[olePigeon]

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/su...947162-5234415

[Sir Arthur Dent]

[Oisín]

Originally posted by Sir Arthur Dent:

Perfect first reply!

[Severed Hand of Skywalker]

It looks like Galaxy Quest.

[olePigeon]

Originally posted by Severed Hand of Skywalker:
It looks like Galaxy Quest.

Nothing is like Galaxy Quest. GQ is the best damn movie ever. That and Napoleon.

[paully dub]

Looks like fun. Wish Douglas Adams had lived to see it, as it was kinda a dream of his...

[Albert Pujols]

mmm..looks good as gravy.

[starman]

Is that white bubble robot Marvin?

Anyway, looks pretty funny. I hope they do a good job capturing the spirit of the book.

Where's Zaphod's other head?

Mike

[bradoesch]

Originally posted by starman:


Where's Zaphod's other head?

It's under his first one or something.

[Angus_D]

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[storer]

I can't wait for the War of the Worlds.

[malvolio]

I still prefer the British TV version, complete with cheesy "special effects."

[Severed Hand of Skywalker]

Originally posted by storer:
I can't wait for the War of the Worlds.

Ya it looks like an ID4 but good.

[hayesk]

Originally posted by malvolio:
I still prefer the British TV version, complete with cheesy "special effects."

BBC one is great. This one looks like they're trying to turn it into an action movie. I hope they don't lose all of the subtle humour.

[Mafia]

war of worlds looks good and i will definitely see it. but i was in love with the hitchhikers books when i was younger and am really looking foward to the movie.

[Mithras]

Am I the only one that thought the trailer was horrible? They put in all these humor lines that just... weren't funny. Instead of zany and ridiculous in a smart kind of way like the book, it seemed to come across just... dumb.

I dunno, hope I'm wrong. But i'm not hopeful.

[dlefebvre]

It looks good. It also stars the guy from «The Office».

[sugar_coated]

ha ha. That's got some funny potential!

[- - e r i k - -]

Hmmm. I don't know about this. But you got to remember that they cut these trailers to make them appealing to a wide an audience as possible, hence the focus on action and *shudder* slapstick.

I'm crossing my fingers.

PS. It looks like his second head is about to pop out there before they cut to another scene.

[OwlBoy]

Originally posted by - - e r i k - -:
Hmmm. I don't know about this. But you got to remember that they cut these trailers to make them appealing to a wide an audience as possible, hence the focus on action and *shudder* slapstick.

I'm crossing my fingers.

PS. It looks like his second head is about to pop out there before they cut to another scene.

I hope your right, the whole "announcement" about the destruction feels right, but then the rest... hmmm.

-Owl

[Sandbaggins]

Originally posted by dlefebvre:
It looks good. It also stars the guy from «The Office».

Tim : Team Leader don't mean anything mate.

Gareth: Excuse me, it means I'm leader of a team.

Tim: No it doesn't. It's a title someone's given you to get you to do something they don't want to do for free - it's like making the div kid at school milk monitor. No one respects it.

Gareth: I think they do.

Tim: No they don't Gareth.

Gareth: Erm yes they do, cos if people were rude to me then I used to give them their milk last... so it was warm

[shabbasuraj]

Originally posted by starman:
Is that white bubble robot Marvin?

[Eriamjh]

Looks awesome.

[voodoo]

I love it!!

Look forward to see the movie! YES

[Nivag]

at last something decent to look forward to!

[Rev-O]

I'm not buying Marvin as a bubble-bot, but other than that, it looks like it could be good.
Provided they don't 'hollywoodize' it too much, to make it more 'accessible' to the masses.

[m a d r a]

Originally posted by Mithras:
Am I the only one that thought the trailer was horrible?.....

no you're definitely not!

oh dear! dontcha just love it when they give something the hollywood treatment? - "make it louder - make the people hunkier - make the teeth whiter - make it shoutier - make the explosions bigger..." and of course don't forget to have the bloke with the big deep gruff american voice doing the voiceover for the trailer - "disease and terror stawrked the land. but they didn't reckon on mother theresawr of calcutter... [cue clip of blonde plastic toothed model in nuns' outfit, firing a kalashnikov]


zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz!!!!!!!.........

i think i'll stick to the books, the original BBC radio series and the original BBC TV series - in that order of preference. this is nearly as blasphemous as the hollywood remake of 'the italian job' !

