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I would find too quickley that that Craig lad is in the way. ;)
Yes as these movies have actually been filmed with the right camera's instead of reworking them afterwards.
Are you talking about the 1st one as I do not recall Galadriel in the second one.
Where was it?
I´m kind of hesitant with my opinion, because on the one hand I really like a lot of tv shows, but on the other hand the LOTR trilogy was so amazingly epic in a cinematic sense I think I need time to digest this new impression of middle earth.
Having grown up loving the book, I was surprised that so many names are pronounced differently to how they always sounded in my head.
I always sounded Smaug as Smawg.
Gollum to me was Ger-LUM (because Tolkein said it was the sound of the creature swallowing, and this sounded right to me).
Bofur to me was Boffer, rather than Bowfer. Don't know why, it just was.
It's in Lake Town, he plays a spy. I believe it's when Bard arrives back home, we see a shot of a man smoking a pipe and he has an eyepatch on, and he bangs on the wall he's next to to alert the other spies. His wife and kids were in it, as well, though I'm not sure where they were in relation to the rest of the Lake Town scenes.
Thanks now I know where to look next time I see it. Would Jackson mean anything by letting Colbert playing snitch/spy I wonder??
The movie opens indeed with Peter Jackson himself eating something, I know that pretty sure as 5 minutes in the movie went from 3D to something unwatchable so they restarted the movie from the beginning. And I got to see it twice.
Awesome, makes me even more proud that I spotted both cameos.
I'm also surprised to hear so many people praise the film. I think it had more cheap moments that any of the Jackson films. I'm now speaking as a cinema fan rather than a Tolkien fan. I think it dragged at moments, there was no focus on the film always shifting from place to place, and there are things in there that made me cringe.
Now, as a Tolkien fan. Considering AUJ I decided to go watch DOS without many expectations, to just go with the flow. It was actually working out great! I was sort of enjoying the silliness of the entire thing until something happened. It is something that completely departs from the book but, in contrast to several other alterations that Jackson has done previously (that either made more sense cinematically or made the story easier to tell) this was completely deranged and had no possible explanation.
Everything from this point onwards make no sense at all. Unless we assume that the dwarves have lost their ability to think due to, I don't know, repeated brain injury?
There is one question that really needs to be asked: Why is Peter Jackson afraid of accepting Bilbo as the hero of The Hobbit?
Good:
- Freeman and Cumberbatch are amazing as Bilbo and Smaug!
- Thranduil is great;
- The design of Smaug is great;
- Master of Laketown! I love Stephen Fry;
- Bard was surprisingly good, I'm not usually a big fan of Luke Evans but I have to admit he did a great job;
- Everything that remains true to canon.
Bad:
- Thranduil is criminally wasted;
- Beorn is reduced to a minimum;
- Legolas doesn't look the least like Legolas from LOTR. Is continuity that difficult?
- Dumb dwarves :-w ;
- I really think Richard Armitage was a terrible choice for Thorin. I was surprised when he was cast but I always like him so I was OK with it. But the more I see the less I like. I guess the blaim also lies in how the character was changed for the film.
- Shameful sabotage of Bilbo's importance to the entire story. Something they should never have forgotten: it's all about Bilbo!
Since you seem to be kind of a Tolkien fan @Sandy, what did you think about
Inside Information...
Our journey to make The Hobbit Trilogy has been in some ways like Bilbo's own, with hidden paths revealing their secrets to us as we've gone along. “There and Back Again” felt like the right name for the second of a two film telling of the quest to reclaim Erebor, when Bilbo’s arrival there, and departure, were both contained within the second film. But with three movies, it suddenly felt misplaced—after all, Bilbo has already arrived “there” in the "Desolation of Smaug".
When we did the premiere trip late last year, I had a quiet conversation with the studio about the idea of revisiting the title. We decided to keep an open mind until a cut of the film was ready to look at. We reached that point last week, and after viewing the movie, we all agreed there is now one title that feels completely appropriate.
And so: "The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies" it is.
As Professor Tolkien intended, “There and Back Again” encompasses Bilbo’s entire adventure, so don’t be surprised if you see it used on a future box-set of all three movies.
Before then however, we have a film to finish, and much to share with you. It’s been a nice quiet time for us—Jabez and I happily editing away in a dark cave in Wellington—but those halcyon days are quickly coming to an end. It will soon be time to step into the light. Expect to see and hear much about The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies in the coming months.
And there’s also The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug Extended Cut, which we’re in the process of finishing, with over 25 mins of new scenes, all scored with original music composed by Howard Shore.
It’ll be a fun year!
Although his justification for not calling it There and Back Again makes sense as it was the second title of The Hobbit book calling it Battle of the 5 Armies doesn't make it much better. Should a battle name an entire filml? Besides that this seems like yet another way to diminish the importance of the titular Hobbit, Bilbo Baggins, in the trilogy since he was a minimal (if we might call it that, those who read the book will understand) intervention in the battle. It's like re-naming The Two Towers into Battle of Helm's Deep.
Anyway, the title change may work but it is odd. Hay, maybe There And Back Again does work better as a title for the trilogy as a whole.
A trailer should be released soon. I'm looking forward to seeing it.
I don't get where WB thought there was an "under-performance", but that's the rumor I read. I, personally, liked There and Back Again as the title of the final film.
I'd laugh if, when the first trailer is released, it still has "There and Back Again" at the end, and then Jackson looks at the WB execs and says "Well, that's the title they know, we have to keep it. Battle of Five Armies is out."