goose Posted November 15, 2013 Share Posted November 15, 2013 Well, we're about a month out from the debut of part 2 of the story. Time to start building the hype! Here's a link to a couple of vids on the production. http://www.webpronews.com/the-hobbit-the-desolation-of-smaug-featurette-watch-2013-11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goose Posted November 15, 2013 Author Share Posted November 15, 2013 (edited) Here's the trailer... http://www.webpronew...e-watch-2013-11 Edited November 15, 2013 by goose Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
treeduck Posted November 15, 2013 Share Posted November 15, 2013 Another notch on Christopher Lee's belt, notch number 276... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Principled Man Posted November 15, 2013 Share Posted November 15, 2013 To be honest, I do not know if I'll be seeing it. I saw Part One, and afterwards, I felt nothing. I do believe that my desire to see 3+ hour films from Middle Earth has been exhausted. After the brilliance of the LOTR Trilogy, any more films from that world just seem anti-climactic and redundant...... :sigh: Aww, screw it. I'll go see it anyway.... :laughing guy: 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drbirdsong Posted November 15, 2013 Share Posted November 15, 2013 Part one was the last time I saw a movie in the theater besides going to a couple of Riff Trax live events. I have the 3-D blu ray and was going to watch it before the second one came out, but they just released an extended version. I'm starting to think I may wait until the 75hr version of all six movies is available to watch it again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
By Tor Posted November 15, 2013 Share Posted November 15, 2013 I saw the trailer when I went to see Gravity last week . I`m hav`in it ! . 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goose Posted November 16, 2013 Author Share Posted November 16, 2013 To be honest, I do not know if I'll be seeing it. I saw Part One, and afterwards, I felt nothing. I do believe that my desire to see 3+ hour films from Middle Earth has been exhausted. After the brilliance of the LOTR Trilogy, any more films from that world just seem anti-climactic and redundant...... :sigh: Aww, screw it. I'll go see it anyway.... :laughing guy:Those are actually my thoughts. I thought the first installment of the Hobbit was too much, but that's Jackson. I'm anxious to see Smaug! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alphseeker Posted November 17, 2013 Share Posted November 17, 2013 (edited) We just watched the extended version of fellowship tonight, it's been a couple of years since we watched it. Conclusion: The emotion and feeling the "fellowship" exudes far surpasses the cold and lifeless effort that the first installment of the Hobbit was. We decided it was a combination of two things, the characters and the music. In the LOTR trilogy, both those elements were seamless almost flawless. However, the Hobbit failed to create characters that compelled us. Sadly I actually found myself hoping in some implausible way that Gollum would get the ring back from Bilbo. And then there's the recycled music the Hobbit borrowed from the epic trilogy which I found to be very uninspiring, they crammed it into scenes which had no connection to the scenes in the original trilogy. That pissed me off. Regardless, i too will shell out the $40.00 to go see it in IMAX, and vainly aspire that it will somehow be epic. Edited November 17, 2013 by alphseeker 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Presto-digitation Posted November 17, 2013 Share Posted November 17, 2013 Loved The Hobbit. Opening weekend viewer of Smaug here. Can't wait. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Babycat Posted November 17, 2013 Share Posted November 17, 2013 Can't wait to see this! :yay: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OGr8imL84AD8inF8sBlackSedan Posted November 17, 2013 Share Posted November 17, 2013 To be honest, I do not know if I'll be seeing it. I saw Part One, and afterwards, I felt nothing. I do believe that my desire to see 3+ hour films from Middle Earth has been exhausted. After the brilliance of the LOTR Trilogy, any more films from that world just seem anti-climactic and redundant...... :sigh: Aww, screw it. I'll go see it anyway.... :laughing guy: I feel the exact same way but I really might not go see it. I didn't see the first Hobbit movie at the movies. It's hard to say. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OGr8imL84AD8inF8sBlackSedan Posted November 17, 2013 Share Posted November 17, 2013 The emotion and feeling the "fellowship" exudes far surpasses the cold and lifeless effort that the first installment of the Hobbit was. We decided it was a combination of two things, the characters and the music. In the LOTR trilogy, both those elements were seamless almost flawless. However, the Hobbit failed to create characters that compelled us. I concur. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OGr8imL84AD8inF8sBlackSedan Posted November 17, 2013 Share Posted November 17, 2013 (edited) To be honest, I do not know if I'll be seeing it. I saw Part One, and afterwards, I felt nothing. I do believe that my desire to see 3+ hour films from Middle Earth has been exhausted. After the brilliance of the LOTR Trilogy, any more films from that world just seem anti-climactic and redundant...... :sigh: Aww, screw it. I'll go see it anyway.... :laughing guy:Those are actually my thoughts. I thought the first installment of the Hobbit was too much, but that's Jackson. I'm anxious to see Smaug! I'm anxious too. I hope Smaug is as well done as Vermithrax Pejorative was done in Dragonslayer back in '81. Edited November 17, 2013 by OGr8imL84AD8inF8sBlackSedan 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goose Posted November 18, 2013 Author Share Posted November 18, 2013 Loved The Hobbit. Opening weekend viewer of Smaug here. Can't wait.Hey...Good to see you around! