The Shrine

PostPosted:**Tue Jan 18, 2005 11:07 am**

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '><b>Link:</b> <a href="http://www.imdb.com/gallery/ss/0371724/ ... 0371724</a>

Aw, crap. Marvin looks retarded. I always imagined him as looking somewhat like Bender. On the upside, Alan Rickman is doing the voice.</div>

PostPosted:**Tue Jan 18, 2005 8:39 pm**

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>Woah, that ain't right.</div>

PostPosted:**Tue Jan 18, 2005 8:41 pm**

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>I salute you on breaking the boards, sir.</div>

PostPosted:**Tue Jan 18, 2005 11:24 pm**

PostPosted:**Tue Jan 18, 2005 11:32 pm**

<div style='font: 10pt ; text-align: left; '>Wow...

I just saw Mos Def in "The Woodsman" (first time I've ever seen him) and I can see him being a good Ford Prefect. I don't know Sam Rockwell or Zooey Deschanel, and the guy that plays Arthur has no headshot, but in his one still shot he looks like an Arthur. I guess he was in Shaun of the Dead too? I don't remember his character though.

Other interesting stuff: Warwick Davis (Wicket from Return of the Jedi, Willow himself) is going to be doing the physical part for Marvin. And John Malkovich is going to have some kind of part in it...but there's no Humma Kavula in the book...I wonder if it was in the original screenplay?

I'm excited.</div>

PostPosted:**Wed Jan 19, 2005 9:30 am**

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>I think all of the casting is good, but I still can't get over Marvin. He looks like a giant Pokemon. But it can still be a good movie. I hope it's successful, because I think that the other books would make much better movies.</div>

PostPosted:**Wed Jan 19, 2005 1:24 pm**

<div style='font: 11pt arial; text-align: left; '>I dunno. I think he looks kinda cool. Though I haven't actually read or seen HG before, so I don't have any context.</div>

PostPosted:**Wed Jan 19, 2005 2:23 pm**

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Looks like they're tryin' too hard to make him look like a 60's robot, so much so that he's just deformed :-)</div>

PostPosted:**Sat Jan 22, 2005 7:13 am**

<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '>Bender? Ummm...no.</div>

PostPosted:**Sat Jan 22, 2005 7:13 am**

<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '>WTF? Ford is black?!</div>

PostPosted:**Sat Jan 22, 2005 7:14 am**

PostPosted:**Sat Jan 22, 2005 7:16 am**

<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '>But, but, Ford is black?! As Mos Def?! Are they going to make him sound like some half-Jamican, half-dude from Green Mile character?</div>

PostPosted:**Sat Jan 22, 2005 10:37 am**

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>Script bug. The discussion between BL, Zeus and Ish doesn't belong in this thread; it's from another, but the root of that one is gone.</div>

PostPosted:**Sat Jan 22, 2005 10:38 am**

PostPosted:**Sat Jan 22, 2005 1:08 pm**

<div style='font: 10pt Tahoma; text-align: left; '>Just an odd surprise, i have imgaes in my head, too, of what the characters look like to me and i admit that surprised me, also.</div>

PostPosted:**Sat Jan 22, 2005 1:11 pm**

<div style='font: 10pt Tahoma; text-align: left; '>Zaphod is supposed to have 2 heads... this movie will suck, it is the writing and non-dialogue that makes the books kick so much ass.</div>

PostPosted:**Sat Jan 22, 2005 1:34 pm**

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>That extra head isn't what made the books so good. The Hitckhiker's Guide has been in several mediums so far, and each time, it was different. The movies aren't the books. As long as it has the same intelligence, wit and playfullness, it doesn't matter if a character is missing a head, another looks like a giant Pokemon, or another has a different skin color than you were expecting.</div>

PostPosted:**Sat Jan 22, 2005 1:35 pm**

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>It surprised me too, because that's not how I imagined Ford when I read the books. But so what? Adams provides almost not physical description of Ford. If they think Mos Def is best fit for the role, then let's go with it.</div>

PostPosted:**Sat Jan 22, 2005 1:58 pm**

<div style='font: 10pt Tahoma; text-align: left; '>Sucks, i decree!</div>

PostPosted:**Sun Jan 23, 2005 8:04 am**

<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '>I dunno...maybe I thought that the version of Ford from the British TV series fit so well.</div>

PostPosted:**Sun Jan 23, 2005 8:09 am**

<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '>Yeah, I noticed that too. I really hoped that it was just turned to the side or something. A one-headed Zaphod is a really bad sign.</div>

PostPosted:**Sun Jan 23, 2005 2:47 pm**

PostPosted:**Tue Jan 25, 2005 9:57 pm**

<div style='font: ; text-align: left; '>you are negative</div>

The Shrine

Aw, crap. Marvin looks retarded. I always imagined him as looking somewhat like Bender. On the upside, Alan Rickman is doing the voice.

Aw, crap. Marvin looks retarded. I always imagined him as looking somewhat like Bender. On the upside, Alan Rickman is doing the voice.

Thank you THANK YOU...I had no idea...I was just thinking the other day what a wonderful job they could do on the Hitchhiker's Guide with modern special effects. I wonder what the scene where they get picked up by the Heart of Gold will be like.

You have this strange tendency of judging move adaptations on very little information.