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..I completely missed that this actually went into production! Mos Def is playing Ford Prefect!? I like the choice of Martin Freeman as Arthur Dent. and Bill Nighy is good too. Sam Rockwell can be pretty funny too. for an American. also like to redirect people to badly-publicized thread about the NEW H2G2 radioplays airing on BBC radio in september.. |
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Mos Def is playing Ford Prefect!? |
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Monoid is playing Marvin!? |
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mm. I must've missed that because it was titled "mos def.." |
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you meana y ou don't reada all the topics?? |
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not the ones beginning with "m". I'm saving those for the wintertime. |
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word |
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Is this all five books in one film? |
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looking at the cast, I would say only the first two. |
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.. a quicktime movie, pretty big. |
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Jesus, that looks awful. Marvin is not supposed to be 'cute' or something. |
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I *really* like the idea of Marvin being 'cute.' He was designed by a company that defines a robot as 'your plastic pal who's fun to be with.' All that world weary depression, misanthropy and universal loathing in something that looks like a McDonalds toy... Better than DNA's [RIP] idea for the TV series (thankfully overruled) of a man wearing a gold leotard. |
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exactly. he's supposed to be big and clanky. |
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He should be cute. Like Mr Clippy with angst. |
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And Marvin isn't big anyway. Remeber the Marvin/Frogstar bit? |
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"Out of my way little robot," growled the tank. "I’m afraid," said Marvin, "that I’ve been left here to stop you." The probe extended again for a quick recheck. It withdrew again. "You? Stop me?" roared the tank. "Go on!" "No, really, I have," said Marvin simply. "What are you armed with?" roared the tank in disbelief. "Guess," said Marvin. The tanks engines rumbled, its gears ground. Molecule-size electronic relays deep in its microbrain flipped backward and forward in consternation. "Guess?" said the tank. "Yes, go on," said Marvin to the huge battle machine, "you’ll never guess." "Errrmmm..." said the machine, vibrating with the unaccustomed thought, "laser beams?" Marvin shook his head solemnly. "No," muttered the machine in its deep guttural rumble. "Too obvious. Antimatter ray?" it hazarded. "Far too obvious," admonished Marvin. "Yes," grumbled the machine, somewhat abashed. "Er...how about an electron ram?" This was new to Marvin. "What’s that?" he said. "One of these," said the machine with enthusiasm. From its turret emerged a sharp prong which spat a single lethal blaze of light. Behind Marvin, a wall roared and collapsed as a heap of dust. The dust billowed briefly, then settled. "No," said Marvin, "not one of those." "Good though, isn’t it?" "Very good," agreed Marvin "I know," said the Frogstar battle machine, after another moment’s consideration, "you must have one of those new Xanthic Restruction Destabilized Zenon Emitters!" "Nice, aren’t they?" said Marvin. "That’s what you’ve got?" said the machine in considerable awe. "No," said Marvin "Oh," said the machine, disappointed, "then it must be..." "You’re thinking along the wrong lines," said Marvin. "You’re failing to take into account something fairly basic in the relationship between men and robots." "Er, I know," said the battle machine, "is it...?" it trailed off into thought again. |
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"Er, I know," said the battle machine, "is it...?" it trailed off into thought again. "Just think, urged Marvin, "they left me, an ordinary, menial robot, to stop you, a gigantic heavy-duty battle machine, while they ran off to save themselves. What do you think they would leave me with?" "Oooh, er," muttered the machine in alarm, "something pretty damn devastating I should expect." "Expect!" said Marvin. "Oh yes, expect. I’ll tell you what they gave me to protect myself with, shall I?" "Yes, all right," said the battle machine, bracing itself. "Nothing," said Marvin. There was a dangerous pause. "Nothing?" roared the battle machine. "Nothing at all," intoned Marvin dismally, "not an electronic sausage." The machine heaved about with fury. "Well, doesn’t that just take the biscuit!" it roared. "Nothing, eh? Just don’t think, do they?" "And me," said Marvin in a soft low voice, "with this terrible pain in all the diodes down my left side." "Makes you spit, doesn’t it?" "Yes," agreed Marvin with feeling. "Hell, that makes me angry," bellowed the machine. "Think I’ll smash that wall down!" The electron ram stabbed out another searing blaze of light and took out the wall next to the machine. "How do you think I feel?" said Marvin bitterly. "Just ran off and left you, did they?" the machine thundered. "Yes," said Marvin. "I think I’ll shoot down their bloody ceiling as well!" raged the tank. It took out the ceiling of the bridge. "That’s very impressive murmured Marvin. "You ain’t seen nothing yet," promised the machine. "I can take out this floor too, no trouble!" It took out the floor too. "Hell’s bells!" the machine roared as it plummeted fifteen stories and smashed itself to bits on the ground below. "What a depressingly stupid machine," said Marvin and trudged away. |
