maquiladora
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Updated my post on the previous page with twitter reactions I could find from after today's guild screening of the film.
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The Hobbit - Official Thread of Officially In Production
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I remember Gollum writhing in pain due to the elvish rope looking quite fake. The ground (which is mostly pebbles and dirt) doesn't react to Gollum's presence at all - it's like a flat and neat surface.
maquiladora
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A couple of people have now said there is one very obvious
. No idea what though.
del Toro scene that survived from the old script
AstroNut325
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Question... How do I know if I'm reserving tickets for a 48 FPS 3D showing? All the online ticket venders only state if the movie is in 3D or IMAX. I'm in Los Angeles so there are a bunch of theaters locally featuring the 48fps goodness. But none of are stating if specific showtimes are 48fps.
Edmond Dantès
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He's known for horror, I'd imagine something spooky in Dol Guldur. Maybe something like the Pale Man and Ofelia from Pan's Labyrinth.
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WolfForager
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Risky, but so worth it.
maquiladora
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Edmond Dantès;44995227 said:
Yes, I'm guessing it will be a creature resembling something from Pan's Labyrinth. No idea what exactly though. Should be interesting, and a glimpse into what might have been.
Dreamwriter
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They are calling it "HFR" - look for that next the name. Fandango doesn't tell you, but MovieTickets does. Best is to just buy the tickets from your theater direct.
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Thank you.
Edmond Dantès
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maquiladora
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Lots of great reactions today.
Edmond Dantès
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SCULLIBUNDO
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Oh geez. :lol
SCULLIBUNDO
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It'll be a round up if anything at all.
They'll get everything after #3, just like with RotK.
Bare in mind that Fellowship won four Oscars (cinematography, score, make-up, and visual effects), so - if the film ends up being deserving - they won't completely shaft it simply because it's the first in the trilogy.
Yeah, it'll have a tougher time when it comes to the big categories like Best Picture and Best Director, I can certainly see the academy holding off on those until film 3, but some of the other categories it certainly has a chance of winning. At this point I don't see how they could possibly lose the VFX race at any rate.
Yeah, it'll have a tougher time when it comes to the big categories like Best Picture and Best Director, I can certainly see the academy holding off on those until film 3, but some of the other categories it certainly has a chance of winning. At this point I don't see how they could possibly lose the VFX race at any rate.
Oh definitely. I would be surprised if it didn't win a couple of those types of Oscars.
Yeah, particularly this year, getting into BP or BD is going to be very difficult. It's been a fantastic year for films, so there are a lot of films trying to get into those slots.
It'll definitely be up for most of the technical Oscars for sure.
Was there ANY reaction complaining about the dizzynes that people talked in the other thread ?
Like ACTUAL people posting about it ?
So from what I gather, the Star Trek Into Darkness preview will only be at IMAX cinemas that project celluloid 70mm film.....digital IMAX will get nothing even if they have the giant screen with the proper aspect ratio, and LIEMAX will get nothing.
So that means if you want to see Star Trek there will probably no 3D, and definitely no 48 FPS. Is this correct? Seems like a pretty nasty tradeoff. Not sure what I'd do -- fortunately I don't live anywhere near an IMAX still using analog projection.
So that means if you want to see Star Trek there will probably no 3D, and definitely no 48 FPS. Is this correct? Seems like a pretty nasty tradeoff. Not sure what I'd do -- fortunately I don't live anywhere near an IMAX still using analog projection.
Real IMAX theaters are perfectly capable of doing 3D movies. In fact they have been projecting large format 3D documentaries for many years now, long before the recent trend of 3D narrative films came back.
Dreamwriter
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I'm very happy about this fact, because I hate that they are doing it. I don't want to ruin Star Trek by seeing a substantial part of it - trailers are bad enough these days, yet I do want to see The Hobbit in faux IMAX HFR 3D.
But yeah, as has been said, they can still do 3D with the projectors at normal IMAX screens.
Places with real IMAX screens may still be running digital projectors. And apparently these Star Trek preview clips go out only to real IMAX theatres that also have celluloid/analog projectors. I'm not really sure why though. The IMAX near me has a proper screen that is 52 feet high, but supposedly won't be able to show Star Trek because they are using a digital projector (the didn't have the Dark Knight preview either). I'm not sure why this is, because with a screen that big I'd think that they can digitally show it in whatever aspect ratio 70mm film supports.
Whether or not celluloid/analog projectors support 3D is something I'm not sure of, but obviously they won't support 48FPS. So there's no way to get Star Trek + 3D + 48FPS.
Not preemptive at all
Right, not exactly a shocker at this point, just immensely disappointing given the source material was fairly tight and kept to Bilbo's POV.
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I love the LOTR films and many considered those to be bloated and unfocused. If it's anything like that and less like King Kong then I have no doubts I will enjoy this immensely.
Yeah, I can't imagine that splitting a book that's only a few hundred pages into three films has really resulted in a better product. I mean, at this point every single page of the book has to somehow comprise several minutes of screen time and most books don't really work like that. Actions and dialogues that take up a page might not translate into more than 30 seconds of screentime. Pages and sections that focus on a character's thoughts or internal struggles might not even translate into any screentime.
I'm not sure how they are going to pad this project out -- I guess with stuff from Tolkein's other Middle Earth history? It's pretty rare when a film adapted from a novel actually has to add content to its source material......usually they struggle with what content has to be cut. I am curious to see how this will pan out - it's a unique dilemma to say the least.
Haven't we sort of known from the get go that the films would be extremely padded? Even back when it was just two movies we knew they'd be cramming a lot of stuff into the story that wasn't in the The Hobbit itself and was pulled from the appendices.
At this point it's just a matter of whether or not you end up liking the padding or if it works.
At this point it's just a matter of whether or not you end up liking the padding or if it works.
Agreed.
I'm guessing these Hobbit films will feel a lot like watching the extended cuts of LOTR. Which is okay in my book.
Having never read any of the books, I didn't really consider padding until they announced the third movie. Each LOTR book was around 140,000-170,000 words put into a 3 hour movie with a lot of content, characters, and events completely removed or otherwise condensed. The average is something like 40,000 words per hour of film (but probably much lower, considering how much was removed)
The Hobbit is 95,000 words. Considering that The Hobbit could have been two 110 minute movies with no events removed, I thought that seemed pretty reasonable. If you removed nothing, that would be 25,000 words per hour of film. With An Unexpected Journey running 160 minutes, if you assume that the sequels will be equally as long then we are looking at 11,875 words per hour of film.....which is pretty damned slim. I imagine that it's been pointed out a hundred times before, but you could probably listen to an audiobook of The Hobbit in less time than it will take to watch the movies.
maquiladora
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Not that I've seen.
Edmond, that gif....haha.
A 'review' (blogspot), it has some spoilers which I skimmed past.
http://whichwayisawesome.blogspot.com/2012/12/the-hobbit-review.html
maquiladora
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With one of these, for sure, assuming they release it in that format.
I dunno if existing blu ray players would just need a firmware update or what though.
Dunno about normal players even with a firmware update but for example PS3 shouldn't have any problems.
Television support of 48fps is probably a bigger concern than Blu-Ray support.
maquiladora
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Totally forgot about that.
I imagine he might be burned out on fantasy after directing these 6 movies in a span of nearly only 10 years. Temeraire was pre-hobbit even being a possibility.
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