Hitchhiker's Guide Trailer Online 289
Jeremy Rayner writes "The 2005 Hitchhiker's movie trailer is available in AVI or RealMedia formats. The movie trailer doesn't reveal anything, but looks cool.
Personally I'm looking forward to the new Radio 4 series in September for which you can hear an mp3 preview."
Bandwidth the size of a planet... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Bandwidth the size of a planet... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Bandwidth the size of a planet... (Score:5, Funny)
One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about humans was their habit of continuously stating and repeating the very very obvious, as in It's a nice day, or You're very tall, or Oh dear we seem to have slashdotted the server!
Re:Bandwidth the size of a planet... (Score:3, Funny)
Techie: Oh, Belgium, Slashdot linked to us
Re:Bandwidth the size of a planet... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Bandwidth the size of a planet... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Bandwidth the size of a planet... (Score:2, Insightful)
I could not disagree more strongly. Please, if you are so inclined, feel free to execute your right to not vote. Especially if you are one of those people who got all their information for TV attack ads and Daily Show comedy skits, and think you are expected to choose between "the lesser of two evils" in this election. Stay home and relax. An uninformed vote does far more damage to the
Re:Bandwidth the size of a planet... (Score:3, Insightful)
Then protest vote. Vote Badnarik, or whoever represents the marginalized political party of your choice. (Two-party system be damned!) The beauty of it is that you can complain no matter who wins...
"Hey, I didn't vote for him!"
OR
"Hey, I didn't actually expect him to win!"
An uninformed vote does
Re:Bandwidth the size of a planet... (Score:2)
Working Mirror (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Bandwidth the size of a planet... (Score:2)
I have a horrible feeling it's still there.
Re:Bandwidth the size of a planet... (Score:2)
As the web server crashed to the ground... (Score:5, Funny)
Imagination (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Imagination (Score:4, Interesting)
It gives you that much extra, because you hear what the author wants you to hear, instead of only the text.
It still leaves enough to the imagination.
What I did was ript it, so I had 5 CD's in my car, instead of the 25 and then listen to the mp3's. What else are you going to do when waiting in traffic?
Note that the prices are in UK money.
Re:Imagination (Score:2, Interesting)
Radio leaves plenty of room for imagination.
It isn't a given that any story will work better in any given medium. For instance Star Wars, the movie, totally blew me away when I first saw it. I'm not even remotely interested in reading the book.
Re:Imagination (Score:2)
Re:Imagination (Score:3, Insightful)
LOTR
Spiderman
Xmen
High Fidelity
Fight Club
were approved for funding.
Yes, sometimes movie adaptations of books can fail miserably, but there are some stunning success stories, and I for one am glad that there are people with faith enough to see them through over the objections of people such as yourself.
Another site for information on the Radio Series (Score:5, Informative)
The original cast (unfortunately without the late Peter Jones), a cameo by Douglas Adams himself
And for those of you who aren't in the UK, you may appreciate knowing that Radio 4 make their programs available on their website [bbc.co.uk] for a week after the broadcast.
Unfortunately they're still in crappy real media format, but mplayer [mplayerhq.hu] deals with them fine.
About time too
Zaphod (Score:2)
Wonderful World (Score:5, Informative)
It's getting Slashdoted, so lets Spoil the Trailer:
Background music is (What A) Wonderful World, Louis Armstrong, and story is following lyrics from the music.
Blue stars, clouds, light/sun, then unzooming and showing our pretty little planet.
And then.... BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM, Earth exlodes!
Familiar title "DON'T PANIC" shows...
Good job :).
Re:Wonderful World (Score:5, Insightful)
I hope they're doing satire there. I'd hate for them to take this movie seriously. It's like doing "The Life of Brian" in Aramaic.
Oh wait, they did that already. [imdb.com]
Re:Wonderful World (Score:2)
Re:Wonderful World (Score:3, Insightful)
Except without any action. It's just a logo. That's why you are reminded of Men In Black, I think the trailer did something similar.
I think it was appropriate here though - the Guide would certainly have a logo. The graphic style reminds me of some of the StarShip Titanic stuff.
Re:Wonderful World (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Wonderful World (Score:4, Informative)
Oh Well...
http://mtw.dramaciderecrods.net/HitchHikers_Guide
Freecache? (Score:2)
Re:Freecache? (Score:2)
Well, (Score:3, Insightful)
Oh well
Tried to download the trailer... (Score:5, Funny)
Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.
Re:Tried to download the trailer... (Score:3, Insightful)
Its brilliant lines like those that have lots of people worried about how this is going to translate into film.
