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tplayford writes "On the third anniversary of Douglas Adams death, the makers of the 'Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy' film have released their website, with a photo of the whole crew and a blog. I'm trying not to panic, but I just can't wait for the film to come out."
The new movie starts with "Click here to download the Flash Plug-In". I've seen that a lot, is that a new film studio?
I like playing spot the black guy in the photo. It keeps me occupied for hours.
To skip the rather unnecessary Flash intro, go here
Deep Thought.
Not a very interesting site...
Just a button you can't push!?!?!
I watched the Guide several years ago, and was really kinda disappointed. It's cool that it's finally .. being remade? What exactly is going on?
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That's never a good sign.
While this story has adapted well to radio, book, and even a campy TV mini-series, what is the probability of hollywood trashing this?
Id say higher then turning a nuclear missle into a confused sperm whale.
I hope that this doesnt wind up sucking. But, unfortunatly, I think it will.
Oh well.
no
...After what I've heard about Disney having the script re-written after Adams' death, I'm not exactly looking forward to this _travesty_ with his name on it.
I wonder what the three guys in the front of the photo do that allow them to wear blue fuzzy slippers?!
Douglas Adams!??!?! taking stabs in the dark(!) at writing!
Of course his characters are huge jokes, that's why they're great! Have you even read the books? No? Go, now, and purify thyself -- I promise, you'll enjoy it.
They got a shot of it in the mini serries awsell.
Its a joke about the vogons turning up and nobody beeing aware off it even tho thats exactly the thing the jodrell bank is looking for
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The opening page acts in different ways when you press the button - although I had to restart the browser for it to change (refresh didn't seem to cut it).
Hate to break it to you all, but there isn't anyone in that staff pic with 2 heads. There's no way they can make this flick w/out the coolest guy in the universe!
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Better buy a bunch of copies now, before all you can buy are the one's with the picture of the cast on the cover saying "Now a major motion picture."
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Radio series, in which Adams was involved: great.
Books, in which Adams was involved: variable, from okay to great.
TV series, in which Adams was involved: pretty cool, all things considered.
Film, with no input from Adams but lots from clueless Hollywood types: worse than Vogon poetry, I betcha. Prepare to gnaw your own legs off.
Stick to the first three (Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Restaurant at the End of the Universe, and Life, The Universe and Everything) though. The series kind of goes downhill in the last two books in the trilogy (Mostly Harmless, and So Long and Thanks for All The Fish).
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Nay, it is the fact that you seem to have never been exposed to American cartoons as a youth.
By law, according to the Uniform Cartoon Code (UCC), Chapter 4398274, section 12.432432 as publish by the ACME Corporation. "All persons, animals or other self aware beings (terrestrial or otherwise) who encounter a large red button are required to press it under penalty of anvil" it goes on to say "Should the before mentioned red button carry a notice asking all who see it not to press it, the required pusher of said button is here by required to press it as often and as many times as possible until it's final result is known."
Note: the actual notice of the button in this case is from the Hitchhikers Guide no less, something to the effect of:
Dent: "I wonder what would happen if I pressed this button."
Prefect: "I wouldn't..."
*beep*
Dent: "That's odd... a sign lit up telling me not to press this button again."
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I bought the book (collective hitchhiker's guide) several years ago, but haven't read it yet. I keep meaning to start it, but in all honesty the thing that is keeping me from it is the hype and the fans. All I hear about is how awesome it is, and see references to it that people around here seem to think are hilarious. If you question anything about it you are lambasted and marked a troll. It almost makes me not want to read it, because who would want to read a book with followers like that? I hate to say it, but the LOTR fans do the same thing. I never read the books, but anything that wasn't a glowing comment about the movies was met with scorn from fans. I just don't get that kind of devotion. Maybe if I read the books I would get it, but I am not sure I even want to.
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This character doesn't appear in the books. I was wondering if anyone knows how Humma Kavula works into the story.
Ah, well.
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Well, according to , it looks like they've chosen an interesting cast. I think Martin Freeman is an excellent choice for Arthur. I suspect Warwick Davis is being cast as Marvin simply because he seemed so pessimistic for most of Willow.
One of the screenplay writers, Karey Kirkpatrick, also was credited with working on the screenplay for Chicken Run, which was pretty good and original. So I think we can all continue to hold out hope for a while longer.
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- A standard explosion, with chunks of planet flying by
- A burst of light which vaporizes the planet
- Getting hit by the cue-ball in a game of galactic billiards
Using IE 6, refreshing did work to see differing intros, but the randomizer does often go on runs of the same intro.Yes, at least twice - I have the original version somewhere at home, and it's pretty easy to find the current version.
"The planet beneath them was almost perfectly oblivious of their presence, which was just how they wanted it for the moment. The huge yellow somethings went unnoticed at Goonhilly, they passed over Cape Canaveral without a blip, Woomera and Jodrell Bank looked straight through them - which was a pity because it was exactly the sort of thing they'd been looking for all these years."
