The Hall of Fire

$11.2m in Tuesday evening sneaks, according to The Hollywood Reporter. That's a very good start, better than SMAUG (8.8m), though not as good as AUJ (13m). Starting on Wednesday doesn't translate exactly to the Friday openings that the previous two movies had, but we can perhaps use ROTK as a benchm...

"Taking it seriously" and "having fun" are not mutually exclusive comments. :) Lynch's DUNE is awesome. A travesty, of sorts, but still awesome none-the-less. Edit: I love Malick, but you'd have to be wildly naive to assume he'd be remotely faithful to his LOTR adaptation. Just l...

The were-worms were cool, but I think Thorin screaming, "Father! The sleeper has awakened!" was a bit much.

I feel bad for the RT staff every time one of these big fan-driven movies come out.

One thing to keep an eye on is exchange rates. The dollar is stronger this year, which'll hurt BOFTA overseas (the opposite of how ROTK was helped by a weak dollar).

Passdagas the Brown wrote:I saw it! Well done. Doesn't match the new Mad Max trailer, but what does?

Nothing on this earth. The Ayatollah of Rock and Rollah is back.

Passdagas the Brown wrote:If there enough material in the LOTR Appendices to support such a narrative?

Since when has that stopped PJ?

(P.S. Go watch the beautiful final trailer I posted in the general BOTFA thread).

WB has just put out another trailer, this one tying together all 3 Hobbit films into one. It feels very much like a trailer for one single movie, and it's absolutely fantastic:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1qNDDf03WY

"Defiant" over at TORN makes the following observation: The conversation about Strider and Arathorn had nothing to do with Aragorn. I think you guys might be completely missing the subtext in this scene. It was Thranduil's way of admitting his error to his son without losing face. He says...

It's funny how everyone approaches things differently. I've learned to stay away from ANY details at all... and my enjoyment of the films is much greater than if I knew what to expect and what changes were going to happen. If I had known about many of the details you guys were already quite familiar...

An acquaintance of mine (on another board) just saw it in Germany, and (mostly) loved it. (To be fair, he also really enjoyed parts 1 and 2).

Yes, they do just suddenly show up. My recollection is that I assumed they arrived with Dain's troops.

Ah, well, yes, if you look at it that way.

Dave_LF wrote:My thought was: isn't Return of the King the penultimate final film? I guess it depends whether you treat the Middle-Earth or Chronos chronology as primary.

"Penultimate" means second to last. "Penultimate final film" is an oxymoron.

Necromancer Rising wrote:"...In this penultimate final film..."

That's very odd, as some of the early reviewers stated that the rams had been removed... Did some people perhaps seen an unfinished cut? Now you've got me doubting myself. :rofl: I could've sworn I saw them, unless somehow my memory is conflating the movie with the TV spots. What's definitely in ar...

Voronwë the Faithful wrote:http://youtu.be/pv2Ms5QPerg

Tele, are those battle rams in the film?

Yep.

There are also a bunch of theaters showing the marathon in Monday the 15th, starting early afternoon.

I think it's possible (and even likely) for both reasons to be valid.

I think this quote: But the thing with The Hobbit I will tell you... I went into it very unprepared. Because Guillermo [Del Toro, the original director] had 18 months of prep, and he couldn’t do the films and I took them over and I only had six months of prep. I didn’t have time to highlight any st...