Motivation

It's less than a week to my first exam but I just can't get motivated. Anything is more interesting than revising Agile Methods and J2EE design patterns. Ugh.

My birthday was good: Liz cancelled going to the theatre with some of her friends to spend the evening with me. She turned up with a load of beer and food and we had a nice quiet evening in watching Flash Gordon and Spaced Good stuff :) We had planned on going to see The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (which Liz had already seen, but I hadn't) but in the end we didn't feel like going to all the effort to get there and everything.

*** Spoilers below -- if you've not seen Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and don't want it spoiling then stop reading now! ***

Instead we went on Thursday, i.e. yesterday. My thoughts were: It was alright, but not great. I think that Adams' tone was lost a little by the attempts to make the film more slapstick and the addition of the romance between Arthur and Trillian didn't fit with the rest of the film. The intro song was awful, but as far as I can tell opinion is generally divided on that matter.

The casting wasn't too bad, Arthur was a good choice (although he delivered some of the lines with completely the wrong tone in my opinion). The Vogons were fecking irritating, as was Zaphod. Alan Rickman as Marvin was a good choice (although he's not credited on IMDB for some reason). John Malkovich was incredibly scary. Oh, and Trillian looked scarily like my older sister (when she was younger)!

Bill Nighy as Slartibartfast was an excellent choice and he delivered it brilliantly.

Anyway it's worth seeing once. I'm glad I saw it at the cinema as there are some stunning effects that almost certainly won't look anywhere near as good on DVD. There is talk of a sequel. Who knows, maybe they'll get it right if they do a sequel? :)