Did everyone catch the planet shaped like Douglas Adams' head in that scene? It's visible two or three times in the background, first when Slartibartfast says "Welcome to our factory floor!"
My whole life, I've never loved anything else.
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Jessica - May 01, 2005 9:08:16 am PDT #2372 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Jars - May 01, 2005 11:07:16 am PDT #2373 of 10002
My favourite Improbability Drive bit was when they all turned into woolen dolls. Now I find myself really, really wanting a wooly Marvin doll.
Matt the Bruins fan - May 01, 2005 12:01:38 pm PDT #2374 of 10002
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
I heard about it, but didn't actually catch it in the movie Jessica.
sumi - May 01, 2005 3:37:15 pm PDT #2375 of 10002
Art Crawl!!!
I loved the woolley dolls scene too and the credit for the Knit technicians or however they put it.
Our theatre (AMC 30 in Cantera) thinks that H2G2 is a kids film too. (Based on the trailers. . . although they included a trailer for The Corpse Bride. I suppose they figure that if it's silly or animated it must be for kids.)
Jessica - May 01, 2005 3:49:57 pm PDT #2376 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Back from seeing it a 4th time. (Hazard of being married to the press and having friends with incompatible schedules.)
This time, noticed that two of the tech people were named Elizabeth Hurley and Simon Jones.
I so very much want a yarn Marvin.
Loews has their own trailers reel, so I didn't see Serenity or Sith. We saw one for Chicken Little that started out like the H2G2 trailer, with the word "Don't" falling out of frame and leaving only "Panic" behind. Very cute.
§ ita § - May 01, 2005 4:04:54 pm PDT #2377 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
We had that Chicken Little trailer too, and people started out cheering, and didn't seem too upset when it turned out to be a mislead.
Matt the Bruins fan - May 01, 2005 4:06:03 pm PDT #2378 of 10002
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Were they using the same genius baby chick design as the Foghorn Leghorn cartoons?
sumi - May 01, 2005 4:07:45 pm PDT #2379 of 10002
Art Crawl!!!
I had that one and Shark Boy and Lava Girl and Kicking and Screaming and Zathura and Corpse Bride. There may have been others. I mostly noticed how much they weren't Serenity or Batman Begins.
Liese S. - May 01, 2005 4:43:53 pm PDT #2380 of 10002
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Hee. Yup, I thought it was great. Since I was so terribly worried about it, (see above re: quoting for twenty years) I was glad that they hadn't besmirched the memory or anything.
Thought all the casting was great, all the creature shop stuff was fantastic. It was, on the whole, not too terribly offensive to my internal imagery. Although, you know, weird to have all of my internal imagery books being visualized. Marvin was a bit less...gangly than I expected, but still great.
I do definitely see Betsy's claim about less edge, but I didn't feel it too terribly. Will it make it more accessible?
On the whole, loved it. Oh, and we got the Chicken Little ad too, and our audience responded similarly. No Serenity trailer.
Gris - May 01, 2005 5:13:36 pm PDT #2381 of 10002
Hey. New board.
I adored that Chicken Little trailer. I think I laughed as hard at that as at anything in the movie. I awarded Disney 1000 cool points for it.
I've actually enjoyed all of the Chicken Little trailers, though I expect the movie itself will be complete garbage.