Quote: Aaron @ July 4, 2007, 11:14 AM
Yep, true. However, there's slick and there's slick. The film was slick for the sake of being slick, not slick to emphasise the story or add to it or whatever, with great effects and so on.
I guess that's what you were getting at though.
Slickness has nothing to do with that train wreck of a film.
The fundemental flaw with the adeptation was the (suspicously American) misconception that punchlines are the only part of a joke.
"Here's a towel, towels are important" was no substitute for the wonderful build-up that made the joke. Nor was Ford Predef scooting down the street with a trolley full of beer for; "In, as you say, the Mud." and it's surrounding sequence of brilliance.
In many ways HHGTTG is the worst film ever made purley for the fact that they started with such wonderful source material. I find it heart breaking that such an awsome cast and some rather stunning visuals were wasted on hollowed out joke shells.
But I, and by 'I' I mean 'we', digress...
Red Dwarf...
Like I said, I would settle for an hour special were something, anything, is resolved. I don't care how old, fat, or crack-addicted anyone is. I want my ending.
If they could do it for Giligans Island, surely they could do it for the show that made us laugh, filled in for doctor who on our sci-fi fix, gave us something to stumble home drunk to, united nerds and alcoholics, etc.
I want closure damnit!
Don't let RD be another Tripods (which seems to be out on DVD to break the hearts of a whole new generation of children)