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Hitchhiker's Guide Trailer Online
Jeremy Rayner writes "The 2005 Hitchhiker's movie trailer is available in AVI or RealMedia formats. The movie trailer doesn't reveal anything, but looks cool.
Personally I'm looking forward to the new Radio 4 series in September for which you can hear an mp3 preview."
This was shown at Comic-COn on Friday and was available online as well.
What a choice: dive for FP or get the trailer before shashdotting. Neither! 15% and now estimated time of 44 minutes.
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
friday? you had me really hopefully for a moment there. what can i say? it's early.
-ninjaneer
Trailers. Don't talk to me about trailers...
I don't need a compass to tell me which way the wind shines.
That didn't give me a good feeling. Stylish, sure, but a bit lacking in substance. I hate the way they just stuck "42" in the corner without any reason. It's like they thought they'd just chuck it in for "geek cred", even though it makes no sense. I hope the whole film isn't like that; lots of style, no substance, and the occasional thing that doesn't really makes sense, but attempts to make fans feel clever for noticing it.
it thought, not this again. Some people think if we only knew what the poor web server meant, we'd have a greater understanding of the universe.
I was not touched there by an angel.
The Hitchhiker story is so bizarre that I always found my imagination made the books much funnier than the radio drama and the TV show. I'm not sure how excited I am about the movie, since live action just can't seem to match the absurdities that the imagination seems to be able to grasp so well.
The IMDb already have a page for the film with a discussion board too.
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Bet you didn't know amazon sold this...
Here
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:) - i've been looking forward to these for a long time, they were originally due to begin airing in February of this year but some licensing issues with the movie delayed that.
The original cast (unfortunately without the late Peter Jones), a cameo by Douglas Adams himself
And for those of you who aren't in the UK, you may appreciate knowing that Radio 4 make their programs available on their website for a week after the broadcast.
Unfortunately they're still in crappy real media format, but mplayer deals with them fine.
About time too
Meet Zaphod Beeblebrox. You can also go to Zaphod Beeblebrox, in Ottawa. Fun trendy bar that used to be much better than it is.
The dangers of knowledge trigger emotional distress in human beings.
This will more than likely be better than the movie. *waits impatiently for September*
This is me. Don't like it? That's unlucky.
Maybe the question to 42 was "How many hits does it take to get to the center of a slashdotting?"
It's getting Slashdoted, so lets Spoil the Trailer:
Background music is (What A) Wonderful World, Louis Armstrong, and story is following lyrics from the music.
Blue stars, clouds, light/sun, then unzooming and showing our pretty little planet.
And then.... BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM, Earth exlodes!
Familiar title "DON'T PANIC" shows...
Good job :).
I'm trying to use freecache to get the AVI version... but I keep getting redirected back to the real site. Anyone know why? Sorta thought that this is what freecache.org is for....
Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos
You took your time. Anyway, here's a picture of a towel:
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http://hitchhikermovie.free.fr/pages/trailer.ht
There's also an avi on that page.
I may as well plug my site - www.angelfire.com/on4/radiolistings - which is details of most BBC programmes since 1997 & some earlier.
That struck me as being more of a teaser than a trailer.
:)
Oh well
the download stream is down to 0.5 KB/sec, or just under 2 hours to download.
Anyone have a torrent?
So slashdot has been slashdotting for years...And they still haven't realized it's *bad* to link large files in the original submission? This was even a CmdrTaco post. My download started around 80 k/s, but now it's around 5. I think the server is saying mercy, so I'm going to let go and wait till later.
For a moment, nothing happened.
Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.
Here are some pictures of Marvin's Costume, there's confirmation they're real in this interview.
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That's a pretty insightful, original comment, all right.
I really want to see how they pull this off. I've been rereading the books lately, I'm just partway into "So Long" now. Never read Mostly Harmless or "Young Zaphod plays it Safe" before, so that'll be fun.
.com cyber-employees, and the parallel. Perhaps it was somewhat prophetic, perhaps it's just exactly improbable enough.
