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UPDATED! Holy Crap! Check Out The HITCHHIKER
Hi, everyone.
Okay... the inevitable has occurred... Disney sent us a politely worded cease-and-desist that's sorta hard to ignore, and we have to take this offline now. Never fear. It's been officially reposted by www.amazon.com Sorry to those of you who didn't get a chance to peek at our copy earlier.
Don’t ask me how... just thank me later. The trailer for HITCHHIKER’S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY is about to land online this week, but I’ve got a vaguely finished version of it that I can show you a little early. I’m not sure how long Disney’s going to be happy with this being on line, so let’s see how long the link stays live.
For now, enjoy your first look at Zaphod’s second head, Ford Prefect in action, Marvin in motion, Humma Kavula and his body (or lack thereof) and more. I actually think they did a really nice job of summing up the way the film works for both fans and non-fans alike. I know there's been a lot of work continuing since the screening I
saw with
a couple of weeks ago.
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I wasn't sure they could pull it off but from what I have just seen, along with the positive early reviews, I think this will be great.
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looks as though they're taking the quirky 'Men In Black' advertising route (which, lets be honest, how else would you sell this thing). I guess I'm not that impressed. I LOVE the book and I guess I always had a shimmer of hope that Gilliam would make this movie some day... oh well. I'll still see it.
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Feb 15, 2005 3:59:27 PM CST
Finally got to see the TV series, that guy who played Arthur Den
by gigaloff
The movie, however, will be brilliant. It's official now, isn't it? The people behind this project are rapidly running out of ways to screw this up.
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I would imagine that the words "Do Not Duplicate" apply to distributing thousands of copies online, but way to go for doing it! I've not read the books, but this looks pretty fun.
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Feb 15, 2005 4:17:12 PM CST
Why am I getting a message saying the video is gone?
by grabthars_hammer
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This looks special. The naysayers are your standard trolls who just wann be negative for the sake of it. Apart from the lack of Fry and Rickman, there was nothing in that trailer that was anything ther than good, if not great.
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wwwaaaahhhhhhh!!
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Yes well, there's nothing like rooting for the underdog.
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This will make geeks weep all across the land. Weep with joy, not sadness. Joy. Trust me on that one.
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I'm now more excited to see this than ever before.
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Fuck. I wanted to love it and was incredibly underwhelmed. Bummer.
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You know it does. Stop making excuses. Just admit it. Face the truth. Douglas Adams is dead and so is any chance at a HHGTTG movie following his vision.
It looks as though they sucked the soul out of the books and spit it down the disposal, leaving a hollow shell to market to the masses.
Early trailer or not, I think one can get a good feel for this, and it certainly looks like they totally disregarded the books, characters, and quirky sense of humor with. I wonder if the same people who did the Earthsea adaptation on the Sci-Fi channel were brought in as writing help on this one?
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Feb 15, 2005 5:15:25 PM CST
I love when James Horner's "Aliens" score is used in trailers.
by tall_boy
Brings back geek memories. The trailer so nice, I'm gonna watch it twice!
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Feb 15, 2005 5:20:13 PM CST
knowthyself - not sure I totally agree on the average box office
by trader groucho 2
but I must add you're not considering how this will do foreign and ancillary. Adams has a lot of fans. I expect they'll move a few of this one on DVD.
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is it up anywehre else yet?
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Nothing overwhelming, but it looks like something I'll check out and enjoy.
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hooray, looks like I must have slipped in right under the wire too.
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Huh?!?
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too slow
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Um... now, say for instance that there was this trailer that people here claim to have seen of HHGTTG. And say someone copied it. And say someone sent me a link to it at hcallaghan@cwcom.net, my spam graveyard account. Would that be like, um, a deeply repugnant act and would Disney get in my shit and all? It's an interesting philosophical question... Oh, but to get back on topic, did I say what fabulously witty, erudite, and sexually well-endowed people all you talkbackers are and how much I admire you? Did I not say that before? I can't believe that slipped my mind.
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Can you post an update saying it's not up anymore so people like me don't search the entire post for the link.
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and that's all I have to say...
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I got a quick peek but it cut off right when marvin showed up and ididnt get to hear his voice! What else did i miss?
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That film looks to be just as effective as the source material (ie it'll suck).
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"Oh no, the Public....they're watching it......oh no...OH NO, they wanna see the film now!"
At least if a trailer for a movie I made got out early and was watched a lot i'd feel good.
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Yeah, I never really got the damn thing to work, even when I hit Refreash. Oh well, not sure I even wanted to see it. Peace.
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Though I'm not fully sold about this film either way. (which isn't to say I won't defend it from pure stupidity and/or those lacking in logic and reason) I am optimistic and will see it. What I meant was, part of me wants to go into this not knowing as much as i already know let alone more. Peace.