I mean, how exactly do you shoot 'gigantic yellow spaceships hanging in the sky in exactly the way that bricks don't.'
At least the movie blog and credentials are promising. The Hammer and Tongs guys who are doing it are spoken of very favourably by Spike Jonze, Jay Roach, etc. In a way I have more hope j
More Previews... (Score:3, Informative)
Re:More Previews... (Score:2, Insightful)
Sorry, but the TV Marvin, umm... "emoted" more.
Tom.
Oh, for Pete's sake... (Score:3, Funny)
Pedantic , I know, but I think it was literal (Score:2)
I know what you're getting at but, IIRC, I think his brain was supposed to be the size of a planet...just that it was stored in some other dimension or something.
Re:Pedantic , I know, but I think it was literal (Score:2)
Re:Pedantic , I know, but I think it was literal (Score:2)
Re:Oh, for Pete's sake... (Score:5, Funny)
I can just see them feverishly scribbling into their zaurus': "Continuity Error #123231254: Shot clearly shows ICBMS, next shot they appear to be a bowl of petunias and a whale." "Error #1534534534: Ford turns into a penguin.", etc..
Continuity? (Score:2)
"Bedebedebedebedebedebedebede! I'm feeling very depressed, Buck..."
Re:Continuity? (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Continuity? (Score:2)
Re:Oh, for Pete's sake... (Score:5, Insightful)
Continuity flaws, continuity flaws...
I'm eagerly looking forward to the Slashdot discussion when this film comes out. Thousands of geeks, livid that the movie contradicts the books... when the books happily contradict
the TV series
the radio series
the LP
each other
basic axioms of logic
on every single page!
Anyone got a phone number for NASA? I think I want to leave the planet...
Re:Oh, for Pete's sake... (Score:2, Interesting)
"Do you want to know just how amazing smart I am and dumb you are?"
"Sure!"
"Pick a number, any number"
"Uuummmmm 12?"
"Wrong. See?"
Re:Oh, for Pete's sake... (Score:2)
Ok...now I'm worried (Score:2, Interesting)
Seriously, does ANYONE think that Marvin is suppose to be a cute looking short robot with a HUGE round head!??
He should be taller, darker, more mechanical looking, slightly sinister, and oh, has everyone forgotten one very important piece????
Marvin's all important PEG LEG!!!!! I mean come on! The p
Re:Ok...now I'm worried (Score:2)
Re:More Previews... (Score:2)
Re:More Previews... (Score:2)
Marvin's personality was screwed up, because he was a prototype model of the Genuine People Personalities line, but certainly his body ought to be cute, friendly and marketable by the kind of mindless jerks who'll be the first against the wall when the revolution comes.
Don't bother... (Score:2)
Move along now... continue worki^H^H^H^H^Hreading slashdot.
I may pay for this... (Score:2, Informative)
I was able to snag it before the /. hit. (I hope it's all there, I can't play it right now because it want's a codec the firewall won't let me download) I would prefer more mirrors instead of all getting it from there :}
Re:I may pay for this... (Score:2)
Thanks a bunch (Score:2)
All that aside, WHY ISN'T AKAIMI or FREECACHE mirroring this trailer?
Mirror. (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Mirror. (Score:2)
http://67.18.205.234/~jamie/trailer_hitchhikers.a
it's an easy way of stress testing a newish server, right?
Torrent of avi file (Score:4, Informative)
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 503 Service Unavailable
http://www.thepiratebay.org/download.php/322763
Re:Torrent of avi file - LINK (Score:2)
As seen below the submission window
<URL:http://example.com/> will auto-link a URL
But of course, thank you for posting the torrent.
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Isn't it great? (Score:2)
H2G2 Radio show on CD (and subsequently, mp3): Check
H2G2 Leather bound, goldleaf singlebound volume: Check
H2G2 Comics: Check
New H2G2 Radio Shows: Coming this fall.
H2G2 Movie: Coming next year.
It's a good time to be a fan.
Now, if only we could get some news on the new Dr. Who series, or the Red Dwarf movie, or Red Dwarf Series IX...
warning, there's spoilers! (Score:5, Funny)
Ah man! now the movie's ruined for me!
Re:warning, there's spoilers! (Score:3, Funny)
Oh no! Does that mean the Lone Gunmen are dead?
Radio series and books were quite divergent ... (Score:2)
The end of the second radio series had Arthur taking off in the Heart of Gold after discovering Zaphod's part in the destruction of Earth, leaving Ford and Zaphod stranded with the ruler of the universe, and Trillian had disappeared near the end of the first series (forcibly married to the Algolian Chapter of the Galactic Rotary Club, from memory).