I just read the part where Ford sits waiting for the Guide to be updated, and it says something about him waiting for 15 years of his work-life to dissappear into the ether. I couldn't help thinking of todays
Offtopic, I went to Borders and bought the "leather" bound "Complete Hitchhikers Guide". It's got all the books in one, seemed like a deal to me. I noticed on the spine of this tome, it lists this "Young Zaphoid Plays it Safe".
Zaphoid! How does a typo like that pass the publisher? The story is spelled wrong on the spine of the book.
Anyhow, movie or not, encourage people to read the books. There's so much wit and puns and wordplay that just couldn't translate onto the screen.
I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
Spolier! The Earth gets blown up. I hope this movie rocks. DNA is a man underappreciated in the mainstream.
"Brain the size of a planet" was not meant to be taken LITERALLY!
--- Ban humanity.
There's nothing to see in the trailer; no point in downloading it. Wait until there's a trailer with some of the actors and bits of scenes.
Move along now... continue worki^H^H^H^H^Hreading slashdot.
This is left as an exercise for the reader.
You're thinking of the TV series which features a cameo by Douglas. We're talking about the new radio series which features a cameo by Douglas, as Agrajag.
I was able to snag it before the /. hit. (I hope it's all there, I can't play it right now because it want's a codec the firewall won't let me download) I would prefer more mirrors instead of all getting it from there :}
Torrent here!
during the last 10 seconds. Can you see the number? :)
-- TRUST ME! I KNOW WHAT I'M DOING!
Here's a mirror l;) http://kcore.ath.cx/trailer_hitchhikers.avi
Mirror of the AVI file.
Not really interesting but I hope it can help someone
Ploum.net.
"Brain the size of a planet" was not meant to be taken LITERALLY! :-)
I know what you're getting at but, IIRC, I think his brain was supposed to be the size of a planet...just that it was stored in some other dimension or something.
Connecting to hitchhikermovie.free.fr[212.27.40.152]:80... connected.
7 /t railer_hitchhikers.torrent
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 503 Service Unavailable
http://www.thepiratebay.org/download.php/322763
42...
Was'nt that the meaining of life, based on a the calculations of a megacomputer?
H2G2 TV-series on DVD: Check
H2G2 Radio show on CD (and subsequently, mp3): Check
H2G2 Leather bound, goldleaf singlebound volume: Check
H2G2 Comics: Check
New H2G2 Radio Shows: Coming this fall.
H2G2 Movie: Coming next year.
It's a good time to be a fan.
Now, if only we could get some news on the new Dr. Who series, or the Red Dwarf movie, or Red Dwarf Series IX...
Happiness is relative, Based upon the way we live.
THE EARTH GETS BLOWN UP!???!!!
Ah man! now the movie's ruined for me!
This might qualify as redundant, but I was worried the others might get /.ed to heck, too.
The second radio series was quite different than the books, and was better in my opinion (perhaps because I heard it before I read the books).
... the TV series was pretty awful.
The end of the second radio series had Arthur taking off in the Heart of Gold after discovering Zaphod's part in the destruction of Earth, leaving Ford and Zaphod stranded with the ruler of the universe, and Trillian had disappeared near the end of the first series (forcibly married to the Algolian Chapter of the Galactic Rotary Club, from memory).
The end of the second book had Arthur and Ford still stranded on prehistoric Earth (where they had been at the end of the first radio series).
I'm hoping that the third radio series will continue from where the second radio series left off, and not just follow the books.
I don't hold much hope for the movie
I heard it on the radio,
read it in the book,
saw it on stage at the Rainbow,
cringed at the TV series,
played the records,
read the book of radio scripts.
I've eaten the soup and worn the T-shirt.
The original material, particularly the books was funny. It still is funny. I think I've read the first book 20 times and laughed every time, but in slightly different places. Listening to the radio series with those amazing radiophonic-workshop effects makes any visual representation redundant so I can't understand what us old-timers will get from the film. Either it will be the original, but watered down to fit the film length, or it will be new, not DNA, but with a few in-jokes.
