"Hitchiker's Guide ot the Galaxy" movie

[zimon66]

Has anyone else seen the trailer for this and are you reeling in horror like I am?

Marvin looks TERRIBLE (humgous beachball head on little midget body) and Zaphod only has one head and two arms???!!!

The acting doesn't seem to be all that great.

Worst of all this looks like yet another movie done solely for CGI effects.

Thank the Gods Douglas Adams isn't alive to see this.

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[rosehiptea.livejournal.com]

Worst of all this looks like yet another movie done solely for CGI effects.

Looks like that to me. How sad. Arthur's nowhere near clueless enough, Ford's nowhere near cool enough... Well it's only the trailer, but still. Zaphod had an extra hand in the trailer I saw but one head? WTF is up with that?

Sigh.

[satal.livejournal.com]

You realise the project was originally headed by Gilliam and co-written by DG himself? Then he died and things went wonky... Dammit.

One head, you say? Shiiiit.

~Satal de Rihannsu~

[sensoo.livejournal.com]

Zaphod's 2nd head is under his 1st one.

I thought Marvin was kind of cute...

*shrug*

Yet, it probably will suck, but there is a cute trailer at the website that uses the "Hitchhikers' Guide" to define what a movie trailer is.

[zimon66]

What the hell is it doing under his first one???!!! Both heads are suppose to be sitting together on top of his shoulders, that's how it is in the book.

Marvin looked dumb to me - the humor is suppose to come from his being overly intelligent and depressed not the physical size of his head.

[zimon66]

Yeah, Arthur had about as much personality as a rock and Ford wasn't Ford - they were so overshadowed by the special effects.

Zaphod looked like a regular guy to me and he's not suppose to!!!

The whole comercial I saw on TV was all CGI and what little humor coming from Marvin's weird appearance and the anouncer talking dramatically.

I smell a stinker!!!

[zimon66]

If Gilliam was involved it shouldn't have come out looking like that sorry piece of CGI junk I saw. I'm assuming he got dropped off the project?

Yep, looks like one head:(

[sensoo.livejournal.com]

Well, cute and depressed made me snicker.

Yea, I know about that head thing. It's probably the only way they could pull it off w/o it looking like the TV series though...

[rosehiptea.livejournal.com]

The head in the TV series looked like crap though. (It wasn't a horrible TV series but the head was not done well.) I think they could have made it much better, and it wouldn't have looked like the series at all.

I wasn't too upset by Marvin, he looked kind of pathetic which is part of the point. He looked a little too babyish though, but I could have lived with Marvin.

I have a feeling they want viewers to be able to identify with Arthur so they wanted to make him less of a loser. But I've only seen the trailer so that's just a guess.

[reverendcharles.livejournal.com]

i am giving the movie a chance, but i have to say when i heard that ford is black, i got very worried. the look of marvin is not that great, but i do like that alan rickman is doing his voice.

[reverendcharles.livejournal.com]

check out this review. there's a short-spoiler-free version and a long version... http://planetmagrathea.com/shortreview.html

it has me a bit worried, although it turns out the two verticle heads for zaphod was actually douglas adam's idea, as well as lot of other things in the film. still...