#490063 - 19/02/05 02:14 AM
New Hitchhikers Guide to the galaxy trailer - Don't Panic!
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TrailerRighto. With so many brits and fellow Douglas Adams fans I just HAD to post this up. I'm bringing my towel. Hope it doesn't bomb - but it ought to be good. btw, I leave for awhile and cantus is reaching 10k posts. My I ought to come back to HoP more often - expect a video soon!  Just as soon as I get antispin flower turns w/ glowsticks down. 
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#490064 - 19/02/05 02:58 AM
Re: New Hitchhikers Guide to the galaxy trailer - Don't Panic!
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Silly Chavs
Registered: 17/04/02
Loc: Possibly Romania
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Its massive.
Im on 1mb broadband and its taking a while to load...
Now I've watched it... oh my god.
Firstly.. it has the American movie film man doing the voice over at eh start. Thats always a bad sign.
Secondly...I thought Zaphod Bebelebrox had two heads, whereas in this version, he clearly only has one. Or am I thinking of the TV series in which he had two heads, seeing as I hacvent read the books.
Thirdly.. seeing as I havent read the books, I cant comment on how true to ehstory it is, but it all looks rather CGI.
SO I will have to see it all when it fully comes out.
Edited by Unattractive Cranky Old Freud (19/02/05 03:10 AM)
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#490065 - 19/02/05 03:20 AM
Re: New Hitchhikers Guide to the galaxy trailer - Don't Panic!
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Carpal \'Tunnel
Registered: 22/12/04
Loc: Hampshire College, MA, USA
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i'd heard somewhere it was taking place in the US. that would suck majorly, but it was just a rumor so i dont know how accurate it is. i heard somewhere that the actor playing Ford was black, with anoys me but shouldn't affect the plot.
the logo contains a reference to teh fifth book in the trilogy which means one of three things: 1. they'll make five movies 2. they're making all 5 books into one movie 3. they just put in a reference for the hell of it.
i'm crossing my fingers that it'll rock. if it doesn't, then the people who made it will be lynched. the hhgttg trilogy is a masterpiece, and if they ruin it, there'll be hell to pay
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#490066 - 19/02/05 03:28 AM
Re: New Hitchhikers Guide to the galaxy trailer - Don't Panic!
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old hand
Registered: 01/03/03
Loc: Chester, UK
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He does have two heads, but later in the trailer.
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#490067 - 19/02/05 03:43 AM
Re: New Hitchhikers Guide to the galaxy trailer - Don't Panic!
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Silly Chavs
Registered: 17/04/02
Loc: Possibly Romania
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"the actor playing Ford was black, with anoys me but shouldn't affect the plot. "
To be perfectly honest with you.. thats exactly what I first thought.
but I would have said: the actor playing Ford was black, with anoys me but won't affect the plot.
Edited by Unattractive Cranky Old Freud (19/02/05 03:43 AM)
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#490068 - 19/02/05 04:10 AM
Re: New Hitchhikers Guide to the galaxy trailer - Don't Panic!
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Liquid Cow
Registered: 03/09/01
Loc: High Wycombe, England
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I really hope they don't ruin it. I'm not entirely convinced by that trailer.
I don't remember zaphod being able to hide his second head, short of using the parrot cage trick, I'll be annoyed if he spends most of the film with just one head.
I also don't remember Ford's actual thumb glowing when he hitched a lift. I thought it was 'an electronic sub-ether signalling device' that he used. *shrug* artistic license, I just hope they don't take it too far.
As to a black man playing Ford, I don't care. I'd care more if it was a crap white actor, as it stands I'd reckon that Mos Def is more than up to the task.
Obviously it matters in some cases (Patrick Swayze playing Malcolm X, or Eddie Murphy playing Hitler for example), but skin colour really doesn't make a great deal of difference in this instance.
Written by: sparkey
i'd heard somewhere it was taking place in the US.
Just so long as they keep Arthur as British, which I think is fairly important, I don't mind too much where the start's set. Whichever country they've used doesn't last long after all.
Edited by TheBovrilMonkey (19/02/05 04:15 AM)
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#490069 - 19/02/05 05:09 AM
Re: New Hitchhikers Guide to the galaxy trailer - Don't Panic!
