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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."
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.
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.
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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
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 :).
That struck me as being more of a teaser than a trailer.
:)
Oh well
> 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.
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.
UK Laptops
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.
"Brain the size of a planet" was not meant to be taken LITERALLY!
--- Ban humanity.
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!
Here's a mirror l;) http://kcore.ath.cx/trailer_hitchhikers.avi
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
THE EARTH GETS BLOWN UP!???!!!
Ah man! now the movie's ruined for me!
high speed mirror
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."
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.
It's divx, get the codec here (windows/mac).
Speak truth to power.
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"
hitchikers trailer
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...
Just like the AppleMaster himself would have used.
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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.
$ file trailer_hitchhikers.avi
trailer_hitchhikers.avi: RIFF (little-endian) data, AVI, 320 x 240, 29.97 fps, video: DivX 5, audio: MPEG-1 Layer 3 (stereo, 44100 Hz)
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!
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...
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!
http://www.fearthepenguin.net/video/trailer_hitch
Enjoy...
Ender-
Nothing to see here
Although this was already "slashdotted" when it was first linked form aintitcool.com here is a working mirror.
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.
Does everything tech related in movies have to look like a Mac?
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