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Will be waiting for the EE....
Will be waiting for the EE....
Will be waiting for the EE....
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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 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?
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.
Will the EE feature more threesome? Because ugh.
Will be waiting for the EE....
I wish there was a Negative EE for these fucking movies that actually subtracts scenes from them.
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I just saw The Arkenstone Edition of An Unexpected Journey (the fan edit) and it turns a good movie into a fantastic movie. A 7/10 to a 9/10.
Everything that I disliked about the movie has been cut, the pacing is fantastic, some of the missing songs from the score have been restored, and a few of the good scenes from the extended edition were even included to emphasize Bilbo.
On one hand, I'm glad someone showed how good a properly edited version can be, but on the other hand I'm even more disappointed in how poorly edited the original version is.
I honestly felt this version was on the same level as LOTR. Removing all that stupid crap really makes a difference.
Anything new about Desmond, anyone?
Hey Master, how's your Tolkien dissertation going by the way?
Very slowly, due wholly to my lazy ass not doing any research. It's not in for another couple of months, but still...
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug delivered Warner Bros. its largest-ever three-day box office takings in China as the film finally debuted there over the weekend.
Some media outlets speculate that the sudden popularity of The Hobbit in China is due to intense air pollution driving the populace indoors as the government advised people to limit outdoor activities. Others suggest that it’s because Chinese just really like dragons.
Consulting firm Artisan Gateway said the film earned around US $33.7 million between Friday and Sunday — some 75% more than the opening for An Unexpected Journey last year. At the current USD-Yuan exchange rate of 0.16 to the USD, that’s 210.625 million Yuan. According to the Wall Street Journal, “the cost of a movie ticket in China can range from 20 yuan to 100 yuan… depending on location. The average price in 2010 was around 40.40 yuan, or [US] $6.40.”
Assuming an average price per ticket of 40 Yuan, that would mean around 5.26 million Chinese watched The Desolation of Smaug over the weekend. That’s an awful lot of people, yet still only a fraction of the total population of the world’s most-populous nation.
From an initial US $18.7 million take in China, An Unexpected Journey went on to total $49.7 million last year. A similar result would see The Desolation of Smaug earn almost $90 million.
The total box office outside of North America for The Desolation of Smaug now sits at $637.1 million, and the film is yet to open in Japan — the world’s third-largest cinema market by value.
So far, The Desolation of Smaug has earned US $893 million worldwide, with US $256.6 million coming from North America.
A good result in China could push the worldwide box office past $960 million, but if Japan’s taste for Middle-earth has truly fallen away, then The Desolation of Smaug might fall just shy of the magic $1 billion mark.
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.
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.
Philippa Boyens may not have quite the name recognition of a Peter Jackson, but her role in the Rings trilogy and the subsequent Tolkien three-parter has been pivotal. The co-writer and producer, currently talking up The Hobbit: The Desolation Of Smaugs upcoming Blu-ray/ DVD release, boasts the most inside of tracks on the behemoth franchise as it rumbles towards its conclusion and shared it with Empire when we caught up with her.
I can legitimately say right now that the third film doesnt exist, she stressed before the questions started rolling in. Petes cutting it. As an entity, its coming together. Actually thats not true - we have a rough assembly, so to speak, of the shape of the film and the performances. I am excited, because one of the storylines I care a lot about is the Thorin one."
Of course, The Desolation Of Smaug's cliffhanger ending left the leader of the Company of Dwarves in a state of increasing agitation, with the pressures of his quest and that massive great dragon hellbent on flaming destruction weighing heavily. And Boyens isnt promising plain-sailing for the pint-sized royal anytime soon. Richard Armitage is extraordinary, as Thorin descends into madness, she said of The Hobbit: There And Back Agains dwarfish denouement.
Asked about the reasons for that Lake-town cliffhanger, Boyens explained that as a natural break in the story it was the most obvious place to end the second film. She added: It felt so natural that I got a shock when the audience got a shock! If you can imagine what transpires next and whats coming, its quite a huge chunk of storytelling. Not only that, but you enter into the tone of the third film, which is very definitely - as is the book, by the way - moving towards the world of Middle-earth as it becomes in Lord Of The Rings. Some dark stuff goes on.
And what of the dwarves' decision to make that most elementary of movie errors: splitting up? We made that decision [so we would] experience the attack on Lake-town through the eyes of people we've come a long way with, she said. We wanted some of the dwarves to understand what happened in that firestorm, that holocaust that rains down upon Lake-town. Bofur (James Nesbitt) comes more into his own in the third film. A rift begins to open up. And I cant say much more without going into spoilers for film three, but its primarily because we needed him to be there when the dragon attacks."
The third and final part of The Hobbit trilogy arrives with us on December 17. Head here for our soothsayer-style prediction of its likely fortunes.
FYI, The Desolation of Smaug is now available in iTunes and Amazon Instant Streaming.
Damn watching fotr right now that boromir after getting shot by the arrows and still fighting EPIC !!!
The EE are untouchable !!EE also emphasises Merry and Pippin trying to help him.
I wonder if they'll have the molten metal tech ready by There and Back Again...
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.
EE also emphasises Merry and Pippin trying to help him.
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?
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.
which retailer is selling the one with the Lego Lego Lego Legolas figure? Target?