Bilbo

X-Men is the best film this summer season so far. Easily surpassing Godzilla Spidy and even the Winter Soldier. It's a great piece of filmmaking considering the juggling of so many actors effects and storylines. Most impressive is the cinematography. It is brilliantly used to make the 70's unique.
Love that ending.

I voted for Hans Zimmer... though he did fantastic stuff in the 90s up until Gladiator. The Lion King is one of my alltime favorite scores and i love Prince of Egypt and Gladiator.
Nowadays he lost all that made me like his music. He is a shadow of himself. I personally can't really consider him a composer anymore with all his ghostwriters, the simplistic orchestrations and the overabundance on sound design and pop.
Why and how did he lose his abilities to convey magic, wonder and awe?

Where's the difference? The minions do it either way.

Arnold seems pretty switched on. He probably was.
I reckon Zans Himmer is an overrated hack. A Z-grade illiterate "composer" who hires a staff of crude noise makers to do his dirty work and builds robots that play synthesisers, like Newton Crosby in Short Circuit.

First the SW vs. LotR thread, now the old SW special editions discussion. Nostalgia seems to hit JWfan hard these days.
Now we need another "has Johnny lost it?" poll.

Goldenthal is an excellent composer, but he has yet to do anything that rivals Shore's achievement.

I don't really see why it wouldn't be in the movie, but I'll be surprised if it's more than just something that passes by in the background.

This was a quieter but none the less excellent episode. The ending was well done, capturing the novel very well.
Petyr didn't act foolishly though. That one act may have expedited his plans but Lysa had outlived her usefulness and as his husband Baelish has the guardianship of the young Robin and he is de facto lord of the Vale now. Not bad for a landless dirt poor minor noble. Well played.

This is patentedly FALSE RUMOR from beginning to end.

This place is strange,

Great news, i am glad no one near the Zimmer clan will ruin the score now.

Nice! I just own The Annotated Edition physically, and the Alan Lee illustrated version on Kindle

Bought a lovely edition of The Hobbit at the weekend. It's in a black case and contains: A small hardcover edition of the book, a copy of There and Back Again: The Map of Tolkien's The Hobbit, several postcards of his artwork from the book and a CD of Tolkien himself reading the Riddles in the Dark sequence. It was a second hand book sale but this set had obviously never been opened (the map was still in the shrink wrap). Not bad for €5. That's 6 copies of The Hobbit I now have,
EDIT: This is it here - http://www.tolkienbooks.net/php/details.php?reference=84260
My edition didn't come with the flyer for the films.

To claim that those kind of minor things ruin the CR experience (so much so, that a new release is required) dangerously veers close to OCD territory.

I was watching DoS on a hotel TV tonight (Pay TV), and somehow the look of the film is duller, the colours not as fruity as I remember them. It must have something to do with the TV settings or something. Anyway, it looked really really good without the oversaturated vibe. It also makes the CGI less obvious.
And by the way, it's a really good film.

Couldn't agree more. I don't know the general consensus, but I'm not a big fan of it. Sounds cheap.

Dear lord, if JW scores JW, it is all going to be very confusing very quickly.

I said!

I'll let it pass this one time.
When thinking of DoS, I immediately think of Feast of Starlight and The Woodland Realm.

It was a good show and I believe the music used on the original Star Wars teaser was actually Vivaldi's Four Seasons Winter but slowed down.Here is the Vivaldi with the lovely Julia Fischer.
and the lame Star Wars teaser before the music had been recorded:

Yeah I saw an episode of the Clone Wars with the character in it and it was all too obvious who inspired his voice.

No one honestly thought that was real, did they?

Just seen it, spoilers ahead.
Ok, so the film is great, much better than AUJ (which I really liked). The most controversial part is the 3rd act but I think it would have been a flaw of the film if they built up the dragon and didn't have the Dwarves confront him.
Smaug looks terrific. Easily the best on-screen dragon I've ever seen and seeing him talk really works. Top marks to Cumberbatch., he was excellent.
Beorn isn't in it too much. If you hadn't read the books you'd probably wonder why they'd bothered with him. They couldn't really have justifiably spent any more time with him in this but I wouldn't be surprised if there was more in the EE.
The music seems to be largely as it is on the soundtrack. I don't want to stand over this 100% but there's no Ringwraith/Gondor Reborn moment in this film. There's no Company theme at all. The hummed Erebor theme plays when Thorin sees the bodies of his kin who had tried to find a place to hide in the mountain and got trapped. Think Mines of Moria but a little less decomposed. It was very touching I thought.
Tauriel rocks but she'll divide opinion. I think the love story is well handled. It isn't too over the top. They make a joke about the height issue early on I dunno, I'm sure BB and KK won't like it anyway but I'm interested to see what they do with it. Kili says something about having all sorts of dangerous things down his trousers that certain people will role their eyes at but it got a good reaction from the audience.
Can't really fault the special effects. They all looked great and vastly improved from the early trailers. Smaug is laughable in the trailers compared to him on screen.
Freeman is excellent as always. The ring is already starting to take hold of him. Smaug can sense the ring when Bilbo is wearing it but doesn't know what it is and he seems to be aware of the Necromancer and what he is doing. The transformation of the Necromancer looks better than the guy on TORN described and so does the molton gold (although it probably is one of the weaker aspects it's still not terrible).
Bolg is cool, I definitely prefer this design. He had Legolas have a good fight although the lack of music during it was a poor choice.
The film ends and the credits and Ed Sheeran's voice happen simultaneously. No lead in music by Shore
The film got a round of applause from the audience. Everybody seemed to really enjoy it and the cliffhanger ending was met with "Argh, I wish we could stay watching" rather than "WTF?!? IT JUST ENDED ALL OF A SUDDEN" reaction from the crowd.
It really is a very enjoyable film.
That's a random stream of consciousness, I'll try and address and questions if anyone has any but I'll probably go to bed shortly.