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[Mr Cola]

working for me, uk

 

[anonymous_abc]

not working for me in germany

 

[Expendable.]

Here's direct link to widget, but doubt it'll make much of a different: http://www.decca.com/hosting/hobbit/

 

[maquiladora]

Here's direct link to widget, but doubt it'll make much of a different: http://www.decca.com/hosting/hobbit/

Must be restricted to UK IP. Oh well, I'm sure it will pop up elsewhere soon.

 

[Rootbeer]

Gallery: New Deluxe Lord of the Rings Gollum and Smeagol Action Figures
http://necaonline.com/37526/blog/ne...-the-rings-gollum-and-smeagol-action-figures/

Planning on getting Gollum. Smeagol sculpt looks somewhat undesirable to me

 

[WJD]

working for me, uk

I'm UK too, so maybe it's a regional thing?

Dear god, CHILLS at the classic tracks.

 

[Expendable.]

Works for me now.

 

[Count of Monte Sawed-Off]

Works for me.

 

[Jibbajabbawockky]

The soundtrack is soooo good. Chills!

 

[Count of Monte Sawed-Off]

Pretty good so far

 

[strafer]

Empire have the complete soundtrack streaming.

http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=35757

It won't play for me though. :/

OMFG!

Spoiler

My Dear Frodo

 

[Rootbeer]

entire album for free streaming.
still can't purchase and download
why do they insist on ignoring money

Someone will rip it from empire, cut it up, put it on a torrent somewhere, and that'll be that. may only be 128kbps or so but it's still free. so why? the times man, the times.

 

[Karma Kramer]

works for me!

 

[maquiladora]

Yep its working for me now. I'm only going to listen to this once so its doesn't feel too familiar when I see the film.

 

[Altazor]

OMFG!

Spoiler

My Dear Frodo

OMFG indeed.

 

[Count of Monte Sawed-Off]

entire album for free streaming.
still can't purchase and download
why do they insist on ignoring money

Someone will rip it from empire, cut it up, put it on a torrent somewhere, and that'll be that. may only be 128kbps or so but it's still free. so why? the times man, the times.

Someone would have done that as soon as the CD was released too. Put it all up on youtube or who knows where. CD sales can't be what they used to be so maybe Empire offered them some money or advertising for this and they figured it was worth it.

 

[strafer]

Oh fuck! I pressed pause and now I have to start over again.

Screw it, I'll wait for the CD.

 

[Napalm_Frank]

Works for me now too.

 

[Jibbajabbawockky]

Oh fuck! I pressed pause and now I have to start over again.

Screw it, I'll wait for the CD.

Yeah...just got about 30 minutes in and paused only to come back and have to start over.

Someone would have done that as soon as the CD was released too. Put it all up on youtube or who knows where. CD sales can't be what they used to be so maybe Empire offered them some money or advertising for this and they figured it was worth it.

Pretty sure Empire had the whole soundtrack for The Dark Knight Rises up on their site prior to release too.

 

[Lucius86]

Oh fuck! I pressed pause and now I have to start over again.

Screw it, I'll wait for the CD.

Haha, I just did the same thing answering a phone call at work. :-(

 

[Count of Monte Sawed-Off]

Almost paused it a few minutes ago, will not be doing that now.

 

[maquiladora]

An Ancient Enemy...... I said wow.

 

[Count of Monte Sawed-Off]

An Ancient Enemy...... I said wow.

Yeah, that one was great.

 

[Altazor]

An Ancient Enemy...... I said wow.

so damn epic, that one.

 

[Kud Dukan]

Only listened to about 10 minutes of it since I need to go to class soon, but what I heard sounded fantastic. I'll listen to the entire thing later this evening.

 

[kingocfs]

Working for me. Pretty incredible that we're hearing this music again.

 

[maquiladora]

I'm hearing some LOTR motifs I really wasn't expecting to hear in The Hobbit...Could be spoilerific for people familiar with the LOTR soundtrack.

Edit : Absolutely love the soundtrack so far.

 

[Count of Monte Sawed-Off]

Finished. Really good stuff.

 

[Edmond Dantès]

Interesting list by WB


BEST PICTURE
CAROLYNNE CUNNINGHAM
ZANE WEINER
FRAN WALSH
PETER JACKSON

BEST DIRECTOR
PETER JACKSON

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
FRAN WALSH &
PHILIPPA BOYENS &
PETER JACKSON &
GUILLERMO DEL TORO

BEST ACTOR
MARTIN FREEMAN

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
IAN McKELLEN
RICHARD ARMITAGE
ANDY SERKIS

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
CATE BLANCHETT

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
ANDREW LESNIE, ACS, ASC

BEST ART DIRECTION
Production Designer
DAN HENNAH
Set Decorators
RA VINCENT
SIMON BRIGHT

BEST FILM EDITING
JABEZ OLSSEN

BEST COSTUME DESIGN
ANN MASKREY
RICHARD TAYLOR
BOB BUCK

BEST MAKEUP
Armour, Weapons, Creatures and Special Makeup
RICHARD TAYLOR
Hair and Makeup Design
PETER SWORDS KING

BEST SOUND MIXING
Production Sound Mixer
TONY JOHNSON
Re-Recording Mixers
CHRISTOPHER BOYES
MICHAEL HEDGES
MICHAEL SEMANICK

BEST SOUND EDITING
BRENT BURGE
CHRIS WARD

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
JOE LETTERI
ERIC SAINDON
DAVID CLAYTON
R. CHRISTOPHER WHITE

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
HOWARD SHORE

BEST ORIGINAL SONG
“Song of the Lonely Mountain”
Music by
NEIL FINN
DAVID DONALDSON
STEVE ROCHE
JANET RODDICK
DAVID LONG
Lyrics by
NEIL FINN
Performed and Produced by
NEIL FINN

http://www.herr-der-ringe-film.de/v3/de/news/tolkienfilme/news_97920.php


Optimistic list, I wonder how many of these will become a reality.

