That’s from the “You smelt it, you dealt it” edition. It was one of the dwarves who smelt it, of course.
I also heard they’re going to be putting out a fourth movie, entitled “The Hobbit: The Credits”. They should be able to trim it down to a tight 120 minutes.
Yes. He stops, looks up at it, touches it, rubs it between his fingers, then tastes it with a thoughtful look on his face.
Eventually. But first there’s a hour of tracing the bird’s genealogy back through twenty generations.
If this comes out tomorrow, why haven’t I been forced to sit through umpteen million commercials for it?
Not that I plan to buy it. I already bought the theatrical cut because I’d missed it in theaters, so will probably wait a few years until they put out a EE set of all the Hobbit movies.
Because they don’t need to advertise. That’s what had me scared about Ender’s Game. A gazillion TV ads implies they think it might bomb. With Jackson and The Hobbit, their audience is already waiting eagerly.
Downloading it now.
You forgot the part where he says “tastes like chicken.”
Well, the movie itself was only about 6gb in HD. The iTunes extras were 16.7gb. :eek:
I like the extended cut more than the original, especially the significantly extended Rivendell section of the movie. It feels more balanced in this cut and see more of the dwarves there.
The prologue feels better with the extra stuff as well, including the scene of more Dwarf and Elf tension.
I didn’t love the extra song, though. The Goblin King’s “down down down” song should have remained cut.
Since when does need enter into whether or not to advertise? I certainly saw a trillion commercials when the non EE discs were coming out, or when any other non obscure movie comes out.
Same with any big budget hollywood movie coming out. If anything lack of advertising for Enders Game would have been a warning sign had that been the case. All movies get a buttload of advertising unless they’re low budget or indy or something like that.
Do you even have a TV? I only ask because I can’t see how you’d miss all this advertising unless you were one of those people that have gone to only watching shows online.
Saving the movie for my bus ride(s), but going through the extras. Have only watched two bits so far. About a 48 minute film going over the pre-production stuff and ending with the Maori welcoming ceremony on the first day of shooting. Another vid on how they had picked Martin Freeman as Bilbo and then had all manner of issues keeping him given the timing of filming and how it kept getting pushed out. Lots more to go.
Tell me you’re not serious. A song? From the RB Hobbit no less?
RB???
But yes, I’m serious. There is an additional song, in addition to the ones in the opening of the movie.
Rankin Bass (starts at 44 seconds).
NOTE: Zombie-esque, from a few months ago.
“Down, down to Goblin town” is from Tolkien.
I just got the extended edition. I have to say that I like it better than the theatrical release, by a long shot. (I don’t think these are “spoilers” in any sense of the word.)
- The extended edition has more of Bilbo and his reactions, both in Hobbiton and in Rivendell. One of my disappointments with the released movie was that it couldn’t make up its mind whether it was about Bilbo or was a prequel to the LOTR. The extended edition is clearly about the Hobbit, with the LOTR stuff extra.
My other major objection was that the battle scenes with orcs were interminable. There are three fixes:
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The theatrical release intercut between Bilbo/Gollum and the dwarf/goblin-town battle. This made the battle seem interminable. The extended edition keeps the entire Riddles in the Dark sequence together, no intercutting with the battle upstairs. That makes the battle seem shorter (I don’t know whether they may have reduced battle scene time.)
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There are some goblin-town added scenes (interacting with Goblin King, not battle) that make the whole tone of goblin-town comedic. I think this is a big improvement; the theatrical release seemed to treat it as yet another action scene. In the extended edition, there’s lots of slapstick, comic song by Goblin-King, etc. The battle itself then feels shorter. Not by enough, but it helps.
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By having more material, the battles take up less of a percentage of time. I don’t know whether PJ actually shorterned the battle scenes, or whether they just “feel” shorter because there’s more movie around them, but they felt better.
The stone giant scene (which seemed forever in the theatre) seemed shorter in the EE. I don’t know if it was really cut or it I was just more tolerant sitting in my own comfy chair sipping tea than I was in a theatre.)
Finally, there’s more information about elf/dwarf hostility, more information at White Council meeting at Rivendell (about dwarf rings.)
On the whole, I think the extended edition saved the movie for me.
Definitely improved it for me - though I have one question for others with better memories.
In the EE Thranduil goes to see Thror and is…denied?..a necklace of diamonds. In the DoS Thranduil states the dwarf hoard contains white gems that are his. So was the original necklace scene in the theatrical release?
The narration of the necklace scene seems to imply that it’s the Nauglamír, but that was taken into the West by Elwing. Which is a neat piece of lore to drop into the movie except that it’s wrong.
I haven’t seen the EE yet, but I’m wondering–do they ever establish that Kili and Fili are Thorin’s nephews? It was never alluded to at all in the theatrical version. I was thinking about this again while watching the second movie last week; they did finally establish the relationship about half-way through that movie when the young dwarves stayed behind at Lake Town.
My question on the EE:
I read long ago about how the main guy at Ain’t It Cool was given a part as a hobbit in Hobbiton. He had to sign a non-disclosure agreement in exchange for such part, thereby insuring he wouldn’t spread spy pics or spoilers. He wrote that his scene was part of a “farmer’s market” scene in Hobbiton, and he got to play a fishmonger selling a fish to Bilbo. However, I saw no such scene in the theatrical edition.
Was there any farmer’s market scene in the EE?
Yes, the fishmonger scene made the EE.
Overall I liked the additions from the EE except for the dwarf food fight, and the nude dwarf fountain-bathing. I realize the dwarves in PJ’s movies are often there for comic relief, but those scenes were particularly stupid.
Otherwise it felt like the EE actually explains a number of things better than the abbreviated theatrical release.