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Post by mummifiedstalin on Jul 25, 2011 23:52:39 GMT -5
So two movies, yes. But I can't find any confirmation that they've decided the two movies are just going to be the story of the Hobbit. I know that, originally, one of the ideas was that the second film would be like a bridge story between Hobbit and LotR made up primarily of stuff that Tolkien mentioned in backstories and appendices rather than any actual narrative. It would have been a kind of "new" story in a sense. But some sources online say they've completely scrapped that idea and are just splitting the book in 2 while others are more wishy-washy.
Does anyone know of a source for anything more definite?
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Post by Mr. Atari on Dec 20, 2011 23:20:58 GMT -5
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Post by siamesesin on Dec 20, 2011 23:35:50 GMT -5
Beat me to it. When they all started to sing I got the shivers. And Richard Armitage makes one fine-ass dwarf. I cannot wait for Smaug...
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Post by Mr. Atari on Dec 20, 2011 23:47:58 GMT -5
When they started singing, I got all excited that they were going to do the same melody as the old Rankin-Bass cartoon version. The first few notes were very close. I had the audio of the entire cartoon as a 4-record set when I was a kid. I spend months (years?) laying on the living room floor next to the speakers listening to them over and over.
The song in question starts at the 50 second mark.
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Post by mummifiedstalin on Dec 21, 2011 9:25:36 GMT -5
When they started singing, I got all excited that they were going to do the same melody as the old Rankin-Bass cartoon version. The first few notes were very close. I had the audio of the entire cartoon as a 4-record set when I was a kid. I spend months (years?) laying on the living room floor next to the speakers listening to them over and over. The song in question starts at the 50 second mark. I had exactly the same reaction to the song. Awesome. And I had that album, too, and I broke my first VHS of the movie from watching it so much. Brother Theodore is still the real voice of Gollum to me.
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Post by siamesesin on Dec 21, 2011 13:22:48 GMT -5
Brother Theodore is still the real voice of Gollum to me. Same here! I love Andy as Gollum but the voice never sounds the same. I'm more worried about missing Richard Boone-that dark, weary way he did Smaug always made me a little scared when I was a kid! Still, I keep watching the trailer over and over again! I hate having to wait a year for this.
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Post by Mr. Atari on Dec 21, 2011 18:16:24 GMT -5
Just as long as the king of the wood elves sounds like Otto Preminger sounding like Yul Brynner.
(starting at 4:05).
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Post by Mr. Atari on Dec 21, 2011 18:20:53 GMT -5
I'm more worried about missing Richard Boone-that dark, weary way he did Smaug always made me a little scared when I was a kid! Since Benedict Cumberbatch is doing the voice of Smaug, I can't wait for those scenes, just so we can see an invisible Dr. Watson talking smack to Sherlock Holmes.
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Post by mummifiedstalin on Dec 21, 2011 18:52:47 GMT -5
I always loved the Orc king, too: "WHO ARE THESE MISERABLE PERSONS!?"
3:50 here:
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Post by Ratso on Dec 22, 2011 2:10:25 GMT -5
I want a Tom Bombadil movie.
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Post by siamesesin on Nov 11, 2012 18:26:04 GMT -5
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Post by mummifiedstalin on Dec 14, 2012 23:32:51 GMT -5
Come on, geeks! Chime in! I've got opinions that need airing!
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Post by Mr. Atari on Dec 14, 2012 23:43:21 GMT -5
The Ataris are going to see it tomorrow. In glorious 2-D, as God intended. (I hate, hate, HATE 3-D, and I imagine that the 48fps will further enrage me.)
But I'm itching to hear the opinions of fans of the book and of the previous film trilogy. And especially of fans of the Rankin-Bass cartoon version.
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Post by mummifiedstalin on Dec 15, 2012 0:02:40 GMT -5
The Ataris are going to see it tomorrow. In glorious 2-D, as God intended. (I hate, hate, HATE 3-D, and I imagine that the 48fps will further enrage me.) But I'm itching to hear the opinions of fans of the book and of the previous film trilogy. And especially of fans of the Rankin-Bass cartoon version. The Rankin-Bass version is something I love and will defend. This movie had almost nothing to do with the spirit of that movie. That sounds bad, but this is just totally different. My opinion: this movie works best as an appendix to the other movies. It's not The Hobbit, by which I mean it really isn't Bilbo's story at its heart. It's a lot of things, most good and some questionable, but it's not in the same spirit as the book. I think the LotR movies *were* in the spirit of the books, and they captured the tone and heart well. Not so much here. Best part: the riddle scene was what it should have been. Gollum/Serkis saved both the acting and the tech. The one good Rankin-Bass part: the dwarves' song at Bilbo's fire was very similar to the cartoon's version. And I did the low-res 2d version for my first shot. I'll see the whiz bang, too, but didn't want it when I was focusing on the real stuff.
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Post by Afgncaap5 on Dec 15, 2012 21:55:25 GMT -5
I absolutely loved this film. Except for one thing.
Peter Jackson has, once again, decided that elves need to be, instead of wild and carefree with great emotional highs and lows, creatures who are perpetually austere and capable of all the emotion of Spock raising an eyebrow. (Which is to say: it's there, and possibly running very deep, but far too suppressed.)
Man, Tolkien said he'd never forgive Shakespeare for doing that to elves... ah, well. Mini-rant over.
Anyway, loved the movie. I think I liked it better than the LotR films.
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