So, last night I saw the HHGTTG movie (blech, since they didn't manage to either have sufficient in jokes for geeks or translate effectively into the new medium to take full advantage of the visual elements, meaning that they've completely lost the point of the whole damn franchise, blah, blah, blah). But it needed to be seen, and I'm sure that "it'll all be better in the director's cut on the DVD."
Um, right. Because I like to purchase movies on DVD that made me want to vomit, in the hopes that the "new, improved" versions will only make me queasy.
As far as I'm concerned, however, the movie did have one redeeming feature.
This is a picture of Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz...
...who bears a startling resemblance to a certain someone:
Could director Garth Jennings have deliberately taken a potshot at at the most infamously snobbish literary critic in recent history? The man who claimed that popular fiction is the stuff of "ideological cheerleaders who have so destroyed humanistic study"? The guy who's so notoriously out of touch that he could repeatedly make people ask: "What cave is this guy living in? (Yes, I know, I know, Plato's)" ?
Impossible? No. It's not even improbable.
Not even improbable? I'd say it's quite likely, especially given the misguidedly by-the-book character of the Vogons.
That's an excellent photo comparison, by the way.
Posted by: Mr. Kong | May 05, 2005 at 16:05
Oh my God that's uncanny! Hilarious!
You deserve some kind of investigative photojournalism award for this.
Posted by: Josh | May 05, 2005 at 16:58
PS: I liked the movie. I can acknowledge with little difficulty that it wasn't a good movie, but I liked it nonetheless. They could have done a much better job of it, but to me, seeing anything Adamsesque on film was a treat. And I have had a soft spot for Martin Freeman ever since I saw him in BBC's The Office.
Posted by: Mr. Kong | May 05, 2005 at 23:07