New Hobbit Trailer Debuts 130
New submitter madmarcel tips news that a new trailer for The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey has been released.
"The new piece (seen above) is about the same length -- 2 1/2 minutes -- as the December trailer. But it cuts to the chase more quickly, leaving out the Frodo voiceover that sets up the Lord of the Rings follow-up. Instead we get the quick voiceover explanation -- 'the dwarves are determined to reclaim their homeland' -- before we meet up with Martin Freeman's Bilbo Baggins and set off. There's a slightly less self-serious tone to the proceedings this time around, though questers do 'enter the mountain' and play important games of riddles."
Trailers (Score:5, Insightful)
Am I the only one who prefers to wait for the finished product rather than watch it in two-minute disjointed chunks over the course of the next three months?
I quit watching trailers entirely for this reason and because they almost always give away the plot (or the best jokes, or the twist) anymore. Tron: Legacy, for example (admittedly, not exactly a thespianic masterpiece), completely ruined the entire plot start to finish for me with a four-word sentence in the trailer. It gave it away completely.
Re:Awesome (Score:2, Insightful)
If you get the chance, read The Hobbit to her in the time before the movie is released. Give her the chance to use her own imagination before seeing the film.
I read The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings to my son somewhere between the ages of 5 and 10. I can't remember exactly. It took weeks over the summer holidays. But it was a very memorable experience. Four is probably too young for TLotR, but probably fine for The Hobbit.
Years later, when the films came out, my son understood why I was raging so much about the loss of "The Scouring of the Shire" :-) Anyway, we're both looking forward to seeing Smaug eventually, although that's probably going to be mostly in the next film.
Re:Meh? (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Awesome (Score:2, Insightful)
"I'll be bringing my 4-year-old daughter to that one -- time to start the indoctrination into geekery..."
Try actually reading her the book like a real parent would.
Re:WTF, where's the freakin' D R A G O N ??? !!! (Score:4, Insightful)
The whole homeland crap in the voiceover narration betrays horrible mis-representation.
The lure was the TREASURE.
The battle of 5 armies was over preserving the TREASURE.
Lonely Mountain was never a "homeland". That was Khazad Dum.
Re:nice but (Score:5, Insightful)
While I understand the impatience to get to dessert...
A full length novel is generally much, much longer in terms of plot than the average two to three hour film screenplay. A typical screenplay is more equivalent to a short story or novelette. While The Hobbit is by no means a lengthy tome, it is certainly more than a short story, and when you add in the additional material Jackson is introducing (White Council, Dol Guldur, Radagast, etc.) it would be impossible to cram into a commercially viable screenplay.
I was fine with two films, and I'm fine with three. I'm happy to have the story fleshed out with more context, and I'm mostly fine with having Jackson and company extrapolate and add things, recognizing that film and text are different media with different strengths and weaknesses and techniques for storytelling. My "fine" stops with altering things that Tolkien actually wrote, as happened in spots in the Lord of the Rings movies. Nonetheless, I expect I'll enjoy these just as thoroughly as the last three. I doubt Jackson will pull a Lucas on us... let us hope.
And let it be said, I am willing to pay for my enjoyment, repeatedly, and do not begrudge the commercial nature of the venture, provided the art is not compromised thereby.
Re:Awesome (Score:4, Insightful)
Lynch's Dune is not close to the book in terms of story, but it is very accurate in terms of over all feeling I find.