I think the film must be targeted at a new audience. They've heard this theory about 42 being the answer but never been exposed to the original joke. 42 is there to whet their appetites, not mine.
So I can't say I have been waiting 24 years to see it on the big screen. I'll wait until it arrives on a small one in my living-room. Can it be worse than "Mostly Harmless"?
The answer to everything...life, the universe and everything...is 42. Now about that question... ;)
So several years ago when I was several feet shorter I spent all my money on the box set of the tapes of the original series and both tapes were there and they had a little cardboard box with the primary cover on the front and secondary on the back. Now what am I supposed to do with it? Make a little pyramid out of it? If it wasn't for the fact Im getting something great from the BBC I would be pissed that my cardboard carton is now totally useless.
"Bedebedebedebedebedebedebede! I'm feeling very depressed, Buck..."
--- Ban humanity.
I'm only getting the audio from the avi. Am I missing a codec? If so, which one?
Speak truth to power.
So you didn't play the game then?
You still have to play the adventure game ;)
high speed mirror
I'm seeding too
So I can't say I have been waiting 24 years to see it on the big screen. I'll wait until it arrives on a small one in my living-room.
You know, 24 is 42 backwards...
Just a thought.
Javascript + Nintendo DSi = DSiCade
I remember around '98, in the twilight of Adam's life he sold the script for the movie and launched H2G2 as a sort of web version of the guide. There were then plans to release a PDA guide that would link to the encyclopediac H2G2 site. What happened?
"Here's a spoiler: You're will die alone."-Triumph the Insult Comic Dog
I got (what I think was) the first leather bound volume, labeled on the spine as:
:-).
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Universe
The Restaurant at the End of the Galaxy
So Long And Thanks for All the Fish
Young Zaphod Plays It Safe
Glad to hear the same guy who did my book's spine is still employed doing yours
Xesdeeni
Of course, in the original Hitchhiker's Guide radio scripts, when Arthur pulls out Scrabble stones to discover the question to the answer "42" the sentence "What do you get if you multiply six by nine?" emerges, and then Arthur says "Six by nine? Forty-two? You know, I've always felt that there was something fundamentally wrong with the Universe." -- it is at this point that a faint and distant voice says "base thirteen!". 42 (base 13) is equal to 54 (base 10). ( Douglas Adams has been quoted as saying "You just don't write jokes in base 13!") To dispel any myths about 42, Douglas Adams also wrote on USENET. "The answer to this is very simple. It was a joke. It had to be a number, an ordinary, smallish number, and I chose that one. Binary representations, base thirteen, Tibetan monks are all complete nonsense. I sat at my desk, stared into the garden and thought '42 will do' I typed it out. End of story."
I just sortof shook my head and thought: Oh God. What have they done.
Amazingly, the realmedia file is willing to be downloaded!
That either speaks to:
the massive bandwidth usually associated with a .nu domain
the disgraceful bandwidth of the French
or
RealMedia's status as the unwanted step child in the video codec world.
Now I will continue readinG the thread in search of an AVI mirror.
The Time is 10:08 AM CST
[Fuck Beta]
o0t!
Reference: Louis Armstrong's "What A Wonderful World" was the music played at the very end of the 1980 BBC TV series.
Easter Egg: Watch the upper-left corner of the screen at the end of the trailer.
-- Yoz
one server sitting on it's own in a small cafe in Rickmansworth
suddenly hosted what it was that had been going wrong all this
time, and it finally knew how the world could be made a good
and happy place. This time it was right, it would work, and no
one would have to get nailed to anything.
Sadly, however, before it could get bandwidth to tell anyone
about it, it was slashdotted, and the idea was lost forever.
The original generic sig.
While I'm waiting for the server to recover, I'd like to post on of my favorite quote from the book, something I cannot picture getting a cross in the movie. "The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't"
All that aside, WHY ISN'T AKAIMI or FREECACHE mirroring this trailer?
