The Hobbit

[The Twilight Mexican]

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I just see Thorin standing by a waterfall before he goes and gets killed.

 

[Octo]

No, it will end

Spoiler

like Godzilla (1998) with a close up of a nest of eggs

 

[Cthulhu]

I forgot the book tbh, so IDK what happens

 

[X-SOLDIER]

Sooooooooooo... I picked up my tickets for Dec 16th at 7:00pm which is the earliest that I can see it.
(and I'm jealous of all the countries that get it earlier).




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[Kuroto]

You can listen to Billy Boyd's Last Goodbye here: http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/6319735/the-hobbit-song-premiere-billy-boyd-the-last-goodbye

I think the song is very pretty. You can also definitely hear that they used same elements from Annie Lenox's Into the West in this song. In my opinion the songs are still different enough and it's nice that they kinda made a connection to the Return of the King and the LOTR series.

Now I'm really realising how it's soon all over. What will I do with my life after this?

 

[X-SOLDIER]

God DAMN that is a fantastic song. </3

Now I'm really realising how it's soon all over. What will I do with my life after this?

Wait for the extended edition and have a 6 film marathon!!!!



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[Kuroto]

Wait for the extended edition and have a 6 film marathon!!!!

Well that should keep me going for a few years. And you can always hope that Peter Jackson comes up with something during that time.

 

[The Twilight Mexican]

I really hope he doesn't go for The Book of Genesis "The Silmarillion" next. I just feel like that wouldn't lend itself well to the film medium.

 

[Tetsujin]

He won't because they only have movie rights for LotR and The Hobbit.

 

[Octo]

They should do Farmer Giles of Ham. Ray Winstone could be Farmer Giles, Tom Hiddleston could play Garm (using mo-cap off course) and they could get Mark Gatiss to voice the dragon.

Or they could do a load of shit about Tom Bombadil....even though he's a bit weird with his 'river daughter' and all that....

 

[Super Mario]

Ho shit I am waiting to get this on Netflix or blu ray to binge watch all 6 films. YEEEEEHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!

 

[Tetsujin]

I hope the inevitable complete box comes out around the same time as the BOTFA extended edition. I don't wanna wait much longer than a year. :p

 

[Telcontar]

A Tom Bombadil standalone film.

Who's with me?!

 

[X-SOLDIER]

Man... if you thought that The Last Goodbye was intense with just the song, the music video will rip your heart out.




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[Cthulhu]

Oh! I just saw a trailer for Battle of Five Armies (?) in the cinema,

Actually, is that the one coming up in december or will that be the one for next year? I don't actually know if it was the first or second one I watched last year.

 

[X-SOLDIER]

@Yop: It is the third film, and it comes out this December (in a few weeks). Also, if you've seen anything of the Dragon, you've seen the second film.


Here's a YouTube mirror of the video for The Last Goodbye for ease of access:

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[Tetsujin]

I read they have actually finished the movie recently.

That's nice, considering it's not unusual for them to barely finish the movie on the premiere day...while the theater is already filling up.

 

[Kuroto]

Man... if you thought that The Last Goodbye was intense with just the song, the music video will rip your heart out.




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I just watched it a bit more than 5min ago and I'm still struggling not to cry.

I don't want it to be over... That video breaks my heart. ;_____;

 

[Octo]

EXCUSE ME, I HAVE SOMETHING IN MY EYE ;_;

 

[X-SOLDIER]

It was hard enough before they brought in all the BTS footage of everyone.



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[Sprites]

Oh god, guys I am done, I am bawling here!

 

[X-SOLDIER]

Soooooo... I just watched Extended Desolation of Smaug the other day. Like extended AUJ, it does a MUCH better job of playing the story of one where out heroes aren't necessarily the ones in the right. The other thing that plays through MUCH stronger in this one is that Gandalf is massively meddling in the events and bringing about a lot of the events that come to pass. There's also a shitton more foreshadowing about the Nine being brought back and the purpose of his quest into Dol Guldur.

Probably the most interesting bit of all of this is the fact that it's HEAVILY emphasized that Azog is serving directly under Sauron as a general, and that Smaug and "the one" (Sauron) are in league together. Azog cuts the ring off of Thrain's finger - taking back the last of the 7 Dwarven rings for his master, and that when Thrain sees Gandalf, he's panicked and terrified about the fact that Thorin should not be returning to Erebor.

The machinations of the little bits and pieces of everything are SO fantastic in the Extended editions. I'm just unbelievably excited to do the whole Six Film Extended marathon and watch everything come together bit by bit and then eventually get shattered to pieces during Fellowship. I can't over emphasize how much more desperate these films make everything in the LotR films feel.

I can't wait for the final film. alksjdfvhlukjnerdfg




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[Shademp]

I was quite amused by this (Rewritten scene of the dwarves getting captured in Mirkwood)

To quote the top comment:

This is like if the two peasants from the Monty Python and the Holy Grail wrote the screenplay.

 

[X-SOLDIER]

I was quite amused by this (Rewritten scene of the dwarves getting captured in Mirkwood)

To quote the top comment:

That's like an actual scene in Rivendell in Extended AUJ.



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[Octo]

Spoiler: Things that are probably only of interest to me

Some stuffs from a Richard Armitage interview in the times (http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/arts/film/article4278781.ece but you gotta pay for the article anyway)

But the urge to connect the dragon-bothering Thorin to the real world pushed Armitage to new levels of research eccentricity. His interest in Hitler arose because Oakenshield’s bunker mentality, in which he turns on his closest friends, including Bilbo Baggins, reminded him of the Führer’s last days in Berlin. As for Salmond, well, the dwarfs are the SNP of Middle Earth (“They’re fighting for their independence — if there was a referendum the dwarfs would absolutely have voted yes”). Richard III, meanwhile, was our last king to die in battle, as Thorin does in Tolkien’s novel (but not necessarily in the forthcoming final Hobbit film, The Battle of the Five Armies — more of which later).

We can’t go into much detail about the new Hobbit film because Jackson, an infamous last-minute tinkerer, hasn’t finished it yet. Armitage has seen a rough cut, though, and raves about the dramatic structure of the Battle of the Five Armies, in which Thorin’s dwarfs team up with elves and men for an almighty showdown against a horde of goblins. “He’s created an entire movie just with the whole narrative of the battle,” he says. “You can’t just have lots of people fighting — it has to be really coherent.”
So does Thorin pop his clogs? “That’s on the list of things I’m not allowed to talk about, I’m afraid.” What else is on the list? “I’m not allowed to talk about the fifth army — an army of unexpected allies.” In the book they’re eagles — has Jackson embarked on some revisionism? “Well, I can’t talk about that. What we can say is that Thorin is redeemed.”

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