maquiladora
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Will be waiting for the EE....
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The Hobbit trilogy - News, rumours and discussion
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I'm too weak
At least the box art for the regular edition isn't terrible this time, they actually went with what was probably the best piece of promotional art created for DOS.
Pai Pai Master
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Yeah, EE for me. Hopefully they do a better job distributing this year.
Same here. I'll rent this edition and buy the EE.
never bought a collector's edition of anything, but since i got a 3dHDTV half a year ago (upgrade from an old tube-tv) and since started growing a BR collection I think i'll get this for the book(br)ends - even though I was one of the few who left the theatre thinking AUE was the better movie.
Mitochondrion
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Is there a way to watch the Hobbit films in High Frame Rate without watching it in cinemas?
Is it on Blu-Ray/DVD? Is there like a special option you can enable to watch it in High Frame Rate instead of the regular frame rate?
Is it on Blu-Ray/DVD? Is there like a special option you can enable to watch it in High Frame Rate instead of the regular frame rate?
this is actually a good question and i'm going to abuse it - other than "gravity", which i watched in IMAX3D (first & only), I never enjoyed 3D in the movie theatre. yet on my new TV, which just happened to have a 3D abillity, i've grown quite fond of it - can anybody relate?
is this due to the smaller screen (always felt like being too close to the screen in theatre, regardles of where i was sitting) or the active shutters in my TV's 3D goggles (as opposed to the passive tech used in theatres)?
Don't take the 1978 film as a paradigm of what the characters should look like. At all. I mean, Sam looks like this;
Good lord, kill it with so much fire.
Hey Master, how's your Tolkien dissertation going by the way?
WadiumArcadium
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I'll be buying the vanilla version again. Was really happy with the theatrical cut of the first one and it'll probably be the case with this one. The cover's a lot nicer this time as well, I really liked that poster.
Napalm_Frank
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Waiting for EE too.
Charles Foster Kane
Rosebud
Will the EE feature more threesome? Because ugh.
We can only hope so.
I wish there was a Negative EE for these fucking movies that actually subtracts scenes from them.
Unfortunately no, to my knowledge nobody has been able to contact Dantes ever since his sudden disappearance from GAF.
On a more cheery note, the people at the Minecraft Middle-earth project have recently finished Hobbiton and released a video showing it off.
Holy crap, how did I ever not notice this before. I've only just now realized that the choral queue that plays when Boromir picks up the One Ring in Fellowship is repeated in TTT when Faramir finds out Frodo has the Ring and confronts him about it (couldn't find the scene itself, but that's the track - Faramir's Good Council - that plays over it).
Over a decade later and these movies continue to surprise me with their little details.
Over a decade later and these movies continue to surprise me with their little details.
peanutbutterlatte
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Very slowly, due wholly to my lazy ass not doing any research. It's not in for another couple of months, but still...
My middle name may as well be "procrastination", so I know the feeling.
A small update on the Desolation of Smaug box office for those interested:
Weta released a small featurette on the VFX of DOS - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63o0QJ3CjtY&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Having done a bit of 3D modeling and animating myself, I can't imagine how long it must take some of those shots to render. Much less the highly complex ones like the barrel escape sequence.
Also, at 4:07 you can see the original prosthetic Azog for a split second.
Having done a bit of 3D modeling and animating myself, I can't imagine how long it must take some of those shots to render. Much less the highly complex ones like the barrel escape sequence.
Also, at 4:07 you can see the original prosthetic Azog for a split second.
Dabookerman
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The gold coins at the end of AUJ look awful compared to what we get in DOS. It shows because Joe Letteri said how they didn't have the tech ready yet.
I wonder if they'll have the molten metal tech ready by There and Back Again...
A lot of the CGI in that movie looks awful.
Dabookerman
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They definitely need to fix that...
The only places in AUJ where I'd say the CGI was blatantly unfinished was the Radagast chase and the ending Erebor/Smaug shot. Every other effects-heavy sequence (the Erebor prologue, the Battle of Azanulbizar flashback, trolls, the stone giants, Goblin Town, and the final warg/tree climbing scene) I felt looked spectacular from a technical perspective.
Empire briefly spoke with Philippa Boyens about There and Back Again:
http://www.empireonline.com/news/st...ction_type_map=["og.likes"]&action_ref_map=[]
http://www.empireonline.com/news/st...ction_type_map=["og.likes"]&action_ref_map=[]
Napalm_Frank
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Still waiting for EE. I'm a lil burned out on DoS. Saw it 3 times in theaters.
Dunedain_Ranger
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Damn watching fotr right now that boromir after getting shot by the arrows and still fighting EPIC !!!
EE also emphasises Merry and Pippin trying to help him.
Dunedain_Ranger
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The EE are untouchable !!
Freedom = $1.05
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I thought that stuff looked REAL bad, like PS2 era CG bad, but I thought the problem was that HFR just made the special effects look cheaper. Is it that terrible looking in the 24 fps version, too?
Yeah, it looks bad. Not in every shot, but anytime they do a close-up it looks blatantly unfinished. I'm willing to bet it was a casualty of the hellish schedule Weta Digital are under - they've openly admitted that they've been finishing up VFX shots the day of the film's world premiere multiple times. Granted, it's a fairly minor effect up until Smaug takes a bath in it, but I guess it stood out even more since the rest of the CG in the film was - for the most part - stellar.
Dabookerman
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It was the very last sequence that they worked on. I believe they had 3 weeks to do the whole forges scene. Insane.
And that Aragorn wasn't falling for his bring-the-ring-to-Gondor bullshit.
Looks as though filming for TABA is indeed finished, according to Richard Armitage.
http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2014/03/28/jackson-prepares-farewell-middle-earth-0
There were rumors earlier this year that there would be one more round of pick-ups sometime in May, but it appears that's not the case. Jackson is screening an early cut of the film next week for New Line execs, according to the article. That falls in line with Philippa Boyens' comments from a few weeks back that Jackson was knee-deep in the middle of editing the film together.
http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2014/03/28/jackson-prepares-farewell-middle-earth-0
There were rumors earlier this year that there would be one more round of pick-ups sometime in May, but it appears that's not the case. Jackson is screening an early cut of the film next week for New Line execs, according to the article. That falls in line with Philippa Boyens' comments from a few weeks back that Jackson was knee-deep in the middle of editing the film together.
Hey does anyone have the link for the person who had a crazy LOTR collection? It was like a whole basement multiple rooms with replicas, statues etc. Was looking for that today can't find my links and can't remember which thread linked it.
On topic just watched Desolation of Smaug today, damn I thought it was amazing really excited for BR release hope Amazon drops the price on that collectors edition.
On topic just watched Desolation of Smaug today, damn I thought it was amazing really excited for BR release hope Amazon drops the price on that collectors edition.
bengraven
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Don't take the 1978 film as a paradigm of what the characters should look like. At all. I mean, Sam looks like this;
Good lord, kill it with so much fire.
No one else?
Mister_Bubbles
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No one else?
Holy shit.
I think I know which one you're talking about, I'm on my phone atm but I'll try to find it when I get a minute.
RelentlessRolento
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which retailer is selling the one with the Lego Lego Lego Legolas figure? Target?
Poetic.Injustice
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I just watched DOS today. Besides the unnecessary love triangle and padding it was a good film.
Yep, Target.
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