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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005)
Read the book
The book was better, the radio show was better, and if you want to see it on screen the BBC version was great. Hollywood had great special effects and not much else, as it often does. Since half the humor of H2G2 is in the dinginess and incompetence or the entire universe, good SFX was actually a detriment.
There are other problems, as well. Douglas Adams was quite dead by the time it came out, so a lot of ideas that would have probably been quite funny in his hands wound up as nothing but a whole sort of general mishmash. Some of the casting was at odds with the book descriptions, as opposed to the BBC version whose casting was so uncannily perfect that I suspect they were the people the characters were based upon.
Tl;dr: watch the miniseries instead.
Kalifornia (1993)
Very Different People.
Red state meets blue state-hard.
An intellectual couple meets the ultimate rednecks from Hell. Brad Pitt plays a redneck who is secretly a serial killer; David Duchovny plays a true-crime writer who is being changed by contact with him. The two, and their wives, are taking a car trip to California. And things only get worse as the story continues. Deaths, fights, screaming, abuse, and hostage-taking promptly ensues. It's like ''Planes, Trains, and Automobiles'' gone mad.
Give Brad Pitt long brown hair, a beard, and an accent, and he is the scariest b@#+@&d you can imagine. Great movie.
BBC Play of the Month: The Picture of Dorian Gray (1976)
Absolutely Brilliant!!!
I will always think of Mr. Firth as Dorian Gray, if I live to be 100.
Perfectly acted and directed, bringing Oscar Wilde's insight, wit and humor alive with an absolute and utter perfection unusual in television.
More proof that the BBC more than makes up in talent what it doesn't always have in money.
A must have for all Wilde fans-and indeed for everyone else. Inspired and perfected, every one of the actors looked exactly right for the role and every shot was well done.
By the end I found that I loved every single character in a way that no other movie of the type had ever inspired. Watch it, then try to watch another version. It's just not the same, is it?
The Stand (1994)
Perfect
The actors in The Stand were all PERFECT for their roles. Especially good was Jamie Sheridan, the guy who played Flagg. He projected compassion and cruelty at the same time, a sort of homicidal good cheer. His laugh was wild and his smile was deadly. And he was likable. Enough so that you empathized with him, and when Nadine killed herself you could see the realization that he's riding the tiger forming on his face and felt sorry for him. The actors playing Nick, Tom, Stu and Larry also looked exactly how I imagined them . . .
Watch it for the score, if nothing else. The movie starts out with 'Don't Fear the Reaper'. Plus the actor who plays Larry sings 'Eve of Destruction' at one point, and he's a GOOD singer.
The Cave (2005)
Cool Movie!
I liked the way Jack's eyes turn into stars, just for a start. The creatures don't have much in the way of eyes, which makes me wonder about the way he's changing. Maybe every 'generation' of cave people is a bit different. And how did Jack know what the creatures were doing? Maybe they have a telepathic sense of some kind, and he had gained it. But if so, wouldn't the creatures have known that he was one of them?
I also noticed that the creatures can detect light as well as sound. Do they have synesthesia? Why-how would that help them survive? I have a lot of other questions, too. How did Kathryn get infected? Was it a cut of some sort-she had a scar at the end-or was it because she swallowed water when she nearly drowned, and the water was infected. I kind of suspect the water.