Hobbit Trailer looks crap

[alatar]

Everything bothers me...

I haven't worked out the exact math, but if PJ's can take the Hobbit's few pages about barrel-riding and make an hours-long flight scene, just think what he could do with the Lay of Leithian!

The mind staggers...

And I know what I could watch on my flight to Mars.

[Mithalwen]

Well we have the cavetroll precedent.
My nightmare is that when I am doddery enough to be consigned to a care home some hapless attendant discovering that I was a life long tolkien fan will sit me in front o the films on an eternal loop and I will be too far gone to protest but not enough not to mind. I may have to have a living will with an unusual clause.

[Morthoron]

Originally Posted by Mithalwen

My nightmare is that when I am doddery enough to be consigned to a care home some hapless attendant discovering that I was a life long tolkien fan will sit me in front o the films on an eternal loop and I will be too far gone to protest but not enough not to mind.

Oh, the horror.

[Zigûr]

So I just saw this trailer (not the newer one) before an Imax showing of Gravity (which I found reasonably enjoyable, incidentally).

I'm fairly sure at some point in the trailer focus was specifically, deliberately placed on the silvery hairs in Thranduil's eyebrows.

Bard looks like he just got thrown out of an alehouse.

I feel like I know now how Maedhros felt after he was hung from his hand for who knows how long from the dreadful pinnacle of Thangorodrim, or perhaps the awful torment of Húrin, forced to watch the suffering from afar of all he held dear. If the conclusion of the entire Hobbit film trilogy isn't the emotional equivalent of an escape facilitated by having one's hand cut off by one's best friend, I shall be sorely aggrieved.

[Morthoron]

I just saw a commercial for Desolation of Smaug on TV. Based on the tawdry images and overblown dynamics of the piece, it is even worse than I had imagined. And I have a vivid imagination.

[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.

[Zigûr]

Originally Posted by alatar

just think what he could do with the Lay of Leithian!

And I daresay he would be lauded in some quarters for his ingenuity... I read recently a transcript of a panel featuring the filmmakers and there was apparently an audible "Aw" from the audience when Peter Jackson informed them that The Silmarillion was probably an impossibility for adaptation for reasons of copyright. I would confess myself unbelievably surprised if very many of such an alleged Tolkienite audience had even read The Silmarillion.