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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Stunaep on February 26, 2005, 03:22:17 am

Title: The Better Hitch-hiker's guide trailer.
Post by: Stunaep on February 26, 2005, 03:22:17 am

Wee! This one is teh funnay.

http://video.ugo.com/player.aspx?articleID=13939&ref=ts

Title: The Better Hitch-hiker's guide trailer.
Post by: Fineus on February 26, 2005, 05:49:26 am

Am I being slow.. what does that have to do with THHGTTG? I don't remember those things from the book...

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Post by: Turnsky on February 26, 2005, 06:08:05 am

it's hollywood, kal. 'nuff said.

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Post by: vyper on February 26, 2005, 08:57:46 am

Better than the last one.

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Post by: Corsair on February 26, 2005, 09:46:31 am

Aye, better than the last one. Maybe there is hope!

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Post by: Ford Prefect on February 26, 2005, 10:08:53 am

You people suck. That was a first-rate trailer right there.

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Post by: Rictor on February 26, 2005, 10:18:04 am

Better than the last one.

7 foot tall man who has been smoking cigarettes since birth.
That's classic.

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Post by: Nuclear1 on February 26, 2005, 11:20:50 am

:lol:

That cigarette joke was pure awesome.

Still disagree with THHGTTG being about slapstick comedy though... and I agree with Thunder about half of those things not even being in the book.

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Post by: aldo_14 on February 26, 2005, 11:40:42 am

Definite improvement.... in fact, it's as if they made it specifically for people who didn't like the other trailer to change their minds.  And IMO it works. :)

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Post by: Deepblue on February 26, 2005, 05:01:38 pm

What the hell is that thing with the tiny little legs? That wasnt in the book. Unless they decided to make it a transport for the mice or somewhat.

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Post by: Dunbar on February 26, 2005, 09:05:53 pm

The guy with the legs is John Malkovich playing a character added to the movie by Addams himself before he died.  In fact 90% of the changes were made by Addams, just like he changed the books from the radio series.

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Post by: Deepblue on February 26, 2005, 10:31:58 pm

Ah...

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Post by: Fineus on February 27, 2005, 05:42:22 am

Hang on a sec... I get the feeling I'm seeing the wrong thing here. At first my browser came up with some kind of rodeo event featuring aliens and some redneck Americans trying to ride them.

I get the feeling that was the commercial.

Now it's coming up with the original trailer featuring "What A Wonderful World" by Louis Armstrong and the CG of the Earth exploding.. but there's nothing new there.

Ah well...

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Post by: Turnsky on February 27, 2005, 06:24:31 am

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Originally posted by Kalfireth
Hang on a sec... I get the feeling I'm seeing the wrong thing here. At first my browser came up with some kind of rodeo event featuring aliens and some redneck Americans trying to ride them.

I get the feeling that was the commercial.

Now it's coming up with the original trailer featuring "What A Wonderful World" by Louis Armstrong and the CG of the Earth exploding.. but there's nothing new there.

Ah well...

there was a new one on the actual hitchhiker's site.

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Post by: Petrarch of the VBB on February 27, 2005, 06:45:59 am

Now that's more like it. :yes:

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Post by: Grug on February 27, 2005, 06:59:36 am

Kewl, was just watching the orginal TV series the other day too.

I recognised a few scenes, there's a shot with the robot and the matress that brings back memories.
I personally look forward to the learning how to fly part.
"Just forget to fall"

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Post by: Grey Wolf on February 27, 2005, 07:48:08 am

Better. I've now upgraded this movie to "cautiously optimisitic".

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Post by: Clave on February 27, 2005, 08:46:39 am

:lol: @ Stephen Fry - He can rip anything apart...

But anyway it seems like there is a *slight* possibilty that the film might not suck.

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Post by: Corsair on February 27, 2005, 10:37:05 am

How many of the books is the movie supposed to cover, anyway?

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Post by: Ransom on February 27, 2005, 12:21:43 pm

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Originally posted on the IMDb forum
Elements from the first radio series were incorporated into the second book; elements from the second series made into the third book. Thus, do not assume that the movie will "cover" any one novel- it could contain fragments of one or several. Hitchhiker's, by its very nature, is fluid, so expect the story of the film to differ markedly from the books as you remember them.

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Post by: Dark_4ce on February 27, 2005, 03:56:33 pm

Teh funnay! :yes:

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Post by: aldo_14 on February 28, 2005, 06:10:40 am

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Originally posted by Kalfireth
Hang on a sec... I get the feeling I'm seeing the wrong thing here. At first my browser came up with some kind of rodeo event featuring aliens and some redneck Americans trying to ride them.

I get the feeling that was the commercial.

Now it's coming up with the original trailer featuring "What A Wonderful World" by Louis Armstrong and the CG of the Earth exploding.. but there's nothing new there.

Ah well...

Yeah, it was an advert  (shame - I had thought it was a Perfectly Ordinary Beast at first) followed by a trailer which sort of dissected the Hollywoody trailer in a humourous stylee.  And it's got the sperm whale in it, thank God.

(As an aside, am I the only person who found the end of  Mostly Harmless depressing as hell?)

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Post by: vyper on February 28, 2005, 06:22:06 am

See the big hairy esuvee in all flash glory:http://www.esuvee.com/flash.html

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Post by: Kamikaze on February 28, 2005, 09:09:32 pm

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Originally posted by aldo_14

(As an aside, am I the only person who found the end of  Mostly Harmless depressing as hell?)

I've heard Douglas Adams himself was having a pretty bad year when he wrote that. It's really a pity that was his last work.