H2G2: Is it worth the trip?

June 27, 2005

I can’t remember the last time I went to a movie theater to watch something I wanted to watch.  When you become a parent, you surrender your movie choices to your children — period. It’s the same with the TV remote  control although that war was fought more subtly and with far more skirmishes.  Since we haven’t had our cable TV subscription activated for the past three (3) weeks, my daughter’s ad-free mind has not demanded to watch any new movies. 

It was my chance and I took it.  The movie in question is the Hicthhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, which was based on Douglas Adams’ book, one of the few I read in High School and thorougly enjoyed.  I think it was Dean who recommended it.  For some reason which I can’t recall, he had discovered a great library at the Union Church in Makati, filled with paperback novels donated, I suppose, by foreign parishoners who had relocated elsewhere.  There was a 10 book limit on loans and Dean invariably reached his limit.  (more…)