Fred ,'A Hole in the World'
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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.)
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.
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.
Were they using the same genius baby chick design as the Foghorn Leghorn cartoons?
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.
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.
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.
so I didn't see Serenity or Sith
We saw H2G2 today, saw trailers for both (plus Chicken Little). Looks like the studios are marketing Serenity as Lucas with Joss replacing some of the budget.
Highly amusing, and they obviously tried to be true to the book. And did anyone else notice that the song in the pub scene early on was "Magic Moments" by Perry Como -- who coincidentally died the same weekend that Douglas Adams did?
The Chicken Little trailer confused me at first, because it does start out exactly like the H2G2 teaser trailer, and I've been to a movie where they did in fact show a trailer for the movie we were about to see before the movie. But then it was different, so hee.
Also got Bad News Bears and Herbie and Star Wars and Madagascar, which looks like it will bug me in the same way Shark Tale bugged me.
Love Bug ! I saw the Love Bug trailer too.