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Hitchhiker's Guide Film Reports
wakaranai writes "The BBC reports that the new "The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy" movie will star Martin Freeman (Tim from The Office) as Arthur Dent. According to the Internet Movie Database filming starts early 2004, and Marvin's voice will be Stephen Moore, reviving his role from the classic 1981 BBC TV version." If you haven't seen The Office, it takes the subject matter Dilbert has bored us with, and makes it utterly hysterical. This is a good bit of casting. I'm still available to play Zaphod.
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I'm still available to play Zaphod.
CmdrTaco has two heads? How comes?
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...will be pissed when they find out that the Ultimate question about life, the universe, and everything, is never revealed. ....but hey...screw 'em.
I remember after the end of FOTR I overheard people saying "What happened to the ring?". Were these people living in a cave before going to the theater??
This is going to be great.
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To be technical like you, however, since "tri" means 3 and "logos" means word, a trilogy can only have 3 words. Any longer works will need to find a new name. Now go away, kneebiter.
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No, TNT did that.
Ok I think the fact that my serious comment/question got modded +1 Funny might illustrate the fact that I'm completely out-of-the-loop on Hitchhiker stuff. Apparently it was a TV series and not a set of movies?
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Maybe the Deep Thought supercomputer will be played by Virginia Tech's Power Mac G5 cluster! I'm sure Apple would state that if any computer can tell us the meaning of life, it's the G5. How's 'bout it, guys?
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I know it's a little revisionist, but Zaphod could be played by a biracial team of actors. It worked well with Rosie Greer and Ray Milland.
Vogon ??? :)
He tried to kill me with a forklift!
for the pan-galactic gargle-blasters. If I am to taste them and deem them correct, then they will look correct. if the drink is correct, then the movie will be good, the more i drink.
Easy guys, I put my pants on one leg at a time. The difference is after I put on my pants I make gold records!
Yes, well, that sort of thing wouldn't happen if you had a brain the size of a planet. Not that you care.
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We have an old saying in the UK...
;-)
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This may help.
I'd say Keanu Reeves, but that would be pushing his acting range a bit... :-)
The 'I'm a British person' line is a (subtle) joke from South Park, in the Episode entitled 'Pip'. Its the first line in the whole episode AFAIK.
Stop that! Its far too silly. Now, no-one enjoys a good laugh as much as I do, but why should a British person get more respect than anyone else?
Alright, alright, I'll be honest. I'm not really British, I'm from Essex.
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The Vogons aren't *that* bad.
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You know, when I first read the book, when I was quite young, I came to the part about the zebra crossing and became very confused. I couldn't imagine any place in England where there was such an abundance of zebras hanging around that they would have to put in zebra crossings.
Then of course, the idea of someone getting run over by a zebra, or perhaps a herd of stampeding zebras, made me laugh, so I thought maybe the author was just going for some kind of absurdist humor.
Stop that! Its far too silly. Now, no-one enjoys a good laugh as much as I do,
except, perhaps, my wife and a few of her friends. in fact...
The "country" of "England" is absurdist humor.
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Come now. John Travolta isn't even up to Hollywood standards these days.
That is so inconsiderate! You've gone and ruined the whole of creation for me.
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I think he would make a much better Arthur....
It also came with no tea.
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And therefore, if Chewbacca does not make sense, you must acquit. The defense rests. Good day to you.
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Ok, you're going to laugh at me, but I hadn't realised that until just now. I also assumed that he meant that Man was run over by a zebra.
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You're right, Mr. Adams would indeed have to have had lots of foresight to see how Big and how Ugly Micro$soft would become.
As it turns out, Douglas Adams did have that much foresight; see his anti-MS rants here, here, here, and... oh, shit, just Google for "Douglas Adams + Miscrosoft" and you'll see :-)
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