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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0371724/trailers-screenplay-X27203-7-4
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I have found that I have become a great deal less tolerant of idiocy on the internet as I've gotten older. This would in the past have been a friendly mention that you had made a mistake, but now I think you are an idiot. It's the old teaser trailer. Not the new one with you know.... real footage like Moriarity talked about.
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That's the teaser, bcdieter. It's not the trailer. Ugh.
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That's the old one, not the one that all this fuss is about. Peace.
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No good intention goes unpunished... huh? Peace.
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Feb 15, 2005 9:01:42 PM CST
From behind my computer screen, I shake my fist in rightful ange
by tall_boy
Seriously now, c'mon, dish it out. I got it on my hard drive here, anyone know where to upload it/ maybe make a torrent file?
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Come on, TBers, some one must have a copy! Link it!
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and they are being deleted just as fast
BTW anyone here like Kelly Clarkson's new album?
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http://216.69.167.204/hitchhikersguide-1.mov
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Feb 15, 2005 11:23:05 PM CST
I really DO wonder what all the fuss about trailers finding thei
by ribbons
The intentions of the studios elude my feeble grasp. Is it just the principle of the thing? Is there some legal issue involved with websites or other film studios or movie theaters or somesuch? I mean, what gives? Exposing the trailer to as large an audience as possible was supposed to be a good thing last time I checked.
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and neither this site, nor amazon, nor imdb has this thing. Way to get the hopes up.
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The intentions are simple: They 'sneak' it out. Take it down under the pretence of a 'cease and desist' and then suddenly every one on the net wants it. Everyone scrambles to find it. Then it's officially released and they get more hits then they ever would have if they just put it out. It simple marketing tactics, makes something desirable by making it unattainable (for a while anyway).
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if the trailer to your movie wasn't complete... would you really want it realeased?
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I've been to Amazon and IMDB and theres not a trace of it. WTF??
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I believe it's supposed to be up on yahoo at 12 midnight on the WEST coast.. so for those of you on the east (such as myself), you'll either have to wait until 3 am, or just check it out tomorrow.. Peace out baby!
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make that amazon.. whatever.. it should be on amazon at that time according to the website "twitch".. okay, now I'm really gone..
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/subst/home/home.html/102-7749307-3944158
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I Like It.
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the trailer is terrible, but the movie looks amazing. I for one cannot wait. Just . . .guh, what a terribly put together trailer for such fantastic material.
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I think the trailer was great. The first few chapters look perfectly realized...the house, the bar...hitching a ride. Brings back memories of the game!
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THIS IS GONNA RULE
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... and I'm going to have to say that I'm underwhelmed. Damned!!!! I so wanted to love it. Well, it's just a trailer; sometimes trailers are bad when the movie is good. An even if this movie is half as good as the book it'll be fantastic. But damned, I'm disappointed. Blast, damn you all! Fuck fuckitty fuckfuckfuck.
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This is coming from someone who read the books around 20 years ago. It's hard to imagine what it's SUPPOSED to looks like, but I'm pretty impressed. The budget has been well spent. The crowd scene looked nice. It's also important, I think, that they're trying to show the Earth's destruction outside the small Ford/Arthur circle. Even though it's a comedy, it still has to have some meaning. The other thing is that from this trailer, Mos Def was actually a lot funnier than Rockwell. I don't know if you can capture Sam's (or Zaphod's) zaniness in a quick trailer. Almost NO mention of Trillian. Interesting. Let's all keep in mind this needs to at least try to appeal to some kind of mass audience. It was never going to be aimed solely at the fans of the book or sci-fi geeks.
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Oh jeez...how many times are people going to hit their head(s) on stuff in this movie? Did they really stoop to ripping off that Simpsons episode where Sideshow Bob keeps stepping on rakes every time he moves?! Sam Rockwell looks to have nailed it though (We share three of the same mothers!). Overall, I give it a solid Ehh.
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If you have Mozilla the video never shows up, you have to use IE and then the damn thing is fuzzy and has to buffers. Call me when a QT version is released.
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FANTASTIC!!! I'm a hardcore fan. Even Shook Douglas Adams' hand once... not that that means anything at all... anyway, this looks great. I can't wait to see it. this film will be the hoopiest.
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I loved it. Watched it three times already. Wished it was in Quicktime, but what are ya gonna do? Still not sure about Zaphod's head, but I'll reserve finally judgement until I've seen the film. Damn, I'm excited about this.
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you know to familiarize myself with the material because the flicks coming out right? It was pretty cool, bit of a dry humor, sci-fi, quirky little tale. I thought he pulled off that otherwordly mentality thing pretty well, good outside the box stuff. So I watch the trailer..and..uhm...uh, yeah.
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See above
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Looking forward to it though, should be a fun night out.
