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[Lauri]

New dev diary 2. About the musical score, mostly.

It seems that you were correct on your assumtion for the dwarves of the Iron Hills, Bashkuga. Too bad, they look so generic.

[Bashkuga]

Well, at least he got a mattock .

[Bashkuga]

New releases from GW guys, though only for the good forces. The new models are mostly men from Lake-town. The faces of Alfrid en the Master of Lake-town gave me a good laugh.

[Bofur]

"[There and Back Again] will be the last film adaptation of The Lord of the Rings and related works, as the Tolkien Estate has forbidden any more films from being made."

 

I know it may not be entirely true, coming from the lotr wiki page, but that's incredibly sad. :(

[Mathijs]

I don't see how that can be true, seeing as the Tolkien Estate does not own the rights to make films out of LotR and The Hobbit.

[Bashkuga]

Well PJ said in the first production video that this was the last time he will make a Middle-Earth movie, so it's partly true. Though I could've misunderstood it and he actually meant that this was the last LOTR movie ever made.

His words were: "(....)There won't be another Middle-Earth movie experience." If I remember it correctly.

[Bofur]

I don't see how that can be true, seeing as the Tolkien Estate does not own the rights to make films out of LotR and The Hobbit.

 

Maybe so, but the Tolkien Estate were looking for a court order for shutting down any further New Line Middle-Earthian stuff until they patched up that quarrel, so it's definitely possible...

[Dark Lord]

that beautiful orcs, finally, as they should be

 

 

 

 

[Radspakr Wolfbane]

http://www.theonerin...-video-release/

Home release for DOS.

[Bofur]

Some VFX stuff from DoS: 

 

 

So it was going to be Bolg at Dol Guldur... To be honest, I'd have preferred it...

Edited by Bofur, 21 February 2014 - 09:22 PM.

[Mathijs]

So China got an awesome DoS poster.

[Kwen]

I wonder if they dubbed the movie into Chinese, or just used subtitles. I think it would be hilarious to watch the movie with badly dubbed Chinese voices.

[Bofur]

Smaug!

 

 

Also, vote for the Hobbit! http://www.empireonl...com/awards2014/

Edited by Bofur, 01 March 2014 - 07:13 PM.

[Lauri]

Also, vote for the Hobbit! http://www.empireonl...com/awards2014/

Why? Public voting like this is stupid, I've only seen the Hobbit and Star Trek among these movies, and neither are brilliant. And I'm pretty sure that most voters haven't seen them all, so the voting is super-biased. I want  to see a few of the other ones of course, but I'm not spending a fortune to see them all at the cinema, so the voting system where "the only true winner wins because the public votes" is ridiculous. If the official Hobbit page on Facebook shares this, the Hobbit will win by a mile.

 

And Peter Jackson being nominated as "Best Director" for DoS is a joke. Seriously, is there no one else?

[Mathijs]

Unfortunately, both The World's End and the Wolf of Wall Street were far more enjoyable to me than the Hobbit. 

[Bofur]

Also, vote for the Hobbit! http://www.empireonl...com/awards2014/

Why? Public voting like this is stupid, I've only seen the Hobbit and Star Trek among these movies, and neither are brilliant. And I'm pretty sure that most voters haven't seen them all, so the voting is super-biased. I want  to see a few of the other ones of course, but I'm not spending a fortune to see them all at the cinema, so the voting system where "the only true winner wins because the public votes" is ridiculous. If the official Hobbit page on Facebook shares this, the Hobbit will win by a mile.
 
And Peter Jackson being nominated as "Best Director" for DoS is a joke. Seriously, is there no one else?

Well, about that... I got the link from a Hobbit page on FB...

And DoS really isn't that bad at all, everyone I've spoken to about it enjoyed it, some rating it higher than Gravity and 12 Years a Slave...
Also, PJ didn't do too sloppy a job with the directing. The Hobbit and LotR films have some of the best cinematography I've seen.

[Mathijs]

Yeah, I enjoyed DoS quite a bit, but it fell a couple inches short for me in the end.

[Bofur]

Most of my worries were something like: This isn't in the book! Why?

But then I realised that "just going with it" would probably help. And it really did. Any film set in Middle Earth will make me happy

[Mathijs]

To me it wasn't so much 'this isn't in the book', it was more 'this isn't in the book and it's terribly written'.

[Bofur]

To me it wasn't so much 'this isn't in the book', it was more 'this isn't in the book and it's terribly written'.

There was a teensy bit of that, yeah