Don't Panic

ll=llannah · 21-02-2005 1:28am #1

so, the time rapidly approaches for the film version of hitchhiker's guide to be released. are you
1) a mushroom? 2)ridiculously excited 3) clueless as to what i'm on about 4) petrified that a babel fish will eat your brain 5) even more petrified that the movie will wreck your happy memories by ruining adams' work? 6) already wearing your bathrobe in antici...pation? 42) eating dirt?

discuss/shout at each other.
or, in other words, banter away.

Plunky · 21-02-2005 1:37am

I'd have to go for option 5 there, though it should be good. I'm not convinced by the casting...

Basq · 21-02-2005 1:38am

Plunky wrote:

I'd have to go for option 5 there, though it should be good. I'm not convinced by the casting...

Gotta say.. Mos Def was friggin' brillant in 'The Woodsman' though!

EDIT: Heh heh.. like it!

Plunky · 21-02-2005 1:50am

May be, but I just can't see him as Ford...

Piste · 21-02-2005 2:40pm

1,2,4,5 and 42.

Jimmy_Jazz · 21-02-2005 2:42pm

Hovering in limbo between options 2 and 5.

Raphael · 21-02-2005 4:39pm

IMO Mos Def as ford is a very stupid decision. He's only put in for the sake of being PC, he doesn't fit the part at all. Arthur Dent is a firmly normal person (to begin with), and considering the period of the Guide, it would have been highly abnormal for him to have been such a good friend with a black man

Still looking forward to it though. Will probably bus up to Dublin with bath robe to go see it....oh, and 12456

nosmo · 21-02-2005 4:55pm

bu bu bu. but.. Bill Bailey as the whale!!

guX · 21-02-2005 6:52pm

Oops. Delete that post someone. I was experimenting with "stuff" and I meant to click preview instead of submit. How embarassing.

iMax · 21-02-2005 6:59pm

Raphael wrote:

IMO Mos Def as ford is a very stupid decision. He's only put in for the sake of being PC, he doesn't fit the part at all. Arthur Dent is a firmly normal person (to begin with), and considering the period of the Guide, it would have been highly abnormal for him to have been such a good friend with a black man

You can have a Ford any colour you like as long as it's black...

StupidLikeAFox · 21-02-2005 6:59pm

There is an edit button ya know!

Anyway, gimme a 3 please bob

edibility · 21-02-2005 7:14pm

Clearly a mushroom.

StupidLikeAFox · 21-02-2005 7:24pm

well i am sort of ridiculously excited also

It wasn't me! · 21-02-2005 7:37pm

This has the potential to kick ass...

I'll say no more.

Piste · 21-02-2005 8:04pm

Are we all going to see it together? *looks around expectantly*

Jim_Are_Great · 21-02-2005 8:14pm

I'm just afraid that unexpecting cinema goers may shocked to death ten minutes into the movie by the vileness of the Vogon poetry.

Plunky · 21-02-2005 8:18pm

Gummybearz!!! wrote:

Are we all going to see it together? *looks around expectantly*

YESSS!!!!!!!

It wasn't me! · 21-02-2005 8:33pm

Sure. I'll go. When be it released?

oq4v3ht0u76kf2 · 21-02-2005 9:06pm

ColHol wrote:

There is an edit button ya know!

Anyway, gimme a 3 please bob

*Gives ColHol a 3*

Just saw this and 'tis the perfect excuse to reveal my new, yet refreshingly honest, name... Bob. Whee!

It wasn't me! · 21-02-2005 9:16pm

:rolleyes: Heh. Was wondering when I saw the profile on the left...

Caoimhe · 21-02-2005 10:27pm

Film versions inevitably make me want to die so the Vogon poetry will probably be welcome. Although I would like to be there at the end to throw scale model of the restaurant at the end of the universe at the ushers when they try to make us leave.

Caoimhe · 21-02-2005 10:27pm

Oooooh quick thought - how will they handle the Hooloovoo?

