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on: June 11, 2013, 04:48:58 PM

So here is this movie about some blond elf.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnaojlfdUbs

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Reply #1 on: June 11, 2013, 05:54:57 PM

Far too much Bloom.

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Reply #2 on: June 11, 2013, 05:57:04 PM

I'm a little surprised they showed Smaug in the trailer.  Guess I thought he was like Cloverfield.
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Reply #3 on: June 11, 2013, 06:49:44 PM

Oh, great, the barrel sequence is going to be some giant amusement park/video game combat scene.
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Reply #4 on: June 11, 2013, 07:25:19 PM

I'll see it, I'll complain, I'll buy the DVD, I'll complain, I'll buy the extend version DVD, rinse and repeat.
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Reply #5 on: June 11, 2013, 07:41:02 PM

what he said, yep
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Reply #6 on: June 11, 2013, 08:10:02 PM

Far too much Bloom.

Oh, bravo.

I won't see it. I'll wait until the next 2 are out, watch them once on DVD and forget about them until TNT shows them on weekends they aren't showing LOTR and Spike isn't showing one of the Star Wars trilogies.

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Reply #7 on: June 11, 2013, 09:07:28 PM

Holy fucking teal and orange Batman.
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Reply #8 on: June 11, 2013, 11:18:31 PM

I'm a little surprised they showed Smaug in the trailer.  Guess I thought he was like Cloverfield.

They showed him in the first movie, flying around and burning things, didn't they?

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Reply #9 on: June 12, 2013, 12:14:00 AM

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Reply #10 on: June 12, 2013, 01:39:25 AM

Equal parts  swamp poop and  awesome, for real here.

But not going to go mental either way from a wee teaser.

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Reply #11 on: June 12, 2013, 06:34:58 AM

Oh, great, the barrel sequence is going to be some giant amusement park/video game combat scene.

I don't have a problem with a little artistic license for that sequence. 
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Reply #12 on: June 12, 2013, 06:47:25 AM

Awesome. I am really looking forward to this.

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Reply #13 on: June 12, 2013, 08:23:22 AM

Still have yet to see the first one...I feel like that's a nerd failure even if it was bad.
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Reply #14 on: June 12, 2013, 09:47:47 AM

I really disliked the first one at first viewing.  I have come around and now actually like it pretty well.  The only thing that still irritates me is the crummy makeup job on the dwarfs. 
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Reply #15 on: June 12, 2013, 10:08:39 AM

Holy fucking teal and orange Batman.


Yeah, they went just a WEE BIT over the top with the color correction. As for the video game sequence, did you expect any different? Look at Goblin Town in the first one. Might as well have been Kingdoms of Amalaur.

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Reply #16 on: June 12, 2013, 11:32:39 AM

Is it just me or does the CGI on Smaug look mildly awful?

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Reply #17 on: June 12, 2013, 11:33:30 AM

Is it just me or does the CGI on Smaug look mildly awful?

I think that's the small screen effect. It'll look better on the big screen when your eyes can't even grasp all the bits.

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Reply #18 on: June 12, 2013, 11:42:04 AM

I hope it's better than that; something about the angle of his head, the lighting, and the expression make me think of this guy:


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Reply #19 on: June 12, 2013, 11:47:32 AM

Holy fucking teal and orange Batman.


Haha, wow. That wasn't even subtle.

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Reply #20 on: June 12, 2013, 12:30:10 PM

I'm a little surprised they showed Smaug in the trailer.  Guess I thought he was like Cloverfield.
Um, they had scenes where they showed the entire clover field monster in full as well.

Fucking strange this conversation is coming up.  Just last night I had a booze addled dream/nightmare where I was running around a city attempting not to be crushed by a clover field like monster destroying it....
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Reply #21 on: June 12, 2013, 12:46:37 PM

Who's the "if you awaken the beast, it will destroy us all" at 1:18 or so? Please tell me that's not Bard.
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Reply #22 on: June 12, 2013, 01:02:17 PM

Yup.  I had to check him out as well (Luke Evans).  Thought it was a Pirates--era Bloom, which was a double take.

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Reply #23 on: June 12, 2013, 01:10:15 PM

You're not the only one who thought it was Bloom at first.  I wondered WTF was up with Legolas not being an elf.

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Reply #24 on: June 12, 2013, 01:12:08 PM

Same here. I was like, "Did they cast Bloom in a double role?"

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Reply #25 on: June 12, 2013, 01:18:52 PM

Maybe they'll retcon it so that Bard was really Legolas in disguess the whole time.  I mean, no way a human could make that shot.  Only something Legolas could do!   why so serious?

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Reply #26 on: June 12, 2013, 03:03:17 PM

Bard is Legolas' half-elf son!

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Reply #27 on: June 12, 2013, 05:31:26 PM

Crap. I always really thought of Bard as a very manly, rugged type, more Aragorn than Legolas.
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Reply #28 on: June 12, 2013, 05:39:12 PM

So is this like the off-brand version of Game of Thrones?
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Reply #29 on: June 13, 2013, 01:50:36 AM

Crap. I always really thought of Bard as a very manly, rugged type, more Aragorn than Legolas.

So did everyone.  That's pretty much how I remember him being written too.

Also, the images from the Graphic Novel took that tack as well.

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Reply #30 on: June 13, 2013, 02:18:05 AM

Why do all the elves have giant bushy eyebrows?

And why did everything look like a videotaped TV show with super-obvious chroma-keying? Did the last one look like that?

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Reply #31 on: June 13, 2013, 03:10:03 AM

Is it just me or does the CGI on Smaug look mildly awful?

I think that's the small screen effect. It'll look better on the big screen when your eyes can't even grasp all the bits.

I just watched it again and a lot of the cgi looks awful.  Watch for the Orc movement and the backgrounds.  In particular the eleven forest.

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Reply #32 on: June 13, 2013, 03:14:07 AM

Apart from Gollum and Bag End all the special effects in all the LotR and Hobbit films are pretty bad.

I don't really mind and just think of it as Peter Jackson's style.

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Reply #33 on: June 13, 2013, 03:29:02 AM

  In particular the eleven forest.

This forest goes up to Eleven.

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Reply #34 on: June 13, 2013, 07:11:18 AM

There is no leaving the Eleven Forest.  They'll be stuck forever.

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