Yay!
I’m kinda meh on the idea of a Hobbit movie, but I’m glad they’ve finally started filming so that they can finish filming and Martin Freeman can go back to making more Sherlock Holmes episodes.
At least he looks like a hobbit.
Finally!
Damn shame about the 3D nonsense. I’m so happy they are filming - Ian McKellen is not getting any younger.
3D? Booooooooooooooooooooo!!!
I’ll be glad when the fad dies off the second time around.
Glad to hear it.
And boy, would I love to have even 1% of opening weekend box office receipts for that film…
I’m really looking forward to it, but the problem is that when I look forward to a movie in advance (Which is not very often) it usually turns out to be incredibly disappointing.f
“…Shapeshifters and Sorcerers” and 3D - sigh
I will not hate this until I see it.
I will not hate this until I see it.
I will not hate this until I see it.
Ok fine, I will try not to hate this before I see it.
I’m looking forward to it but also expect to be disappointed so at least my expectations are not crazy high like they were for the “Fellowship of the Ring”.
Are you shitting me? Scratch that one off my theater-going list.
Aw fuck! The trilogy was the very definition of epic, with only two dimensions. It packed about five extra dimensions of awesome.
Awesome! I can’t wait!
For some reason I cannot help but wish that John Candy was alive to do a “3d house of Hobbits” parody along the lines of this old SCTV classic;
Imagine Frodo or Gollum moving the ring toward the camera and back along with that music effect.
The Hobbit has both a shapeshifter and a sorcerer. Whats the sigh for?
I think The Hobbit could work quite nicely in 3D if it is carefully thought out. Avatar had that kind of thought put into it. (So did the recent grindhouse schlock Drive Angry.) But most movies don’t benefit from it.
Because the last thing I want is for the focus of this movie to be on anyone other than Bilbo. I understand marketing is going to be for those who have no idea what “The Hobbit” is about. I understand they’ll focus on special effects and likely throw in crap like the White Council assault on the Necromancer but I don’t like it.
That and I’m trying to figure out how the use of 3D is going to work with the cool perspective forcing the LotR used.
Most 3D movies are available in 2D as well. And it’s the 2D version that I’ll be watching. Don’t need that 3D distraction!
But even if you don’t add anything except what was directly in the book, you have to include the shapeshifter and the sorceror, no? It’s not like Gandalf and Beorn are minor characters that should be cut out…
I could see why someone might personally want not to see the 3D version of a movie, but not why someone would boycott the 2D version just because a 3D version also exists.
Maybe if they keep repeating “gimmick” over and over again, someone will eventually believe them.