The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug trailer

I originally thought they were going to ruin the entire idea of LOTR and The Hobbit but they have come through once again and restored faith.
 
So much this.

I was really disappointed watching the first Hobbit movie. I know that the book is not an epic but children's novel. But Jackson could have made it so much more like LotR and less for the younger masses.

This trailer looks more mature, darker. No retarded dish throwing scenes or harrmlessly designed goblin kings that are meant to be funnny.

More violence, more despair, more seriousness. Me likey.
 
lord of the rings and the hobbit are my favorite books!!!!!!! sooooo stoked.... since im small my brother calls me hobbit.
 
Well we both know why that is

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I don't know, I wish they would have just made it two 2 hour movies rather than 3 almost 3 hour movies, I'm pretty sure that trailer will be better than the film.
 
I think that the only one part they messed up really bad was the Gollum telling Riddles part. When I read the book that part scared me and had me nervous, but when I watched the movie, I and pretty much the whole theater laughed at it. Also, its great to see Legolas because he's raw as fuck, but I wonder how they're going to put him in here considering the fact that he wasn't in the book at all.
 
they're delving into a lot of the appendices of the other books. I don't think they mentioned the necromancer in the hobbit more than a couple sentences if that.
 
i'm going to walk into that theatre with an open mind, real casual, then proceed to get heated as fuck when azog the defiler comes on screen. fuck that plot being in the movies... is the main quest not enough? i haven't read the appendices or most of the silmarillion, but is he in those/what is his role?

hmmm i wonder if it will be feasible for me to re-read the hobbit in a day before seeing part two. i'd like to rehash my depictions of characters and scenes (especially smaug) before having them influenced by the movie.
 
Yeah clearly, considering that Radagast was in the book for maybe a sentence, but I'm interested to see where Gandalf actually was when he left the dwarves. And the whole orcs chasing them is added in there if I remember correctly. But the first one turned out pretty well. Only thing that I think will bug me a little bit about this one is the amount of CGI they use and the Elf Kings eyebrows.
 
The stuff that wasnt in the hobbit was taken from Tolkien's other book, The Similarillion. Or atleast thats what ive been told.
 
I read The Silmarillion and it doesn't really cover what Gandalf is doing during The Hobbit. I think it's being taken from Unfinished Tales.
 
Really? Ive never opened the book (or even seen a copy in person for that matter) but I heard it was mad hard to read. Like the diction and sentence structure and what not.
 
Honestly one of the most beautiful books I've read.

I didn't find it too difficult in terms of sentence structure. The most difficult part is just keeping track of the depth and detail of the stories. Many of the characters go by several different names as well.

All in all, I don't think Tolkien could have explained or illustrated the stories as well as he did if he had written it in a different or "dumbed down" (though I don't really like that term) way
 
i began reading it about a year ago. it read a little like a textbook and the characters have several names as stated above. gonna get gritty and read that and the unfinished tales at some point then go right into a hobbit and lotr re-reading. i shall know all that is middle earth :3
 
Yeah I dont remember if it was the sentence structure or not. I just remember that someone told me it was not an easy read. I may have to give it a go then at some point when i have time.
 
Saw it tonight. I couldn't get over how weird the high frame rate looked. I don't remember noticing it as much in the last one. Also not a fan of how much the CG looked like it was in a video game, not a movie. Maybe that's just the HFR. Part of what made the LOTR movies so great was the detail in all the costumes and make up. This felt like they just gave up and went straight to CG.
 
i felt the same way, too much focus on CG and special effects and not enough focus on the actual ACTING. the acting in this film was fucking HORRENDOUS!!!
 
Agree with above comments. What I really hated was how everything seemed to be CG. The orcs, scenery, hell even some horses (except for the ones you saw for 3 minutes). In the lotr movies the makeup for the orcs was amazing, the scenery almost looked real and they definitely used real horses the whole time.

It feels like they never put effort into filming these movies. Like they just hammered them out to get it done and make money. But, maybe I'm expecting too much because the lotr movies were so good.
 
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