Dalamar · 21-02-2005 10:33pm

Yeah, I feel it's gonna be a lot like LOTR, with sections cut out left, right, center. Though I doubt it could seriously damage my view of the novels.

Zounds · 21-02-2005 11:00pm

is it just the first book or all five in one film?

Plunky · 21-02-2005 11:17pm

It would appear (due to trailer on www.hitchhikermovie.com) that it's just the 1st film

Zounds · 21-02-2005 11:17pm

interesting...

Plunky · 21-02-2005 11:25pm

How and ever, it would also appear (from www.imdb.com) that none of the actors are signed on to do Restaurant, or any of the other books, so nnyarghh!

Caoimhe · 21-02-2005 11:27pm

On viewing the trailer... no. No to going to see it. Why is Zaphod in possession of only one head? And why are the white robots so short and unthreatening? And just why, in general?

Barry Aldwell · 21-02-2005 11:29pm

Plunky wrote:

How and ever, it would also appear (from www.imdb.com) that none of the actors are signed on to do Restaurant, or any of the other books, so nnyarghh!

I doubt the IMDB know the exact terms of all their contracts tbh

Plunky · 21-02-2005 11:29pm

he has at least 2. one flips out of him after Dent says "what are you doing"...

Liquorice · 22-02-2005 11:16am

Give me a 5 and a 6 (yes I know I'm a bit of a walking paradox. And of course, a 42. I'm sure it will be entirely inaccurate, as the trailer has already shown it to be, but still, I'm looking forward to it.

Plunky · 22-02-2005 4:27pm

Barry Aldwell wrote:

I doubt the IMDB know the exact terms of all their contracts tbh

This may well be true but imho it's the most accurate source on future films in general (non-specific to distributor/production company)

Jim_Are_Great · 22-02-2005 8:04pm

Didn't Ford have red hair?

Coulda sworn he had red hair...

Caoimhe · 22-02-2005 8:52pm

Plunky wrote:

he has at least 2. one flips out of him after Dent says "what are you doing"...

Ah yes, I see it on a second viewing. But why was it hidden under the first head?

Plunky · 22-02-2005 9:00pm

why not?

Caoimhe · 22-02-2005 9:09pm

Touche...

Plunky · 22-02-2005 9:10pm

at the end of the day, it IS HHGTTG, so randomness is what it's all about

Caoimhe · 22-02-2005 9:12pm

Ah, randomness...
*overcome with emotion*
Its just all so beautiful...

Scarinae · 04-03-2005 8:13pm

I wonder how they'll handle the improbability thing... I hope they keep in the bit with the monkeys and the typewriters, and of course one of my favourite lines: "Ford, you're turning into a penguin! Stop it!"

Marvin looks all wrong. Completely, totally and utterly wrong. Although Alan Rickman is doing the voice, which should be suitably depressing (when I first heard that Warwick Davis was playing Marvin, I thought "oh no Marvin will have the same annoying squeaky voice as the Leprechaun..." - never a good thing. So thank god for Alan Rickman)

halenger · 05-03-2005 11:04pm

Still would've preferred the voice from the TV series (he was originally cast also, first person to be cast in fact - according to imdb). I thought that Marvin voice was just legend.

It's due in May... I've been looking forward to this film for a long, long time but I was quite disappointed when I saw the trailer. Smacks of Hollywood all over. Zaphod's second head looked quite stupid in my opinion. I loved that stoned one. I'll reserve judgement until after I've seen it (and I'll be going to the opening night if at all possible) but I'm not expecting to be happy...

taby · 06-03-2005 10:51am

I'll reserve judgement until after I've seen it (and I'll be going to the opening night if at all possible) but I'm not expecting to be happy...

Of course you'll be going to the opening night. And you will be happy in the end. :-)

Plunky · 06-03-2005 11:36am

I'll BET he will!

Scarinae · 13-03-2005 2:24pm

halenger wrote:

Zaphod's second head looked quite stupid in my opinion.

I think his second head looked stupid in the TV series. It looked like exactly what it was - a badly made robot head stuck onto Zaphod's shoulder. But I know what you mean - it's the concept that was better in the series

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