Film The Hobbit

[Lamp]

In the books, all the dwarves had coloured hoods. This lot look like a bunch of humans TBH. But if they gave them all big bushy beards, ppl would moan that they couldn't tell one from another. The Hobbit is a childrens book essentially. The movie won't be. How else could he have done it tho....make it too like the book and only the Tolkein nuts will like it.

 

[Aoami]

Thorin is far too young looking, too clean cut & fashionable.

Thats exactly what I thought when i saw him. He should be white bearded but still strong looking.

 

[Mey]

They look more like Gnomes than dwarves but either way still looking forward to it!

 

[Zenith]

I dont really understand why they didnt just make them look like proper dwarves. Kili, fili, Dori and thorin looks nothing like it.

 

[Roo Stercogburn]

OT: Shame Peter Jackson didn't include Fog on the Barrow Downs / Tom Bombadil in the LOTR movie. I guess die hard JRRT fans will never be happy unless they're personally involved in the direction/production

I was glad they weren't in there. They don't really help the plot along and Tom Bombadil is such an anomoly in the tone of the overall story. He's more like a throwback to the Hobbit, which was much lighter in tone. If it was a TV series rather than a film it would probably be ok

 

[Deebs]

You're a f*cking cunt.

Why on earth did you place an asterisk in f*cking but didn't do anything with the word "cunt" ?

 

[Job]

I think he's doing the right thing, there is the worry it'll look like Bilbo and the seven dwarves.

 

[throdgrain]

When I saw they were making this film I was a bit meh, I got a bit bored of the LoTR trilogy to be honest.

Then I saw that trailer and I said YES I WANT TO WATCH IT NOW!!!

I first read that book in about 1976, I was about 11 or 12, first year in secondary school. I still have the same edition now. The LoTR books I bought with my own money (a big deal at the time!) at the age of 12 or 13. That was about 35 years ago, still have them now, but I bet I havent read them in 20 years

 

[Lamp]

I showed the trailer to a m8 last night. He also said the dwarves need more hair & metal. Gimli in LOTR looked like a dwarf. This lot don't.

 

[Job]

Bit worried about chair collapsing scene looks like he's the comedy relief, which is what Grimley was I suppose, just don't milk it Peter.

 

[TdC]

Gimli is supposed to be a first class fighter and one of the more hard core dwarven warriors. PJ makes him in to a friggin bumbler, and the only time he -imo- gets to shine a little is at the battle of Helm's Deep. I guess it will be Bombur's fate to be the comic relief, as he is the fat one and gets to break the chair. JRRT describes him by having Frodo ask after him in LOTR as him having "had grown so fat it took six Dwarves to lift him".

In fact, most if not all the dwarves are supposed to be rather 'ard. Balin goes to attempt to kick the goblins out of Moria ffs, and in that group pic he looks like someone's kindly grandad. Imo this is the equivalent of Troy or Alexander, where they just have a bunch of ponces gaying about shaving each other's chests and lubing up.

So, in close. unless Smaug gets to be the most awesome dragon ever, and Bard is a cross between a ninja and Rambo, I may actually give this a miss :-/

 

[Lamp]

TBH you're better off with a big bowl of bacon, a jug of beer, and the book.

 

[Everz]

Miserable gits.

 

[Zenith.UK]

Well I got the LOTR trilogy super-duper-extended-OMFGhowlongisthis bluray boxset from the family, so I might just get through the films and extra content by the time The Hobbit is released.

 

[Cerb]

Well I got the LOTR trilogy super-duper-extended-OMFGhowlongisthis bluray boxset from the family, so I might just get through the films and extra content by the time The Hobbit is released.

Weakling! Last summer a couple of mates and I watched all three extended editions back to back in one day!

 

[Cerb]

We were so cool.

 

[Lethul]

It's a fucking old book - there's no place for spoiler tags in this thread.

I have to agree with Toht here.
Maybe it is a common childs book in england but I have never heard of any of my friends having read this book as a childs book (Some of them have read it after they read Lord of the rings trilogy).

 

[Helme]

Weird, we read it in like 8th? grade for an English assignment something our school had been doing for ages. And I come from a small shithole between Uppsala and Gävle, where 'culture' is Ultima Thule.

 

[megadave]

Read it in year 5 in primary school i think, that's about 10 years old.

 

[Aoami]

It was written as a kids book, but isnt seen as one so much now. Remember school standards were much higher in the 30s.

 

[Scouse]

It was written as a kids book, but isnt seen as one so much now. Remember school standards were much higher in the 30s.

If I ever (am unlucky enough to) have kids the little shits will have to be able to memorise it by age 8. I couldn't abide having children as thick as most of 'em today...

 

[Killswitch]

If you can get hold of the Nicol Williamson reading of this story, it's probably the best example of an audiobook getting it "right" that I've ever heard. I played it so many times when I was young, the tapes wore clean out (cassette tapes, that makes me feel old!). Anyone who loves the story should hear it.

I'm sure it's available from all the usual, legitimate and 100% legal internet sources.

EDIT:
View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7jYQFTV7EM

 

[Killswitch]

If I ever (am unlucky enough to) have kids the little shits will have to be able to memorise it by age 8. I couldn't abide having children as thick as most of 'em today...

Read The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings with my mum before I started school. Then again, turns out I'm a freak (I have a certificate and everything). I will do everything I can to make sure that my kids are readers and I'll definitely be pointing them firmly in the direction of some of the classics from my youth like Tolkien, C.S Lewis, Mary Stewart, Ray Bradbury, Terry Pratchett and Isaac Asimov. If they choose to ignore me, play PlayStation games and smoke weed all day, then at least I'll have tried!

 

[Ch3tan]

I read the hobbit and lord of the rings at some point before i was 12.

 

[Roo Stercogburn]

So, in close. unless Smaug gets to be the most awesome dragon ever, and Bard is a cross between a ninja and Rambo, I may actually give this a miss :-/

Benedict Cumberbatch is playing Smaug, I'm really interested to see how he does it.

I've seen a live version of the Hobbit some years ago, it was ace. Smaug was played as a very sinister well spoken English posh nob, it worked very well.

 

[old.Tohtori]

Why on earth did you place an asterisk in f*cking but didn't do anything with the word "cunt" ?

'cause i'm a weird f*ck

 

[Scouse]

Benedict Cumberbatch is playing Smaug, I'm really interested to see how he does it.

From a microphone to a lot of cgi

 

[Turamber]

I read the hobbit and lord of the rings at some point before i was 12.

Same here. The Hobbit is fun but definitely a children's book. Lord of the Rings, though, is a classic. Would be great if they made a series of films of the Silmarillion.

 

[Lamp]

Hah! Blast from the past that Nicol Williamson tape. I might just D/L it & listen to it in the bath

 

[Killswitch]

Hah! Blast from the past that Nicol Williamson tape. I might just D/L it & listen to it in the bath

When I put it on, I could pretty much quote it from memory and I've not heard it in probably 15 years! Definitely going to be listening to it a few (dozen!) times