Don't Panic

ll=llannah

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

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

Basq

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

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

Piste

1,2,4,5 and 42.

Jimmy_Jazz

Hovering in limbo between options 2 and 5.

Raphael

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

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

guX

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

iMax

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

There is an edit button ya know!

Anyway, gimme a 3 please bob

edibility

Clearly a mushroom.

StupidLikeAFox

well i am sort of ridiculously excited also

It wasn't me!

This has the potential to kick ass...



I'll say no more.

Piste

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

Jim_Are_Great

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

Gummybearz!!! wrote:

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

YESSS!!!!!!!

It wasn't me!

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

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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!

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

Caoimhe

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

Oooooh quick thought - how will they handle the Hooloovoo?

Dalamar

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

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

Plunky

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

Zounds

interesting...

Plunky

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

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

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

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

Liquorice

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.