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New Hobbit Trailer Debuts

Posted by Soulskill on from the hairy-feet-abound dept.

New submitter madmarcel tips news that a new trailer for The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey has been released. "The new piece (seen above) is about the same length -- 2 1/2 minutes -- as the December trailer. But it cuts to the chase more quickly, leaving out the Frodo voiceover that sets up the Lord of the Rings follow-up. Instead we get the quick voiceover explanation -- 'the dwarves are determined to reclaim their homeland' -- before we meet up with Martin Freeman's Bilbo Baggins and set off. There's a slightly less self-serious tone to the proceedings this time around, though questers do 'enter the mountain' and play important games of riddles."

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  1. Meh? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    No Smaug. Less spiders than the Dark Forest. Lame.

    1. Re:Meh? by Genda · · Score: 4, Funny

      "The Hobbit" without Smaug, would be like L.A, without smog... unnatural and strangely surreal.

    2. Re:Meh? by i_ate_god · · Score: 3, Funny

      Or San Francisco without smug

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      I'm god, but it's a bit of a drag really...
  2. What's a Nimoy? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I didn't see any songs by Leonard Nimoy, how good could it be?

    http://youtu.be/XC73PHdQX04

  3. Re:Are they really adding an Elf to the company? by Iniamyen · · Score: 5, Funny

    One does not simply rewrite the story!

  4. Re:Are they really adding an Elf to the company? by cervesaebraciator · · Score: 3, Funny

    Also, I heard Legolas is in this.

    Wait, so Orlando Bloom's going to play a female elf?

  5. Re:Trailers by DrFalkyn · · Score: 2, Funny

    Am I the only one who prefers to wait for the finished product rather than watch it in two-minute disjointed chunks over the course of the next three months?

    I quit watching trailers entirely for this reason and because they almost always give away the plot (or the best jokes, or the twist) anymore. Tron: Legacy, for example (admittedly, not exactly a thespianic masterpiece), completely ruined the entire plot start to finish for me with a four-word sentence in the trailer. It gave it away completely.

    I'm with you. It would be a travesty if the studios give away the plot to The Hobbit

  6. Re:Are they really adding an Elf to the company? by Farmer+Tim · · Score: 4, Funny

    By the look of things, PJ could turn Gandalf taking a dump into an entire movie all its own. "Hnnnn...you...shall...not...pass...hnnn".

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