KK 3,307 Posted October 1, 2012 Share Posted October 1, 2012 Zooming into the Lonely Mountain itself gives a great ominous foreboding, just like it did with Fellowship. It's also a much more elegant ending than zooming into the eye (which is more of a cheap children's blockbuster ending). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faleel 5,370 Posted October 1, 2012 Share Posted October 1, 2012 without using tricks like showing Shelob's eyes opening at the end of TTT or things like that.Except Shelob is not the main villian, a better example would be zooming into the Eye of Sauron.The eye of Smaug idea reminds me too much of the ending to the movie adaption of Eragon.I would prefer seeing the treasure and perhaps the back/shadow of Smaug, than his eye. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodBoal 7,538 Posted October 1, 2012 Share Posted October 1, 2012 Yeah, I thought about that too, but didn't mention it, because I didn't want to tarnish my reputation by using such a lousy film as a reference. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gkgyver 1,646 Posted October 1, 2012 Share Posted October 1, 2012 without using tricks like showing Shelob's eyes opening at the end of TTT or things like that.Except Shelob is not the main villian, a better example would be zooming into the Eye of Sauron.They DID linger on Barad-Dur and Orodruin in the final shot of Two Towers, and it was EPIC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodBoal 7,538 Posted October 1, 2012 Share Posted October 1, 2012 Yeah, but they didn't zoom on Sauron's eye. Just show the Lonely Mountain and be done with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KK 3,307 Posted October 1, 2012 Share Posted October 1, 2012 Both the endings of TTT and FotR were elegant great endings. But zooming into the villains eye is just so darn cheap. Showing us a glimpse of the Lonely Mountain is more in line with the old trilogy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faleel 5,370 Posted October 1, 2012 Share Posted October 1, 2012 Yeah, but they didn't zoom on Sauron's eye. Just show the Lonely Mountain and be done with it.Whit Fier Comn oit adn ohter epik stuffz! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gkgyver 1,646 Posted October 1, 2012 Share Posted October 1, 2012 Maybe they should finish with a shot of Radagast feeding his bunnies, would you like that?They should have a camera in the theatre, when BloodBoal sits there at the premiere, with all people long gone, muttering "I have seen ... the eye!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodBoal 7,538 Posted October 2, 2012 Share Posted October 2, 2012 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,384 Posted October 2, 2012 Share Posted October 2, 2012 Wait, Bilbo's house is supposed to be that big? Really? I think in FOTR we only saw 2 rooms! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wojo 2,453 Posted October 2, 2012 Share Posted October 2, 2012 Oh, Bag End is huge! I remember "The Hobbit" describing many, many rooms in its opening chapter, but PJ didn't need to show them all in FOTR or ROTK.The entrance to Bag End was a perfectly round green door featuring a brass knob in the center. The entryway was a tube-shaped hall with paneled walls and a tiled floor, furnished with carpeting, polished chairs, and an abundance of pegs for the hats and coats of many visitors. The tunnel continued into the hill with side doors that were also round. All of the rooms were on the same level – bedrooms, bathrooms, cellars, multiple pantries, wardrobes, kitchens, and dining rooms. The best rooms were those on the left side of the passage for they had deep-set round windows with a view of the garden and meadows beyond down to The Water.http://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Bag_End Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,384 Posted October 2, 2012 Share Posted October 2, 2012 It's been a long time since I've read The Hobbit. I wonder if we'll see more of Bag End in the new movie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wojo 2,453 Posted October 2, 2012 Share Posted October 2, 2012 I think we'll be spending far more time in the house in this first movie than we did in FOTR plus ROTK, so the answer is yes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incanus 5,720 Posted October 2, 2012 Share Posted October 2, 2012 It is great that PJ and the film makers get to show us more of the Bag End as we really did see only a few select glimpses of it in the LotR trilogy. And yes Bag End is a very big Hobbit dwelling by the standards of the Shire, home of a rich family, almost like a manor house, which Bilbo's father Bungo had made perhaps unnecessarily sumptuous and too big for such a small family as he had. So it was a large building with many more rooms than Bilbo needed but I am curious to see how much of the Hobbit hole they have created for these new films.I see that among the paranaphelia Weta is putting out for sale from the Hobbit is the key to the secret door on the Lonely Mountain. Looks pretty ornate and properly Dwarven. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muad'Dib 1,802 Posted October 3, 2012 Share Posted October 3, 2012 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brónach 1,302 Posted October 3, 2012 Share Posted October 3, 2012 The contract is hilarious. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,384 Posted October 3, 2012 Share Posted October 3, 2012 Is that poster real or fan made? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodBoal 7,538 Posted October 3, 2012 Share Posted October 3, 2012 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incanus 5,720 Posted October 3, 2012 Share Posted October 3, 2012 Those posters look really cheap, especially the first one in your post. I know they want the posters chock full of stuff but there doesn't seem to be much effor to blend the images together.Christopher Lee still looks great in that lower poster but actually all the stars of the previous trilogy do.But how can you tell it is Bolg in the first poster BloodBoal and not say Azog? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodBoal 7,538 Posted October 3, 2012 Share Posted October 3, 2012 Because I know! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incanus 5,720 Posted October 3, 2012 Share Posted October 3, 2012 I knew it! You are Peter Jackson! That would explain everything, especially your obsessive self loathing way of putting down the details of these films! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodBoal 7,538 Posted October 3, 2012 Share Posted October 3, 2012 Wouldn't it make more sense if I was Del Toro, instead? