Think I'll wait till there's an edit without Martin Freeman.
― ledge, Wednesday, 19 September 2012 14:57 (eleven years ago) link
Damn, even the stone giants in the Misty Mountains. Didn't think they'd actually show!
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 19 September 2012 15:01 (eleven years ago) link
Okay LOL at Radagast having a sled pulled by a trained team of huge attack rabbits. Night of the Lepus!
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 19 September 2012 15:18 (eleven years ago) link
Rabbitgast the Brown
― a shark with a rippling six pack (Phil D.), Wednesday, 19 September 2012 15:20 (eleven years ago) link
(secretly so excited I can't stand it but will shroud excitement in detached enthusiasm)
eh, it's cool I guess
*grin*
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 19 September 2012 15:42 (eleven years ago) link
See, I think he is a jackass but his acting is okay? I can overlook it anyway.
― controversial cabaret roommate (Nicole), Wednesday, 19 September 2012 15:52 (eleven years ago) link
I am going to go see this and pretend he is Arthur Dent the whole time.
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Wednesday, 19 September 2012 17:38 (eleven years ago) link
same difference
― Number None, Wednesday, 19 September 2012 17:39 (eleven years ago) link
Hell yes.
Note to Hollywood: Make more movies with wizards in them!
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 19 September 2012 17:59 (eleven years ago) link
Eh, if you broke it down I bet the wizard to movie ratio has been relatively high the last few years.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 19 September 2012 18:19 (eleven years ago) link
Harry Potter ruined the curve.
― controversial cabaret roommate (Nicole), Wednesday, 19 September 2012 18:41 (eleven years ago) link
lol
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 19 September 2012 18:43 (eleven years ago) link
What's that weird black blob at 0:31?
― nate woolls, Wednesday, 19 September 2012 19:00 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― ledge, Wednesday, 19 September 2012 19:01 (eleven years ago) link
Is the CGI finished? It seems a lot cartoonier than in LOTR.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Wednesday, 19 September 2012 19:59 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 19 September 2012 20:04 (eleven years ago) link
Fellowship is the only one that's significantly improved in the extended cut iirc.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Wednesday, 19 September 2012 20:07 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, midway through Two Towers and that seems to be true, so far anyway.
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 19 September 2012 20:08 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Moodles, Wednesday, 19 September 2012 20:23 (eleven years ago) link
the extended Faramir/Boromir story arc from ROTK was a worthwhile addition iirc.
― Broney, Pt. 1 (Pillbox), Wednesday, 19 September 2012 21:50 (eleven years ago) link
That actually played out better than I expected.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 19 September 2012 21:52 (eleven years ago) link
the dumbest shit in the extended editions is the whole Aragorn falls off a cliff/Arwen love story subplot
― stop swearing and start windmilling (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 19 September 2012 21:59 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 19 September 2012 22:18 (eleven years ago) link
I like the extra Mordor scenes in ROTK
― Moodles, Wednesday, 19 September 2012 22:19 (eleven years ago) link
Pick a dwarf, any dwarf:
http://www-images.theonering.org/torwp/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Hobbit-movie-dwarf-poster.jpg
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 28 September 2012 03:43 (eleven years ago) link
Not sure if I can take 7 hrs of that.
― WARS OF ARMAGEDDON (Karaoke Version) (Sparkle Motion), Friday, 28 September 2012 07:04 (eleven years ago) link
yeah i think that poster lost me
― Clay, Friday, 28 September 2012 07:05 (eleven years ago) link
or at least whatever was left of me that was still a motivated interest
― Clay, Friday, 28 September 2012 07:06 (eleven years ago) link
Pretty true to the spirit of the book imo.
― Autumnal the faun (ledge), Friday, 28 September 2012 08:26 (eleven years ago) link
what's with the Fonzie dwarf?
― Number None, Friday, 28 September 2012 09:19 (eleven years ago) link
http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mb0mtuobi11qz6f9yo1_500.jpg
(thx tubmlr dudes)
― Autumnal the faun (ledge), Friday, 28 September 2012 09:37 (eleven years ago) link
Aidan Turner sticks out as being very Aidan Turner-y while the rest look very...tolkien.
