"Hitchhiker's Guide" Trailer

[Imran Siddiqui]

Stop dampening our (ok, my) enthusiasm

[General Ludd]

Originally posted by Drogue

You see what the Hitch Hiker's guide does to you?

I always pictured Zaphod as having two heads side by side, as in the books he has a conversation with his own head, which normally requires eye contact, and drinks with one head while talking with the other, which doesn't look possible with one head being under the other.

In the book, wasn't his second head just mentioned in casual passing and taken for granted, so that you didn't know he had a second head at first, and the more you read you eventually realised that he did have a second head and it all made a bit more sense? That may of been what they where trying to reproduce, if. Or am I not remembering it right?

[Imran Siddiqui]

In the book, wasn't his second head just mentioned in casual passing and taken for granted, so that you didn't know he had a second head at first, and the more you read you eventually realised that he did have a second head and it all made a bit more sense?

Well it was mentioned in passing, but I was pretty clear that the second head was there from the first time I read it.

[Stefu]

I'll have to go back and read the books again for descriptions, because a lot of it is totally different from how I imagined it, and I don't know if it's my fault or the film's

Oh for the love of God already. Adams has specifically said that like the radio series and the TV series, the movie was going to be different from the book.

I do not look forward to a geek whinestorm that will inevitably result when the movie comes out. It'll make "There weren't supposed to be elves at Helm's Deep!" complaints look like utter praise.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Originally posted by Stefu
Oh for the love of God already. Adams has specifically said that like the radio series and the TV series, the movie was going to be different from the book.

I do not look forward to a geek whinestorm that will inevitably result when the movie comes out. It'll make "There weren't supposed to be elves at Helm's Deep!" complaints look like utter praise.

I'm with ya, Stefu. I wonder how many of those geeks that will whine will read Adams saying that no version of Hitchhiker's Guide is supposed to be like the other (though they all tell the same basic story).

[General Ludd]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui

In the book, wasn't his second head just mentioned in casual passing and taken for granted, so that you didn't know he had a second head at first, and the more you read you eventually realised that he did have a second head and it all made a bit more sense?

Well it was mentioned in passing, but I was pretty clear that the second head was there from the first time I read it.

By "it" do you mean the book as a whole, or do you mean when his character was introduced?

[alva]

Originally posted by Immortal Wombat
The trailer has convinced me that it won't be as utterly Adams-rapingly dreadful as I'd feared it could be, but I'm not convinced it'll be good. I'll have to go back and read the books again for descriptions, because a lot of it is totally different from how I imagined it, and I don't know if it's my fault or the film's. Marvin looks way too big. The Heart of Gold is about as sexy as a turnip. Where is Zaphod's other head?

I'm going to re-read after I've seen the film

[General Ludd]

The thing that looks worst to me is the robot... he looks too much like an imac or something made by toyoto.

[-Jrabbit]

Sweet!

While I would actually be much more interested in a Dirk Gently movie, this will certainly get my attention.

Anyone making judgments based on the trailer is just being silly. I've read most of the radio scripts, read the books, and seen the BBC video series. All are different, and this will be as well.

It will be Hollywood, but so what? As long as the spirit of anarchy and absurdism remains relatively intact, it should be a great way to spend a couple hours.

[MikeH]

Exactly, and the radio shows were first so people should refer back to that not the books.

Looks great to me.

[GePap]

People should stop thinking that film makers will somehow, magically, reproduce their personal imagination unto film, as if they could read you mind.

Jurrasic Park the movie was certainly different in many respects to Jurrasic Park the book, and you know what? I liked both, one was a good book, one was a good movie. That is how the should be judged, NOT by whether one medium is able to reproduce another. That ain't going to happen folks.

[Immortal Wombat]

Originally posted by Stefu
Oh for the love of God already. Adams has specifically said that like the radio series and the TV series, the movie was going to be different from the book.

Yeah, obviously. The books wouldn't work as a film - they're 70% narrative. The only thing I'm wondering about is the descriptions of the things and the people, which could be the same as in the book and don't need changing for the film. Anyway, I agree with General Ludd. Only Marvin looks stupid so far.

Whining about plot changes would be stupid, yes. Questioning my own preconceptions of what the Galaxy looks like is not whining.

It will be Hollywood, but so what? As long as the spirit of anarchy and absurdism remains relatively intact, it should be a great way to spend a couple hours.

Yeah. Hollywood goes with anarchy and absurdism like cookie dough goes with icecream.

[reds4ever]

Originally posted by Stefu

I do not look forward to a geek whinestorm that will inevitably result when the movie comes out. It'll make "There weren't supposed to be elves at Helm's Deep!" complaints look like utter praise.

[MikeH]

Totally, anyone posting rubbish like that should just shoot themselves immediately.

[Stefu]

Originally posted by General Ludd
The thing that looks worst to me is the robot... he looks too much like an imac or something made by toyoto.

Remember, 'plastic pal who is fun to be with'.