Hobbit Trailer looks crap

[jallanite]

One finds this thread of negative reactions to the trailer. And on some other sites one find very positive reactions to the trailer, with people saying how they “can’t wait” to see what will obviously be one of the greatest films of their lives.

Lines are being drawn.

[Inziladun]

Originally Posted by jallanite

One finds this thread of negative reactions to the trailer. And on some other sites one find very positive reactions to the trailer, with people saying how they “can’t wait” to see what will obviously be one of the greatest films of their lives.

Lines are being drawn.

Just like the LOTR film frenzy when this forum was young.

In comparison though, the appearance to me is that negative reactions are more widespread this time around. Perhaps PJ's first efforts left a lingering bad taste with some that the new trailers are doing nothing to assuage?

[Michael Murry]

Originally Posted by jallanite

One finds this thread of negative reactions to the trailer. And on some other sites one find very positive reactions to the trailer, with people saying how they “can’t wait” to see what will obviously be one of the greatest films of their lives.

Lines are being drawn.

I have not seen any of the trailers for the second three-hour-third of a two-and-a-half-hour movie for the same reason that I have studiously avoided a second viewing (on rental DVD or TV) of the first three-hour-third of the same two-and-a-half-hour movie. I suppose one could call that "drawing a line" of sorts. Bad film experiences with cynical, formulaic fan-milking will tend to do that.

Personally, I will wait for the Rotten Tomatoes film reviews and discussion on this forum before I will even consider watching another three-hour-third of a two-hour movie. As the old saying goes: "You can always tell the pioneers. They're the ones with the arrows sticking out of their backs." Not me. Not this time.

[alatar]

Sadly, I know that eventually I'll have to see Part 2, if only to have that much more to snark about. Not that the new trailer isn't providing much fodder on its own...

Originally Posted by The Appendices

Dwarf: "We've too much bread; not enough butter."

King Dwarf: "We will scrape the butter until there is no butter left to scrape!"

[Morthoron]

What one finds so dismaying (if one could actually be dismayed by anything Jackson might do at this juncture) is that there is absolutely no dialogue from the book in the trailer. Granted, this is my unscientific recollection of what I saw, but every word spoken seemed superfluously scripted by sophomoric Kiwi scribes.

It's as if PJ & Co. have decided that Middle-earth is now their personal litter box and they're ****ing in it as it suits them.

[alatar]

Originally Posted by Morthoron

What one finds so dismaying (if one could actually be dismayed by anything Jackson might do at this juncture) is that there is absolutely no dialogue from the book in the trailer.

It's straight from the Appendices, duh!

It's all there, word for word and a few between.

[Aganzir]

And even if there are lines straight from the book, you can bet they've been given to somebody else than the original speaker.

[mark12_30]

Or we could just talk about the contrasts cheerfully, recognizing that we're talking more about the book now than we were before the trailer came out; excepting of course those who recently posted in the books forum, such as in Chapter-by-chapter. I did not post much there, not as much as I wanted to, and I find myself wanting to reread the books-- the appendices, and the Unfinished Tales section, and There And Back Again, The Children's Book That Morphed.

I'm enjoying that lingering desire, and if a few of PJ's panoramic scenes contribute to that desire I shall not grouse; except perhaps about a few things such as Radagast's, erm, hair.

But I shall enjoy Tauriel. After all, she hasn't edited one word of the book.

[Inziladun]

Originally Posted by mark12_30

But I shall enjoy Tauriel. After all, she hasn't edited one word of the book.

There's the key! If PJ had simply written his own Tolkien-like "homage" screenplay and made up his own characters, there'd be no issues.

[Morthoron]

Originally Posted by Aganzir

And even if there are lines straight from the book, you can bet they've been given to somebody else than the original speaker.

Intercepted script fragment from The Desolation of Smaug:

Gandalf: "Why, I feel all thin, sort of stretched, if you know what I mean: like butter that has been scraped over too much bread. That can't be right. I need a change, or something.”

Bilbo: “So do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”

Gandalf: "We don't want any adventures here, thank you!"

Elrond: "I don't hold with ironmongery, whether it wears well or no."

Gollum: "Fly you fools!"

[jallanite]

Originally Posted by alatar

It's straight from the Appendices, duh!

It's all there, word for word and a few between.

I don’t see that.

Perhaps you intend this as some kind of parody?

[Morthoron]

Originally Posted by alatar

It's straight from the Appendices, duh!
It's all there, word for word and a few between.

Usually, a swollen appendix is surgically removed before it bursts and causes peritonitis, but I suppose in this case the proper terminology would be peregrinitis.