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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."

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  1. 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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  2. Imagination by Kralizec · · 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.

  3. Another site for information on the Radio Series by Alranor · · 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.

  4. Wonderful World by NiceAndEasy · · 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 :).

  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.

  6. 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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