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In case you missed it - The teaser trailer for the Hobbit is online! (Original Post) semillama Dec 2011 OP
one year out though....sigh... stevebreeze Dec 2011 #1
Maybe getting old in mke Dec 2011 #2
Saw it yesterday, can't believe we have to wait a whole year for the movie... Luciferous Dec 2011 #3
I lost hope when I heard PJ took over from Del Toro. Leopolds Ghost Apr 2012 #4

getting old in mke

(815 posts)
2. Maybe
Thu Dec 22, 2011, 12:17 AM
Dec 2011

or maybe we can hope that they were simply filling scenes they haven't put together yet with CGI.

Leopolds Ghost

(12,875 posts)
4. I lost hope when I heard PJ took over from Del Toro.
Mon Apr 9, 2012, 06:58 PM
Apr 2012

He's all wrong for the material... he said flat out he did not want it to be a whimsical, family-friendly adventure story... he wanted it to be a "darker and grittier" war movie like LOTR. The producers basically indicated they saw the kinder, gentler tone of the Hobbit as a weakness of the material.

And then they broke their promise to film it in 35 MM to conform visually to LOTR; it'll be filmed in eye-gouging 3-D with twice the framerate of a cinematic film, like a TV show.

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