Yes it's a crappy website, which is a bad start for what could be the biggest movie in the coming years. Nevertheless, click here to skip the Flash intro and read the blog.
Is that the one where Harry and Hermione invite Ron to join them for... No, nope, that's just wrong, must get image out of my head.
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but the reason a lot of films suck is the dialogue and characterisation doesn't work. You can't just swap people in and out of roles to fit an audience demographic *without rewriting all their lines and possibly changing everything* Mos Def as Arthur Dent? where did that come from? Is he going to play it straight as the original character (i.e. not flash, just a jobbing journalist), or as I would imagine - he's going to be a little cool and swarve/charming? If so why would he be friends with Dent in the first place, they'd run in different social circles! If you change almost all his lines to reflect his new character then everybody elses lines have to change to reflect their relationship with him. Maybe some things wouldn't happen. Funnily enough MosDef was in The Italian Job another travesty of a remake of a great british film. And yesterday I read that the Coen Brothers and Tom Hanks have remade 'the ladykillers'. How anybody believe that could be bettered in its original form? Ok it's black & white but then so is Dr Strangelove which is still a total classic. I must say I'm not looking forward to it, I'll wait to rent it on DVD if the reviews are generally favorable.
HHGTTG might be a Hollywood producer's dream book: something that can be adapted and reinterpreted liberally without worrying about staying true to the source material.
After all, IIRC, the plots of the radio series, TV series, books, and text adventure game all differ from each other, starting sometime after Ford and Arthur arrive on the Heart of Gold.
You are better off getting the CD's of the radio series (since this is how it all started out) - Audio book of the book of the radio series seems far to circular for me. Though I guess DNA would get a kick out of it. The problem here is finding it....... I picked up a copy from a bargain bin a while back. I have a feeling BitTorrent or eBay might be a contender. The box CD of the radio series comes with a nice "Don't Panic" logo and very cheesy 1980s style dayglo covers to each disk.
Hang on - I'm supposed to be designing the fjords...
Who visualizes like this? And how obvious is it, once stated, that that's exactly the right visual simile? Douglas Adams had a command of the English language both forwards and backwards. It's a shame we won't be getting any new material in this lifetime.
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The UCC was amended in 1993.
4398274 UCC 12.432432 (West 1995) now reads in relevant part:
"(b) In the event that the aforementioned red button bears a notice requesting the public not to press it, the observer, required to push said button under subsection (a) of this section, is hereby required to press it repeatedly until the result of said presses is known; but
(c) the presser may for a reasonable period delay pressing said button as required under subsection (a) of this section, if said delay would effect a comedic purpose, including, but not limited to, chattering teeth, protruding eyes, bulging veins, or shaking limbs, caused by the stress of resisting temptation or the anticipation resulting from such delay."
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Yet another wasted effort on a website. Flash is so aggrevating I simply do without and don't visit sites which require it. Poor choice not to offer a non-Flash website.
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>I mean, when hollywood can fuck up making a movie of Starsky and Hutch for flipsake, what chance have they got with this?
What, exactly, constitutes fucking up Starsky and Hutch? The teevee show sucked on virtually every level... bad acting, bad writing. If the movie sucks, it's just being faithful to the original. Some movies appear to be successful if being a great fit for MST3K is the goal.Some mornings it's hardly worth chewing through the restraints to get out of bed.
Here's a very insightful interview with the script writers. http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/brunel/A2257599
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Maybe Alec Baldwin?
No, wait. Sorry. He's two-faced.
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..the site hasn't suffered a sudden total existance failure yet.
The acronym is emphasized as...
the HitchHiker's Guide to the Galaxy
...not...
the Hitchhiker's Guide 2 the Galaxy
There is already a BBC website called H2G2 that competes with Wikipedia and Everything2 as an online, community-edited reference work.
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will be off topic: .... .png, .gif, .jpeg(??copyright) or whatever standard ? ... ..
:your browser is outdated and does not support encrtyption - download IE 6.0)- all that with a full install of mozilla for linux .... I do not have explorer and I do not want to have one, nor windows, nor any stupid rich-media-content bandwidth-hog crap ....
... I love hitchhiker's guide, and that flashcrap made me really mad ...
... DAMN
it really pisses me off, that everywhere I go I am forced to download a new falsh plugin, java vm, whatever player, new version of explorer (since mozilla seems to be outdated for some lameass websites), MS media player, realone player
HEY !
really, can we just see the content of websites, with
i am willing to use javascript when available, but I tend to simply ignore sites with that kind of crap
If i can build and maintain sites with lots of content in a way that they are 100% functional even with links or lynx, or my pda browser (before ppc2000 IE, lately konqueror/opie) then why cannot professional designers keep their sites at least usable for people with thin (or just different) clients
I am going to issue chargebacks against several sites where I paid for services and where I can see
uhh sorry for my rage
ps: I love when they have 5 different flash ads, and they all open up a new browser for each on my pda (href target=new)
can I choose to ignore all that ?