 

[Ainaurdur]

Optimistic list, I wonder how many of these will become a reality.

All of them! Or at least half of them? Anyway, it's about time the Oscars had some worthy movies to showcase. The last few times I have caught them on tv, they have been an absolute bore. This year has had at least a few good ones.

 

[Expendable.]

All of them! Or at least half of them? Anyway, it's about time the Oscars had some worthy movies to showcase. The last few times I have caught them on tv, they have been an absolute bore. This year has had at least a few good ones.

Yeah, they finally got the actual best movie of the year nominated this year with The Tree of Life.

 

[Edmond Dantès]

All of them! Or at least half of them? Anyway, it's about time the Oscars had some worthy movies to showcase. The last few times I have caught them on tv, they have been an absolute bore. This year has had at least a few good ones.

I fear There and Back Again will rewarded in the same manner as The Return of the King, hence AUJ and TDOS been ignored to a certain extent.

 

[maquiladora]

Interesting list by WB

....

Optimistic list, I wonder how many of these will become a reality.

All of those are a lock for nomination apart from the acting noms, those are very optimistic.

 

[Kud Dukan]

All of those are a lock for nomination apart from the acting noms, those are very optimistic.

I'm not sure the Best Picture/Director nominations are locks either right now. Those categories are going to be very competitive this year, and I sometimes wonder if the Academy will feel that they have rewarded Peter Jackson's Middle-earth films enough after Return of the King.

If the film is as fantastic as we are all hoping though, I can definitely see it getting nominated. I'm rooting for them!

 

[strafer]

If it wins all 16 nominations I'm gonna soil myself

 

[Daft_Cat]

...

....

HNNNGGGG.

 

[maquiladora]

I'm not sure the Best Picture/Director nominations are locks either right now. Those categories are going to be very competitive this year, and I sometimes wonder if the Academy will feel that they have rewarded Peter Jackson's Middle-earth films enough after Return of the King.

If the film is as fantastic as we are all hoping though, I can definitely see it getting nominated. I'm rooting for them!

Well there are 10 nominations for Best Picture now, I think it's probably a lock for that. But yeah Director would be tough actually. We'll probably start hearing the early buzz this week.

 

[Ape Gone Insane]

I could not care less. The Oscars are a sham and one big circle-jerk.

 

[jb1234]

Empire have the complete soundtrack streaming.

http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=35757

It won't play for me though. :/

So far, this is a little worrying. There's some great material here but there's also a lot that isn't very distinctive. I feel the same way about the LotR complete recordings so I wish they had put out a single-disc release first with all the highlights. It's the rare score that can sustain itself over an hour.

 

[B-Dubs]

If it wins all 16 nominations I'm gonna soil myself

They'll probably get nothing until part 3 then sweep EVERYTHING. People would get bored if The Hobbit dominated the Oscars for three years. Not me but you know, dumb people.

 

[Napalm_Frank]

Maybe just fanboy talking but the OST is sogoood.

 

[GCX]

So far, this is a little worrying. There's some great material here but there's also a lot that isn't very distinctive. I feel the same way about the LotR complete recordings so I wish they had put out a single-disc release first with all the highlights. It's the rare score that can sustain itself over an hour.

I can't really find any movie scores distinctive or memorable if I haven't actually seen the movie. That's why I'm not listening.

 

[Dresden]

It'll be the LOTR trilogy again, won't get anything until the end of the series.

Just like the LOTR trilogy, too, the first will be the best.

 

[Yoshichan]

Just like the LOTR trilogy, too, the first will be the best.

This is not even remotely true. The majority considers TTT to be the best one.

 

[Dresden]

And?

 

[strafer]

RotK is my personal favorite.

You bow to no one..

Tears...everywhere.

 

[lazybones18]

FOTR is the true king

 

[Ape Gone Insane]

This is not even remotely true. The majority considers TTT to be the best one.

Argumentum ad populum.

RotK is my personal favorite.

You bow to no one..

Tears...everywhere.

I hope there's scenes like that in The Hobbit.

Every LOTR film had them for me.

Fellowship: Dwarrowdelf entry.
Fellowship: Gandalf's fall.
Fellowship: Boromir's death.
The Two Towers: Eomer arriving at Helm's Deep.
The Two Towers: Sam's speech.
Return of the King: 'You bow to no one'.

 

[xenist]

I'm not going to listen to the score. I want to experience this as a whole in the thirteenth.

 

[Kilgore Trout]

This is not even remotely true. The majority considers TTT to be the best one.

Fotr is by far the most loved on GAF.