Killuminati510 wrote:
MG Casey wrote:
This looks reeally funny! It will be a big hit!
Yeah, you can tell that this is the type of movie that fanboys will bitch about while the casual movie goers and people who dont know much about the novel( like me ) will for the most part like.
i think you'd be surprised! most hitch hiker's fans are very open-minded. we've never had the luxury of being bitchy, because every single version has updated, altered, or flat-out contradicted the previous ones.
the books and the tv show were different to the original radio series. vinyl records of the radio series were released that didn't have the same music, expanded some bits, and condensed others. recently, a third series of the radio show was made and broadcast, reuniting most of the original cast (peter jones is sadly no longer alive). these new episodes revealed that the whole of series two, broadcast many years earlier, had actually all been a sort of hallucination: the new series carried on from the end of series one.
what i'm trying to say is, hitch hiker's doesn't really have typical fanboys, because typical fanboys simply couldn't cope with it.
and now i've seen the trailer!
i thought it looked very good. my only complaint was the music, but my friend - who writes reviews for some sort of mickey-mouse movie website - assures me that it's "only trailer music" and prob'ly won't be representative.
incidentally, the movie has been scored by a guy called joby talbot. he's from the divine comedy - one of my favourite bands for many years now. a dream come true!
by-the-bye, i thought mos def and sam rockwell came across very well in the trailer - which is a relief :o) i'm not too worried about the number of american actors. strictly speaking, casting an englishman as zaphod (as they did in the radio and tv series) was more of a travesty - since mark w.d. put on a vaguely american accent for both. i'm english myself, so i've no idea how good or bad the accent was - all part of the charm!
i think making authur the only guy with an english accent will stress how out-of-place he is in the galaxy. it'll be like the sting song: "i don't drink coffee, i take tea my dear... i like my toast done on one side..." the song + hitchhiker's share a similar sort of mood: an absurd, nostalgic kind of homelessness...
