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The Hobbit Finally Starts Shooting
Tiger4 writes "Warner Bros. has announced that production has officially begun on Peter Jackson's movie adaptation of The Hobbit. Jackson even posted a couple of pictures of himself on one of the sets. This despite the strikes, bankruptcies, contract disputes, and legal actions that have swarmed Jackson and the project since his Lord of the Rings days. Admit it, secretly you've been dying to see this happen."
But why the sudden turn to violence? Who even knew Hobbits had firearms?
No secret needed. I want to see this film. It was my favorite of all the books and I'm dying to see their interpretation of Smaug.
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They got little baby legs
And they stand so low
You got to pick 'em up
Just to say hello
Hobbits also live a bit longer than H. sapiens. They reach "maturity" in their early 30s and expect to live to 100 (source).
At least for some of us. No matter what obstacle emerges it will still get made. The Hobbit is probably worth more than $2 billion. Tolkiens, unions, ulcers, whatever; ultimately the various and sundry stake holders want their cut and for that to happen it must appear in the theater, and they all know it.
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I hear the End of the World is coming out on the 12th. It'll be a blast.
LOTR was okay. The remake will no doubt be better (except for the inevitable downgrade in the Arwen department).
But there were like 18 hours of it. Left me somewhat burnt out.
Unless Jackson has significantly altered his style I'm not sure The Hobbit will feel like anything new.
for those not in the know, they are stretching out the hobbit to two movies, by delving into gandalf sparring with the necromancer (sauron), mentioned in the book only briefly
http://forum.thehobbit-movie.com/viewtopic.php?p=1929&sid=5d7ebd0d347992d45e1ae7b312077fb6
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Dwarvish motherfucker! Do you speak it?!?
I still cannot find the droids I am looking for...
Some corrections for you, off the top of my head:
Elijah Wood (Frodo) is coming back to do some narration.
Orlando Bloom (Legolas) is still negotiating over his appearance.
Cate Blanchett (Galadriel), Christopher Lee (Saruman), and Hugo Weaving (Elrond) are all returning, and of course Ian McKellan (Gandalf).
There are two major encounters which can completely blow the film. The obvious is Smaug. I haven't seen a good dragon since Dragonslayer. The second is the spiders in the woods. I am not overly worried about the Worgs meeting on the hilltop but the Eagles may be a bit more an issue. The story in The Hobbit is more fantastic from the non humanoid side than LOTR was. So it opens itself to more chances to be bad.
As for where they break the story, probably after the Spiders and having the dwarves doing their barrel ride, else after the trolls. I am not really sure where a good break is with this book but those the two major events before getting to the Lonely Mountain.
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I hope Leonard Nimoy gets a cameo in the movie, and a reprise musical number. He'd make a great elf, with the pointy ears and all.
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Gandalf: I want you to go into that bag and find my ring.
Frodo: Which ring is it?
Gandalf: It's the one that says Bad Motherfucker on it.
Thorin (as played by John Travolta): And you know how the humans drink their beer?
Bilbo (as played by SLJ): They don't drink it out of acorn cups?
Thorin: No lad, they've got big hands. They wouldn't know how the fuck to hold an acorn cup.
Bilbo: Then how do they drink it?
Thorin: They drink out glasses the size of your head. In PINTS.
which is totally what she said