Only watched it the once last night. Wasn't particularly impressed by the trailer itself.
This morning I've watched it three times and counting (lol), and I'm a lot more excited. Perhaps my biggest problem is that the trailer mostly shows stuff referencing LoTR, whereas what I'm anticipating the most is that which belongs to The Hobbit alone.
I don't have the biggest demands, just a few core hopes:
- I want to generally be able to distinguish members of the Company by movie's end. Yes, Bilbo and Thorin should dominate, but I want the rest to be their own characters, not just The Dwarves.
- I want the "goblins" to be more developed than LoTR's average orcs.
- I want the fullest coverage of the book's events as possible, within reason (they have two movies, so this shouldn't be asking too much).
- I want these movies to stand apart from LoTR, to not rely too much on nostalgia and be their own thing.
All of these desires could totally happen, it just doesn't show it in the trailer. Of course, it's just the first trailer. And I appreciate when a movie has a lot to show, yet the trailer doesn't give it all away.
Goddamn this is going to be the worst two year wait.