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Post by Mister Buch on Sept 21, 2012 23:59:01 GMT 1
Sting is in this as a character?? And he's played by Hugo Weaving?
I hope he sings in the movie.
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Post by Clint Johnston on Sept 22, 2012 2:33:53 GMT 1
Watch the clip. It's a dwarf making fun of sting.
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Post by Warhammer Gorvar on Sept 22, 2012 10:00:45 GMT 1
Sting is in this as a character?? And he's played by Hugo Weaving? I hope he sings in the movie. You mean this guy?
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Post by Clint Johnston on Sept 22, 2012 14:00:49 GMT 1
Hard to not make fun of him. But the sword.
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Post by Battlechantress on Dec 12, 2012 14:41:23 GMT 1
I thought I was the only one who thought the trailers for "The Hobbit" didn't look quite as nice as the "LOTR" movies. I guess I was wrong: Boston Globe review
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Post by Mister Buch on Dec 12, 2012 23:48:35 GMT 1
I was very apprehensive after those trailers, and especially after hearing that it would be stretched into three movies, by writing extra scenes into the already padded plot. And then this dodgy frame rate thing.
I've been reading reviews too, and they are saying, like, 7 out of 10. Good movie, but odd and very much not as good as the Rings.
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Post by Battlechantress on Dec 13, 2012 0:10:45 GMT 1
The one plus is that Peter Jackson kept the riddle scene. That *did* look good in the trailers, but as for the rest... am I the only one who's thinking "Yeah, I'll go see the first one, but I'll see the rest on DVD"?
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Post by jklinders on Dec 13, 2012 0:12:01 GMT 1
Where's that pic of Peter Jackson finishing his money castle where we need it?
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Post by Mister Buch on Dec 13, 2012 0:20:20 GMT 1
He kept EVERY scene, and then added a bunch of new ones (including adding a major villain, according to that review there.... eesh). But yeah, I'm thinking DVD might be the way to go. Maybe that way I can see Tolkein's simple story in one go, rather than over the course of three years.
Eh, I will almost certainly see it at the cinema every time.
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Post by Clint Johnston on Dec 13, 2012 7:11:05 GMT 1
My Tolkien nerd friend (who has got the Silmarillion basically memorized) tells me that there is more to the story that is not actually written in the Hobbit. Portions about the Necromancer and presumable about Bard are in the appendices of LOTR, the books of lost tales, and Silmarillion. I personally don't see how much more there could be, but given Tolkien's tendency towards the verbose (he wanted middle earth to be an actual world, and put effort into minute details), I don't doubt it.
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