The Hobbit films, previously to be directed by Guillermo del Toro and now to be directed by Peter Jackson again.

hobbit, hobbit, for the love of god please hobbit at once

The Silmarillion VIII: the Reckoning - December 14, 2024

with charles bronson

The Hobbit III: There and Back, Again!

The Ho4bit

Complaining about how it's "stretched" begs the question. With two movies, it always seemed to me that stuff would still have to be compressed or left out. Plus you know they'll expand the battle o' five armies, which was just a short summary in the book.

Oh yay cause the battle scenes were so the best thing in LOTR :/

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

I so, so hope this one'll be a meditation on draconian ennui, three hours of nothing but Cumberbatch moping around.

Go not to Dragons for ennui, for they will say "Oh I suppose so"

New trailer tomorrow.

She's Gotta Hobbit

lol

Bilbo Fever

A Sam Gamgee Joint

Et voila

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYz0JWJioOM

Wargs! Trolls! Orcs! Gollums! Bears!

Think I'll wait till there's an edit without Martin Freeman.

Damn, even the stone giants in the Misty Mountains. Didn't think they'd actually show!

Okay LOL at Radagast having a sled pulled by a trained team of huge attack rabbits. Night of the Lepus!

Rabbitgast the Brown

(secretly so excited I can't stand it but will shroud excitement in detached enthusiasm)

eh, it's cool I guess

*grin*

Think I'll wait till there's an edit without Martin Freeman.

See, I think he is a jackass but his acting is okay? I can overlook it anyway.

I am going to go see this and pretend he is Arthur Dent the whole time.

same difference

Hell yes.

Note to Hollywood: Make more movies with wizards in them!

Eh, if you broke it down I bet the wizard to movie ratio has been relatively high the last few years.

Harry Potter ruined the curve.

lol

What's that weird black blob at 0:31?

See, I think he is a jackass but his acting is okay? I can overlook it anyway.

I don't knock his acting, I think he's great at playing Martin Freeman. I just never saw Bilbo as being very Martin Freemanish. Same for Dr Watson. Arthur Dent - could've been Freemanesque if Simon Jones hadn't got in there first. Tim from The Office, yeah he was Freemany.

Is the CGI finished? It seems a lot cartoonier than in LOTR.

I'm excited for these, been rewatching the LOTR trilogy with my wife over the past few weeks (taking forever because why extended editions) and forgot how much I enjoyed 'em.

Fellowship is the only one that's significantly improved in the extended cut iirc.

Yeah, midway through Two Towers and that seems to be true, so far anyway.

I wish there could be a special moodles cut edition that included about half the extra scenes from the extended cuts but left the rest as is.

the extended Faramir/Boromir story arc from ROTK was a worthwhile addition iirc.

That actually played out better than I expected.

the dumbest shit in the extended editions is the whole Aragorn falls off a cliff/Arwen love story subplot

and yeah Fellowship is absolutely the best

Fellowship and Towers both better in the extended version. Return of the King is the only one that comes out worse, but the shorter version isn't so hot, either.

I like the extra Mordor scenes in ROTK

Pick a dwarf, any dwarf:

http://www-images.theonering.org/torwp/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Hobbit-movie-dwarf-poster.jpg

Not sure if I can take 7 hrs of that.

yeah i think that poster lost me

or at least whatever was left of me that was still a motivated interest

Pretty true to the spirit of the book imo.

what's with the Fonzie dwarf?

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mb0mtuobi11qz6f9yo1_500.jpg

(thx tubmlr dudes)

Aidan Turner sticks out as being very Aidan Turner-y while the rest look very...tolkien.

james nesbitt (3rd, top row) will be p familiar to brit viewers too