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Post by Jens Dietrich on Jan 8, 2005 6:16:22 GMT -8
It's probably an old hat to some of you, but this is the first group shot I have seen of HTTG's principal cast: Zaphod, Trilian, Marvin, FordI don't want to be premature... but Rockwell's posture and cocky smile just nails Zaphod for me. There's another pic that got released with this one of Ford and Arthur, apparently at the ruins of Arthur's house before the rest of earth goes the same way. I believe Arthur's holding a towel in the pic. Seeing towels in both of these new pics seem like a good sign to me. That, and Alan-frigging-Rickman. I think with this cast, we can be assured that even if it's an abortion of an adaptation, it'll be a very entertaining abortion. Thoughts? Hopes? Dreams?
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Post by Mac Styran on Jan 11, 2005 4:46:37 GMT -8
1.) Principal cast, yes ... but there is someone MISSING!
2.) I have high hopes, but I'm not hyped. Possibly the best condition to be in.
3.) 42
4.) I wonder how much of the whole story the try to get into ONE movie ... oh, there come the worries again ... damn.
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Post by Mac Styran on Jan 11, 2005 4:50:21 GMT -8
Also ... I like it that they chose Joby Talbot as composer.
Keeps the brit spirit in.
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Post by Jens Dietrich on Jan 11, 2005 4:54:44 GMT -8
1.) Principal cast, yes ... but there is someone MISSING! Perfect! 4.) I wonder how much of the whole story the try to get into ONE movie ... oh, there come the worries again ... damn. I'd guess the first two books. Just like the original radio series.
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Post by Mac Styran on Jan 11, 2005 4:59:58 GMT -8
You mean PREFECT ...
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Post by Jens Dietrich on Jan 11, 2005 5:02:07 GMT -8
You mean PREFECT ... I would have accepted either one. When I first read the books years ago I initially assumed it was a typo. Anywho, Martin Freeman is the PERFECT PREFECT!
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Post by Yvesvh on Jan 11, 2005 8:27:30 GMT -8
Anywho, Martin Freeman is the PERFECT PREFECT! As much as I liked him in the Office... he also starred in the God Awful Ali G in da House... and allthough I only saw a part of that movie on TV, I didn't think he was good or funny at all (on the other hand the script wasn't either)
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Post by Mac Styran on Jan 20, 2005 9:15:05 GMT -8
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Post by Jens Dietrich on Jan 20, 2005 10:32:58 GMT -8
Darn those public computers!
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Post by Mac Styran on Jan 20, 2005 11:02:01 GMT -8
Porn? At Aintitcool?
Ok ... here's the skinny:
Stephen Fry will voice the Guard!
Now celebrate.
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Post by Jens Dietrich on Feb 10, 2005 3:06:05 GMT -8
The first AICN screeners are in. First positive, second pretty much negative:
This is the lamest thing I've ever heard, and I follow world politics.
This would be like if Peter Jackson decided to save money in the LOTR movies by hiring full sized actors instead of ponying up the dough for midgets to play hobbits.
Then again, it is Ain't it Cool News, which, for some reason, just gets horribly on my nerves. Maybe it's the writing style, or the page layout.
Anyway, I'm not sure what to think. Adams himself wrote that the movie would be unlike the book, in that it followed a different plot line altogether. This made me nervous, but I could accept that. This one sounds like it sticks fairly true to the book, plot-wise. Also makes me nervous, but not quite as much.
But then the guy complains:
As I recall, the first book didn't really have much of a point. No conflict/resolution or any of that, actually. Everything just kind of happened.
The guy who wrote the second review is exactly the wrong reviewer for this film. Anyone who complains that it's directionless and doesn't have a cohesive feel misses the point. Don't forget that the whole thing started out as a radio series, before the book. That accounts for the directionlessnesslessnesssle... for the random parts. Adams would write himself into corners he had to invent the Infinite Improbability Drive to get out of. It makes it harder, if anything to turn into film, because lines like "Ford, you're turning into a penguin. Stop it!" which work perfectly well in the theatre of the mind, just come off as redundant in a visual medium. I have no idea how this will all turn out, but I'll be there. I just keep saying to myself, "Rockwell, Rickman, Fry..."
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Post by Jens Dietrich on Feb 12, 2005 12:44:01 GMT -8
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