The Hobbit

#77
#77
I guess I meant he omitted a lot of parts and added them elsewhere (ie the Elves at Helm's Deep and the way he portrayed the Dead Men of Dunharrow), but I bought the line about it being from preventing the movies from being even longer. Galadriel has absolutely no business in the Hobbit. None whatsoever.
 
#78
#78
volfanbill said:
I guess I meant he omitted a lot of parts and added them elsewhere (ie the Elves at Helm's Deep and the way he portrayed the Dead Men of Dunharrow), but I bought the line about it being from preventing the movies from being even longer. Galadriel has absolutely no business in the Hobbit. None whatsoever.
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All it is is arwen all over again.
 
#82
#82
To be perfectly honest, I think Liv Tyler is unbelievably gorgeous. I even named my car Liv (because the girl I was talking to when I bought it wouldn't let me name it Arwen). I had no problem seeing Arwen more than I was supposed to. But Cate Blanchett doesn't do anything for me and at least Arwen was in the LOTR. Galadriel isn't mentioned at all in the Hobbit.
 
#83
#83
The way I understand it, the 1st Hobbit is based on the book, and the 2nd is everything that happens in between?
 
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volsforever27 said:
The way I understand it, the 1st Hobbit is based on the book, and the 2nd is everything that happens in between?
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that makes no sense... it would make more sense to make the Silmarillion and then the Hobbit.

I can see them doing the journey, Bilbo getting the ring (which should be incredibly boring as a movie) the slaying of Smaug. The second one would be the reconstruction and the Battle of the Five Armies which should be legend.... (wait for it)




















Dary. Legendary. If it's not better than every battle in the LOTR I'll be pissed. That said, the battles from teh Silmarillion would be even more legendary.
 
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volfanbill said:
To be perfectly honest, I think Liv Tyler is unbelievably gorgeous. I even named my car Liv (because the girl I was talking to when I bought it wouldn't let me name it Arwen). I had no problem seeing Arwen more than I was supposed to. But Cate Blanchett doesn't do anything for me and at least Arwen was in the LOTR. Galadriel isn't mentioned at all in the Hobbit.
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You are blinded by liv, the whore walsh wanted a strong female character and that is why arwen blew up, thankfully she wasnt at helms deep as planned.
 
#86
#86
OrangeEmpire said:
You are blinded by liv, the whore walsh wanted a strong female character and that is why arwen blew up, thankfully she wasnt at helms deep as planned.
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What I never understood was why she had so much added to her, but stuff she actually did do was either only briefly summarized or forgotten altogether. Guess it was just in how they wanted to portray her.
 
#88
#88
It's been awhile since I've read the books, but isn't the 2nd Hobbit based on the red book? Aragorn's journey, the dwarves story etc.

OE help me out here...
 
#90
#90
Viggo Mortenson said he would only do a "bridge story" since Aragorn is not part of the Hobbit. Not sure how they could work it into a movie, but they could show how he tracked down Gollum and captured him for Gandalf. Maybe show the role of the Rangers. But not really sure why this would be made into a movie...
 
#91
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volfanbill said:
that makes no sense... it would make more sense to make the Silmarillion and then the Hobbit.

I can see them doing the journey, Bilbo getting the ring (which should be incredibly boring as a movie) the slaying of Smaug. The second one would be the reconstruction and the Battle of the Five Armies which should be legend.... (wait for it)



















Dary. Legendary. If it's not better than every battle in the LOTR I'll be pissed. That said, the battles from teh Silmarillion would be even more legendary.
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The Silmarillion would amazing. That would make an epic movie series. Better than LOTR imo.

I'm looking forward to the Hobbit, but I don't think it would make as good of a movie as LOTR. I read it, but never saw what the big deal was. Good story, but nothing that made me think it's worth the hype.
 
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#92
#92
I'm hoping to actually see this in the theater instead of on DVD later as I normally do. The current ads make it appear to have too much CGI, though. Hope it is on par with LOTR at least.
 
#93
#93
I hardly ever go to midnight releases but this is one I'm definitely going to try and make.
 
#94
#94
By the way it looks like it is going to be a three part series.

An Unexpected Journey - 2012
The Desolation of Smaug - 2013
There and Back Again - 2014
 
#95
#95
It's still not clear to me how you stretch the book into 3 movies without a bunch of meaningless junk. I need to re-read the book now.
 
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95 Vol Alum said:
It's still not clear to me how you stretch the book into 3 movies without a bunch of meaningless junk. I need to re-read the book now.
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Peter Jackson is gonna be using notes from appendices in Return of the King to flesh out the story, such as what Gandalf was doing. more Middle Earth the better :)
 
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TSwafford said:
Peter Jackson is gonna be using notes from appendices in Return of the King to flesh out the story, such as what Gandalf was doing. more Middle Earth the better :)
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not to mention that there's a battle in Mirkwood against the Necromancer that occurs at the same time as the Battle of Five Armies, which is why we're going to see Legolas.
 
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MG1968 said:
not to mention that there's a battle in Mirkwood against the Necromancer that occurs at the same time as the Battle of Five Armies, which is why we're going to see Legolas.
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yea its gonna be epic.. if anybody can make it happen, its Peter Jackson
 
#99
#99
Just listened to the audio book....it was seriously just 6 hours long. I'm willing to bet Jackson somehow makes this into 9 hours of film.
 
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n_huffhines said:
Just listened to the audio book....it was seriously just 6 hours long. I'm willing to bet Jackson somehow makes this into 9 hours of film.
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The book was the fastest I've ever read a book. I'm very excited. I love LOTR trilogy, but haven't actually read it. I actually just watched LOTR this year, which forced me to read The Hobbit.
 
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