Don't Panic

Don't Panic

The likelihood of being the first to do something often makes a person go out of his way to do what he normally wouldn’t. Imagine me, typing out a blog entry within a day of posting the last one!!

I had to watch The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy here, before leaving this country. Otherwise, the ‘Universe’ only knows how long I would have had to wait before they released the movie in India. Or how much longer before the Kannada activists let it be screened in Bangalore theatres! But I owe the fact that I managed to watch the movie on the first day (not first show) to the enthusiasm with which Biman-da & Akshay agreed to the suggestion that we go watch the movie today. I went one step forward and took a printout of the list of theatres in and around Dallas, which are screening the movie. Biman-da picked up the nearest theatre, and we are just returning after the 8:50 show!

Marvin was amazing. The robot with the head the size of a planet lived up to my imagination! Trillian & Arthur were good. Ford Prefect was not how I had pictured him. Did Zaphod Beeblobox have two heads? I somehow had the idea he had four! I have to read the book again to be sure.

They had to leave out a lot of the book to fit it in a two hour show. And they made a few modifications here and there. Again, have to read the book to be sure. I don’t think the story ends the way it is shown. Some liberties have to be taken on the big screen I guess. On the whole it is a very well made movie. I didn’t like it ending so soon, but then….
I hope they do make a sequel or something with the rest of the chapters. I enjoyed all the old jokes, plus the few new ones that they put in. The theme song in the lines of “So Long and Thanks for all the Fish” was quite catchy. I guess, I will watch the movie again, when it does finally reach Bangalore!