[Fuck Beta]
o0t!
hitchikers trailer
100Mbit = my bandwidth saturated. /.'ing?
But how long do you think the server would hold out against a full power
[Fuck Beta]
o0t!
remember to remove the spaces, connect to the larger servers
ed2k://|file|Hitchhiker's.Guide.To.The.Galaxy.(
Just like the AppleMaster himself would have used.
NetInfo connection failed for server 127.0.0.1/local
The '42' floating in the stars on the upper-left side near the end was a nice touch.
If Jesus wants me it knows where to find me.
I played, but never completed, the game. Mindboggling.
http://home.comcast.net/~phule/trailer_hitchhikers .avi
In Soviet Russia...michael would be rotting in Siberia!
...about movies based on imaginative books like this is that the movies always ruin the characters which have only ever been in my imagination. While I'm rereading the book the "new" versions of those characters are always those of the actors who played them in the movie. It's never quite the same again.
I always pictured Marvin to be a taller, leaner, and darker robot that sort of looked like Bender from Futurama, and I liked him like that. After I watch the movie, my version of Marvin will be a short, fat, white robot with a hugh head. That version doesn't appeal to me but it will be the version I'll be thinking of when I reread the books.
download mirror
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http://mtw.dramaciderecrods.net/HitchHikers_Guide_ teaser.avi
Here is a working link...for now. ;)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990) .... Head Thug
Completely off topic, but yet apropos:
# 42 replies beneath your current threshold.
And yes.. I'm sure by me posting this, its no longer true. Carry on.
Before the TV series, "What A Wonderful World" was played at the end of the first radio series.
(In both cases it was when Arthur and Ford were stranded on prehistoric Earth.)
When I saw that the Green Smiley had been replaced with the "Chicken head of Saturn" along with that action music straight from the Space Family Robinson remake, three words popped in my mind:
Hitchhiker's Guide Reloaded
I was terribly moved by the Tertiary Phase previews, but I fear for the movie. I'm afraid it's going to be nothing more than "Dude, Where's My Planet?"
http://sixpack.alldas.org/trailer_hitchhikers.avi
:-)
Have fun!
yeah.. I'm stuck on the heart of gold. Remembering the books, I tried to explain tea to the machine.. doesnt seem to be helping.
-- 'The' Lord and Master Bitman On High, Master Of All
I realize that this is just a prototype....BUT, if they are THAT far off of what they think Marvin should look like, then it really leaves me worried about how screwed up the rest of the movie is going to be.
....Marvin should look his age....several million years old for pete's sake!!! Not like some new fangled Honda robot!
/rant off
/rant on. It's justified. If they screw this film up, I'm going to be very pissed.
Seriously, does ANYONE think that Marvin is suppose to be a cute looking short robot with a HUGE round head!??
He should be taller, darker, more mechanical looking, slightly sinister, and oh, has everyone forgotten one very important piece????
Marvin's all important PEG LEG!!!!! I mean come on! The peg leg is actually an important piece of the story latter on.
If the writers/prop makers can't even get Marvin remotely close to the way he should be, then I have serious doubts about the rest of the film.
naw, screw it. Leave the
I'm a bit worried about the radio show. Trillian sounds like more like Dame Judi Dench than the new hotness that Trillian is/was. All of them are a bit too old, but they should have recast Trillian. She's just far too old lady.
I am really excited to hear the old space bajo tune again, though. Time to relive my childhood and feel young again!
You can say that again, when I loaded it all I got was "error downloading codec". Good to see the spirit of Douglas Adams is still going.
Whatever happened to plain old "Funny"?
Seriously. It's not 50 Cent-type stuff, understandably.
stars in my pocket like grains of sand
From the demo "Hip-Hoppers Guide to the Galaxy"
Here's a torrent!: http://www.piratebay.org/download.php/3227637/trai ler_hitchhikers.torrent Thanks piratebay!
It's days like this that make me think I have the best slashdot username, EVER!
read the subject.
