Hitchhiker's Guide Trailer Online

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Hitchhiker's Guide Trailer Online

Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday July 27, 2004 @01:39AM 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."

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Bandwidth the size of a planet... by spoodie · 2004-07-27 01:47 · Score: 5, Funny

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

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I don't need a compass to tell me which way the wind shines.
1. Re:Bandwidth the size of a planet... by Alranor · 2004-07-27 01:55 · 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 · 2004-07-27 01:59 · 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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  I hear there's rumors on the Slashdots
3. Re:Bandwidth the size of a planet... by Alranor · 2004-07-27 02:04 · 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 · 2004-07-27 02:16 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Has it ever been explained how he heard It's a nice day continually repeated while living in England?
As the web server crashed to the ground... by ErikRed1488 · 2004-07-27 01:49 · 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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I was not touched there by an angel.
Imagination by Kralizec · 2004-07-27 01:50 · Score: 5, Insightful

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.
1. Re:Imagination by houghi · 2004-07-27 02:12 · Score: 3, Interesting
  
  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?
  Note that the prices are in UK money.
  
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  Don't fight for your country, if your country does not fight for you.
Another site for information on the Radio Series by Alranor · 2004-07-27 01:52 · Score: 5, Informative

Here

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 :) - 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.
Wonderful World by NiceAndEasy · 2004-07-27 01:58 · Score: 5, Informative

Sentimental Trailer,
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 :).
1. Re:Wonderful World by Paulrothrock · 2004-07-27 02:13 · Score: 4, Insightful
  
  And then it goes into Men in Black music and looks like a friggin' action movie.
  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.
  
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  I'm in the hole of the broadband donut.
2. Re:Wonderful World by andrew_0812 · 2004-07-27 03:12 · Score: 3, Informative
  
  Another link to the trailer. Get it while it's hot, it probably wont last long. It was posted in the IMDB boards, along with the request: "Please don't give this out."
  
  Oh Well...
  
  http://mtw.dramaciderecrods.net/HitchHikers_Guide_ teaser.avi
Tried to download the trailer... by 1WingedAngel · 2004-07-27 02:04 · Score: 5, Funny

For a moment, nothing happened.

Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.
More Previews... by mishmash · 2004-07-27 02:05 · Score: 3, Informative

Here are some pictures of Marvin's Costume, there's confirmation they're real in this interview.

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UK Laptops
Torrent here! by Anonymous Coward · 2004-07-27 02:20 · Score: 3, Informative

Torrent here!
Mirror. by rufus_the_stunt_bum · 2004-07-27 02:21 · Score: 4, Informative

Here's a mirror l;) http://kcore.ath.cx/trailer_hitchhikers.avi
Torrent of avi file by iocc · 2004-07-27 02:26 · Score: 4, Informative

Connecting to hitchhikermovie.free.fr[212.27.40.152]:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 503 Service Unavailable

http://www.thepiratebay.org/download.php/3227637 /t railer_hitchhikers.torrent
Re:Oh, for Pete's sake... by stratjakt · 2004-07-27 02:30 · 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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I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
warning, there's spoilers! by deathcloset · 2004-07-27 02:32 · Score: 4, Funny

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

Ah man! now the movie's ruined for me!
But then... by physicsboy500 · 2004-07-27 03:13 · 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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The original generic sig.
While /. effect subsides by AbstracTus · 2004-07-27 03:15 · 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"
Re:Continuity? by Hittite+Creosote · 2004-07-27 03:20 · Score: 3, Insightful

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...
Re:avi audio only? by InfiniteWisdom · 2004-07-27 03:37 · Score: 3, Informative

$ 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)
Re:Ick by Rallion · 2004-07-27 03:40 · 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!
Re:Oh, for Pete's sake... by meringuoid · 2004-07-27 03:52 · Score: 4, Insightful

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.
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...

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Real Daleks don't climb stairs - they level the building.