Hitchhiker's Guide - Earth Destroyed and Guide Introduction (HD)

[lego]

I love how goddamn anticlimactic the earth getting destroyed is, no big fireball consuming the earth or something, just a *poof*

[LinV]

What a way to start a story, by first blowing up everything we know.

[Plunderkind]

The way they keep pummeling you with those orchestral hits as the camera pans back 30 times. Spot on sendup of a somewhat tired cinema trope.

[kyuucontinuum]

1:36 I was actually in the theater the weekend it premiered, and when the banjo started playing, you could hear all the OG fans gasping and then cheering. It took us all by surprise to hear the old TV theme start playing.

[Mornaf]

There was a terribly ghastly silence.
There was a terribly ghastly noise.
There was a terribly ghastly silence

[nicholaspeters]

I remember going to school as Arthur Dent for a dress as a character School Spirit day. Showed up in pajamas, taped a “Don’t Panic” label on a book that I carried around, whole nine yards.

Not a single one of the other students or teachers knew who I was dressed as.

[ricardoislasmx]

0:43 "a girl sitting on her own in a small café in Rickmansworth suddenly realized what it was that had been going wrong all this time, and she finally knew how the world could be made a good and happy place. This time it was right, it would work, and no one would have to get nailed to anything. Sadly, however, before she could get to a phone to tell anyone about it, a terrible, stupid catastrophe occurred, and the idea was lost forever."

[Patryc]

i love how arthur is in his bathrobe the entire movie

[Feyd]

There's a lot this film didn't do well, but there's also a lot they did very well. The Vogon's and the destruction of Earth were done brilliantly.

[NoobGyver]

i love how there is just a very quiet sound of explosion, hardly any because its in space

[drummer]

The way this scene is done has always stuck with me. Something about how efficiently and emotionless the vogons cary out the elimination of earth and human kind. Just another day at the office type of stuff. Pull up with the construction fleet, quick little courtesy speech, and then whoosh- billions of lives, every triumph and tribulation of humanity, and almost every trace of our existence extinguished in a few seconds. Now on with the movie... very surreal

[Voidvampy]

This scene legitimately scared me as a child when I saw this film with my dad. There's something so goddamn terrifying about this colossal alien column looming over you, and then everything you know and love being destroyed without being able to do a thing about it

[Mimas]

I love how they say 'demolition' and not 'destruction' as a foreshadowing that earth was actually a custom built planet

[slayerhk]

POV: it’s almost the end of 2020 and you’re waiting for the bypass commission to show up.

[wingy]

1:36 Goosebumps. Every. Single. Time. That banjo just does something to me.

[christiandominiclangreo]

I love how the old lady is fully aware of the whole situation but was like "hmm ok whatever" 0:43

[avremirine]

One of my favorite things in this movie is the design of the Vogans and their ships. Really fits their description of being bureaucratic and callous.

[malbowz]

Remember watching this in theaters and this scene was easily the most memorable part of the movie. Just really well done. The way the camera pulls out demonstrates the mind boggling colossal nature of these machines on a planetary level. And the music perfectly captures the moment. My only gripe is that I wish the explosion was a little more.. eh substantial.

[ItCameFromTheSkyBeLo]

"There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened." - Douglas Adams

[SodiumWage]

I'm so tired of internet people saying this movie isn't that great. The whole movie is hilarious and is a wonderful tribute to Adams ans his great books.