Anyone who paid a bit of attention to Douglas Adams knows he was an ardent Mac-head. To not release the trailer for HHGG in QuickTime is a slap in the face to his ghost.
- Jasen.
The movie trailer doesn't reveal anything
/. readers who haven't read the book will be delighted to hear that.
Oh, good, no spoilers. The three or four
Please donate your spare CPU cycles to help fight cancer and other diseases
...a job working for one of the companies working on the HHGTG visual effects. He's a big time Douglas Adams fan and it was a good job offer. But instead he found a job elsewhere. He simply didn't want to have his name attached to what looks like it's ultimately going to turn into the bastardization of the best work of one of his favorite authors.
Doesn't it make you feel good to know that our freedoms are protected by politicans, lawyers and journalists.
http://www.fearthepenguin.net/video/trailer_hitch
Enjoy...
Ender-
Nothing to see here
UK Based mirror: teaser.avi 8.7MB
And a poster of the logo, artwork etc: poster.jpg 96KB
0daymeme.com: Great stuff.
Although this was already "slashdotted" when it was first linked form aintitcool.com here is a working mirror.
http://phoenix.bureau42.com/trailer_hitchhikers.av i
How can you say that the trailer doesn't reveal anything when right in plain sight is the answer to life the universe and everything!!!
I prefer this explanation that I came up with.
The ship runs on a probability drive right?
Q: What's a well-understood symbol of probility/chance?
A: A pair of dice.
Q: How many dots are there on a pair of dice?
A: 42....
I'm out of my mind right now, but feel free to leave a message.....
that the movie needs to come out on the 42nd day of may...
Did you know you can be apathetic to apathy? Not that I give a shit...
I just watched the teaser and I can honestly say that I expect the movie to be absolute crap. The style of the teaser is devoid of hint of humour (british or otherwise). The hollywood grassfuckers couldn't leave well enough alone, just like when they had to make an american version of 'Priscilla, Queen of the desert', just to americanize the humour forthe masses.
Here's some more info about the movie on Yahoo Movies . Greg's Preview from that page will give you a lot of background info.
I always thought it was a reference to the * character, ASCII 42, which in a ls-style wildcard matches anything and everything.
-- I like the cut of your thinking, young man. - me.
I hope it's as good as the movie. The ones based off those Lord of the Rings movies seemed drawn out.
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ECHELON is a government program to find words like bomb, jihad, plutonium, assassinate, and anarchy.
There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly how to represent or render any part of DNA's universe, he will instantly disappear and replace it with something even more unimaginable and expensive.
There is another theory which states that this is already happening.
Hmmm I'm worried. Why does nobody mention who is going to play the book, for me thats a central role and is just as important as getting Arthur and Ford right. Does anyone know?!
Does everything tech related in movies have to look like a Mac?
-------- In Soviet Russia, "Soviet Russia" sigs hate Slashdot.
Yeah, I know it's my site but it's not meant to be a trollin' this post is actually on topic and the provided link has Slashdotted
Movie News - "Entertainment news, bitch!"
Not bad for a 3MB file... Gotta love the Slashdot effect... :P
It is going to be crap because for some reason hollywood thinks it needs an overwhelming soundtrack for a comedy like this! Fuck, it's a BRITISH COMEDY, not some Will Smith turd.
The knack is in the subtlety if the adventure, not a seat of your pants thrillride!!
Man, this is gonna suck if that's what they think is needed for a trailer.
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I hear his switchboard is infallible. ;D
"Empathise with stupidity, and you're halfway to thinking like an idiot." - Iain M. Banks
All I saw was a planet explode and text.. ok, AND a logo. Not a single character from the movie. I say it was a intro.
Nice trailer, although I think they should stick with the familiar green tongue-out smiley logo. Oh, and the big 42 in the stars was way subtle, yo.
Drew
"Please do not download this trailer again"
Ceci n'est pas un sig.
Not to put to fine a point on it, but the radio series were there first, and my own respect for the original will therefore always prefer them over the books. Much like Kirk will always be the true captain.
Or am I now stating the obvious like most humans do.