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Intriguing. Rather frantic once it gets going. It would have been nice to have had one or two more moments of humour (Are we not getting a "so you're not from Guildford/Des Moines?" in the pub?), or stayed a little longer on Martin Freeman's face when he was told something really alarming. The visuals look as, well, beautiful and decorative as something that small in a window on amazon can look - John Malkovich's lower half is... wow! But, does anyone else get the feeling that Marvin is going to upstage everything going on around him? It looks like Warwick Davis has got the slumped walk _just_ right, and I can't imagine Alan Rickman doing anything wrong. Roll on April. btw, on the imdb entry for the film it says "If you like this title, we also recommend The Star Wars Holiday Special". I don't think so.
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You know, for some reason I couldn't access this from work, and I had a horrid suspicion it might be one of those "North America only" type internet trailer releases, and considering that this was Hitch-Hiker's and so quintessentially British the mere thought angered me so much that I was going to post this lengthy intemperate rant on cultural imperialism and so on and so forth, but now I'm home and saw it was just a firewall thing and I can watch the trailer fine on my laptop, so now I feel all deflated and faintly embarassed. I may post my rant anyway just for the sake of off-topic BS. I've got to agree with the TBer who said it looked amazing but the trailer was put together badly. Unless it's some kind of reflection on the film (which is worrying) the comedy beats seemed either rushed or dragged out. That said, extra head or no, Sam Rockwell looked like he owned that role, and I would have liked to have seen a bit more of Arthur. However the window is so fucking teensy that I'm surprised I could tell the characters apart, frankly. This is my major looking-forward-to-it movie for the year and I get very anxious at the slightest hint that it may suck, even a little bit. It certainly didn't feel like that awesome TTT trailer a couple of years ago, which made the hair stand up on the back of my neck.
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Bypasses have to be built--they just have. Is this another "philosopher's stone/sorcerer's stone" bowdlerizing of a British film? I'm sure Americans can figure out what a bypass is. Sheesh. A small point, maybe, but it doesn't bode well and smacks of studio tinkering. Other than that... the trailer actually looks great. Zaphod sounds hilarious. Ford doesn't seem too bad to me. And the Vogons... well, the Vogons look just as they should.
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Do we not get any of "The Sorceror's Journey" in the trailer? i.e. the piece of music that IS HHGG? And, we used to have the same model of toaster. That bland beige with the brown greenery.
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It's official...I'm in.
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looks very entertainging,
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Good ol' cheesy BBC fun. Gotta love the Vogons; even though their costumes looked as if they were made from garbage bags, they still seemed funnier than these Hollywood-style Vogons. The old version had Valentine Dyall (Black Guardian), Peter Davison (5th Dr.) and David Prowse (Darth Vader's body); good cheesy Dr. Who-style music; Monty Python-type humor. Apart from some really bad muppet aliens, it was pretty decent. Oh yeah and Arthur was SUPPOSED to be annoying, he definitely was a putz in the books.
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The flyswatter gag at the end... only time I laughed. THIS MOVIE BETTER BE BETTER THAN THIS TRAILER! Also, is it just me, or should Ford be speaking with a British accent? I know he's from Betelgeuse and all, but there's just something wrong with him speaking unaffected American-style English.
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I read the books last year. This trailer looks great. I've high hopes for this movie now.
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They sure don't want anyone seeing this. First you have sift through this post to find out where it is, then on Amazon it says "Now playing, Hitchikers...Download Flash Player" but there's no GD link anywhere. F' it. I'll assume it sucked then.
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Great trailer. The movie looks excellent. And to he whom said they were advertising it like they did Men In Black... by that do you mean they used a small piece of their music at the end? Because thats all the men in black I noticed. Otherwise, it's its own ENTITY! YA TROLL! YA PEsSIMISTIC CYNICIST!
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At first I was annoyed that everyone didn't have Brittish accents...
Then I remembered my old pet peeve about HHGTTG & Dr. Who...
No matter what universe you're from, no matter what planet, plane of existance, or alternate dimension - you always have a Brittish accent.
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that anyone could not see the potential here. This looks great. The rakes flipping up had me laughing out loud. Finally a comedy trailer that doesn't blow all of the movie's best jokes, but gives you one really funny one and let's you know there's more stuff like that to come. I'm definitely in, and I won't watch anymore trailers for fear of seeing too much!
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"As you are no doubt aware, plans for the development of the outlying regions of the galaxy call for the construction of a hyperspace express route through your star system, and, regrettably, your planet is one of those scheduled for demolition."
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Material in this movie will be the last new Douglas Adams material you've ever seen. He's a co-screenwriter. The notion of John Malkovich playing a new Hitchhiker's Guide character brings me joy. Also, the idea that after the guided nuclear missiles, the Magratheans apparently have fly swatters as a second-tier defense gives me giggles.
