I'm a fanboy of WETA, but I can't say I've enjoyed all of Peter Jackson's input. Regardless, Desolation of Smaug will probably be the only movie I saw in cinemas this year.
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Started by Mathijs, Jun 23 2011 05:17 PM
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Posted 02 March 2014 - 10:42 PM
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Posted 07 March 2014 - 02:41 AM
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
More than a teensy bit, if you ask me, but despite them the movie was quite enjoyable. Certainly not on par with the Lord of the Rings, but that was to be expected. Those three were a runaway success; these are closer to the middle of the pack.
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Posted 11 March 2014 - 08:15 PM
Production video 12, at 0:47... Those are Orcs entering Moria, aren't they?
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Posted 15 March 2014 - 03:37 AM
Now the folks at Weta have bought us Front Gate to Erebor
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Posted 15 March 2014 - 09:41 AM
Production video 12, at 0:47... Those are Orcs entering Moria, aren't they?
I thought the same, but now it looks more like the angular designs of Dol Guldur to me.
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Posted 15 March 2014 - 11:02 AM
But that gate on the right hand screen is an exact replica of the FotR/AUJ East Gate of Moria... Well, I think so 
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Posted 15 March 2014 - 11:05 AM
Yeah but there is what looks like a tree, and when the camera pans up you can see the rock face doesn't continue like it would at the East Gate.
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Posted 15 March 2014 - 11:41 AM
But that gate on the right hand screen is an exact replica of the FotR/AUJ East Gate of Moria... Well, I think so
There is that!
Yeah but there is what looks like a tree, and when the camera pans up you can see the rock face doesn't continue like it would at the East Gate.
But then there is that! What is this?!?
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Posted 15 March 2014 - 12:15 PM
Hmmm... looking at it again, Bofur might be right. Let's hope so.
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Posted 15 March 2014 - 01:11 PM
I hope they include at least a teaser of Balin's expedition That'd be awesome.
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Posted 15 March 2014 - 10:39 PM
Could be Erebor ya'know.
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Posted 16 March 2014 - 12:06 AM
That's true, but they gave the impression in the film that there were only 3 entrances.
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Posted 19 March 2014 - 12:47 AM
So I just got my grubby little hands on a blu-ray file of DoS, and watched some bits, hoping they'd be better this time.
They weren't really. Tauriel healing Kili still looks dumb, both visually and lore-wise (a 600-ish year old Elf captain performs Aragorn/Elrond-level healing, really?). The Dwarves battling Smaug is still way OTT. Dwarves using minor explosives, Thorin surfing a river of molten gold, said molten gold briefly solidifying within minutes before the impossibly elaborate plan to kill Smaug in a sea of molten gold reaches its climax (seriously, HOW DID THIS HAPPEN :( ).
Note that this sequence takes up about 20 minutes that could have been spent on, I don't know, Beorn, Mirkwood, or Thranduil's Halls. Add in a whole lot of superfluous and creepy-looking Legolas, a dazzlingly stupid romance between an Elf and a Dwarf that seems to develop within a single day, the obvious and bad editing in the Gandalf & Radagast scene in the Nazgûl tombs (the scene as it was originally meant to be added in the AUJ EE can be seen in the DoS fan preview), the OTT barrel escape (because fuck gravity), and holy shit why didn't anyone tell PJ that the whole molten gold thing is terrible writing. I'm done.
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Posted 19 March 2014 - 11:59 AM
you can buy it, put in on your big flatscreen and select pause when the great looking landscapes appear. Makes quite a nice poster.
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Posted 19 March 2014 - 12:48 PM
Well said. Is the quality good? Might have to.. purchase... it.
I... purchased... the 720p version, which is fine. There's better qualities available.
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Posted 22 March 2014 - 12:05 AM
The first thing that came to mind in the Molten Gold scheme when I watched it was "We have a wheelbarrow that can float on molten gold? Why was this not listed among our assets?"
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Posted 22 March 2014 - 01:22 AM
Considering the weight of gold and the vaguely boat-shape of a wheelbarrow, it's not really surprising
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Posted 22 March 2014 - 11:39 AM
Yeah, how can you not think a wheelbarrow will float on molten gold? Gold is way more dense than water, and wheelbarrows float on water, too
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