Movie review time - this weekend I finally saw The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Like all the other pale friendless teenage virgins in my band, I was a huge fan of the book series when I was in high school. So I was anticipating this one for a while.
The verdict is a resounding "eh." All the jokes from the novel were in there and the performances were okay (I'm a big Martin Freeman fan since The Office and Zoey Deschanel gives me a man pain in my man places), but there just wasn't much to it. The absurdist philosophy of the novels got lost in the "aren't we clever?" jokiness of the whole thing. The actors weren't given much interesting stuff to do and the love story was grafted on and seemed out of place. But still - there were some laughs and some cool effects. I'd give it a thumbs right smack dab in the middle.
The best part of my movie-going experience was that I saw it with Keith and Alena... and Alena absolutely haaaaaaaaaaated it. I've never seen someone so angry coming out of a movie. She hated the movie so much that not only was she angry at the filmmakers, but loudly questioned her entire marriage to Keith on the basis that if he thought she would like the movie, he must not know her at all and they should get divorced immediately. It was, in a word, awesome.
Speaking of awesome movies, did anyone see the "Rosie O'Donnell acting retarded" made-for-TV movie this weekend? I missed it. Please give us a full report, if you can.
The verdict is a resounding "eh." All the jokes from the novel were in there and the performances were okay (I'm a big Martin Freeman fan since The Office and Zoey Deschanel gives me a man pain in my man places), but there just wasn't much to it. The absurdist philosophy of the novels got lost in the "aren't we clever?" jokiness of the whole thing. The actors weren't given much interesting stuff to do and the love story was grafted on and seemed out of place. But still - there were some laughs and some cool effects. I'd give it a thumbs right smack dab in the middle.
The best part of my movie-going experience was that I saw it with Keith and Alena... and Alena absolutely haaaaaaaaaaated it. I've never seen someone so angry coming out of a movie. She hated the movie so much that not only was she angry at the filmmakers, but loudly questioned her entire marriage to Keith on the basis that if he thought she would like the movie, he must not know her at all and they should get divorced immediately. It was, in a word, awesome.
Speaking of awesome movies, did anyone see the "Rosie O'Donnell acting retarded" made-for-TV movie this weekend? I missed it. Please give us a full report, if you can.
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I hate to say it, but "Riding Around with Retarded Rosie" just didn't live up to my expectations. Oh, it was horrible, but not quite as horribly entertaining as I thought it would be. Jack and I went out for sandwiches in the middle and apparently missed a great deal of plot (did they *force* her to get her tubes tied? is that really what was going on there?) so maybe I wasn't as forgiving as I should have been.
Did she at least do a funny retard voice?
Ha, you pretty much summarized my reaction to the movie, except for the divorce part. We've decided to resolve our differences - for the baby's sake.
I disagree with Brendo -- I think they took all the jokes out from the books. Adams' strength was not really in the plot but in his comedy writing -- the genius of the books is in the dialogue, which they totally butchered in the movie.
And the "jokes" they added in place of Adams' were stupid. "Marvin, can you give me a hand?" Use Marvin's arm as a gun. "Freeze? I'm a robot not a refrigerator." Ha ha. Not worthy of the fanchise fellas. Poo thumbs down.
I liked "Leave this to me. I'm British - I know how to queue."
But yeah, there were some clunkers.
dammit..i missed the retard movie..
i have been looking forward to that one since the kirsty allie retard marriage movie a few years back..
(let's all hope for a dvd release soon!)
oh..and i have been personally warned by alena to not see the movie you spoke of..
not that i really had any intention of seeing it anyways..
i'm just grasping the concept of "star wars"
The voice, the hair, the dress, the weight, the hand movements...it was all right on target for all "mentally challenged" cliches. Except sometimes she acted smarter than had been previously established, so I think maybe she needed a bit more character exploration. You think Rosie is an Uta Hagen devotee? Stanislavski? I can just see her in the scene where she chooses to wear the bright red shorts and the kitten t-shirt instead of the party dress, thinking: "How do I perceive myself? What is my objective?" Answer: funny retard voice.
Awesome. Did anyone try to beat her up/have sex with her?
No, but a gang of thugs do beat up her also retarded boyfriend, the existence of whom is why Andie MacDowell tied Rosie's tubes for her.
>the existence of whom is why Andie MacDowell tied Rosie's tubes for her
That sounds like a hott scene.
Why do retarded people always get beat up in movies? I've never seen a retarded person get beat up in real life. Even the most punk-ass dicks in high school left the retarded kids alone. They were like, "Dude - he's retarded."
Did Giovanni Ribisi play her retard boyfriend? - Pedro
tvgasm.com has a great minute by minute of the rosie-tard move.
Some highlights:
9:03 PM Thar she blows! The beast raises her curly head! Rosie wakes up from her deep slumber, ready to embrace the world in a loud, simplistic way.
9:42 PM "I like everything with marshmallows!" Yes, Rosie, we know.
10:41 PM Time for a makeover! Rachel takes Beth to the beauty salon so she can get a mullet. So long Jesse, hello Ellen!
10:47 PM With the flashback over, we return to Beth crying with her cake. Rachel tries to cheer her up by tickling her arm rather sensually. Rosie's favorite scene: subtle girl-on-girl action AND cake!
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