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"huge battle machine" |
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Ah well. You got me there. And I carefully left out some lines at the beginning: Marvin stood at the end of the bridge corridor. He was not in fact a particularly small robot. His silver body gleamed in the dusty sunbeams and shook with the continual barrage which the building was still undergoing. He did, however, look pitifully small as the gigantic black tank rolled to a halt in front of him. The tank examined him with a probe. The probe withdrew. |
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he he :) |
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wow cool, thats the first of the film i've seen.. looks like it could be good. I'll have to read the first coupld of books again to freshen my memory, its been a while. |
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fuck mos def he reminds me of a full , sour maxi pad and the realization hes in the film was like someone wringing said pad into my morning tea wont be seeing it |
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I thought the film looked ok in the advert, I found incongruous the cliched Hollywood "Coming soon this spring..." 20 packs of Marlboro before recording the trailer voiceover, however, in summary: why not just stitch the original tv series together and make a film out of it? |
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the tv-series is great! |
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I'm extremely happy about all this except that Ford Prefect is being played by Mos def... nothing against him as a rapper (hes quite good), but I just can't picture him in that role... I hope it doesnt ruin the movie (more than Marvin's gigantic stupid head). |
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has mos def acted in anything besides this movie before? I'm hoping this isn't his first time in front of the lens... |
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he even was in a film about marlowe. |
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...so, it's out now - is it good? ' _ ' (and if yes, only encompassing the first volume in the book series or more? i'm in the second volume now...) |
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I hated it. let's make a film based on Hitchhikers and take all the humour out. |
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oh... guess i can forget about it then. thanks for the advice : ) |
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well.. maybe other people liked it. :) |
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I did... it was a bit of a headfuck though. But maybe that's good?.. humour was ok for me, but Ford Prefect (Mos Def) was really not funny at all. |
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i made a search for other reviews, and apparently the critics liked it but a lot of the other people didn't... according to a french cinema page i saw (and the book is far from being as popular here as it is in the us and/or uk, so i guess a lot of viewers didn't read the book series before seeing the movie), out of 340 people: 73 found it great 47 found it good 42 found it average 56 found it poor 122 found it terrible. |
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i'll probably see it for free when it airs on tv, instead of paying to see it at the cinema (cinema is quite expensive anyway). |
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the strange thing about the film is how an ordinate amount of attention is focused on the plot - who does what, why do they do it, who is going to stop them, lots of running around, let's chase this, let's chase that. because of this a lot of the jokes get cut or, even worse, cut down. one of the worst examples - Arthur Dents house is to be demolished, he lies down in front of the shovel. the head engineer comes over and says Arthur has had all the time in the world to see the plans and complain about them. in the book, Arthur then says something like "they were down a basement. in a locked cupboard. with a tiger patrolling" etc. etc. it just gets worse and worse, and this why it's funny. in the film, Arthur just says "they were down a basement." full stop. oh, ha ha! the plans were down a basement! those kooky Englishmen and their dry humour! |
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aw. -_- |
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i was sickened by the trailer too much already: just some english bloke (yes i immidiatly knew it was stephen fry who i do think is a laugh) talking non funny stuff. im always quick with the judgements though |
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stupid video-directors |
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there's all hitchhiker's guide ads on the end of this page! |
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stephan fry used to be funny, nowadays though i think i rather repeatedly slam my fingers in a car door than sit through an episode of QI |
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QI isn't that bad. |
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oh come on, the bill baily part was fun. |
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QI is hell on earth, with alan davies |
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I would've said: QI is okay, alan davies is hell on earth. |
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and jo brand, the hellball gobshite |
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i get "Hospitaltechnik AG" and "HolzArt Holzverpackungen". ' _ - |
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