h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I want to just add that, having just now sat down and watched the Stephen Fry episode of WDYTYA, it is very moving and more than a little upsetting.

So if like me you need some cheering up, try overdosing on this cheerful fellows.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5P6UU6m3cqk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXXm696UbKY <--- my favourite.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jG5rQ3D_Zrw <--- Evil Emperor Palpatine laugh.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_mBLWpdwnI <--- well, golf *is* funny.

this = these.

"Preview!", they said, but did I listen?

An interesting and very simple scam to con a shop out of £10.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcFUZqLAYDs

More alarming than the scam itself are the commenters who are willing to try - or have already tried - this scam for real.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2bpc7LSRZc

Atheism: A Rough History of Disbelief with Jonathan Miller.

Episode 1

Part1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhsMKQF1ROE

Part2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rkW0i1tm7I

Part3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6h-bsoMxhA

Part4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gGUZcSHkHg


Episode 2

Part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUDfvT-i7WE

Part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCYzBKH8ZCI

Part 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7tqvuysRmk

Part 4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Qi2gqdPpyw


Episode 3

Part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7PtrrNRTKo

Part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0TgvZ52KqY

Part 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jf6UL84ocZA

Part 4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moGQ_FGsroM


Episode 4

Part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7UAhibC5zI

Part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlL8iv1kvgg

Part 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Q4Y5Mtbeg4

Part 4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMgu1rGdkco

Part 5
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1q2MrmLzjHk

Part 6
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpFfhz-4Ikk

Part 7
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SMJr47p8BQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwUaao-Cihs

An extended preview to the first "His Dark Materials" movie. I was a bit worried when I first saw the original theater trailer. This preview here is quite promising, though.

Y.

Shot of a Nippon jet being struck by lightning in Osaka

http://www.coasttocoastam.com/gen/page2173.html?theme=light

"The Most Amazing Accident On Road Produced By Rain"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDfZdfeJ1nc

That's one unlucky guy - gets out to inspect the damage and then whoosh!

Clever guy. I can't even draw the curtains.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2IoNygc-K0

http://funhouse.bubble.ro/1054/Harry_Potter_in_the_Hood/

Y.

Trailer for the new Aliens v Predator movie.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=wtuxCdExNvI

I reserve judgement but if it was anything like the travesty of the last film...I'll...I'll... I'll resign....or something.



oh lookit - they set it on Earth - again.

Have they really given up trying to be consistent with the first three movies?

Can't really imagine any movie series being good beyond the first two, to be honest.

I think there's a three-movie limit on narrative consistency.

Never mind Clive, have some Alexei Sayle.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=iYPlC2apfZU

The list of crimes that AVP committed are multiple and I won't sit here and list them tempting though it is.

I know consistency is a lot to ask for but what 1 set up 2 expanded upon and 3 juggled, stumbled but carried it. (Sort of: The new dvd cut with restored footage is much better but the film still flawed) and then it just comes to a screeching halt.

Let's resurrect Ripley 300 years in the future because we can't think of a better excuse - and let's make it a black comedy. Seriously Resurrection is a black comedy with Aliens in it. And actually a brave attempt to revive the franchise but I wouldn't consider it cannonical.

Then AVP came along and so royally undid everything that the previous movies did and stood for - it actually beggars belief. And it's not even as if it's a good movie. It's terrible.

So now we've got a sequel. with a sub-title. Requiem. I dread to think.

So now there's another pre- ripley Earth bound infestation with evil army generals skulking about and I'll wager probably not an original idea in 100 miles.

I'll probably end up seeing it and I'll be hop against all the odds that I'm wrong but this trailer does not fill me with much confidence. Bar from the fact they've clearly upped the violence levels but story wise I am confident it will be a no brainer which means it'll earn millions and they'll be more just like this.

I should write my own, my sense of disappointment is overwhelming.....

hop?

Hopping mad?

No, hoping.

"Preview!" they said, but did I listen?

The Hydraulophone...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgU0OZkGhGI

We are living in the future.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FF1vFTQOWN4

http://www.jokeroo.com/funnyvideos/colbert_carell_islam_christianity.html

To liven things up a bit...

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Sean McKinney, died 2004, aged just 30. Here's what he could do before he did...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2smpLHV91EE