Anyone Looking Forward to The Hobbit?

i'm definitely going to see this in the theaters, but i admittedly have my worries. unlike LOTR, which was shot all at once, this is prob something that's just being done to make more money. usually, these more-money sequels don't improve in quality...
 
Absolutely looking forward to The Hobbit. I've read the books (Hobbit, Lord Of The Rings) numerous times, own LOTR, both theatrical + extended versions on VHS (trying to sell those), and the extended version of LOTR on DVD, it's one of my favorite stories of all time. Peter Jackson did a wonderful job on LOTR, I'm very much looking forward to his rendition of The Hobbit.

I'd love to have one 3-hr. movie instead of two 2-hr. movies, but I'll take it any way PJ wants to dish it out. Actually he'll be able to spend more time telling the story with 2 movies although it will be hard waiting for part 2. -kd5-
 
Seeing as I've watched all three Lord of the rings films this summer, extended versions, back to back and not one moment did I feel sleepy...HELL YEAH, I'm looking forward to this one.
 
From some of the scenes in the trailer, it looks to me as though they are probably shooting both parts at once.

Though that might depend on how they are weaving the two parts of the story together: The Hobbit and the more or less simultaneous story of the White Council versus the Necromancer, which is only described in bits and pieces in LOTR.
 
Teresa Edgerton said:
From some of the scenes in the trailer, it looks to me as though they are probably shooting both parts at once.

Though that might depend on how they are weaving the two parts of the story together: The Hobbit and the more or less simultaneous story of the White Council versus the Necromancer, which is only described in bits and pieces in LOTR.
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I believe they did this with LOTR as well which is why it released yearly rather than large gaps in between.
 
I'm really looking forward to this film, especially now that Peter Jackson is involved. The one thing that bugs me however is how are they going to handle the ring?

How will they disguise the fact that it is the master ring, that it corrupts all around it? How will Bilbo be able to use it around Gandalf without him realising what it is? Because it is clear that Gandalf only has a few suspicions in the beginning of LOTR, and it was not until he say how corrupted Bilbo had become that he started to really realise what it was.
 
i really can't wait to see it! i don't watch any trailer and trust on peter jackson to do a great job!!
 
kulture said:
I'm really looking forward to this film, especially now that Peter Jackson is involved. The one thing that bugs me however is how are they going to handle the ring?

How will they disguise the fact that it is the master ring, that it corrupts all around it? How will Bilbo be able to use it around Gandalf without him realising what it is? Because it is clear that Gandalf only has a few suspicions in the beginning of LOTR, and it was not until he say how corrupted Bilbo had become that he started to really realise what it was.
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It's been a long time since I read The Hobbit, but I was under the impression that Gandalf had his suspicions about the ring from the very start when Bilbo tells the tale of how he escaped the goblins. And when he leaves the group at the edge of Mirkwood, it's because he has "pressing business away south". Again, it may or may have not been expressly stated somewhere in the book(s) or in other official sources, but I got the impression that his business had something to do with the finding of this ring and what it might be. If I remember correctly, it's somewhere in the LOTR Appendices that he then gets totally distracted by something else or other. Like I said, it's been a very long time so I could be totally wrong on this.
 
The appendices do indeed state that he left, but it was likely to participate on the attack on Dol Guldur, which the White Council had contemplated earlier in the year and carried out at that point. Gandalf also references it in The Council of Elrond, but doesn't tie it specifically to his departure from Thorin's company (other than to note that it was the same year the ring was found). The Histories of Middle Earth might have more to say on the subject, too, but I can't recall off the top of my head.

But we digress! Here's a link touring the Stonestreet production area in New Zealand. ;)
 
I'm still excited but the reviews of the picture quality with this new frames per second they're doing has me concerned.
 
The frames issue actually delights me. One reason I don't like watching films at the cinema is that the picture is too flickery. This is usually very apparent whenever the camera moves, such as a long sweep across a landscape. It just turns into a jarring, juddery movement, with nothing in focus and all blurred, which is a great distraction. At least on my TV is doesn't show so easily.

I've been waiting for someone to up the frame rate for some time because of this.
 
I'm excited. I wonder how they're going to make two movies out of it, I feel like that'd require showing things that weren't even in the book. Galadriel wasn't in the book and she's in the trailer. I think they're also going to show Sauron in Dol Guldur, which was only mentioned in the book.

To answer Kultur's question, in The Hobbit Gandalf only suspects it's probably a Ring of Power, he never thought it was the One Ring until he went to Minas Tirith during Fellowship of the Ring and discovered that the One Ring was the only one with no jewel and could've transformed a hobbit into Gollum. His suspicions were all but confirmed when Aragorn captured Gollum and they interrogated him, learning that the Ring came from the river Anduin(where they knew the One Ring has been lost centuries prior). After that he made haste for the Shire and tested it in the fire. I know because I've spent the last few months reading the books.
 
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I'm excited. I wonder how they're going to make two movies out of it, I feel like that'd require showing things that weren't even in the book. Galadriel wasn't in the book and she's in the trailer. I think they're also going to show Sauron in Dol Guldur, which was only mentioned in the book.
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I agree. They must be putting more into it. Armed with this expectation before hand, I won't be upset when it doesn't follow the book word for word. I never am anyway. Comparing books to movies has never been a sport of mine. Each artist has their own vision, both equal in value and equal in entertainment value. That's my view, anyway.
 
I have little doubt that Jackson will expand on parts of The Hobbit only referred to in passing in the book. Like Gandalf leaving the dwarfs at the edge of Mirkwood because of "pressing business to the south".

Just like in The Two Towers, where he took the two or three pages of text that described the battle at Helm's Deep, and turned it into a stunning extended visual experience. I have high hopes Gandalf's business to the south will be filmed, i.e. the battle to force Sauron out of Dol Guldur.

The "problem" of The Ring isn't really a problem at all. Even though Jackson changed the movies saying if the ring was put on even once Sauron would spy it immediately. That was not how it happened in the books. Frodo used the ring a number of times without incident, and Sam did as well.

But even assuming what we were told in the movies, Sauron could sense the ring because he had regained his strength in Mordor. During The Hobbit, Sauron is still much weakened, hiding out in Dol Guldur. He did not have the strength yet to see the ring.
 
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The frames issue actually delights me. One reason I don't like watching films at the cinema is that the picture is too flickery. This is usually very apparent whenever the camera moves, such as a long sweep across a landscape. It just turns into a jarring, juddery movement, with nothing in focus and all blurred, which is a great distraction. At least on my TV is doesn't show so easily.

I've been waiting for someone to up the frame rate for some time because of this.
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If I recall correctly, the new frames per second issue is that it is also distracting because it is highly noticeable and takes you away from the movie itself.

I'm excited. I wonder how they're going to make two movies out of it, I feel like that'd require showing things that weren't even in the book. Galadriel wasn't in the book and she's in the trailer. I think they're also going to show Sauron in Dol Guldur, which was only mentioned in the book.
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I believe the 2nd movie will be set between The Hobbit and LOTRs
 
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