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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."
> I remain astonished that RealPlayer is still an internet standard. It's no easier to install than Divx or Xvid, requires you to have that stupid 24 gig player, and the quality is easily a step down from the big two. For god's sake, put Real out of its misery !
WHen talking about this trailer, I completely agree with you, no reason to use real format at all.
When talking about streaming video, the AVI file format is serious not suited for it (for once because of having the index at the end of the file and needing that index to navigate through the file, somethign which is not needed for either mpg or real formats.
I do not know about ogg, it might support this correctly and that'd allow using xvid for streaming.
What I have done is listen to the Audio Books"> read by Douglas Adams himself.
It gives you that much extra, because you hear what the author wants you to hear, instead of only the text.
It still leaves enough to the imagination.
What I did was ript it, so I had 5 CD's in my car, instead of the 25 and then listen to the mp3's. What else are you going to do when waiting in traffic?
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I heard the radio series before the book was available. My whole schedule was twisted and warped so that I wouldn't miss a single minute. It was awesome. I also enjoyed the books. The TV show, on the other hand, was seriously lame.
Radio leaves plenty of room for imagination.
It isn't a given that any story will work better in any given medium. For instance Star Wars, the movie, totally blew me away when I first saw it. I'm not even remotely interested in reading the book.
And furthermore.. through time space warp twists and turns, Marvin's brain actaully was the earth Mock II. Built after Earth I was blown up. According to Adams, Marvin asks the ultimate question to a matress (I think it's in the second book. Paraphrasing:
"Do you want to know just how amazing smart I am and dumb you are?"
"Sure!"
"Pick a number, any number"
"Uuummmmm 12?"
"Wrong. See?"
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
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!
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