H2G2 Film Website

tplayford writes "On the third anniversary of Douglas Adams death, the makers of the 'Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy' film have released their website, with a photo of the whole crew and a blog. I'm trying not to panic, but I just can't wait for the film to come out."

Weird..

[Anonymous Coward]

The new movie starts with "Click here to download the Flash Plug-In". I've seen that a lot, is that a new film studio?

Waldo?

[Anonymous Coward]

I like playing spot the black guy in the photo. It keeps me occupied for hours.

Lets see if we can /.

[Throtex]

Deep Thought.

Not very good...

[noelmarkham]

Not a very interesting site...

Just a button you can't push!?!?!

Visiting executives from LA

[lordmoose]

That's never a good sign.

Re:Lets see if we can /.

[JosKarith]

That's for amateurs.
/. The Earth!

Comfy

[CptSparrow]

I wonder what the three guys in the front of the photo do that allow them to wear blue fuzzy slippers?!

Re:Not very good...

[noelmarkham]

But it says...

Please don't push this button

Re:Uhm?

[grahams]

What you saw a few years ago was a BBC TV miniseries. It had a budget of approximately 3 dollars (US).

The new film is a hollywood production.

Re:Probability.

[Anonymous Coward]

5,233,001 to 1 against... and falling!

Re:Skip flash

[noelmarkham]

mostly.

Re:Skip flash

[warrax_666]

NO! You must always Duck and Cover(TM) when you see the flash!

Re:Uhm?

[Throtex]

You gotta give credit where credit is due! That lifelike prosthetic head and third arm Zaphod wore around certainly constituted all three of those dollars by themselves!

Re:Not very good...

[grub]

Are you pushing your monitor hard enough with your index finger? Maybe try tapping it with a hammer. The button gets stuck sometimes.

Re:Skip flash

[hords]

Mostly Harmless

Re:Probability.

[minotaurcomputing]

"what is the probability of hollywood trashing this?"

42

Whatever... Vaporflick alert!!

[LqqkOut]

Hate to break it to you all, but there isn't anyone in that staff pic with 2 heads. There's no way they can make this flick w/out the coolest guy in the universe!

Re:Comfy

[TCaptain]

Arthur Dent and his stunt doubles?

Re:I don't know about Adams.

[Anonymous Coward]

The name "Slartibartfast" was chosen because the person who typed out the copies of the script for the recording of the radio show objected to having to type out long silly names. So he deliberately chose a very long and very silly name for a fairly major character.

Re:Lets see if we can /.

[caldroun]

Do people on this message board reproduce? *shutter*

Re:Stock up on untainted books now

[jea6]

People who buy a book only after it has become a major motion picture are tag-alongers not true-believers. Tag-alongers deserve noting but our ultimate scorn. True-believers have been there since the beginning and are worthy of our undying affection and respect. It is only the power of the true-believer that has allowed this book to become a major motion picture. Everybody else is a free-loader who can bring no insight or value to this proposition.

Other examples of this phenomenon are:

• LOTR (obviously)
• Harry Potter (When did you read Sorcerer's Stone)
• My Slashdot ID is lower than yours (Sub-groups here are 3-digit, 4-5 digit, low 6 digit IDs)
• People who had to watch Soprano's Season 1 after Season 2.
• People who first watched the Matrix on DVD.
• Anyone born after Carter left office.

Apparently, the comic book scene (which I know nothing about), is chock-full of this ninniness too. The list could go on. My lunch break, alas, can not.

"adult" version of Harry Potter?

[FunWithHeadlines]

"I wouldn't be seen dead reading anything other than the adult version of the Harry Potter books."

Is that the one where Harry and Hermione invite Ron to join them for... No, nope, that's just wrong, must get image out of my head.

Re:Whatever... Vaporflick alert!!

[stanmann]

Well you see he's been replace by Jar-Jar beeblebrox.

Re:Stock up on untainted books now

[Tryfen]

When did you read Sorcerer's Stone

When it was Philosopher's Stone.

here i am

[zarniwhoop]

with a brain the size of a planet and all you want me to do is moderate? Oh, alright I'll moderate but don't ask me to enjoy it becasue I won't.

Hang on - I'm supposed to be designing the fjords...

My Favorit H2G2 quote

[bshroyer]

Is very near that one - I don't know why it struck my fancy, but it's one of the first things that springs to my mind when I think of H2G2:

The large yellow ships hung in the sky in exactly the same way that bricks don't

Who visualizes like this? And how obvious is it, once stated, that that's exactly the right visual simile? Douglas Adams had a command of the English language both forwards and backwards. It's a shame we won't be getting any new material in this lifetime.

Restatement (Second) of Cartoons

[ArsSineArtificio]

By law, according to the Uniform Cartoon Code (UCC), Chapter 4398274, section 12.432432 as publish by the ACME Corporation. "All persons, animals or other self aware beings (terrestrial or otherwise) who encounter a large red button are required to press it under penalty of anvil" it goes on to say "Should the before mentioned red button carry a notice asking all who see it not to press it, the required pusher of said button is here by required to press it as often and as many times as possible until it's final result is known."

The UCC was amended in 1993.

4398274 UCC 12.432432 (West 1995) now reads in relevant part:
"(b) In the event that the aforementioned red button bears a notice requesting the public not to press it, the observer, required to push said button under subsection (a) of this section, is hereby required to press it repeatedly until the result of said presses is known; but

(c) the presser may for a reasonable period delay pressing said button as required under subsection (a) of this section, if said delay would effect a comedic purpose, including, but not limited to, chattering teeth, protruding eyes, bulging veins, or shaking limbs, caused by the stress of resisting temptation or the anticipation resulting from such delay."

Re:Call me Marvin, but...

[The Ultimate Fartkno]

> One bad sign, this is the design for Marvin. Ick.

No, no, NOOOOOO!! They got it all *wrong*! Marvin's tall, dammit! I've been listening to the album-length BBC production of Hitch-Hiker's for over *twenty* years now, I *know* what Marvin sounds like, and *HE SOUNDS TALL!*

Oh man, this is just going to mess with my head...

Must've been a bitch finding a two-headed actor

[wcrowe]

...to play Zaphod.

Maybe Alec Baldwin?

No, wait. Sorry. He's two-faced.

I'm surprised...

[ArcCoyote]

..the site hasn't suffered a sudden total existance failure yet.

Re:Skip flash

[nlindstrom]

And don't forget your towel !! Ducking and covering is all fine and well, but if you can't then drape your towel over your head, you will still be eaten by the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal. Lots of good ducking 'n' covering will have done you then!