― controversial cabaret roommate (Nicole), Friday, 28 September 2012 10:58 (eleven years ago) link
james nesbitt (3rd, top row) will be p familiar to brit viewers too
― Ward Fowler, Friday, 28 September 2012 11:00 (eleven years ago) link
― Number None, Friday, September 28, 2012 5:19 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark
lol, was wondering the same thing. lorenzo lamas dwarf imo
― turds (Hungry4Ass), Friday, 28 September 2012 11:01 (eleven years ago) link
horribly familiar xpost
― Number None, Friday, 28 September 2012 11:02 (eleven years ago) link
there's more Tolkein vibe in that Dutch(?) book cover than there is in the whole of the trailers i've seen so far, the heavy, dingy, po-faced look of everything outside the Shire is totally absent of any magic or otherness, just another grubby cartoon action-movie. even the giants throwing rocks which reads as a cute simile for the weather in the book has to become actualised and uglified and serious-business-ified and ugh ugh ugh i've decided i don't hate Tolkein just this lame literalist murdering of everything that was decent in his books
― syntax evasion (Noodle Vague), Friday, 28 September 2012 11:18 (eleven years ago) link
something Deleuze/Guattari wd have fun with about the way the book's pack of dwarves has to become these differentiated characters with a quirk attached to each so's they breathe off the page god those trolls make me angry too
― syntax evasion (Noodle Vague), Friday, 28 September 2012 11:21 (eleven years ago) link
so on balance, you're lukewarm?
― Arvo Pärt Chimp (Neil S), Friday, 28 September 2012 11:33 (eleven years ago) link
i can't explain quite what it is but magicless wd be as close as i can get to my objection, and the whole dragging of a world that belongs to the 1930s/40s into the tedious quest for "realism" that is the 21st century. i'm sure somebody more invested in Tolkein than me has written something comparing Jackson's entire enterprise to Saruman's work on the Shire
― syntax evasion (Noodle Vague), Friday, 28 September 2012 11:36 (eleven years ago) link
I don't know what he would have thought of Jackson's movies, but the notes from Tolkein in the annotated version of The Hobbit lead me to believe that he would not have cared for that book cover. He was vehemently opposed to the illustrations for foreign editions of his book having any influence from Disney or being cutesied up.
― a shark with a rippling six pack (Phil D.), Friday, 28 September 2012 11:45 (eleven years ago) link
i don't think that cover's very Disney
― syntax evasion (Noodle Vague), Friday, 28 September 2012 11:49 (eleven years ago) link
No, but its awfully cute. I want to hug it.
― a shark with a rippling six pack (Phil D.), Friday, 28 September 2012 11:51 (eleven years ago) link
yeah it's cute. i think there's a primitivism that chimes with something Tolkeiny, i seem to recall Smith of Wootton Major's original illustrations having that folk tale vibe to it too
― syntax evasion (Noodle Vague), Friday, 28 September 2012 12:07 (eleven years ago) link
I just don't get why about half the dwarves look dwarfy and the rest just look like dudes.
― WARS OF ARMAGEDDON (Karaoke Version) (Sparkle Motion), Monday, 1 October 2012 05:14 (eleven years ago) link
i am not a tolkien fan At All and i much preferred the lotr movies to the books and i like martin freeman but i have no hope for this thing. i read the hobbit like ten times as a little kid and will always love it and yeah i'm with NV; a lumbering epic triptych with lots of whispered conversations about the dark lord is just the furthest furthest thing from the hobbit i can imagine. (it's like the lord of the rings or something.) the small scale of the hobbit is its best feature, the way a mercenary (even criminal!) job for a bunch of shady gold-lovers and their semiattentive and vaguely abusive wizard patron turns into a bildungsroman for a 50-year-old man (yeah yeah i know hobbits live long so 50 is actually like 15 or whatever but all of bilbo's mannerisms and habits and likes are middle-aged, and his awakening from a kind of vacantly satisfied middle-aged british pastoral childishness is all the better for being juxtaposed w/ thorin's awakening to the positive points of this same childishness). how great is it at the end when for the generic heroic work of Slaying The Dragon tolkien drags on and just as quickly shoves off a generic hero, because 1) this isn't bilbo's department and 2) we don't care, since bilbo slew the dragon that mattered when he could have turned back in the tunnel and didn't. obviously the movie is not out yet and could be anything but i find it verrrrrrrry hard to imagine that the fairy-tale smallness, the focus on very minor forms of heroism, could be preserved across a nineish-hour trilogy that knows about the ring.
― a hauntingly unemployed american (difficult listening hour), Monday, 1 October 2012 06:05 (eleven years ago) link
reviewing this thread i find that i have already posted all of that. all of it. bedtime i think
― a hauntingly unemployed american (difficult listening hour), Monday, 1 October 2012 06:07 (eleven years ago) link
Remake of "The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins" or GTFO
http://www.theonering.net/torwp/2012/10/08/62953-neil-finn-of-crowded-house-provides-the-end-title-song-for-an-unexpected-journey/
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 9 October 2012 20:23 (eleven years ago) link
"the greatest adventure"
― a hauntingly unemployed american (difficult listening hour), Tuesday, 9 October 2012 20:38 (eleven years ago) link
actually this film's principal failing is likely to be its omission of "that's what bilbo baggins hates"
― a hauntingly unemployed american (difficult listening hour), Tuesday, 9 October 2012 20:39 (eleven years ago) link