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incanus 5,720 Posted October 3, 2012 Share Posted October 3, 2012 Oh no, he was just glad to be rid of such a large project. He can now focus on horror movies with animatronics and stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alicebrallice 134 Posted October 3, 2012 Share Posted October 3, 2012 those posters remind me of a fantasy TV show that I as a kid used to watch on early saturday mornings. classy stuff... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodBoal 7,538 Posted October 3, 2012 Share Posted October 3, 2012 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KK 3,307 Posted October 3, 2012 Share Posted October 3, 2012 Those posters look fanmade, especially the second one. I mean surely they could have done a better job of blending the images together. They look awful.It's real (it has some unreleased pictures included in it). And so is this one, unfortunately:It seems Kili will be the main character of the story.Haven't you heard? Kili is the new Aragorn!And here is the poster Michael posted, in slightly higher quality:Both are really ugly. They really look cheap and amateur (well, the second one not as much as the first one).Why the hell is Saruman posing like that in the middle?....He looks liks some villain from some old kids show.Really shoddy job here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alicebrallice 134 Posted October 3, 2012 Share Posted October 3, 2012 those posters remind me of a fantasy TV show that I as a kid used to watch on early saturday mornings. classy stuff...This...Or this?ah yes, hercules. and also: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodBoal 7,538 Posted October 3, 2012 Share Posted October 3, 2012 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alicebrallice 134 Posted October 3, 2012 Share Posted October 3, 2012 class class class.OH MY SMÖRGÅSBORD! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brónach 1,302 Posted October 3, 2012 Share Posted October 3, 2012 those posters remind me of a fantasy TV show that I as a kid used to watch on early saturday mornings. classy stuff...This...Or this?ah yes, hercules. and also:90's kids... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodBoal 7,538 Posted October 3, 2012 Share Posted October 3, 2012 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wojo 2,453 Posted October 3, 2012 Share Posted October 3, 2012 Hey, Hercules and Xena were must-see kids TV back in the day, and always worth reruns.And my egg was fertilized in 1980. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brónach 1,302 Posted October 3, 2012 Share Posted October 3, 2012 Says the man born in 1992...That's exactly why I say it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gkgyver 1,646 Posted October 3, 2012 Share Posted October 3, 2012 I guess it will always be a mystery to me why some people are so fixated on posters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brónach 1,302 Posted October 3, 2012 Share Posted October 3, 2012 Because you can see fans creating gorgeous paintings that are better than the hack jobs made by paid profesional marketing departments.And on this ocasion, even if I'm not the biggest fan of floating heads posters, we have sen nothing that rivals the ones for LOTR. Those were very pretty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wojo 2,453 Posted October 3, 2012 Share Posted October 3, 2012 Labors of love that fanboys make for free in their spare time often do tend to be better than what the professionals make on a shoestring budget with a deadline with 47 other projects in the pipeline. That's the way it works. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gkgyver 1,646 Posted October 3, 2012 Share Posted October 3, 2012 I'm not saying these posters look good - they don't - I'm just saying sometimes people act like the film's quality depends on them.KotCS had great posters. And how did that end? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alicebrallice 134 Posted October 3, 2012 Share Posted October 3, 2012 And on this ocasion, even if I'm not the biggest fan of floating heads posters, we have sen nothing that rivals the ones for LOTR. Those were very pretty.false. the first hobbit poster is prettier than all the TTT posters combined. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brónach 1,302 Posted October 3, 2012 Share Posted October 3, 2012 I must have forgotten what poster was that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodBoal 7,538 Posted October 3, 2012 Share Posted October 3, 2012 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incanus 5,720 Posted October 3, 2012 Share Posted October 3, 2012 That was a great poster with a hint of mystery and sense of anticipation. A perfect teaser poster. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodBoal 7,538 Posted October 3, 2012 Share Posted October 3, 2012 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Delorean90 42 Posted October 3, 2012 Share Posted October 3, 2012 Notice, though, that these do seem to present guys in prosthetics, for those of you that were worried about that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted October 3, 2012 Share Posted October 3, 2012 If that poster is real, then aside from the dodgy composition and curious focus on Saruman, I'm frankly astounded at how well they've apparently made Lee look. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Once 605 Posted October 3, 2012 Share Posted October 3, 2012 If that poster is real, then aside from the dodgy composition and curious focus on Saruman, I'm frankly astounded at how well they've apparently made Lee look.My thought exactly. Can't wait to see more of him, though. I'm a huge Christopher Lee fan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodBoal 7,538 Posted October 3, 2012 Share Posted October 3, 2012 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KK 3,307 Posted October 3, 2012 Share Posted October 3, 2012 And on this ocasion, even if I'm not the biggest fan of floating heads posters, we have sen nothing that rivals the ones for LOTR. Those were very pretty.I've never liked floating head posters much either, but LotR had some really nice ones. This is just awful...it looks some really dated kids show from the late 90s/early 2000s, NOT what's supposed to be the biggest film of the year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brónach 1,302 Posted October 3, 2012 Share Posted October 3, 2012 I've seen a picture of a lot of LOTR posters and the Hobbit posters, and the Hobbit ones look out of place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koray Savas 2,251 Posted October 3, 2012 Share Posted October 3, 2012 Don't posters tend to have names and release dates? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
indy4 155 Posted October 3, 2012 Share Posted October 3, 2012 wow those posters look awful. But cool to see Saramaun at Rivendell! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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