The end of the sec
Re:Radio series and books were quite divergent ... (Score:2)
Re:Radio series and books were quite divergent ... (Score:2)
Lucky that a) the movie is not being made by the same people who made the TV Series and b) its budget is about 100 times bigger.
avi audio only? (Score:2)
Re:avi audio only? (Score:4, Informative)
trailer_hitchhikers.avi: RIFF (little-endian) data, AVI, 320 x 240, 29.97 fps, video: DivX 5, audio: MPEG-1 Layer 3 (stereo, 44100 Hz)
Re:avi audio only? (Score:3, Informative)
Mirror (Score:3, Informative)
Reference and Easter Egg (Score:3, Informative)
Easter Egg: Watch the upper-left corner of the screen at the end of the trailer.
-- Yoz
Re:Reference and Easter Egg (Score:2)
Reference: Louis Armstrong's "What A Wonderful World" was the music played at the very end of the 1980 BBC TV series.
And in the original radio series, at the end of the first series.
Re:Reference and Easter Egg (Score:3, Interesting)
But then... (Score:3, Funny)
suddenly hosted what it was that had been going wrong all this
time, and it finally knew how the world could be made a good
and happy place. This time it was right, it would work, and no
one would have to get nailed to anything.
Sadly, however, before it could get bandwidth to tell anyone
about it, it was slashdotted, and the idea was lost forever.
While /. effect subsides (Score:4, Funny)
torrent link for .AVI (Score:3, Informative)
Re:torrent link for .AVI (Score:2)
Re:torrent link for .AVI (Score:2)
I'll wait for the quicktime version (Score:3, Insightful)
42 (Score:3, Informative)
AVI Mirror (Score:2)
Working link... (Score:2)
Aah, Trillian. (Score:3, Interesting)
I am really excited to hear the old space bajo tune again, though. Time to relive my childhood and feel young again!
Re:Aah, Trillian. (Score:3, Informative)
Well, thank goodness (Score:2)
Oh, good, no spoilers. The three or four
A friend of mine was offered... (Score:2)
100Mbit Mirror (Score:3, Informative)
http://www.fearthepenguin.net/video/trailer_hitch
Enjoy...
Ender-
don't DO that! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Wow, welcome to Friday. (Score:2)
The movie trailer doesn't reveal anything, but looks cool.
Reveal anything? Taco hasn't read the books? Or is this a different story?
Re:Wow, welcome to Friday. (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Wow, welcome to Friday. (Score:3, Interesting)
WHen talking about this trailer, I completely agree with you, no reason to use real format at all.
When talking about streaming video, the AVI file format is serious not suited for it (for once because of having the index at the end of the file a
Re:Wow, welcome to Friday. (Score:2)
Re:I'll let you know in 23 minutes (Score:2)
Re:I'll let you know in 23 minutes (Score:2, Redundant)
The trailer itself is definitely just a teaser, shows off some nice but not terribly groundbreaking CGI. It'll build some hype among those who weren't aware it was coming. The logo's pretty cool, incorporating elements of earlier logos while still being new and different.
Re:I'll let you know in 23 minutes (Score:2)
As the article says, there's not much content beyond the exploding earth and "don't panic" message. Still, I'm a big hitch-hikers fan, and it gave me goosebumps. You can go stick your Star Wars prequel, I don't care anymore. I just hope they don't go and f%ck up this film!
what was the taco thinking? (Score:2)
I just sortof shook my head and thought: Oh God. What have they done.
Amazingly, the realmedia file is willing to be downloaded!
That either speaks to:
the massive bandwidth usually associated with a .nu domain
the disgraceful bandwidth of the French
or
RealMedia's status as the unwanted step child in the video codec world.
Now I will continue readinG the thread in search of an AVI mirror.
The Time is 10:08 AM CST
Torrent here! (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Less popular than 53 more things to do in zero (Score:2)
You know, 24 is 42 backwards...
Just a thought.
Re:Less popular than 53 more things to do in zero (Score:2, Insightful)
Typos (Score:3, Interesting)
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Universe
The Restaurant at the End of the Galaxy
So Long And Thanks for All the Fish
Young Zaphod Plays It Safe
Glad to hear the same guy who did my book's spine is still employed doing yours
Xesdeeni
Re:Ick (Score:5, Funny)
It would have to be about five minutes long!
Re:Ick (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Ick (Score:2)
Re:Ick (Score:2)