[malvolio]

Originally posted by m a d r a:
i think i'll stick to the books, the original BBC radio series and the original BBC TV series - in that order of preference. this is nearly as blasphemous as the hollywood remake of 'the italian job' !

Or The Tall Blond Man With One Black Shoe. Or Cousin, Cousine. Or any film with any degree of wit, humor and intelligence that gets "remade" by HollyWeird.

[analogika]

I'll hold my judgement until I've seen it.

The American accents are a bit off-putting, as is Marvin's "cute" appearance, as far as the trailer goes.

Other than that, there's no telling.

-s*

[OB1]

Hey that's Mos Def playing Ford, cool. Well, not that cool, his last album was very disappointing. No wonder if he's busying himself with being an actor. Looking forward to the film though...

[TheBadgerHunter]

I've actually never read the books, but the trailer does seem amusing at least.

[ThinkInsane]

Originally posted by m a d r a:
no you're definitely not!

oh dear! dontcha just love it when they give something the hollywood treatment? - "make it louder - make the people hunkier - make the teeth whiter - make it shoutier - make the explosions bigger..." and of course don't forget to have the bloke with the big deep gruff american voice doing the voiceover for the trailer - "disease and terror stawrked the land. but they didn't reckon on mother theresawr of calcutter... [cue clip of blonde plastic toothed model in nuns' outfit, firing a kalashnikov]


zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz!!!!!!!.........

i think i'll stick to the books, the original BBC radio series and the original BBC TV series - in that order of preference. this is nearly as blasphemous as the hollywood remake of 'the italian job' !

DON'T PANIC!

[Wiskedjak]

Originally posted by Rev-O:
I'm not buying Marvin as a bubble-bot,

Agreed, round and white doesn't come off as very depressed visually. The trailers seem to dodge him, so they might know that fans aren't going to like the hollywood interpretation of him.

[Krypton]

Originally posted by Wiskedjak:
Agreed, round and white doesn't come off as very depressed visually. The trailers seem to dodge him, so they might know that fans aren't going to like the hollywood interpretation of him.

If you read up about the 'new' Marvin on the official site, I think DNA approved this incarnation himself - and if you watch the videos of Marvin, his large drooping bulbous head perfectly exaggerates his depressed nature.

I'm not too keen on the over reliance on American actors (this seems to be the main criticism of people who have seen the preview) as they don't seem to convey the subtle humour very well.

Also they try and do away with Zaphod's second head for most of the film, to skirt round the extra visual costs this would have created.

BTW one of the reasons that this film finally got made, is that DNA is dead - most of the previous directors bailed on the project over the years due to his demands.

[malvolio]

Originally posted by Krypton:
BTW one of the reasons that this film finally got made, is that DNA is dead - most of the previous directors bailed on the project over the years due to his demands.

That does not bode well for any hopes of the film being faithful to the spirit (at the very least) of the books.

[- - e r i k - -]

Originally posted by Krypton:
BTW one of the reasons that this film finally got made, is that DNA is dead - most of the previous directors bailed on the project over the years due to his demands.

No no no. Where do you even back up stuff like this? As one who has read both of his biographies and the story behind this new incarnation of this film I highly disagree.

DNA left this entirely in Hollywood's hands after being discouraged by the first incarnations of the script. The project was left dead until a new script was written incorporating all new material written by DNA himself, the story, and posthumously found material. It was only put into production when the director(s) and the producers (all very very much fans of the original books) found it to be any where near as funny as the book itself.

[voodoo]

The only thing I hate about this trailer is the crappo quality it is in. Come on, release the Hi-Res QuickTime trailer already!! Amazon gets a big negative in my book for sitting on the trailer and for distributing it in a stream-only (Flash?) media.

The window is small, the framerate is low and sometimes you get to see it in *half* the size for no apparent reason. That's very small. Like the trailers distributed on CDs in Quicktime 2. 100x80 pix or so.

