Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Axtech · Post by **Axtech** » 2/9/2005, 8:55 am

Sure, none of it really affects the plot, but is it too much to ask that they follow obvious descriptions, none of which are very difficult to match?

wanan · Post by **wanan** » 2/9/2005, 2:11 pm

I came across this early review of a rough cut a week or two ago on aintitcoolnews. http://www.aintitcool.com/display.cgi?id=19282

I'm pretty excited to see this movie, the actors in it are great (especially Sam Rockwell, Mos Def and Alan Rickman(an excellent choice for Marvin) Hopefully they can pull it off. Having read the books only once, I guess I'm not too worried or hung up on some of the small details like many of the fanboys are. As long as its better than the BBC miniseries, you've gotta watch that thing in different sittings or you're likely to kill yourself.

joe_canadian · Post by **joe_canadian** » 2/9/2005, 2:17 pm

Alan Rickman is fucking perfect for Marvin's voice. :love:

And I totally didn't understand that those two triangles were suppsed to be sad eyes.

I thought they were supposed to represent teeth, and they'd made Marvin all badass or something. That would be taking too many liberties!

happening fish · Post by **happening fish** » 2/9/2005, 2:30 pm

Ain't It Cool News wrote:There’s only one person who can steal a scene from Sam Rockwell, and that’s Sam Rockwell. The way they decided to handle Zaphod’s second head is more than just a clever way of keeping the budget down. As Zaphod explains, when he was elected President of the Galaxy, he was told that he was going to have to give up half his brain, since no President is allowed to have a whole one. Zaphod wanted to keep the excised bits close, so had the second head crafted and hidden under the first one. The parts of his brain they put into the second head are the unbridled libido... the temper... all the most volatile pieces of his personality. When that second head comes rolling up, someone’s likely to get punched in the face or some button that shouldn’t be pushed is going to get pushed or something’s going to get stolen. The effect is groovy, but more importantly, it’s character-driven. It’s not just a cheap excuse for a CGI gag, as so many effects seem to be these days.

Iiiiiinteresting...

joe_canadian · Post by **joe_canadian** » 2/9/2005, 2:43 pm

Axtech · Post by **Axtech** » 2/9/2005, 7:51 pm

They could have done that with an actual second head.

Also, I'm not reading that review because the guy describes it way too much. I got to the part about the beginning (a great sounding scene) and stopped so as to not ruin the movie for myself.

Axtech · Post by **Axtech** » 2/9/2005, 10:55 pm

happeningfish wrote:
Ain't It Cool News wrote:There’s only one person who can steal a scene from Sam Rockwell, and that’s Sam Rockwell. The way they decided to handle Zaphod’s second head is more than just a clever way of keeping the budget down. As Zaphod explains, when he was elected President of the Galaxy, he was told that he was going to have to give up half his brain, since no President is allowed to have a whole one. Zaphod wanted to keep the excised bits close, so had the second head crafted and hidden under the first one. The parts of his brain they put into the second head are the unbridled libido... the temper... all the most volatile pieces of his personality. When that second head comes rolling up, someone’s likely to get punched in the face or some button that shouldn’t be pushed is going to get pushed or something’s going to get stolen. The effect is groovy, but more importantly, it’s character-driven. It’s not just a cheap excuse for a CGI gag, as so many effects seem to be these days.

Iiiiiinteresting...

Upon a second reading, that does sound rather inventive in an over-complicated way, and even somewhat Adams-esque.

Still would have been better to go with a second head.

Axtech · Post by **Axtech** » 2/16/2005, 6:16 pm

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/subst ... 68-7999834

^ new trailer

I'm definately more pleased with Zaphod after this trailer. :mrgreen:

Dr. Hobo · Post by **Dr. Hobo** » 2/16/2005, 6:25 pm

why did the heart of gold not look like a sneaker?

Axtech · Post by **Axtech** » 2/16/2005, 8:41 pm

hahaha, I know.

Although, it would have been stupid if they took that too literally.

Axtech · Post by **Axtech** » 3/4/2005, 8:54 pm

http://hitchhikers.movies.go.com/traile ... usive.html

New (awesome) trailer.

I also suggest that, once it's done, you watch the final montage frame by frame. :drool:

Post by **saman** » 3/5/2005, 2:36 pm

there will be definitely iconnage made out of that

wanan · Post by **wanan** » 3/6/2005, 11:31 am

Axtech wrote:http://hitchhikers.movies.go.com/trailers/exclusive.html

New (awesome) trailer.

I also suggest that, once it's done, you watch the final montage frame by frame.

That's gotta be one of the best trailers ever made! :duncan:

joe_canadian · Post by **joe_canadian** » 3/6/2005, 12:58 pm

I think I need a towel.

:drool:

Axtech · Post by **Axtech** » 3/6/2005, 12:59 pm

joe_canadian · Post by **joe_canadian** » 3/6/2005, 1:01 pm

ROFL

Oh my god. I didn't even mean that as a HG reference. :lol:

Axtech · Post by **Axtech** » 3/6/2005, 1:04 pm

, accidental genius!

Post by **faninor** » 3/6/2005, 6:16 pm

That was an excellent trailer.

Random Name · Post by **Random Name** » 3/6/2005, 6:32 pm

huh.

Whats that all about? :lol:

starseed_10 · Post by **starseed_10** » 3/6/2005, 6:47 pm

what program are you guys using for the frame by frame?