As the trailer reaches a crescendo, the emphasis switches back to Bilbo, including the dwarves crashing through his front door, the madcap plate-tossing (as opposed to dwarf tossing) party, and Bilbo vaulting a Hobbiton fence. The shot of Bilbo in his armchair offers an intriguing forward-looking motif: sewn into the chair’s throw are what appear to be miniature ‘eyes of Sauron’. Just a thematic nudge? “Can you promise I will come back?” asks a nervy Bilbo of Gandalf. McKellen fills his reply with every gram of the gravitas that elevated Rings to the level of serious drama: “No... and if you do, you will not be the same.” Do we sense the hand of a puppet-master in a much bigger picture?
Posted on Friday January 6, 2012, 22:28 by dannyfletch
I can not wait for this as I love the books and the Peter Jackson films. The cast is once again spot on and I am so glad that Jackson returned to the directors chair to make this. In 3D this should be amazing! Read More
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Posted on Monday December 26, 2011, 04:08 by Aragorn22
I can already see a few Oscars on the horizon for this film: Make-up, Art Direction and Costumes almost for sure (the last two depend on Spielberg's "Lincoln"). It's also quite probable that Howard Shore could win for the score, but that's a little unlikely, considering he's already won twice, and both times for films related to this series. Cinematography also seems a given (the Dol Guldur sequences convinced me of that, as well as the sweeping landscape shots of New Zealand), and if the 3D is well done, I think I will be proved right. At first I also thought visual effects, but after having seen the trailer to Ridley Scott's "Prometheus", I'm now leaning more towards that one instead (though it depends on what Jackson does with the Mirkwood spiders sequence, which I expect to be in the first film). Part 2 of "The Hobbit", thanks to Smaug the dragon, will most likely take the effects Oscar the following year. I wish for a directing Oscar too, but that's uRead More
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Posted on Monday December 26, 2011, 03:23 by Aragorn22
The shot of the Ring is not under the Misty Mountains, it's in Mirkwood, I'm sure: look at all the spider webs; a very famous scene form the book. The Ring itself here is probably only used as a device to tie in the trailer to the LOTR trilogy. I don't think it will appear in the film as such. Anyway... Anyone notice they still haven't fixed Gandalf's sword, Glamdring, which should glow blue like Sting when near Orcs? I guess they had the same budgetary cuts as on the trilogy... Still, I am so psyched by this trailer, I almost came in my pants when first viewed (and heard, Shore's score being astounding) in theatres. Still no news on a Liv Tyler cameo, though, and that's a shame... Read More
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Posted on Monday December 26, 2011, 03:01 by Aragorn22
The appearance of the shards of Narsil suggest that Aragorn might be part of the film. At the time of "The Hobbit", Aragorn is 10 years old, and recently, the production have hired a 10 year-old boy named John Bell! Read More
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Posted on Monday December 26, 2011, 02:54 by Aragorn22
Look at this one shot more carefully in the trailer: that is not Sir Ian Holm... Read More
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Posted on Thursday December 22, 2011, 14:45 by Agent69
Posted on Thursday December 22, 2011, 13:33 by gambit21
Loved the trailer, the singing was actually my favourite bit - full of pain and loss and memory. Although I would quibble that Armitage is no basso, but merely a bass or baritone. Basso profundos are really really deep. Perhaps I'm wrong though Read More
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RE: Humbug
Posted on Wednesday December 21, 2011, 15:46 by SailorOrion
well...then I guess you won't watch the films.....because as with the book, the films are full of dwarves. Read More