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old hand
Registered: 22/04/02
Loc: Bristol, England
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I must have read this series 40-50 times
I'm just hoping this will be good.
and....
Yeah Zaphod Had only one head when tillian met her at a party!
It never really explains about it in the book where he got his extra head from.
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#490070 - 19/02/05 05:54 AM
Re: New Hitchhikers Guide to the galaxy trailer - Don't Panic!
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Liquid Cow
Registered: 03/09/01
Loc: High Wycombe, England
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I thought it was a fancy dress party and he put something over the second head and told everyone it was a parrot inside, perched on his shoulder. I'll have to go look, it'll drive me nuts otherwise. heh, any excuse to read it again 
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#490071 - 19/02/05 06:05 AM
Re: New Hitchhikers Guide to the galaxy trailer - Don't Panic!
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since when did swayze play malcolm X and Murphy play hitler?? ........ 
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#490073 - 19/02/05 06:25 AM
Re: New Hitchhikers Guide to the galaxy trailer - Don't Panic!
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Lord Ballchain
Registered: 21/08/01
Loc: Austin, Texas
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just remind me not to read the book again just before seeing the movie....
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#490075 - 19/02/05 07:17 AM
Re: New Hitchhikers Guide to the galaxy trailer - Don't Panic!
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Carpal \'Tunnel
Registered: 22/12/04
Loc: Hampshire College, MA, USA
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Written by: TheBovrilMonkey
I thought it was a fancy dress party and he put something over the second head and told everyone it was a parrot inside, perched on his shoulder.
I'll have to go look, it'll drive me nuts otherwise. heh, any excuse to read it again
what we have here is an inconsistancy on the behalf of the author. i think originally, he had planned that zaphod had aquired the second head in the same manner as the third arm, but then in the second book his great grandfather had two head as well. so, in the fifth book he said that he had diguised it in a bird cage. so, yeah, originally there was no mention of him having a second head, but it was sorted out in the end
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#490076 - 19/02/05 01:15 PM
Re: New Hitchhikers Guide to the galaxy trailer - Don't Panic!
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Basu gasu bakuhatsu - because sometimes buses explode
Registered: 21/07/03
Loc: Angel's Landing, USA
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Douglas Adams did say that the books do flayly contradict each other.
I know the plot of the 3rd and 5th book definately do not make sense when put together, as does the 4th.
Anything beyond the second book does not make logical sense, as some of the books were based on the radio series and some written later.
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#490077 - 19/02/05 11:23 PM
Re: New Hitchhikers Guide to the galaxy trailer - Don't Panic!
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stranger
Registered: 30/05/04
Loc: Cardiff during term time, Dors...
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I'll actually cry if Arthur Dent isn't still English. It doesn't really matter where they film it, because most of it is set on various space ships and other planets, but Arthur MUST be English!
And Zaphod had better have two heads...grrr
Douglas Adams always said that there were five books in his 'trilogy' (lol) so I don't think that really means anything.
I really like the fifth book. It just has the perfect ending! It's *just* what should happen to poor Arthur!
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#490078 - 20/02/05 04:00 AM
Re: New Hitchhikers Guide to the galaxy trailer - Don't Panic!
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Registered: 13/07/04
Loc: Out
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Arthur is english  its an english actor (hes in The Office and Love Actually). But the original arthur was very dull (as he should have been) but the new actor will liven it up (which he shouldnt). And Zaphod does have 2 heads, watch the trailer  What's the 5th book? The "trilogy" is made up of 4 parts (i googled it)
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#490080 - 20/02/05 06:21 AM
Re: New Hitchhikers Guide to the galaxy trailer - Don't Panic!
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Registered: 28/09/04
Loc: Diss, Norfolk
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From the Front of the 5th book: Written by:
the fifth book in the increasingly inaccurately named Hitch hiker's Guide to the Galaxy trilogy
The books are nowhere neer as good as the radio play.
I don't think it looks very good from the trailer. I think it'll loose all of DNA's dry wit and turn it in to something as far from the radio play as the last film was.
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