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Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - The Movie

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kinch

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kinch said:
Please tell me somebody else is as excited as I am about this movie.

I loved these books when I was a kid and even own the radio series and the old BBC TV production.

Here is a teaser trailer: (you really need sound for the full effect here - it is just a classic song playing. . .)
http://hitchhikers.movies.go.com/main.html

And a rough cut of the bigger trailer:
http://images.amazon.com/media/imdb/01/ads/hhgttg42/AmazonFilms.swf


April 29, 2005 release date.
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Yeah, all the guys on my D&D team are drooling in anticipation for this movie. We haven't been this excited since since Star Trek Voyager (even though they had a stupid half Klingon chick, and everyone know that humans and Klingons can't reproduce 'cause of the difference in their dna). We're hoping that the opening doesn't interfere with the academic olympics (Chucky Johnson is our top 'm'athlete and can't miss). Jimmy Ignatowsky might miss the premier though, he might be on a date with his girlfriend (she lives in Canada and they've had sex. He's such a stud). I hope to see you all there, I have to go find my inhaler. Live long and prosper \V/ /





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Nice try there, but my Hitchhiker phase was WELL after my D&D phase. (Sadly, this is true. . .)

For those who have never read the book, the opening passage of the first book of the more than three booked "trilogy" gives a good idea of the mood:

Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun.

Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.

This planet has - or rather had - a problem, which was this: most of the people on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movements of small green pieces of paper, which is odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy.

And so the problem remained; lots of the people were mean, and most of them were miserable, even the ones with digital watches.

Many were increasingly of the opinion that they'd all made a big mistake in coming down from the trees in the first place. And some said that even the trees had been a bad move, and that no one should ever have left the oceans.

And then, one Thursday, nearly two thousand years after one man had been nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be to be nice to people for a change, one girl sitting on her own in a small cafe in Rickmansworth suddenly realized what it was that had been going wrong all this time, and she finally knew how the world could be made a good and happy place. This time it was right, it would work, and no one would have to get nailed to anything.

Sadly, however, before she could get to a phone to tell anyone about it, a terribly stupid catastrophe occurred, and the idea was lost forever.

This is not her story.
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Looks like another example of not being able to recreate the book. It's pretty difficult to recreate a two headed three armed president of the universe. The character playing Arthur is exactly like I imagined him, but Prefect, Trillian, the Heart of Gold, the Vogon ships, and basically the rest of the movie aren't. I just hope that they only do the first book. It would be a shame if they tried to fit all of the "trilogy" into one movie, or even three. Also, I hope they have some kind of narration to tell some of the very funny things that aren't actually said by any of the characters.

I'm going to go ahead and spoil the movie for everyone now, and tell you (like Kinch did in a recent poker thread) the answer to Life, The Universe and Everything is 42....Hope that doesn't ruin it for you.:tongue2:

Edit: Just watched the trailer again, and I'm definitely going to go see it.
 
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