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Fantasy Literature

semillama

(4,583 posts) Wed Dec 21, 2011, 01:58 PM Dec 2011

In case you missed it - The teaser trailer for the Hobbit is online!

Boy, am I excited about this movie!

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In case you missed it - The teaser trailer for the Hobbit is online! (Original Post) semillama Dec 2011 OP

one year out though....sigh... stevebreeze Dec 2011 #1

Maybe getting old in mke Dec 2011 #2

Saw it yesterday, can't believe we have to wait a whole year for the movie... Luciferous Dec 2011 #3

I lost hope when I heard PJ took over from Del Toro. Leopolds Ghost Apr 2012 #4

stevebreeze

(1,882 posts)

1. one year out though....sigh...

Reply to semillama (Original post)

Wed Dec 21, 2011, 10:26 PM

Dec 2011

looks like more heavy into CGI

getting old in mke

(813 posts)

2. Maybe

Reply to stevebreeze (Reply #1)

Wed Dec 21, 2011, 11:17 PM

Dec 2011

or maybe we can hope that they were simply filling scenes they haven't put together yet with CGI.

Luciferous

(6,299 posts)

3. Saw it yesterday, can't believe we have to wait a whole year for the movie...

Reply to semillama (Original post)

Thu Dec 22, 2011, 10:31 PM

Dec 2011

Leopolds Ghost

(12,875 posts)

4. I lost hope when I heard PJ took over from Del Toro.

Reply to semillama (Original post)

Mon Apr 9, 2012, 05:58 PM

Apr 2012

He's all wrong for the material... he said flat out he did not want it to be a whimsical, family-friendly adventure story... he wanted it to be a "darker and grittier" war movie like LOTR. The producers basically indicated they saw the kinder, gentler tone of the Hobbit as a weakness of the material.

And then they broke their promise to film it in 35 MM to conform visually to LOTR; it'll be filmed in eye-gouging 3-D with twice the framerate of a cinematic film, like a TV show.

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