[Rictor]

http://hitchhikers.movies.go.com/main.html

Damnit, I was really looking forward to it!
and now, well....

[Flipside]

Some of it looks ok, glad the main actor has an English accent at least Some of it, however, looks like it was done by the Benny Hill fan club. That is not a good thing.

[Rictor]

My initial skepticism about casting a Mos Def to play Ford had subsided into "hmm, we'll see, it could be ok". Until I saw this.

Secondly, Zaphod is totally and completely stupid. I actually though that he was going to be the one that was done to perfection, but seriously, its just crap.  And since when does he have 2 heads, one underneath the other!?

Add to that the fact that I recognized like 2 scenes from the book (keep in mind that this is referncng the omnibus edition, which plainly states that "whatever is wrong here is wrong for good") and you can see why my Hype-O-Meter just dropped significantly.

[Flipside]

Problem is that the producer has caught onto the slapstick side of the books and the deeper humour appears to have passed completely over his head, or possibly he felt it would pass completely over the audiences head?

Yeah, I didn't recognise much of the dialogue either, and there seemed to be about 13 more space battles in the trailer than there was in the entire series of books

[pyro-manic]

Um, yeah. They've changed everything by the looks of it...

[Clave]

Sweet Zombie Jesus!

That's about as ****ed up interpretation as I've ever seen!

1.  Zaphod's heads + general appearance = wrong

2.  Ford...is...not...black!

3.  Did I see rightly? please tell me that round-headed thing was not Marvin!

4.  Gah! I'm just lost for words, even the damn voiceover is wrong!

Stupid people probably never even watched the TV series, damn! damn! damn them to the hell of an instant flop I say!  ****ers!

[Petrarch of the VBB]

I agree.

I'll still go and see it, but I won't enjoy it. Even if it turns out alright I'll still refuse to enjoy it, then go home and listen to the radio series on a loop for about 3 weeks.

[Flipside]

Look at it this way, a bunch of Marionettes produced a better performance than Hollywoods attempt at Thunderbirds. War of The Worlds completely missed the entire ****ing point of the book. And now this....

Hollywood - Making dead people spin in their graves for 5 years and counting....

[Petrarch of the VBB]

I say we burn down the cinemas after watching it. Who's with me?

[Corsair]

Originally posted by pyro-manic
Um, yeah. They've changed everything by the looks of it...

You know what I say we do? PANIC!!

[Dark_4ce]

Like always, I'll give it the benefit of the doubt. The trailer didn't really give me that "Holy **** this is gonna be total crap" feeling either. I know it's going to be different then the book. Hell, even the radio play that the book is based on isn't as good as the book! But still it *might* just *might* be worth the effort to watch.

*fingers crossed*

[karajorma]

Originally posted by Flipside
Problem is that the producer has caught onto the slapstick side of the books and the deeper humour appears to have passed completely over his head, or possibly he felt it would pass completely over the audiences head?

Or maybe they just didn't put it into the trailer

I'm going to reserve judgment on this one. There's always the TV series if you want something that's closer to the book

[Flipside]

Well, I'll admit, the trailer did make me smile in places, even if it wasn't 'canon', so I'm not writing the film off entirely


'You've..... grown'

[Grey Wolf]

Well, that's one movie off my list.

[Mongoose]

How are you people passing judgment on the whole movie based on a minute-long trailer?  Hell, most trailers I've seen don't do the movies anything resembling justice.  I don't care what the trailer is like; I'm seeing it anyway.

[Petrarch of the VBB]

What would be the point of a trailer if not to allow people to pass judgement on the film?

[Clave]

Exactly...

[Dark_4ce]

Originally posted by Petrarch of the VBB
What would be the point of a trailer if not to allow people to pass judgement on the film?

Thats a scarily good point actually...

[Mongoose]

Originally posted by Petrarch of the VBB
What would be the point of a trailer if not to allow people to pass judgement on the film?

I've never looked at trailers that way.  I've always seen them as some overly flashy, "Hey look!  We have a movie!" statement that doesn't get close to what the film is really like.  I don't see movies based on how impressive their trailers are; I see them because I enjoy the subject matter or because someone has recommended them to me.  Or, regrettably, in the case of Episodes I-III, because they have the name "Star Wars" in them.

[Sesquipedalian]

Originally posted by Petrarch of the VBB
What would be the point of a trailer if not to allow people to pass judgement on the film?

The point of a movie trailer is to make the movie appear to be appealing to the lowest common denominator, so that more people will buy tickets.  This is the prevailing marketing philosophy.  Take any recent movie that isn't your typical Hollywood pulp, and then after watching it go back and watch the trailer.  Odds are, the trailer will give an entirely different impression of the movie than the movie itself does, and usually in the direction of pulp films.

For example, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind's trailers made it seem like a romantic comedy, which it certianly was not.  Why?  Because rom-coms sell.