There and Back Again Anticipation thread [SPOILERS]

Post by **Elentári** » Mon Apr 14, 2014 9:07 pm

Double confirmation!

Post by **Elentári** » Tue Apr 15, 2014 8:08 am

And in response to receiving his MTV Award (see Awards thread) Orlando had this to say about what to expect in TABA...

http://youtu.be/_VB8Mdgbf3E

"The new Hobbit can only get better....more Orc vs Elf and more Dwarf vs Dragon."

Post by **kzer_za** » Tue Apr 15, 2014 1:18 pm

"The new Hobbit can only get better....more Orc vs Elf and more Dwarf vs Dragon."

Everyone's favorite things about DoS!

Post by **Smaug's voice** » Tue Apr 15, 2014 1:53 pm

Kzer_za beat me to it. <sigh>

Post by **Elentári** » Tue Apr 15, 2014 2:09 pm

I just hope the "more Dwarf vs Dragon" is referring to the Dwarves left in Lake-Town...not the Bo5A

Tue Apr 15, 2014 3:11 pm

Or that Orlando is simply as clueless as he seems to be.

Post by **Passdagas the Brown** » Tue Apr 15, 2014 3:17 pm

Or did he mean to say elf vs. dragon, referring to his epic ride on an arrow-riddled Smaug?

Post by **yovargas** » Tue Apr 15, 2014 3:29 pm

In Dec, yovargas wrote:I hope Sauron shows up riding Smaug and then Leggy and Tauriel do sweet backflips onto Smaug's back and then they have a bad-ass three way sword fight on Smaug's back while Smaug's flying around burning stuff. That's what I hope.

I have reason to believe that PJ read this post and got some ideas.

Post by **Passdagas the Brown** » Tue Apr 15, 2014 4:10 pm

Thanks yov. It's nice to be able to blame someone directly, especially someone you know.

Post by **Inanna** » Tue Apr 15, 2014 4:58 pm

yovargas wrote:
In Dec, yovargas wrote:I hope Sauron shows up riding Smaug and then Leggy and Tauriel do sweet backflips onto Smaug's back and then they have a bad-ass three way sword fight on Smaug's back while Smaug's flying around burning stuff. That's what I hope.
I have reason to believe that PJ read this post and got some ideas.

More reasons to avoid the movies.

Post by **narya** » Wed Apr 16, 2014 5:08 am

kzer_za wrote:
"The new Hobbit can only get better....more Orc vs Elf and more Dwarf vs Dragon."
Everyone's favorite things about DoS!

Well, actually, I was hoping for more goblins.

NOT.

Wed Apr 16, 2014 4:06 pm

Do we need to change the title of this thread to the "Into the Fire" anticipation thread?

http://www.theonering.net/torwp/2014/04 ... -the-fire/

(Please, Eru, no.)

Post by **JewelSong** » Wed Apr 16, 2014 4:21 pm

Ugh.

It is amazing to me how totally disconnected I feel from these movies…compared to LOTR. Somebody recently posted a clip from the EE on Facebook…where Pippin is looking for Merry after the battle and finally finds him. And when Éomer finds his sister, cold and still after her battle with the Witch King and weeps in anguish.

I got tears in my eyes. It moved me, even that little clip. I cared about the characters.

With these "hobbit" movies, I just…don't. It just isn't "The Hobbit." All the charm and whimsy of that lovely book has been eradicated in favour of stupid orc battles and Legolas swinging his sword around and special effects for the sake of special effects and...

Pity, really.

Post by **yovargas** » Wed Apr 16, 2014 4:22 pm

JewelSong wrote:Somebody recently posted a clip from the EE on Facebook…where Pippin is looking for Merry after the battle and finally finds him.

I love that scene.

Post by **Smaug's voice** » Wed Apr 16, 2014 4:25 pm

AAARGGHH!!!

I am seriously ticked off now! This better be false. Or they are going to wake up the dragon.

Where's the pitchforks or witch-hunt smiley???

ETA: I do see the reason why WB'S might consider changing it.

Post by **JewelSong** » Wed Apr 16, 2014 4:26 pm

Bah, humbug.

Post by **Smaug's voice** » Wed Apr 16, 2014 4:27 pm

Me???

Post by **Elentári** » Wed Apr 16, 2014 4:31 pm

Oh Good Grief!

Do we need to have "Fire" in every title these days...just to attract the HG audience???

Wed Apr 16, 2014 4:31 pm

yovargas wrote:
JewelSong wrote:Somebody recently posted a clip from the EE on Facebook…where Pippin is looking for Merry after the battle and finally finds him.
I love that scene.

I like that scene too, but it pales next to the scene when Thorin and Balin re-enter Erebor. Everything about the latter scene is superior, the writing, the directing and most of all the acting.

I'm fairly confident that there is no truth to the suggestion that the title is going to change, although honestly care all that much. If the emotional scenes to come are done as well as the one that I reference above, they can call it "The Hobbit: The Search for Cash" for all I care.

Post by **Smaug's voice** » Wed Apr 16, 2014 4:36 pm

There
must be a reason most people here prefer the LR films to TH I believe
...

I just saw the FotR EE today. The two don't compare.

And I care because I am tired of the cashgrab associated with this
production. The tirtle change is plainly for the purpose of that.
TH is a story that demeans greed ironically. Moreover, it infers that
the story is no more about Bilbo's homecoming. But of Thorin's angst.