Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

[DaveMunger]

Did you tell her about Babelfish?

[h.p. love]

Trillian, babelfish. Is it strange to think that maybe IBM's Deep Blue somehow descended from Deep Thought?

[Fearless Freep]

If you recall from the books, the books are funny but the humour is neither slapstick nor one-liners, nor often visual.  Given the nature of previews with fast edit cuts, I'm not surprised if the previews would not come across to overtly as a for a 'comedy'

[Yaddo 42]

I realize I'm familiar with the story already, but the trailer I first saw on E! seemed very obvious that it was a comedy. From Arthur's bad morning, to the apology for destroying Earth and why, to the appearence of Zaphod's other face, to Ford apologizing to the LARGE woman for falling out of touch ("You've grown." cracks me up every time I see that trailer), to the smacks in the face. So that ad seemed pretty clear it was a comedy. Even including the "Don't Panic" phrase at the end when the opening date was displayed.

The more recent ad I've seen certainly played it more as adventure, which might backfire on them. And didn't include the "Don't Panic". I know that line is something that only means anything to people already familiar with the story, but since it stands out why not get it into the public's head. That way when they find out what it means if they go see it, they can latch onto a part of the story and just what the Guide really is.

[Mr_Vindictive]

Yaddo,

In quite a few of the first trailers and spots, they did use "Don't Panic" in each one.  With the newer spots and trailers they have pretty much dropped it.  

The first teaser was by far the best ad they've had.  It showed earth exploding and then as all the bits were flying through space everything froze and "DON'T PANIC!" appeared on the screen.  Now that is genius.

[Yaddo 42]

Thanks for the info, I missed most of the early ads until I caught the first one I mentioned on E!'s trailer show about two weeks ago. As buggy and slow as my computer is, trying to download or watch early trailers online in more trouble than it's worth.

So I try to catch the trailers on that show several at a time, plus sometimes the cute hostess girl (Casey Kasem's daughter, as she mentions all the time) screws up the stuff she reads on the Teleprompter. The first ad I saw for "Sahara" on there she called the lead character "Dick Pitt" the entire time. Must have sent Clive Cussler up the wall to hear the name of his mid-life crisis wish fulfillment alter ego/registered trademark cashcow being mangled over and over like that.

[BoyScoutKevin]

This film has been along time coming, I can remember back in 2001 or 2002 talk of doing a big screen adaptation of the film. Indeed, it has been such a long time coming, I thought they had dropped the idea of doing it.

Finally, last night, I saw the trailer for it on the Sci Fi Channel. And while I have not seen, read, or heard any other adaptation of it, what I did see, did look good.

And not to scare anybody off of it, but it is a Disney film. At least through their adult subsidiary Touchstone Pictures. As is the upcoming big screen "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe."

Well, anyway, we'll get to see what we'll see, when it is finally released on Friday, April 29.

[h.p. Love]

Today (Sunday 4/10) on slashdot.org there is a story about the movie. The blurb contains links to reviews by Adams' longtime biographer and a list of things not included in the movie. He does NOT like the movie. One article contains spoilers and another version does not.

Both links did not work for me due to a typical slashdot.org problem. Small sites getting way to much traffic and blowing their bandwith.

[Vermin Boy]

Not terribly strange-- the first model of Deep Blue was named Deep Thought. :)

[DaveMunger]

Here's a review that was linked at fark:

http://www.planetmagrathea.com/shortreview.html

Pretty negative, but it sounds kind of like the reviewer was looking for a straight remake of the TV show or something. I was kind of hoping it would have some new material in it. (He says that there is, but it sucks).

[h.p. Love]

This is the article mentioned at slashdot. The worst thing sounds like the beginning is almost nonexistent and that the book's dialogue has been changed, with many of the quotable lines and jokes changed or dropped entirely. The examples of parts of jokes left in but the payoffs changed sounds pointless. The article makes the point that Adams worked hard to craft dialogue. The book had a British feel, sort of like Monty Python. Imagine MP dialogue rewritten by someone else. Impossible. So, it seems that expecting any vibe like the book at all is an unreasonable expectation.

[Archivist]

I just saw a preview on TV for the theatrical release last night.  Opens April 28th.  I think I might have to go catch that one along with xXx2!

[JC]

I can't WAIT for it to come out.

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