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Hitchhiker's Guide Trailer Online

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the stuff-to-see dept.

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."

19 of 289 comments (clear)

  1. don't DO that! by surreal-maitland · · Score: 2, Funny

    friday? you had me really hopefully for a moment there. what can i say? it's early.

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  2. Bandwidth the size of a planet... by spoodie · · Score: 5, Funny

    Trailers. Don't talk to me about trailers...

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    1. Re:Bandwidth the size of a planet... by Alranor · · Score: 5, Funny

      Something tells me their webserver's suddenly developed a terrible pain in all the diodes down its left hand side.

    2. Re:Bandwidth the size of a planet... by spellraiser · · Score: 5, Funny
      Something tells me their webserver's suddenly developed a terrible pain in all the diodes down its left hand side.

      One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about humans was their habit of continuously stating and repeating the very very obvious, as in It's a nice day, or You're very tall, or Oh dear we seem to have slashdotted the server!

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    3. Re:Bandwidth the size of a planet... by Alranor · · Score: 3, Funny

      Somewhere, in a server room (possibly in the vicinity of Betelgeuse)

      Techie: Oh, Belgium, Slashdot linked to us ...

    4. Re:Bandwidth the size of a planet... by pjt33 · · Score: 4, Funny

      Has it ever been explained how he heard It's a nice day continually repeated while living in England?

    5. Re:Bandwidth the size of a planet... by i.r.id10t · · Score: 2, Funny

      Well, like Mel said in Braveheart - "At least the rain is falling straight down"

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  3. As the web server crashed to the ground... by ErikRed1488 · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

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  4. 42nd post! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Maybe the question to 42 was "How many hits does it take to get to the center of a slashdotting?"

  5. Tried to download the trailer... by 1WingedAngel · · Score: 5, Funny

    For a moment, nothing happened.

    Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.

    1. Re:Tried to download the trailer... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Oh. A little webpage just poped up saying "Please do not click this link again".

  6. Oh, for Pete's sake... by HarveyBirdman · · Score: 2, Funny

    "Brain the size of a planet" was not meant to be taken LITERALLY!

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    1. Re:Oh, for Pete's sake... by stratjakt · · Score: 5, Funny

      It occurs to me, that when those "authenticity" geeks who go to movies to point out continuity flaws (like the spiderman article here on /. a few weeks ago) see this movie, their heads will explode.

      I can just see them feverishly scribbling into their zaurus': "Continuity Error #123231254: Shot clearly shows ICBMS, next shot they appear to be a bowl of petunias and a whale." "Error #1534534534: Ford turns into a penguin.", etc..

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  7. warning, there's spoilers! by deathcloset · · Score: 4, Funny

    THE EARTH GETS BLOWN UP!???!!!

    Ah man! now the movie's ruined for me!

    1. Re:warning, there's spoilers! by jmoriarty · · Score: 2, Funny

      THE EARTH GETS BLOWN UP!???!!!

      Oh no! Does that mean the Lone Gunmen are dead?

  8. But then... by physicsboy500 · · Score: 3, Funny

    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.

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  9. While /. effect subsides by AbstracTus · · Score: 4, Funny

    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"

  10. Re:Ick by Rallion · · Score: 4, Funny

    Um...did you just say you wanted HHGG to not have anything in it that doesn't make any sense? Did you really just say that?

    It would have to be about five minutes long!

  11. Marvin? more like an i-Marvin. by Darth23 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Does everything tech related in movies have to look like a Mac?

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