The Hobbit

R3D

Trailer is out!

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqW_RsugUD0"]The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Trailer #1 [HD] - YouTube[/ame]


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PixelMasher

just watched that and came here to post it haha. fuckin awesome, looks exactly like LOTR, made me grin with glee.

oXYnary

The Misty Mountain song... I like the version above. The below as well..

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUXP8VEXWMs"]The Hobbit (1977) Soundtrack (OST) - 13. Misty Mountains Cold - YouTube[/ame]

ScudzAlmighty

It's like they never left

Bigjohn

I was SOOOO excited when I saw this. Then I saw that it's coming in December, and for a second thought "Oh fuck! It's December now! Maybe it's out next week and I missed it?" Then I realized it's Dec. 2012 and got sad...

uncle

So long to wait... Gonna be worth it, no doubts.

Makkon

"Next December"

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Mathew O

Makkon wrote: »

"Next December"

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Tooooooo loooooooooong!

PixelGoat

Fuck me sideways... going into a coma till next december! The dwarven song gave me the chills!

Vrav

My god... the singing. Totally badass.

Fomori

Looks pretty nice! I thought this was going to be in 2 parts. It is right? There were no hints of the dragon there and most of it looked like it could have been from the first half of the book...

Bart

Sweeeeeeeeet Got even more excited about it ! This will be a looong year haha

cptSwing

fuuuu......

glottis8

woooooooots! i am soooo glad to see the dwarves sing i love the poem songs in the book. The Hobbit rules them all. Way better than pansy frodo and his "adventures" with the ring. Bilbo is the hobbit!

slipsius

seriously.... a trailer a YEAR before release? That is SOOOO UNFAIR! biggest tease. This looks AMAAAAZZZING already, and they havent shown much!

edit: Also, it sounds like gandalf says sorin oakenshield? Isnt it thorin? Or did I mishear, or just pronouce it wrong?

Will Faucher

You probably misunderstood the name with Ian McKellen's accent. It is indeed Thorin.
Saw that trailer yesterday. I feel like I just had sex.

Lee3dee

Go Weta Digital!! Looks awesome

MissMaddyTaylor

And this is just the first film

I hope they let me bring my Sting in the theater...

Alberto Rdrgz

god this shit will rock my tits.

3DLee

A year of Skyrim ought to get me nice and pumped up for this.

Artist_in_a_box

I'm expecting this to either be absolutely amazing or god awful. I have faith in Peter Jackson as hes playing on home turf so no reason to screw it up. I think anyone expecting this to be the same as LOTR will be let down as the hobbit was never on the same level of EPIC as LOTR. This will be an altogether different kind of story, though it will be awesome. I wanna see how they do Smaug!
I gotta read this right now!

PixelMasher

after watching the lotr movies over and over I think fellowship is my favorite, its more of an adventure/quest/trek across epic landscapes. the huge battles of the other 2 are cool but the more intimate, smaller scope of the fellowship is really charming. It looks like the hobbit will have some of that flavor and im so stoked.

jmt

Nerd chills.

The Hobbit was always my favorite of the Tolkien books when I was a kid.

worldalpha

It looks pretty epic. Just reading through the Hobbit with my 7 year old these days.

pior

Is there a 48fps trailer available ?

slipsius

Pior, I believe you'll only see 48fps when its in 3D. So trailers will only be 24. Same with the released 2d version, assuming they release it in 2d as well, which they probably will, if the trailers are.

Mithdia

@slipsius - From what I've heard the 2D release will be 48fps same as the "3D" release

The Mad Artist

Was I the only one that got chills when Gollum sneaks out at the end?

Jeremy Wright

I got chills when they began to sing.

R3D

slipsius wrote: »

Pior, I believe you'll only see 48fps when its in 3D. So trailers will only be 24. Same with the released 2d version, assuming they release it in 2d as well, which they probably will, if the trailers are.

Depends what they set the refresh rate of the projector to.

pior

Woah! That would suck if that's the case. I actually think that high fps is the true movie revolution that 3d never was ... I sure hope to be able to see the movie in 2D@48fps! Wait and see ...

Do you have the source to that statement ?

R3D

pior wrote: »

I actually think that high fps is the true movie revolution that 3d never was

To be fair, old home videos and soap operas are recorded at 60fps.

Bigjohn

It's just that 2D movies for the most part still come on film, and film projectors go at 24fps as far as I know. Unless they come up with a special projector that can revolve at 48fps, which would mean special film too that wouldn't break at those speeds I would imagine, then it's probably not going to happen.

Unless everything switches to digital projectors. Which I suspect it probably will at some point. But for right now, it's all at 24fps because of the film projectors.

