OT: Hitchhiker movie

Randallw · #1 July 30th, 2004, 02:31 AM

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Edit: When the inevitable toy comes out you could tear off his beach ball head and put a Clone helmet on him.

yes, the white sphere is his head. I'm not sure if its a white ball or like pacman with no eyes.

Will · #2 July 30th, 2004, 03:51 AM

You know, I think it would be a lot funnier if Marvin delivers his "Here I am, brain the size of a large planet, and I'm delegated to opening doors" lines when he has a tiny "head", or even a relatively normal sized head. But the big head just makes it look insanely stupid, and that's not DNA's style of humor. I don't like it.

Randallw · #3 July 30th, 2004, 05:00 AM

As I said earlier he looks like that little black and white robot they make in Japan that walks down stairs. Perhaps they are trying to make him look like a modern robot, but some executive thought "wouldn't it be funny if he had a big head, you know because he's so small........and it'd be even funnier if he had a beergut"

Edit: just tried looking for more pictures of the midget stormtrooper and found this site. The image is a step up from the tv Version (which was good enough) and way better than the movie one.

Edit: first edit makes more sense if I bother to actually give the link
http://www.kodie.demon.co.uk/marvin.htm
and I finally found the original picture I mentioned. his head IS like pacmans without eyes.
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/mjs2000/protomarvin.htm

[ July 30, 2004, 04:09: Message edited by: Randallw ]

Ed Kolis · #4 July 30th, 2004, 04:55 PM

Paint him blue and he looks a bit like megaman...

GET EQUIPPED WITH TOP SPIN!

dogscoff · #5 July 30th, 2004, 05:21 PM

The "new" Marvin doesn't bother me. I loved the old Marvin from the TV series but I'm prepared to have faith in whoever made the decision to design Marvin like this. After all, someone had the sheer brilliance to cast Martin Freedman as Arthur Dent. And that's an encouraging thought, surely.

The thing that amazes me most is that we've been discussing a book-to-movie conVersion for two whole pages now and no one has mentioned Starship Troopers. I mean that's how these threads normally go isn't it?

Member 4148 · #6 July 30th, 2004, 05:41 PM

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Originally posted by dogscoff:
The thing that amazes me most is that we've been discussing a book-to-movie conVersion for two whole pages now and no one has mentioned Starship Troopers.

you say that like it qualifes as a conVersion

Raging Deadstar · #7 July 30th, 2004, 11:48 PM

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Originally posted by dogscoff:
The "new" Marvin doesn't bother me. I loved the old Marvin from the TV series but I'm prepared to have faith in whoever made the decision to design Marvin like this. After all, someone had the sheer brilliance to cast Martin Freedman as Arthur Dent. And that's an encouraging thought, surely.

The thing that amazes me most is that we've been discussing a book-to-movie conVersion for two whole pages now and no one has mentioned Starship Troopers. I mean that's how these threads normally go isn't it?

Of course now you mention it....