h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Hi, JulesK, and welcome to the Atelier!

*Takes a moment to wave to all the other lurkers out there. *

I had a meeting this morning, or I would have gone to see the movie then. So Mr M and #2 daughter and I are going to see it tomorrow morning instead. #1 daughter could not care less. I don't know what's wrong with that girl.

*waves to everyone*

Bagpuss is here with his friend, C. We're hoping to see the film tomorrow.

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My brother and I were going through all of the old 5.25 inch floppy disks we still have. I found one, from 1992, that has a lot of journal entries on it. All I have to say is, wow! And not necessarily in a good way. A lot of "depression" just as much "love". Kind of sickening actually.

*Runs in from upstairs*

I saw HHGTTG last night! I'd heard rumors that they'd ruined the movie, but I thoroughly enjoyed it.

Well....not thoroughly, I suppose. I would've changed some things, but they were tiny little things.

Interestingly enough, I was the only one in the theater who showed up on opening day wearing a bath robe and a digital watch, while carrying my towel.

I saw a few other towels, though.

Totally baffled the cinema staff. One said, "But how'd he know to wear that? The movie just came out today!" Anyway, I need to say a few things about it, but I don't want to ruin it for anyone who's not seen it so: WARNING! I'm RUINING stuff down there! Oh, and sorry for not fitting this in, but I promised myself that I would post how much I enjoyed the movie before I read somewhere online that someone didn't like it for some reason (those arguments against liking things normally convince me, and if I'm to be convinced I want to go on record of at least having liked it beforehand).

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SPOILER WARNING!

I was keeping my eye peeled for lots of stuff. I must say that hearing Journey Of The Sorcerer in that theater is the most majestic thing that I've heard for quite a while. And the opening song routine is the type of song that made me fall in love with musical theater anyway, so I loved that.

Seeing the Marvin from the old miniseries was great. I was the first in my family to catch it. I also thought that I recognized DNA's head as one of the things that the Heart Of Gold turned into, which seemed like a nice touch.

My biggest complaint, I think, is that the line "Mostly Harmless" didn't appear once, not one single time. Other than that, I was okay with this latest version of the story.

And I love how they pulled off Zaphod's heads. I was getting ready to be bugged by that for the whole movie, but then out of nowhere...BAM!

I liked it so much, that I ran into town to purchase the soundtrack. I'll play sample tracks on my radio show in about fifteen minutes to send a little extra cash towards the film.

Now then, off to read the previous posts and have my opinions forever changed (or not, if I'm lucky).

I pretty much agree with Affy's review of the flick. I saw it last night, was going to post something about it then but got sidetracked by the polight of a friend.

I still haven't decided if it was what I wanted/thought it would be or not.

Although there were some brilliant throwaway lines. Affy, it was his head.

I won't be able to see it until Monday. I will take a towel, although I expect to be one of only a handful at the local cinema. Can't afford to go all the way up to Albuquerque...

{[j'au]}

Well, I haven't seen, and probably won't for a while. Still, it's H2G2 of a sort, isn't it?

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It will be either tomorrow night or Monday for me, as well. Thanks for the warning, Affy. I didn't read it.

No problem, Hyp. When you go to as many comic book discussions as I do, you get used to posting spoiler warnings.

I seem to be running out of science fiction songs to play during my two-hour tribute to HHGTTG on the radio. Fortunately, I've not yet played Weird Al's three big sci-fi movie songs (The Saga Begins (SW:Episode I), Ode To A Superhero (Spiderman), and Jurassic Park (Jurassic Park). He writes nice, long songs, so they should help.

Sorry Amy!

I have not seen it yet, it will probably be a week before I do.

I am going to go shower and get ready for a party tonight. I am going to an after term party at a friend's house. With luck I will not get talked in to wearing a mumu.

This is a mumu party, much like the Toga party of college legend. Attendees are supposed to be in mumus, but I can't do that to myself.

Hope you don't wind up in a mumu Marv.

Hmmmm...."Mumu Marv"....if I was the sort to give mean and hurtful nicknames to people, I'd start using that one.

Well, show's over. If any of you are up on Dementia, tell me if you think that I managed to get a decent sampling of new and classic sci-fi stuff....

The Dolphins/So Long And Thanks For All The Fish-HHGTTG Movie
Twinkle Twinkle Little Earth-Leonard Nimoy
Yoda-"Weird Al" Yankovic
Pan Galactic Gargle Blasters-h2g2 movie (background music while I talk)
Reasons To Be Miserable-Stephen Fry (Like the classic "Marvin The Paranoid Android", but less techno and more rap)
They're Here-Boots Walker
Godzilla Geneology Bop-MST3K
Do The Picard-Rusty Humphries & The Bone-heads
When I Held Your Brain In My Arms-MST3K
Highly Illogical-Leonard Nimoy
The Time Warp-The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Beam Me Up, Scotty-Terry McGovern
Vote Beeblebrox-cast of h2g2 movie (not featured in the movie)
Star Trekkin'-The Firm
The Monster Mash-Bobby "Boris" Picket & The Crypt-Kickers
Carmen Miranda's Ghost-Leslie Fish
Gypsy Rose Me-MST3K
The Ballad Of Bilbo Baggins-Leonard Nimoy
St. George And The Dragonet-Leonard Nimoy
Dungeons And Dragons-The Dead Alewives
Journey Of The Sorcerer-H2g2 movie
The Saga Begins-"Weird Al" Yankovic
Hall Of Heads-They Might Be Giants
Viltvodle Street Music-h2g2 movie (background music while I talked)
Jurrasic Park-"Weird Al" Yankovic
Ode To A Superhero-"Weird Al" Yankovic
Twilight Zone/Twilight Tone-The Manhattan Transfer
Camelot-Monty Python
Attack Of The Radioactive Hamsters From A Planet Near Mars-"Weird Al" Yankovic
The Ballad Of William Robinson-Bill Mummy (who played Will Robinson in TV's Lost In Space)
So Long & Thanks For All The Fish (Reprise)-h2g2 movie (I turned the volume down so I could sing along with this last one).

I played way too much Weird Al, in my opinion. I normally feel like I've used him to much if he has more than 2 songs per show, but here I gave him four (I almost gave five with "Slime Creatures From Outer Space"). I'm also wondering if anyone cared that I slipped a few fantasy songs into a sci-fi tribute.

Quite frankly, I'm surprised that I just happened to have this many sci-fi/fantasy songs lying around. PLUS, it looks like I played So Long & Thanks on the radio before Dr. Demento could. Take that, Demento! Bwahahaha!

Sorry for talking so much. I've just not had much online time lately.

I just noticed that I attributed "St. George And The Dragonet" to Leonard Nimoy when, in fact, it was Stan Freberg. Not that it really matters.

We have got to get together Affi, you got some stuff I want and have not been able to find.

Affy, I think perhaps the Universe Song might have been the better Monty Python choice. It's more, well, space oriented.

Ironic that.

Well, I watched all of the Incredibles DVDs. I loved the movie! I liked Jack-Jack Attack as well.