Krade

On the whole looks pretty good, still uses old Quaries for Alien Planets
Marvin looks a bit disapointing, cant see the little megaman look alike having as much of an Impact as the old 7foot tall Marvin from the original series.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/su...589124-9232738

boxst

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/su...275049-6019327

Iain Young

Web link doesn't work...

Cant' see this being as good as the original tv series myself. Might give it a go though...

boxst

Hello

To be honest, looking at the trailer, I don't think it will be very good. I really like the TV series, and it appears that strangely there is more subtle humour and relevant special effects in there than the movie.

T4molie

Krade

ta for fixing link

CrisPDuk

I'm sorry, can somebody point me to the bit in either the radio series, the books, or even the original TV series, where it said Ford Prefect was an annoying black american 'comedian'

Can anyone else hear that strange buzzing sound?


It sounds a bit like a big motor rotating at seriously high rpm



It's OK, I know what it is.






It's Douglas Adams spinning in his grave

markr1963

Seen the clip and, IMHO, it's sh!te!

Mark

T4molie

I was a big fan of the original series so I think I'll have a look at this when it's released

Am not expecting it to be better though but we'll see........

ChristianR

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i prefered the "teaser" tralier that was released back in july 2004 : http://www.chud.com/HHGTTG_teaser.avi

Neil Smalley

I thought Douglas Adams oversaw the initial script and tweaked a few bits here and there. I don't remember them being ambushed by the remnants of ground force though.

I hope it's not as bad as it looks.

BTW did anyone think that the guide looked as though it was designed by Apple?

Krade

Cant be an apple made guide, they had one in stock!

J4CKO

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It was done properly the first time, slightly amateurish and the sets were naff but it was perfect. Agree with Crispduck, Ford prefect was a furtive, odd little white guy, not a wise cracking, good looking black dude, the whole point was that he was a bit odd, That bloke out of the office is a good piece of casting though, he does the same deadpan and long suffering thing that Arthur Dent was about.

Where is Zaphods second, cutting edge (for the eighties), very unrealistic head ?

Brendan Hughes

Wondering what "old Quaries" meant; you mean "old quarries"! Thought it was a funny town I'd never heard of!

Ford was supposed to come from Guildford. Maybe that's Guildford MA.

Just watched it without sound (none here), and generally I don't object.

I didn't like Marvin in the TV series, it was his attitude that was depressing, yet they had to issue him with a big head with a frown painted on the front for people who couldn't understand "listening". Not sure I remember reference to his physical description in the book - tall, short, whatever.

Zaphod's second head appears to be underneath his first one from the clip, not sure I get that.

I'll wait.

Jaybird-UK

Zaphod is crap. second head is a must

Markus

Have watched the trailer a few times now. I think Martin Freeman does seem to make a rather good Arthur. As for Mos Def as Ford, hmm, well, when I watched it without sound I thought he was ok, turning on the sound, hmm, no, don't think so.

Stephen Fry as The Book, well that'll be pretty good, and I like the graphical view of the book looks very Apple like (If you did not know DA was a big Macintosh advocate, as is Stephen Fry)

I'm not convinced by Marvin either, but I'll wait for the final film before totally slagging it off.

Oh and the vogons voices sounded far to 'friendly'

Leslie

It will have to be very good to compare with the first one. Its always difficult to make another to compare with an outstanding first version as the original Guide was.

Les

astraboy

I dont even need to watch it to know it will be inferior to the original.
astraboy.