So for Hobbit, maybe when it comes out on blu-ray it'll be at 48fps. Which I also kinda doubt, because even when you buy the Blu-Ray (extended) for LOTR, each movies comes on 2 blu-ray discs because of the file sizes. So... HD at 48fps would probably be more than what can fit on a blu-ray. Especially for extended editions and whatnot (Return of the King is 4.5 hours running time, not including extra content).

Edit:
Oh, I guess it's also possible for some theatres that have the movie in 3D@48fps with a digital projector, to run the movie and just disable 3D. Never heard of a theatre doing this, but I'm sure it's possible. I know some guys around here that run a theatre, so maybe I can get a special screening going at some point.

Will Faucher

Ryswick wrote: »

To be fair, old home videos and soap operas are recorded at 60fps.

And they made it look horrible. I think Peter Jackson here knows what he's doing.

pior

Really ? I thought they had that weird sharper look because of a faster aperture than regular film cameras (meaning less motion blur)...

As for 48fps file sizes being too large, I don't think that's the case - even 3D blurays don't take much more space than regular blurays, because of the huge similarities between the left and right images ...

Broken_Lawnmower

Next December? That's sadistic.

Mithdia

http://insidemovies.ew.com/2011/04/12/the-hobbit-48-frames-peter-jackson/ kind of old article about the whole 48fps thing and it lets understand (imo) that 2D release is also 48fps so don't worry pior

slipsius

The whole thing about motion blur and what not. Even if they get rid of motion blur, its in 3d, and alot of 3d tends to have alot of blur. usually when things get close to the camera. I hope they dont have obvious "we did this shot purely for the 3d aspect". I haaaate that. When you are watching a 2d movie and can fully tell what was suppose to be 3d.

easterislandnick

Bigjohn wrote: »

Unless everything switches to digital projectors. Which I suspect it probably will at some point. But for right now, it's all at 24fps because of the film projectors.

The Odeon in Brighton in the UK is 100% digital projectors, they have a advert before the film saying so, so I wouldn't be surprised if most larger cinemas are switching over to 100% digital. Makes you wonder how they can charge 2quid extra for 3d films, if everything is shown digitally it can't make it more expensive to show a 3d film?

slipsius

easterislandnick wrote: »

The Odeon in Brighton in the UK is 100% digital projectors, they have a advert before the film saying so, so I wouldn't be surprised if most larger cinemas are switching over to 100% digital. Makes you wonder how they can charge 2quid extra for 3d films, if everything is shown digitally it can't make it more expensive to show a 3d film?

no, but it costs more to FILM the 3d movies, as they require special cameras. Double the frames to edit and add special effects to, as 3d cameras film 2 pictures at one time. In the Hobbits case, they are filming at 48 frames a second. Thats already double the frames to edit in most movies. 3d, they need to edit 72 more frames a second, than the typical 2d movie. Not to mention the 3d glasses you get at the theater. Yes, most people recycle them, but some people break them or steal them. Then they still have to clean and repackage them.

easterislandnick

slipsius wrote: »

no, but it costs more to FILM the 3d movies, as they require special cameras. Double the frames to edit and add special effects to, as 3d cameras film 2 pictures at one time. In the Hobbits case, they are filming at 48 frames a second. Thats already double the frames to edit in most movies. 3d, they need to edit 72 more frames a second, than the typical 2d movie. Not to mention the 3d glasses you get at the theater. Yes, most people recycle them, but some people break them or steal them. Then they still have to clean and repackage them.

They charge a quid for the glasses ontop of the 2quid extra for the 3d! Im not sure I buy editing them adds to the cost, its not as if special effects are hand painted frame by frame! I wonder if the 3d print costs more for the cinema to hire than the 2d? Probably does. Any way this is well off topic and the trailer looked ace!

Andreas

Looks a bit 'clean' compared to LOTR to me, don't think I like it visually, that night set with gandalf in it feels a little barren too.

I'm sure it'll be a bloody great film though.

Bigjohn

New video!

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dvPKrHf3SY"]THE HOBBIT, Production Video #6 [HD] - YouTube[/ame]

slipsius

UGh. I miss NZ. Need to go back sometime. soon.

good video though!

Bigjohn

I just wish it wasn't 2 freakin' years away.

Andreas

First part is 9 months away

Bigjohn

What do you mean? I thought it comes out at the end of 2013?

Edit:
Oh wtf... I just realized there will be two parts.. And the first one comes out this year! Awesome... and on the day I got tickets to Iron Maiden. This is turning out to be a great day so far.

Talbot

New video

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10151028043926807

Japhir

That new video is so awesome! It's so flashy and hip! :P.

Will Faucher

I am so damn excited, it's not even funny.