Re: Will the extended edition make AUJ flow better?

by Ringdrotten Sun Jun 30, 2013 7:47 pm

Norc wrote:Still love lort . Lort Lotr ! Althoug the hobbit SAS a ... Was a dissapointment ... I dn.no ,.. I dunno hat .. What PJ was thinkng... Srsly i give up, autocorrect ruiner everyT
thing fråflytting gikk guy ut få fly. Føde bygg genmodifisert gått fuktskader hva hykle føk ... At least u fan Google transatlantiske .. TRANSLATE my keyboard smashing noe.. Now ... Øving BMX Cecilie Jack jeg jagd gjekk utsøkt jukeboks kuk kje Halvdan thriller ...

by RA Sun Jun 30, 2013 8:16 pm

Mrs Figg wrote:I do feel in the minority loving LOTR. I think it was extremely high quality film making, even after 10 years. I doubt I will ever see anything quite so beautiful again, not the way things are going.

I liked the lotr trilogy as really great films with very good visuals. It looked like Middle Earth; AUJ looks like New Zealand. The score was stirring then, now it's tired. This contrast sums up the whole movie.

by Eldorion Sun Jun 30, 2013 8:42 pm

Maybe you shouldn't post from a tablet, Norc... Laughing

by Eldorion Sun Jun 30, 2013 8:44 pm

Reading through everyone's thoughts here, it feels like AUJ is already being seen as this franchise's "Phantom Menace moment". A lot of the criticisms are similar. I remember an early review using that comparison and getting some flak for it, but I'm not surprised that the film is being judged more harshly now that the hype glow has faded.

Remember how before AUJ hit theatres people were saying stuff like "Watch out George Lucas, Peter Jackson is about to show you how to make a good prequel"? Laughing

by CC12 35 Sun Jun 30, 2013 8:50 pm

i liked the first hobbit film

by Eldorion Sun Jun 30, 2013 8:50 pm

I recall Ally saying that it wasn't as good as she expected/wanted, though. I thought that was one of the harshest criticisms the movie could have received. Very Happy

by Mrs Figg Sun Jun 30, 2013 9:11 pm

I was bursting with excitement at the thought of The Hobbit being filmed by PJ, I was expecting it to blow my socks off, dunno, something awesome, something way past Avatar in terms of advances in visuals and tech, a new bar getting shot out the water and fried with a nice garnish of basil, something AWESOME.
it wasnt.

by Pettytyrant101 Sun Jun 30, 2013 9:16 pm

I got not only pretty much exactly what I expected, I got quite a lot of what I had predicted on this very forum before a shot was even filmed. Sadly. Evil or Very Mad

by Norc Mon Jul 01, 2013 5:35 am

Ringdrotten wrote:
Norc wrote:Still love lort . Lort Lotr ! Althoug the hobbit SAS a ... Was a dissapointment ... I dn.no ,.. I dunno hat .. What PJ was thinkng... Srsly i give up, autocorrect ruiner everyT
thing fråflytting gikk guy ut få fly. Føde bygg genmodifisert gått fuktskader hva hykle føk ... At least u fan Google transatlantiske .. TRANSLATE my keyboard smashing noe.. Now ... Øving BMX Cecilie Jack jeg jagd gjekk utsøkt jukeboks kuk kje Halvdan thriller ...

u just laugh Mad

by Norc Mon Jul 01, 2013 5:36 am

Eldorion wrote:Maybe you shouldn't post from a tablet, Norc...

but it's much more fun... well.. not really .. the forum is the wrong format so i have to zoom all the time... autocorrect is a bitch though..

by RA Mon Jul 01, 2013 8:36 am

Classic

by Norc Mon Jul 01, 2013 3:14 pm

what do u mean classic?

by RA Tue Jul 02, 2013 1:26 am

Um, classic Forumshire Surprised

by chris63 Thu Jul 11, 2013 5:03 am

http://www.digitalspy.com.au/movies/news/a497372/the-hobbit-extended-dvd-blu-ray-features-revealed-by-peter-jackson.html

by richardbrucebaxter Wed Jul 24, 2013 1:50 pm

Mrs Figg wrote:The only bits that actually annoy me in the whole films is Faramir being a pillock and taking Frodo to Osgiliath

I had exactly the same experience.. (I kind of wanted to see an old forest in the extended edition given the lightning fast Bree arrival, but this didn't detract from my enjoyment of the film like the Faramir diversion. It was cool to see the 'dig deep' addition in the TTT:EE, but it is evident nothing they did made up for Frodo being carted all the way to within sight of Minas Tirith. Not only did it detract from Faramir's character, but it made the initial party break up feel less significant, and meaningful).

That is some news about the AUJ:EE - did you read the part about PJ cutting out the Azog narrative distractor cut scenes after watching the film for himself?

by Mrs Figg Wed Jul 24, 2013 2:02 pm

I just wish he had cut all Azog scenes.

by richardbrucebaxter Thu Jul 25, 2013 4:49 am

I am hoping (in vain) that the additional shots of the NZ terrain will help soften the Azog cuts.

Fading off into some distant irrelevant world there was this obsessed orc named Azog who has been tracking his arch nemesis Thorin in the hinterland of the misty mountains for 42 years (despite there being considerable word that Thorin is in fact more generally located in the Blue Mountains).

by Pettytyrant101 Thu Jul 25, 2013 9:33 pm

I am hoping there is just enough left of the book in there somewhere among the bird poo that I can put together a purist edit of it- I think thats about the best I can hope for from this one......and thats a pretty slim hope.

by David H Thu Jul 25, 2013 10:52 pm

I have faith in you Petty. Nod

I think MF does an admirable Bilbo, so if you can just string all those scenes together coherently I think it will be well worth watching.

And the script for all three was done at the same time, so I expect there will be other scenes like those in AUJ that followed the text fairly closely. ( I do have hopes for Inside Information....)

by Pettytyrant101 Thu Jul 25, 2013 10:55 pm

Ive got everything crossed David, and some things knotted, for something I can salvage.

by Eldorion Thu Jul 25, 2013 10:56 pm

That's an interesting point about the scripts, Dave. I wonder how much of the latter two films will be from the original film two script (perhaps it was just too long) or if the new scenes were only written after the decision to make the project a trilogy. Regardless, there should still be plenty of scenes from the two-film phase of the project left.

by David H Thu Jul 25, 2013 10:56 pm

Ive got everything crossed David, and some things knotted, for something I can salvage.

That sounds like it hurts! Shocked

by Pettytyrant101 Thu Jul 25, 2013 10:58 pm

Keeps the buckie in. Twisted Evil

by Sinister71 Mon Jul 29, 2013 8:42 pm

Hopefully the EE will contain more moments from the book and less made up crap of Jackson's. I'm not very hopeful though since everyone knows Jackson likes to put his own made up content before anything Tolkien wrote.