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I saw a trailer for Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.
Anybody hear any hype on the movie.
I see that Ford is a brother.
Do you think this movie is worth getting high, smuggle in some candy, and watching? Or should I wait for the BBC to relase the 1980's TV series on DVD?
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I saw a panel on it at WonderCon in SF. It looked great, and the producers seemed really funny. Arthur Dent is going to be Tim from The Office (The funnier, British one). Looked to be some great puppet/animatronics featured for some of the aliens. I'm excited honestly. Don't know about the getting high or the smuggling, but I'm definitely planning to catch this one in the theatres.
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I'm looking forward to seeing it. I've seen a few different trailers for it. The one they keep showing on TV (in the US at least) seems typical - a lot of fast images and explosions, and your standard voice-over guy. That one seems geared for your average person who hasn't read the book. One I saw online, though, was written like it was an entry for "movie trailer" in the Guide itself, complete with British voiceover - very funny, and definitely one only people who have read the book would get.
Edit: Go here and select the Trailer #3 to see the latter version.
That would be Stephen Fry, who does the voiceovers in the film also.
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I saw The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy last night at a sneak preview. The movie is best enjoyed with a towel and in your robe. This movie was very good and Alan Rickman was perfect as the voice of Marvin the Paranoid Android.
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I went to see it Friday. There were quite a few people in the theater with towels, too. It was very good, and I think the effects (especially for the book entries) were done very well considering the low budget they had.
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Anyone else notice the original Marvin from the BBC series in the waiting line? It wasn't just a background face, they made a point of featuring it prominently on the screen.
In the credits, I noticed that they said one of the planets was in the shape of Douglas Adams' head. I missed that, apparently. I'm assuming it was on the "factory floor" somewhere.
My favorite part - and I can't seem to get it out of my head - was when the actual guide itself showed up with the banjo music they used for the BBC TV series and the audio tapes. I don't think many people in the audience "got" that part, but I was pleasantly suprised by that.
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Haven't seen it yet but I'm pissed off they made Marvin into a kawaii supercute robo-Ewok. I imagined him like a regular humanoid but hunched.
I have to ask, though, how much of the four books are covered in the movie? Just the first one, the first two or all four of them?
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Forgot to mention this, but after I saw the movie, we went to the bookstore and I was skimming through the Starlog magazine which had several articles about Hitchhiker's. One thing I noticed was that the new character (as in not-in-the-book character) played by John Malkovich was added in by Adams himself.
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there are five books, and Adams wrote a few chapters of the sixth before he died young. A real tragedy.
I haven't seen it yet but I was more concerned about what looked like the Heart of Gold (at least I think it was given it's prominent place in the trailers) has it been turned into a giant sphere?
Oh and to someone who has seen it are the mice still present? And if so were they done convincingly or as some horrible disney-esque CGI monstrosity of family fun and cuteness?
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Good to hear about the mice, though the news of the HoG's spherical obsession is a bit saddening, I always pictured it as something sleek and graceful, at least from the description in the books that's what I imagined.
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I'm off to see it this week. And I'm not bothered by Marvin's superkewl Japoroboness. I suspect that it will actually enhance the character. Marvin was always suppossed to look ultra hi-tech, but he carried himself poorly. Therefore an ultra hi-tech robot that slouches will actually be closer to Adams original idea.
But we'll see.
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