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Posted by X69 on 09-02-2005 12:56 AM:

IMPORTANT, PLEASE READ

1 NO REQUESTING MOVIES OR SAMPLES (THIS INCLUDES REQUESTS FOR OTHER GROUPS TO RELEASE THIS FILM!)

2 DO NOT DISCUSS WHERE TO DOWNLOAD MOVIES OR SAMPLES

3 NO FLAMING

4 NO "SPOILERS"

5 COMMENT ON THIS RELEASE ONLY (AND ONLY IF YOU'VE SEEN IT). THIS IS THE SOLE PURPOSE OF THE THREAD!

6 NO "NOOB" QUESTIONS SUCH AS "HOW DO I WATCH THIS?" ASK IN THE APPROPRIATE PART OF THE FORUM

7 NO DISCUSSING TRADING/SELLING. IF YOU SELL COPIES, GO AWAY YOU'RE NOT WELCOME HERE

*** PEOPLE IGNORING THE RULES WILL BE BANNED ***

Posted by lynx2oo2 on 09-02-2005 02:27 PM:

Very nice, retail rip.

Most extra's removed.

9 / 9 / 7

Posted by SatanUk on 09-02-2005 07:48 PM:

Yup nice rip

9.5 / 9.5 / 8

Posted by Hairyhamster on 09-02-2005 09:35 PM:

tssssssk

wots with the idiots voting 1/1/1

this is a fine release....... movie sucked big time

9/10

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Posted by dekehead on 09-03-2005 12:14 AM:

Just started it up and already there's a pixelated frame toward the end of the opening singing dolphin bit...

That would rule this out as a perfect encode IMO. Then again, from what Ive heard, I dont know if this movie would even warrant a reencode of my own.

Posted by Airhead2 on 09-03-2005 01:32 AM:

Stipped deleted scenes , but kept Spanish audio ??? !!

Pixelated !!

Obvious One click progy ...

XPDVD Show em how its done plz ! , if not ill rent & rip it myself.

6/9/2

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Posted by JoshNya on 09-03-2005 01:47 AM:

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Originally posted by dekehead
Just started it up and already there's a pixelated frame toward the end of the opening singing dolphin bit...

Man I just sat through that Dolphin bit, blah. Odd humor. Anyhow, I didn't see any squares.

Posted by duncy21 on 09-03-2005 10:32 AM:

Video:..... Untouched

Explain to me how it can be a reencode problem then?

Posted by activoice on 09-03-2005 02:09 PM:

Video says untouched, and it looked fine to me on a 43" screen...

10/9/6

Posted by hummus19 on 09-03-2005 03:29 PM:

the robot hamgman game causes errors when played. dvd player spit out the disk.

7/9/8 ....movie stayed pretty true to the books which i thought would be impossible...hooray for brit humor!

Posted by ntscuser on 09-07-2005 05:13 PM:

Some stand-alone owners would do better to reauthor this movie completely. My Pioneer DV-575A struggled with elements which have supposedly already been deleted. There were no pixeleted frames on my copy but the color looked flat and lifeless.

The movie itself is miscast and badly edited. Certain visual gags such as the name on the Ford Prefect, the mice children and the Apple Corp logo on Deep Thought just don't work on the small screen.

At least I haven't wasted any money on a retail copy.

5/5/2

Posted by porco556 on 09-07-2005 05:31 PM:

quote:
Originally posted by ntscuser
Some stand-alone owners would do better to reauthor this movie completely. My Pioneer DV-575A struggled with elements which have supposedly already been deleted. There were no pixeleted frames on my copy but the color looked flat and lifeless.

The movie itself is miscast and badly edited. Certain visual gags such as the name on the Ford Prefect, the mice children and the Apple Corp logo on Deep Thought just don't work on the small screen.

At least I haven't wasted any money on a retail copy.

5/5/2

The color starts looking good on a proper TV (DLP or LCD). Definitely no problems there for me. But ya, CRTs usually have dull colors to begin with.

As for the movie, I am a huge fan for the books now for around 15 years and even played the old text adventure game also. But I can't stand all the bashing of the movie. The movie was different from the books/radio on purpose, which the idea of Adams was to write a script that was not like watching the exact same as the BBC radio series on a big screen. Not to mention, if it was like the books, there would be a large outburst of "I don't get this dry British humor". So it is a lose/lose situation anyway you do it.

But I agree, the casting of some characters was poor. I am not racist, by Mos Def as Prefect didn't work for me. The guy is described as a Scottish guy with ginger red haid in the books. Also, the lack of 2 heads on Zaphod at all times was disappointing. With the special effects in the movie, they could have sprung for a second head (and not the way they did it in the movie).

Alan Rickman for Marvin was perfect, Sam Rockwell for Zaphod was actually good, Martin Freeman as Arthur Dent was a good choice, Stephen Fry as the guide was good. Zooey Deschenal (sp?) was good enough for Trillian... Nothing to complain about there IMO. I guess I just took the movie for what it is, and I didn't expect the book at all (especially since Adams said he wanted to make a movie with completely different material, not to mention, his script was mostly used.)

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