I went to see H2G2 this weekend…

Posted by Bill on May 01st 2005

And loved it! It had its moments of laugh out loud funniness (mostly physical comedy) and its usual moments of just funniness. My only concerns with it are that those people unfamiliar with the story will get easily lost. Being very familiar with it, I didn’t have any problems following the story. But to make it fit into the 2 hour movie slot, obviously things had to be cut. And I think in some cases they were a little aggressive with the cuts to the detriment of the understanding. But I’m hopeful for an extended edition DVD. And I’m very hopeful for a sequel…

And at least at the theater we were at, they had some awesome trailers before the movie. The “Serenity” trailer (which came out online on Tuesday) opened the trailers. Quickly followed by episode 3. And then some crap trailers. And then my favorite trailer for a movie I won’t see: Chicken Little. They openly copied the H2G2 trailers, including a “Don’t Panic” reference. Just very fitting to appear before the movie…

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Star Wars (at least until HHGTTG tickets come out)

Posted by Bill on April 20th 2005

It’s getting close to April 29 and the long anticipated release of the Hitchhikers Guide movie. So I’ve been checking Fandango and MovieFone to see when tickets were going to come out. So far, no tickets are available yet. I’m hopeful that they will be available tomorrow (by my calculations they should be). But I did notice that my local theater is have a 12:01 am showing of Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith and those tickets (along with the entire opening weekend) are already available. Talk about anticipating some hype…

In further Star Wars news, check out this picture of the new Pope as the emperor from Star Wars…

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HHGTTG: The Movie

Posted by Bill on February 16th 2005

New trailer for the Hitchhikers Guide movie can be found here. It looks really well done and seems to go pretty far into the books (ie. it goes past just the first book). But this trailer seems to be a little revealing, at least to the point of telling you almost everything that will happen in the first 5 minutes of the movie… But I still can’t wait to see it!

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