LotR releases for Desolation of Smaug

[Hammers]

I am here to change opinions!!!

Heath Ledger as the joker. NOBODY SAW THAT COMING fans complained till the heavens were almost brought down and now some of those same people wear shirts with him on it!!

Prejudice is poor for movies, tv shows, books and people. Give it a shot and THEN tell me why you don't like it. It might be terribly over done hog wash or it may be the relighting of a new generation of fantasy lovers in the youth of today!   

Also I am totally playing around and trolling because I had a bunch of coffee this morning!!!

 

Well, somethings amiss because all you deliver is a bunch of platitudes. 

[Doomhippie]

My wife told me yesterday "if you want Tolkien read the books - he didn't make any movies. Peter Jackson made the movies so he has every right in the world to do what he wants with them and in them". There isn't much arguing with that logic, I suppose.

[Vermis]

My wife told me yesterday "if you want Tolkien read the books"

I saw Waterstones had nice new hardback editions of The Hobbit and The Lord of The Rings on display.

[von Lucky]

Stop complaining. The studios could've added car chases and guns to spice it all up.

Or vampires. What, there were some in old Reuel's world?

Well teen vampires then.

[joroas]

and teen werebears?

[3 fingers]

Would it be hot teenage vampire cheerleaders

[Doomhippie]

As Long as they don't shine like diamonds in the sunlight.... [making various gagging noises in the Corner...]

[Vermis]

Stop complaining.

And here I was all ready to let the thread be, until I read that...

The studios could've added car chases and guns to spice it all up.

Instead they added shield-surfing, dwarf-tossing, horrible mischaracterisation... and Orlando Bloom.

[Doomsdave]

well its not all other sides of the room. I loved apocalypse now redux. I didnt fell like I was there for 3 hours though. Blade runner directors cut is the better film. (it and dune were from an era where the producer had too much power so they were cut down too far sometimes to make it easy for movie theatres and TV to show them.)

I would have really enjoyed a longer Dune movie (I own the extended cut).  I really liked the aesthetic that Lynch created but too much was left out.  I liked LotR but it is sometimes unnecessarily long.   

[grant]

I would have really enjoyed a longer Dune movie (I own the extended cut).  I really liked the aesthetic that Lynch created but too much was left out.  I liked LotR but it is sometimes unnecessarily long.   

More Sting.


That is all.

[joroas]

More Sting.

I thought Bilbo's sword was in both film series?

[Doomhippie]

I'm sure it wasn't in the "Dune" movie. But that singer of the same name was.  

[Johnno]

I saw the Desolation of Smaug yesterday. Quite good. The GW releases are accurate to those depicted in the movie. can't wait to see their ( probably uber expensive) Smaug.

[Cubs]

"Smaug ... Smaug ... Smaugheeeaaad."

[Momotaro]

Saw it today, sad case that I am.  Enjoyable popcorn movie, loosely based on the Tolkien novel of the same name

If you hated Legolas and his "elf physics" in LotR, there's a lot more of it here.  I thought it was fun, but there were points in the movie where there was just too much happening to take in.

The spiders and barrel chase (I know there wasn't a barrel chase in the book...) were fun and Bombur is a badass orc-killer.  Beorn is great (dangerous and powerful and sad) and not as naff as the GW sculpt, Thranduil is creepily distant, Bard is a diamond in the rough.

Smaug is just brilliant on his pile of gold (literally a mountain filled with the stuff), although his dialogue wanders off into Action Movie Baddie cliche when the movie goes off-script.  They do a good job of tying him into the plans of Sauron, and a lot of people are explicitly sucked in by the glamour of the gold.

Evangeline Lilly is good as Tauriel, Kili HAS to be for the chop in the last film now that he has a love interest...

Big new sections in Laketown and Erebor.  Dol Guldur is pretty cool.

Without spoilers, the figures COULD be great - possible new orcs in battle armour, a new orc leader, and Beorn in bear-form could an amazing mini.  That Vendel mini I listed for Beorn a couple of pages up could be a good man-form for him - the character is very, very tall...

Everything to play for in the last movie!

Easter egg - Peter Jackson is the first person's face you see on screen.