They've only got the teaser up at Apple.com and the official H2G2 website as well.

[- - e r i k - -]

In particular, I really, really don't care for the Arthur and Trillian love connection. It feels out of place, it feels forced and at best it's corny. There should be an attraction, sure, but in the last act they really focus on Arthur's undying love and Trillian's realization that she wants someone like Arthur, not the swinging dick rock star like Zaphod, to the point where when the mice are about to cut Arthur's brain out, trying to find the question (to the answer from Deep Thought... the infamous "42"), he says something like, "The only question that really matters is if she'll say yes!"


Also the female Vice President that's tracking Zaphod and the Heart of Gold down because she secretly loves him didn't really work, either.


There, it's out. That's the worst thing about this early, early screening. The Arthur/Trillian/Zaphod triangle is the only really serious mistake, in my opinion. The rest of the movie is not just passable, but near perfect.

LOVE TRIANGLE? Fer shiznit! Well, they did end up having a kid together, but they never loved eachother *sigh*

Advance screening review

EDIT: Fixed your link -TI

Second review

EDIT: Thank you. Added another

[andi*pandi]

I think arthur is well cast... and zaphod seems right, but the missing head... tsk.

The clip didn't really show Ford in a good light, he didn't seem annoyingly eclecticly fordish (from an arthurian pov). Kind of bland.

I can see the irony in having a "cute" Marvin be depressed.

At another forum today I saw that someone had said, "at least they shot some scenes in the Dr. Who quarry."

[Krypton]

Originally posted by - - e r i k - -:
No no no. Where do you even back up stuff like this? As one who has read both of his biographies and the story behind this new incarnation of this film I highly disagree.

I have read both those biographies also, and so that's where I got my info

From what I've read the friction arose because DNA wanted it to be as faithful to the original as possible, yet the writers needed the film to have a conventional beginning middle and end in order to be a hit Hollywood film - the irony being of course that the books never had this.

I think the film is possible the best meld of the two from what I've seen, so it should be good viewing.

[I see you've picked up on those previews I referred to]

[Twilly Spree]

So now it's gone from the Amazon page? All I get is a stupid membership ad.

Anyone know about where I can download the trailer?

[Twilly Spree]

Nevermind

[Wiskedjak]

Originally posted by Twilly Spree:
So now it's gone from the Amazon page? All I get is a stupid membership ad.

Anyone know about where I can download the trailer?

It's on the official site now

[analogika]

Originally posted by - - e r i k - -:
LOVE TRIANGLE? Fer shiznit! Well, they did end up having a kid together, but they never loved eachother *sigh*

Well, he did preface the review by saying that he was only part-way into Life, the Universe, and Everything, so it figures it would catch him off-guard if he's a careless reader...

[lavar78]

Originally posted by OB1:
Hey that's Mos Def playing Ford, cool. Well, not that cool, his last album was very disappointing.

I thought so as well originally, but it quickly grew on me. Give it another listen. Just don't compare it to the first album -- it won't win that battle.

I'm looking forward to the movie.

[itistoday]

anyone else notice the end theme there sounded a lot like the MIB theme?

[- - e r i k - -]

Originally posted by itistoday:
anyone else notice the end theme there sounded a lot like the MIB theme?

The music isn't ready yet. It is common for trailers to "borrow" music from other films.

[Drakino]

Originally posted by itistoday:
anyone else notice the end theme there sounded a lot like the MIB theme?

It was from MIB. Keep an eye on this site. It should be updated soon. That site shows what music is used in trailers, and is handy if you find you like a piece of music in a trailer.

[willed]

Originally posted by - - e r i k - -:
The music isn't ready yet. It is common for trailers to "borrow" music from other films.

Yeah. How many trailers used that Requiem for a Dream / LOTR music?

[- - e r i k - -]

Originally posted by willed:
Yeah. How many trailers used that Requiem for a Dream / LOTR music?

Quite a few. I would have thought either theme from Stargate or Carl Orff's - O fortuna (from Carmina Burana) would be the ones most used for trailers. They are on the top ten, but apparantly Come See The Paradise is the most used with 27 trailers.