Bo5A full trailer released
Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2014 8:48 pm
Anybody catch the ‘offical’ full trailer for PJ’s The Hobbit: Part The Third?
I…just……meh.
Things we saw what I’m looking forward to:
Smaug vs. Lake-town (how could they possibly screw it up?)
Bilbo sneaking off at night (looks like the book!)
the standoff at the gate (looks like the book!)
White Council scenes (happened offscreen in the book, so knock yourself out, PJ!)
Things that make me shake my head: (aside from the right-off-the-bat use of the orangeandbluey/desaturated palette, and Inception horns standard trailer soundtrack)
*Hammy Thranduil. The actor’s very very similar scene-chewing scenes in Guardians of the Galaxy were my least favorite parts of that otherwise fun flick.
*Thumbs-up for acknowledging Mount Gundabad, especially as the source of the orc army, but apparently having Legolas and Tauriel there (for some reason) just makes me question PJ’s grasp of both M-E geography and logistics—quick calculations show it’s a ~700 mile roundtrip from Dale!—in this trilogy. It's a shame, because the LotR trilogy did extremely well in conveying not only distances covered but the times it took to cover them. These films? Not so much.
*for that matter, pretty much anything with Legolas—or at least the flashy, twirly videogame character-version of him in these films. Really, he could hand you a knife and it would go ‘Thwwip!’
*Trolls (what are they doing there?!) wearing catapults, or something.
Really, one of my biggest complaints with Jackson’s telling of this story is the way he’s completely raised the stakes to an unnecessary level. Yes, I get that he’s trying to do something reminiscent of the 1960 Hobbit, with a more LotR-like tone. But calling this ‘The Defining Chapter’ seems a little over-the-top, no? (And really: from the perspective of the present, anything that happened in the past could be considered a defining moment).
The Battle of Five Armies (which, semantically, seems quite different from The Battle Of The Five Armies) in the book almost seemed like an accidental event—in fact, Tolkien starts the breakdown of the battle by saying, “So began a battle that none had expectedâ€!
Bottom line: if there’s one thing I’m looking forward to about the end of this trilogy, it’s the like, nine hours of fodder available for someone to make a really solid fan-edit.
I…just……meh.
Things we saw what I’m looking forward to:
Smaug vs. Lake-town (how could they possibly screw it up?)
Bilbo sneaking off at night (looks like the book!)
the standoff at the gate (looks like the book!)
White Council scenes (happened offscreen in the book, so knock yourself out, PJ!)
Things that make me shake my head: (aside from the right-off-the-bat use of the orangeandbluey/desaturated palette, and Inception horns standard trailer soundtrack)
*Hammy Thranduil. The actor’s very very similar scene-chewing scenes in Guardians of the Galaxy were my least favorite parts of that otherwise fun flick.
*Thumbs-up for acknowledging Mount Gundabad, especially as the source of the orc army, but apparently having Legolas and Tauriel there (for some reason) just makes me question PJ’s grasp of both M-E geography and logistics—quick calculations show it’s a ~700 mile roundtrip from Dale!—in this trilogy. It's a shame, because the LotR trilogy did extremely well in conveying not only distances covered but the times it took to cover them. These films? Not so much.
*for that matter, pretty much anything with Legolas—or at least the flashy, twirly videogame character-version of him in these films. Really, he could hand you a knife and it would go ‘Thwwip!’
*Trolls (what are they doing there?!) wearing catapults, or something.
Really, one of my biggest complaints with Jackson’s telling of this story is the way he’s completely raised the stakes to an unnecessary level. Yes, I get that he’s trying to do something reminiscent of the 1960 Hobbit, with a more LotR-like tone. But calling this ‘The Defining Chapter’ seems a little over-the-top, no? (And really: from the perspective of the present, anything that happened in the past could be considered a defining moment).
The Battle of Five Armies (which, semantically, seems quite different from The Battle Of The Five Armies) in the book almost seemed like an accidental event—in fact, Tolkien starts the breakdown of the battle by saying, “So began a battle that none had expectedâ€!
Bottom line: if there’s one thing I’m looking forward to about the end of this trilogy, it’s the like, nine hours of fodder available for someone to make a really solid fan-edit.