Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Trailer

Rakkis writes "A new Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy trailer is available on the frontpage of Amazon.com. From IMDb: "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy follows the travels of Arthur Dent (Martin Freeman), who is saved from the demolition of the Earth by his pal Ford Prefect (Mos Def). Ford is really an alien doing research for an updated edition of the universe's ultimate travel companion, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy." -- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy opens April 29th.""

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[anti-slash] help celebrate the firing of Michael

[jihadi_celebration]

For public distribution (13 Feb 2005):

Anti-slash confirms: Slashdot's editors are dying.

In another devistating blow to slashdot's editors, it was learned that Michael was fired as an editor on slashdot. We at anti-slash are proud to have brought about this partial victory by our unrelenting jihad of bringing their injustices to light.

The specifics of this case are documented in this post: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=138099&cid=115 70041
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I got this from a verified source who's in the know:

Long story short, michael was canned for his abusive and egotistical personality.

Rob's been building a list of complaints by users about michael's abusive patterns but he never acted on it. Well, michael managed to bitchslap one of Rob's old college buddies' accounts along with a couple of paid accounts, word eventually filtered down to Rob, and he had kittens. He convinced michael's OSTG manager to track him down and drag him into a conference call.

Rob laid down the law and started reading off complaints and michael raised his voice, saying that if Rob had a personal problem with him that he didn't need to go over his head and involve his manager in it.

During the shouting match, michael's editor flag was revoked. He was in the admin area at the time and he noticed.

At this point he went totally ballistic and started screaming about how this was why he moved, to get away from "arrogant elitist bullshit". (this is a direct quote.. michael actually did move from New York to Canada to protest George W. Bush's inauguration in 2001. Andover kept him on since it was only an all-remote job anyway.)

michael's manager ducked out of the call to page (read: wake up) Hemos (overseas on business) to three-way him into the call, to try and calm everyone down.

There was some more shouting, and michael's manager told him that things aren't working out well, and that he's going to recommend that his employment be terminated.

michael just hung up, and that was the end of the call as well as michael's employment with OSTG.

This can be confirmed by visiting http://slashdot.org/authors.pl. Michael is not listed.

Fact: Slashdot's editors are dying

Re:Direct link to the movie

[blakestah]

Give up.

That was perhaps the worst, trailer, ever.

Re:MOD PARENT DOWN: UNTRUTH

[Scrameustache]

Fuck, that wasn't a troll, you 'tards, that was informative: THIS SCREENPLAY IS NOT ADAM'S FINAL SCREENPLAY.

It's BASED on Adam's final screeplay. That, apparently, is a concept far beyond the understanding of today's moderators.

I don't want you idiots to waste mod points on MY post, I want you incompetant hacks to mod down the lyong grand parent post.

Sheesh!

They overdid the political-correctness.

[UncleScrooge]

THey messed up the cast for Ford. I refuse to go see this movie even though I loved the book.

Ah, I was expecting you, troll.

[Scrameustache]

Ok, first off, my opinion of you: Unintelligent, unable to grasps concepts that differ from the standard labels.
Now that that is out of the way, the meat of the discussion:

So, since being qualified isn't enough... what exactly does a black actor have to do to NOT be the 'token' ?

Hmm... maybe the criteria I NAMED IN MY FIRST POST IN THIS THREAD? Maybe?

Michael Clark Duncan as Kingpin: The only actor around that has the character's stature. He looked the part better than anyone, even with a different skin colour. Or playing a part that hasn't been established as being of a different colour before, or having a part that isn't basically showing up, looking black, then being dismissed while the actual characters with something to do and things to say do their thing.

But, you were unable to understand this the first time I explained it, so I don't expect you to understand this very simple concept this time around. you keep your binary "racist / politically correct" train of thought.

Re:Ah, I was expecting you, troll.

[Scrameustache]

I suppose that astute assesment of my intelligence, based on 2 lines of text, says all that needs to be said about snap judgements.

That they are sometimes amazingly accurate? Yep, it does say that.

Ya know, it IS possible to converse on the internet without being a dick.

It's too bad you never tried it.

You wouldn't talk that way to my face

You'd think so, wouldn't you?