan Rickman's voice? To me, it just felt like Warwick Davis was doing the Marvin stuff, and they just kinda threw Rickman's voice over the soundtrack. They could have at least made it look like Marvin was speaking his lines...lighting up the eyes, or a LED line like Deep Thought's, or something. And as far as his design goes, I've said this before...I know his brain is supposed to be the size of a planet, I just didn't expect that literally.

Zooey Deschanel is now on my list of girls to keep a very close eye on in the future now.

So, even despite my qualms about it, I still like the movie, and of course it would be blasphemous of me not to get the DVD when it comes out.

And, to mention a little side-rant I made here, that's one movie down, two to go. hehe
posted by Tim at 1:04 AM