# Hitchhiker's trailer looks terrible **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 31, 2005, 7:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hitchhikers-trailer-looks-terrible/297057 "2005-03-31T07:05:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![scotandrsn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a4c791/32.png) [@scotandrsn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scotandrsn)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2005, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hitchhikers-trailer-looks-terrible/297057/21 "2005-04-01T14:44:30Z")
Wow, I have to say, all three trailers are making me lot more hopeful. Surprise #1: I think I will actually buy Mos Def as Ford. Surprise #2: I don’t think their characterization of Marvin is going to annoy the shit out of me as I suspected. Surprise #3: I don’t mind Zaphod only having one head. I mean, think about it: Sure they could have gone with some CGI, but then, let’s face it, every time you saw Zaphod would some stupid, cutesy double-headed CGI sight gag, and the pacing of the film would have died a horrbile, writhing death on the floor of the theater. There were polenty of points in the books where I forgot ZB had two heads, so lacking them in the film allows him to actually be a character. Consider me converted! I’ll be there. ---
**Author:** ![Chance\_the\_Gardener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@Chance\_the\_Gardener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chance_the_Gardener)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2005, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hitchhikers-trailer-looks-terrible/297057/22 "2005-04-01T14:46:27Z")
It seems they should have had a UK release on February 4 and a US release on April 2. That would have made the release date 4/2 in either case, and the US fans wouldn’t mind the two-month wait for something like that… would they? ---
**Author:** ![whiterabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/cab0a1/32.png) [@whiterabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whiterabbit)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2005, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hitchhikers-trailer-looks-terrible/297057/23 "2005-04-01T15:17:37Z")
Seems a bit late for a February release anywhere. Whee! This month! It looks good. Let’s just hope it IS good. ---
**Author:** ![ISiddiqui](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/97f17d/32.png) [@ISiddiqui](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ISiddiqui)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2005, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hitchhikers-trailer-looks-terrible/297057/24 "2005-04-01T15:48:36Z")
> [@Chance the Gardener](#): > > It seems they should have had a UK release on February 4 and a US release on April 2. That would have made the release date 4/2 in either case, and the US fans wouldn’t mind the two-month wait for something like that… would they? If by not minding you mean killing everyone involved in such an idea ;). ---
**Author:** ![Cornelius\_Tuggerson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/13edae/32.png) [@Cornelius\_Tuggerson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cornelius_Tuggerson)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2005, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hitchhikers-trailer-looks-terrible/297057/25 "2005-04-01T18:02:20Z")
> [@Stranger On A Train](#): > > And can we get Kaufman and Jonze working on a Dirk Gently film, please? Pretty please. How is it that someone out there is trying to turn Hyperion into a movie(it is possible, turning it into a good movie on the other hand…) while a perfectly manageable book like Dirk Gently gets ignored. ---
**Author:** ![iamthewalrus\_3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/258eb7/32.png) [@iamthewalrus\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamthewalrus_3)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2005, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hitchhikers-trailer-looks-terrible/297057/26 "2005-04-01T19:18:07Z")
> [@Chance the Gardener](#): > > It seems they should have had a UK release on February 4 and a US release on April 2. That would have made the release date 4/2 in either case, and the US fans wouldn’t mind the two-month wait for something like that… would they? That sounds like a really cool way of losing most of their target audience to downloaded copies off the internet. ---
**Author:** ![badomen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c2a13f/32.png) [@badomen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/badomen)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2005, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hitchhikers-trailer-looks-terrible/297057/27 "2005-04-01T20:59:44Z")
> [@scotandrsn](#): > > Surprise #3: I don’t mind Zaphod only having one head. I mean, think about it: Sure they could have gone with some CGI, but then, let’s face it, every time you saw Zaphod would some stupid, cutesy double-headed CGI sight gag, and the pacing of the film would have died a horrbile, writhing death on the floor of the theater. There were polenty of points in the books where I forgot ZB had two heads, so lacking them in the film allows him to actually be a character. If you watch really closely Zaphod does in fact have a “second head” (no not that one you sickos!)… just not where you would expect it to be (again, heads out of gutter!!!) ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2005, 9:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hitchhikers-trailer-looks-terrible/297057/28 "2005-04-11T09:14:06Z")
They just better include the lines, “Bloody apathetic planet; I’ve no sympathy at all” and “Life. Don’t talk to me about life.” Based on the trailers I’ve seen, I’m happy with the casting of Trillian (not a bimbo, like in the BBC version) and **very** happy with the casting of Ford Prefect! Being a Yank, I always associated him with Hunter S. Thompson (while realizing, of course, that Adams would have in no way been influenced by him). But that’s always how I pictured Ford: tall, skinny, bald, tan and homely. Mos Def is a few shades darker 😛 and a few degrees handsomer than the picture in my head, but otherwise spot-on! And Alan Rickman and Stephen Fry doing voices! Geek joy overload! ---
**Author:** ![dare\_devil007](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3bc359/32.png) [@dare\_devil007](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dare_devil007)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2005, 11:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hitchhikers-trailer-looks-terrible/297057/29 "2005-04-11T11:19:51Z")
> [@MonkeyMule](#): > > You know this thing with zaphod’s heads is REALLY pissing me off. I mean how many times does the book mention a LEFT and a RIGHT head? Is it really that hard for chirst sake! :mad: Yes, I thought Zaphod would have an extraneous neck coming out of his real neck with a head attached to it. Or even perhaps a head attached to his shoulder. Oh, well. I’m not going to let a little thing like that stop me from enjoying the movie, though. 😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hitchhikers-trailer-looks-terrible/297057.md?page=1)