i was close. zaphod’s helmet doubles as a lemon juicer. how could i have been so naive?
the hitchhiker’s guide movie was a lot of fun. i think the strongest part was the cast. each actor really fit the part he/she was playing. zaphod played by sam rockwell was over-the-top and zany, which is exactly how i imagined zaphod to be. it’s the little mannerisms that made him so loveable.
ford was played by mos def, and he couldn’t have been better. the sad part, is that there are so many characters and so much going on, it is hard to watch anything other than the action taking place in any given scene. take for instance, a scene where zaphod, ford, and arthur are trying to rescue trillian from the vogon homeworld. the three of them burst through a door and arthur demands the vogons release trillian. as this is taking place, ford is making a karate pose while keeping his towel wrapped around his head as a sort of shield mask. in fact, ford made great use of his towel whenever possible. luckily, there is dvd so we can watch all of ford’s moments in slow motion.
now we come to a little game called katamari damacy. it is quite possibly one of the funniest, craziest, most eccentric games i have ever played. all of this joy and lunacy can be your’s, if you have $20 and a playstation 2.
basically, you are a prince and your father, the king, needs you to make stars because the ones that were in space have been destroyed. your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to take a “katamari” (it’s like a gravity ball) and collect as much crap from earth as possible within a given amount of time. so, you roll the ball over stuff and the more stuff that sticks to it, the bigger it gets. the bigger the ball gets, the bigger the items you can roll over. once your ball gets a certain size, you can even collect people! it sounds pretty weird, as most japanese things do, but i assure you it is the most fun i’ve had with a video game in a long time. i just wish the multiplayer part was better. it gets old after a while.
i found these cool katamari damacy desktop wallpapers. inject some life into that boring desktop you have now. you won’t regret it.
i haven’t seen it yet, what where your thoughts on how they did the two heads for Zaphod, as opposed to this?
yes, that was pretty funky. did you watch that old tv miniseries? i’ve tried twice and fallen asleep both times. i’ve decided it must not be worth it, and given up on the idea altogether.
well, when i first learned that zaphod wouldn’t have two heads in the movie, i was very disappointed. after thinking about it, i realized that it would be entirely too hard to make the two heads work realistically. now, he does have two heads, but they sit on top of eachother, and the crazy (bottom) head only pops out a few sparse times. it’s not at all how anyone would imagine him having two heads, so i’m sure some people will be upset about it. i don’t mind, because it didn’t really detract from the movie, and i’ll grant some leniency for the fact that it would be way too difficult to pull off a 100% two-headed zaphod. it’s a compromise which i think is not at all unreasonable. plus, sam rockwell’s performance is so brilliant, you tend to forget about the two heads because of how hysterical he is.
Never saw the old miniseries. Just did a google for zaphod beeblebrox, and found that picture first.