'The Hobbit' New Trailer

[unokitty]

Hobbit Trailer

Two minutes, thirty seconds.

Uno

 

[Platypus]

Is the trailer an hour long?

 

[clamum]

Looks pretty sweet!

 

[Icepick]

We already know that the story will be broken into two movies. From this trailer it looks like the first climax at the battle with the goblins in the Misty Mountains and will probably end well before they enter Mirkwood. That seems like a natural place to break the story.

 

[darkewaffle]

We already know that the story will be broken into two movies. From this trailer it looks like the first climax at the battle with the goblins in the Misty Mountains and will probably end well before they enter Mirkwood. That seems like a natural place to break the story.

Wasn't it reported a little while ago that it's actually being split into three?

 

[BudAshes]

Wasn't it reported a little while ago that it's actually being split into three?

The hobbit doesn't really have a ton of story to it. If they can split the hobbit into 3 movies they could have made 20 out of LOTR.

 

[darkewaffle]

The hobbit doesn't really have a ton of story to it. If they can split the hobbit into 3 movies they could have made 20 out of LOTR.

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2260981&highlight=hobbit

Well they're doing it anyway.

 

[seepy83]

They did absolutely announce that it will be 3 movies. Supposedly they are doing it because they will be including a lot of information from the LotR appendices.

 

[BudAshes]

They did absolutely announce that it will be 3 movies. Supposedly they are doing it because they will be including a lot of information from the LotR appendices.

I'm all for more peter jackson doing Tolkien. If they can find stuff to fill out I'm all for it. I just don't want more scenes like the drawn out end of the ROTK that completely ignores the end of the actual book.

 

[HeXen]

So i should watch the Hobbit trilogy before i watch LOTR right? assuming i ever do

 

[seepy83]

So i should watch the Hobbit trilogy before i watch LOTR right? assuming i ever do

Not necessarily. They're connected by some characters, but pretty independent stories. Plenty of people watched LotR without ever having read the Hobbit or LotR, and the LotR movies were a huge hit.

 

[Ns1]

Not necessarily. They're connected by some characters, but pretty independent stories. Plenty of people watched LotR without ever having read the Hobbit or LotR, and the LotR movies were a huge hit.

yeah it helps but is not required. read the book. it's only like, 300 pages

 

[sigurros81]

what a dumbass website with the pop up ads.

 

[Jodell88]

Gollum!!!

 

[soulcougher73]

what a dumbass website with the pop up ads.

I didnt see any popups. Firefox + plugins FTW

 

[KMFJD]

Makes me want to go to NZ

 

[Jeffg010]

Awesome!

 

[BladeVenom]

yeah it helps but is not required. read the book. it's only like, 300 pages

Since they are stretching the story out to 3 movies, reading the book is quicker.

 

[Ns1]

Only about 4.5% of the 10,000 or so domestic screens that will show New Line and MGM’s The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey on December 14 will present it the way director Peter Jackson wants — at 48 frames per second instead of the conventional 24 frames. But Warner Bros Domestic Distribution President Dan Fellman tells me that this reflects a cautious rollout strategy, not a failure to win support from exhibition execs. Even now, “equipment is being tested” and some glitches have been corrected, he says. “So we did the right thing” by limiting the rollout to anywhere from 400 to 450 screens covering most major cities. “This is a technology that is going to change the way people see movies…You have to do it right.”

Warner Bros seemed to have bigger ambitions for the visually vivid 3D projection technology — which the studio’s calling “HFR” (for High Frame Rate) — at the exhibition industry’s CinemaCon trade confab in April. That effort hit a huge PR speed bump when several viewers said that they were unmoved by a 10-minute excerpt of the film in 48 fps. Carmike Cinemas’ Terrel Mayton said at the time that HFR “has to be a kick-the-picture-out (advancement) or it just becomes one of a long line of technology advances that’s here for a while and then move into oblivion.” Theater owners have to pay about $5,000 for a projector to handle HFR — first-generation digital ones can’t be upgraded. More recent projectors only require a software upgrade which can run $1,500. It can cost as much as $20,000 to make the change at an IMAX venue. Theaters also have to shell out more to store HFR prints than they do for conventional 24 fps digital films.

But Warner Bros knew at the CinemaCon demo that HFR probably wouldn’t sweep the industry because “we had no idea how fast or slow the equipment would be developed,” Fellman says. “We never expected to go 100%. At the time not one manufacturer was ready to do this. It was all in development.” He adds that the images that struck some viewers at the time as being too cold, similar to videotape, look a lot different now. Jackson “hadn’t had time to do color correction” or add graininess and filtering, Fellman says. “The reels I’ve seen knocked my socks off.” AMC Theaters says it will have 98 venues offering The Hobbit in HFR-3D and Regal Entertainment has 91. Tickets for the HFR screenings likely will cost no more than the theaters already charge for conventional 3D films.

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[BudAshes]

So i should watch the Hobbit trilogy before i watch LOTR right? assuming i ever do

I would watch LOTR now because it's awesome. Hobbit is related but they briefly hit on the important plot points in the LOTR movies.

 

[Triumph]

I'm all for more peter jackson doing Tolkien. If they can find stuff to fill out I'm all for it. I just don't want more scenes like the drawn out end of the ROTK that completely ignores the end of the actual book.

The only thing they left out was the burning of the shire, and honestly who cares? The ending was fine. The problem with the ending was in the books to begin with.

 

[KeithTalent]

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Ugh. I really have no desire to watch this stupid 48 FPS nonsense, especially if I have to pay more for it. I don't really understand the point; of course I am 100% anti-3D too, so maybe I'm just an old fuddy-duddy.

KT

 

[Aharami]

never read the books, but loved LOTR. even bought the extended BRD set. But I cant seem to get excited over the Hobbit movie(s). Is the story as epic as LOTR trilogy?

 

[Nintendesert]

Ugh. I really have no desire to watch this stupid 48 FPS nonsense, especially if I have to pay more for it. I don't really understand the point; of course I am 100% anti-3D too, so maybe I'm just an old fuddy-duddy.

KT

You've never even seen a 48FPS movie so yes, you're just an old fuddy duddy that's yelling at the trains as they pass by your house.

 

[crownjules]

never read the books, but loved LOTR. even bought the extended BRD set. But I cant seem to get excited over the Hobbit movie(s). Is the story as epic as LOTR trilogy?

It was written as a children's book and tells the story of the adventure on which Bilbo Baggins finds the One Ring. So it's not quite as epic, but it is still a good tale and will fill in some things you might not have understood in LOTR.