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So-so trailer cut, but what i'm seeing looks really cool and pretty fun. Can't wait for more footage.
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under the alarm clock at the beginning is a copy of the book, "slapstick". i'm sure this'll be a better adaptation that that was... nice touch tho. at least the directors know what they're up against.
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Feb 16, 2005 2:47:40 PM CST
I'll agree that it's not the best trailer, but the movie looks p
by minderbinder
And I like that they don't show too much, wouldn't want to give away too much and ruin the film. And can we finally put the "rapper from brooklyn" whining to rest? As expected, there's nothing "rapper" or "urban" about the performance.
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The overly panicked scream of Sam Rockwell had me sold. I am totally going to see this opening day, and bring/force under penalty of death all my friends to see it too.
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I think it looks great and I read all the books. Nice to see the dry humor is still very much in tact: "...You look good, you've grown". The Brits really need to relax and loosen up. As long as that signature dry humor is there, and the book is Stephen Fry, not everyone in the universe has to be English. The fact is the cheapie Brit-style would not work as a major motion picture.
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Feb 16, 2005 4:36:39 PM CST
Question: Can a grown man ejaculate and piss himself at the same
by taxman2001
Answer: Yes, because I just did after seeing the trailer.
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My GOD why can't the suits get it through their damn skulls!!!! Use Quicktime or nothing at all! That viewer sucked. Other than that I can't wait to see the movie.
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Feb 16, 2005 5:05:23 PM CST
Oh and the crappy Amazon viewer only seems to work with IE and n
by russman
bastards
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Where we are here downloading the stuff, reading the latest trends. We know what's up. The suits are mindless drones. They go by demographics. They're not there in frontlnes.
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No matter how bad or good this movie is I foresee it won't be a huge hit. It has Martin Freeman in it (most people know him as Tim from The Office and he was in the Ali G movie), don't know whether he'll be able to carry a full film. This trailer makes the film look too quirky, not cool enough and generally unfunny. And I KNOW that fans of Hitchhikers won't really care about those things but a general movie audience will. And yes the American accents are there SOLELY to appeal to a general audience. On the basis of that trailer, and what I've heard so far about it I'm afraid I don't want to see this movie, but that's me. I'm sure many people will love it. Obviously Hitchiker fans are going to see it, and I'm not one of them so maybe I'm just being an idiot. Am I right in thinking this movie couldn't have been made if Adams was alive?
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... have any of you rocket scientist dissers ever read the friggin book? The trailer looks JUST FINE. Even made me chuckle at one point. Very encouraging, if not 'great' in it's own right. Go find somewhere else to vent your jaded-ass spleens, sheesh.
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Feb 16, 2005 5:57:13 PM CST
"Am I right in thinking this movie couldn't have been made if Ad
by minderbinder
Since he *wrote the screenplay*, I doubt that. I'm not sure why people are worried it won't be a huge hit. It doesn't need to be. A hundred films are released a year, and only a handful are huge hits. But the vast majority make a profit. Rumors are saying this thing only cost $50M, and that wouldn't surprise me. If that's the case, it doesn't have to make much at all to make a profit (and have a sequel or more). It would be great if people who have never read the books flock to it, but they don't need to for this thing to be a success.
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After reading all of these positive comments I was really excited to watch the trailer. Yikes, that looks completely stupid.
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Feb 16, 2005 11:31:43 PM CST
I don't know, non-fans of the book may still dig this trailer
by ribbons
If you watch the images with the sound off, it definitely looks pretty nifty.
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I'm a longtime fan of the books and I have to say that I liked pretty much everything I saw except for Zaphod's hidden head... I mean, perhaps they can sell it in the movie, but my first reaction is WTF?? I don't know how that's gonna work... but I'm still hoping for the best... Pan out.
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So cool - but did I miss Zaphod's other head?!
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no.. you cant. One tube shuts down for the other to work... sorry.
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http://hitchhikers.movies.go.com/hitchblog/interview.htm
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I'm still correct.
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Feb 17, 2005 5:43:23 PM CST
ETI, no you're wrong. It was co-written by both guys (and many
by minderbinder
Look it up on IMDB: Writing credits (WGA) Douglas Adams (book) Douglas Adams (screenplay) and Karey Kirkpatrick (screenplay)
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I got that MiB vibe all over again! This one is gonna be a hit!!!!!!!
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it's not up there anymore... even doing a search for it reveals nothing... it doesn't seem to be hosted anywhere. WHY WOULD THEY DO THAT?
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It's gone!
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Don't check the official website or anything...
It's there in GLORIOUS quicktime!
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It IS in glorious Quicktime!
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Good Lord, this movie looks like absolute and utter crap.
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http://bvim-qt.vitalstream.com/HitchhikersGuide/HG2G_Trailer2_0197_3000.mov
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