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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."
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.
That struck me as being more of a teaser than a trailer.
:)
Oh well
Sorry, but the TV Marvin, umm... "emoted" more.
Tom.
Oh arse
I believe Taco meant that the trailer is more like a teaser, in that no actual footage from the movie is being shown.
Learn something new.
I hope they're doing satire there. I'd hate for them to take this movie seriously. It's like doing "The Life of Brian" in Aramaic.
Oh wait, they did that already.
I'm in the hole of the broadband donut.
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."
He looks like he was designed to be your plastic pal who's fun to be with by some jerk who'll be the first up against the wall when the revolution comes...
I could not disagree more strongly. Please, if you are so inclined, feel free to execute your right to not vote. Especially if you are one of those people who got all their information for TV attack ads and Daily Show comedy skits, and think you are expected to choose between "the lesser of two evils" in this election. Stay home and relax. An uninformed vote does far more damage to the country than an apathetic citizen ever could.
Information wants to be anthropomorphized.
Just like the AppleMaster himself would have used.
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Except without any action. It's just a logo. That's why you are reminded of Men In Black, I think the trailer did something similar.
I think it was appropriate here though - the Guide would certainly have a logo. The graphic style reminds me of some of the StarShip Titanic stuff.
If Jesus wants me it knows where to find me.
Its brilliant lines like those that have lots of people worried about how this is going to translate into film.
I mean, how exactly do you shoot 'gigantic yellow spaceships hanging in the sky in exactly the way that bricks don't.'
At least the movie blog and credentials are promising. The Hammer and Tongs guys who are doing it are spoken of very favourably by Spike Jonze, Jay Roach, etc. In a way I have more hope just because they are new to features, have everything to prove, and are likely less encumbered by the studio than bigger names.
If Jesus wants me it knows where to find me.
Continuity flaws, continuity flaws...
I'm eagerly looking forward to the Slashdot discussion when this film comes out. Thousands of geeks, livid that the movie contradicts the books... when the books happily contradict
the TV series
the radio series
the LP
each other
basic axioms of logic
on every single page!
Anyone got a phone number for NASA? I think I want to leave the planet...
Real Daleks don't climb stairs - they level the building.
exactly. the whole point of hitchhikers is that it doesn't make sense. leaving you scratching your head as to how the heck that happened...
Actually, I strongly disagree. I was really very glad to see the mock-serious nature of the trailer. Playing it straight is the best way to make it funny. Airplane!, Men In Black, whatever - the straighter it is played, the funnier it is in my opinion.
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.
Then protest vote. Vote Badnarik, or whoever represents the marginalized political party of your choice. (Two-party system be damned!) The beauty of it is that you can complain no matter who wins...
"Hey, I didn't vote for him!"
OR
"Hey, I didn't actually expect him to win!"
An uninformed vote does far more damage to the country than an apathetic citizen ever could.
Pssst. Here's a secret... There's no such thing as an informed vote. There are always limitations with what the populace can know about the future voting and policy potential of any candidate, especially in this era when politicians are required to lie and break promises to get elected in the first place.
Did anybody actually think about what either Bush or Gore would do in response to a terrorist attack, when we USians were arguing about hanging chads in 2000?
Those who complain about affect & effect on