I guess I might be the only one, but I kind of freaked out when earth blew up in the new movie. I still freak out watching. Just the fact that you see those hundreds of ships surrounding earth, and then suddenly a subtle and muffled boom, and the whole thing is gone except for a few sparks that soon dissipate. I just couldn't believe it because it looked as if earth never existed, and all the things we once knew and experienced on earth would be for nothing if that happened. I still think it's creepy even though the film is comedy, that one part is a little morbid if you think about it. I mean, men, women, and children are all dead on earth, and the only two people left are a square plain middle-aged man, and a ditzy party chick. Of course, I guess I'm thinking in a literal sense, I mean after all it was just a movie, but it was good! And listen to me ramble on. I'm only 15 and I make it sound as if I know everything. You know, I actually put a post like this on the movie boards, and everyone told me they laughed at that part. I don't see how earth blowing up was funny, but I thought the whole other movie was freaking hilarious!
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Startanew
19 years ago
Arthur's only 30, and Trillian's not 'ditzy' she's got a physics degree. Other than that, i agree, the concept of Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy is pretty freaky! But that's the point. And the fact that it's destroyed to make room for a hyper galactic bypass... But it's supposed to just be ironic.
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sundance7490
19 years ago
But still, just look at Trillian in the old version. She's a got a squeaky voice and dresses like a ho, and in the new version, she's got a lisp, and looks like a little girl, but hey, both of them are hot!
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Startanew
19 years ago
well, she was never supposed to be ugly. she was supposed to be 'pretty girl next door' type. Or at least that's how I read the books. Yeah, she does dress badly in the miniseries, but i was assuming it was like, space fashion. And that's probably what she thought too. Or maybe Zaphod makes her dress like that lol. :P just kidding.
I don't mind the lisp, and it wasn't like a BAD lisp. And she doesn't look like a little girl... at least i don't think so.
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queencirce22
19 years ago
I'm reading the books right now and there hasn't been any description to what Trillian is wearing, at least not yet. Trillian in the BBC series was like the opposite of the character in the book. The movie got it a little closer, but not all the way. In the book, she has a physics degree and is very smart. She's also described as, and I quote from the book, "slim, darkish, humanoid, with long waves of black hair, a full mouth, an odd little knob of a nose and ridiculously brown eyes." It also goes on to say she looked "vaugely Arabic." So I guess when I said the movie got her character closer, I meant the smart part.
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paranoidseat
19 years ago
I find the bits in the book about the earth being blown up really funny. Well, two bits not directly at the part about the blowing-up, but related to it.
One is the description of the Vogon constructor fleet ships : "They hung in the air in exactly the same way that bricks don't."
The other is Arthur's talking himself round to the reality of the non-existence of Earth: "New York has gone. No reaction - he never seriously believed it existed anyway ... McDonalds, he thought. There is no longer any such thing as a McDonald's hamburger. He passed out." Makes me giggle every time.
I don't see the Earth people as dead, per se, just that they no longer exist. It's not like there are bodies. Just particles, like the rest of the Earth. Wait, no, actually, they're just "whiffs of hydrogen, ozone and carbon monoxide" according to the book, so there's not really a sense of 'death'.
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NightBeforeAllSaints
19 years ago
What I love about the new Earth demolition is the horrific build-up and disheartened let-down. Ford frantically tries to hail a response when trying to hitch a ride, and we back up out of Earth's atmosphere to see hundreds of thousands of Vogon ships with incredibly dramatic BUM-BUM-BUM-BUM-BUM-BUM-BUM-BUM-BUM-BUM-BUM-BUM-BUM-BUM-BUM-BUM-BUM-BUM-BUM-BUM-BUM-BUM-BUM-BUM-BUM-BUM-BUM-BUM-BUM-BUM-BUM-BUM-BUM-BUM-BUM-BUM-BUM-BUM-BUM-BUM-BUM-BUM-BUM-BUM-BUM-BUM-BUM-BUM-BUM-BUM-BUM-BUM-BUM-BUM-BUM-BUM-BUM-BUM-BUMBUM!!!! BUMBUM!!! BUMBUMBUMBUMB!!!!!!!!
Only to see the Earth just flicker out of existence with a subtle little "fwup" of an explosion. Very amusingly disappointing. *lol* :P
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