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theredtamasrule Posted November 18, 2013 Share Posted November 18, 2013 Hobbit was way better on the second viewing (in the lower frame rate at that) so I'm looking forward to Smaug. Mainly because I want to see how much Necromancer/Sauron/White Council material is in it. I am NOT looking forward to all this Tauriel & Legolas nonsense and the inevitable & impossible CGI fighting they do. The Hobbit (as a book) is nowhere near LOTR in emotional depth so we'll see how it plays out with Jackson & his merry band of bastardizers. After they prison raped characters & story in the first trilogy I'm skeptical I'll recognize anything besides some passing allusions to what actually happens in the book. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goose Posted November 18, 2013 Author Share Posted November 18, 2013 Hobbit was way better on the second viewing (in the lower frame rate at that) so I'm looking forward to Smaug. Mainly because I want to see how much Necromancer/Sauron/White Council material is in it. I am NOT looking forward to all this Tauriel & Legolas nonsense and the inevitable & impossible CGI fighting they do. The Hobbit (as a book) is nowhere near LOTR in emotional depth so we'll see how it plays out with Jackson & his merry band of bastardizers. After they prison raped characters & story in the first trilogy I'm skeptical I'll recognize anything besides some passing allusions to what actually happens in the book.BTW...here's something I hadn't seen before: Everything wrong with part 1: Pretty funny! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alphseeker Posted November 18, 2013 Share Posted November 18, 2013 Hobbit was way better on the second viewing (in the lower frame rate at that) so I'm looking forward to Smaug. Mainly because I want to see how much Necromancer/Sauron/White Council material is in it. I am NOT looking forward to all this Tauriel & Legolas nonsense and the inevitable & impossible CGI fighting they do. The Hobbit (as a book) is nowhere near LOTR in emotional depth so we'll see how it plays out with Jackson & his merry band of bastardizers. After they prison raped characters & story in the first trilogy I'm skeptical I'll recognize anything besides some passing allusions to what actually happens in the book.BTW...here's something I hadn't seen before: Everything wrong with part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LDhsH79jAY Pretty funny!I could easily watch the entire movie played at double speed to the Benny Hill Theme 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OGr8imL84AD8inF8sBlackSedan Posted November 18, 2013 Share Posted November 18, 2013 Hobbit was way better on the second viewing (in the lower frame rate at that) so I'm looking forward to Smaug. Mainly because I want to see how much Necromancer/Sauron/White Council material is in it. I am NOT looking forward to all this Tauriel & Legolas nonsense and the inevitable & impossible CGI fighting they do. The Hobbit (as a book) is nowhere near LOTR in emotional depth so we'll see how it plays out with Jackson & his merry band of bastardizers. I agree. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goose Posted November 20, 2013 Author Share Posted November 20, 2013 Hobbit was way better on the second viewing (in the lower frame rate at that) so I'm looking forward to Smaug. Mainly because I want to see how much Necromancer/Sauron/White Council material is in it. I am NOT looking forward to all this Tauriel & Legolas nonsense and the inevitable & impossible CGI fighting they do. The Hobbit (as a book) is nowhere near LOTR in emotional depth so we'll see how it plays out with Jackson & his merry band of bastardizers. I agree.Speaking of the book, I'm reading it to my son (slightly abridged). We read through the dwarves arrival, dining and dishes song and then...watched the Rankin-Bass clip of what we read. We'll do installments like that over the next couple of weeks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony R Posted November 21, 2013 Share Posted November 21, 2013 Chrome Browser The Hobbit: The Desolation Of Smaug - A Journey Through Middle Earth experience: http://middle-earth.thehobbit.com/rivendell/experience Only on Chrome. http://i.imgur.com/Z801KCM.png 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goose Posted November 24, 2013 Author Share Posted November 24, 2013 Chrome Browser The Hobbit: The Desolation Of Smaug - A Journey Through Middle Earth experience: http://middle-earth....dell/experience Only on Chrome. http://i.imgur.com/Z801KCM.pngPretty sweet! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Narps Posted November 24, 2013 Share Posted November 24, 2013 Chrome Browser The Hobbit: The Desolation Of Smaug - A Journey Through Middle Earth experience: http://middle-earth....dell/experience Only on Chrome. http://i.imgur.com/Z801KCM.pngPretty sweet!Interesting Rivendell story. My son's girlfriend said to me one day when he and I were discussing something Rush.... "Anyone who wrote a song called or about Rivendell can't be all bad". :) 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
losingit2k Posted December 2, 2013 Share Posted December 2, 2013 Can't wait for the next installment of the Hobbit. Looks much, much better than the first. :codger: 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EagleMoon Posted December 2, 2013 Share Posted December 2, 2013 Can't wait for the next installment of the Hobbit. Looks much, much better than the first. :codger: That wouldn't be too hard to do. The first part was pretty forgettable. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alphseeker Posted December 11, 2013 Share Posted December 11, 2013 There is hope!!! The initial reviews are very promising. Rotten Tomatoes has the Movie at 80% right now with most critics agreeing it is a vast improvement from the first debacle. :ebert: 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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