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Mr. Gibbycrumbles posted:Well, it is an official licensed product, but it seems to be just one of many different designs. You're right in that it's Walmart fodder, and unlikely to be seen in a cinema. Here's another one in the same style: This is hilarious. Random casual moviegoer looking at poster: "WHAT hobbit?" Also, it looks like Alan Lee straight-up painted the thing.
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Data Graham posted:This is hilarious. Alan Lee is far, far too good an nuanced of a painter to produce a piece of marketing crap like that. That's the work of some random fella who has nothing to do with Lee and works for some company that soullessly produces prints like that for all kinds of geeky cult franchises, I imagine. It just has that sort of "feel" to it. Lee, on the other hand, has legitimate talent. For example, this is what it looks like when Alan Lee "straight up paints" a scene from Tolkien:  There's deep textures, great composition, lots of mood, good use of smoky and indistinct techniques on the characters in the mid-ground, and it looks gorgeous. That is, of course, Gandalf saying farewell to the dwarves and Bilbo at the edge of Mirkwood. And I'll bet money that whenever we get to this scene in the movies, there will be a shot composed JUST like that painting. Lee does not do a lot of facial closeups of the actors in his Tolkien and they only look like the actors for the conceptual sketches he's done specifically for Jackson/WETA. All his own work that he's been doing for years prior to Jackson's films (which Jackson still borrowed from EXTENSIVELY to create the visual look of Jackson's own Middle-Earth) is entirely Lee's own vision of Tolkien's world. I'd imagine that he's got mofd pride in his own work and talent than to let his name close to something as ugly as those earlier posters. kaworu fucked around with this message at 20:41 on Oct 2, 2012 |
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Well, uh, yeah, I was being facetious. The whole thing has a very gray and stony palette and the characters look more artificial than photorealistic, is all I meant. (I have plenty of respect for Lee, though he isn't my favorite Tolkien artist. I was a staunch Nasmith fan back in the early 90s, but since then he seems to have forgotten how to create convincing landscapes, and he was never any good at characters and has definitely gotten worse. I think I prefer Howe's stuff--more actiony than atmospheric, but frankly Lee's style of atmospheric never did that much for me.)
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Oct 2, 2012 21:41
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Lee is a great artist, but personally I just never cared for his style. John Howe's work has always been what really defined Tolkien's world for me.
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My problem with Howe is the dragon. I don't like dragons with long bird like beaks, like the pic of Smaug destroying Laketown. Nasmith did do a nice Glaurung tho.
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Oct 5, 2012 21:38
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http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Hobbit-Extended-Edition-Dark-Knight-Trilogy-Blu-rays-Coming-2013-33365.html I like how WB is already confirming that they're doing an extended edition Blu-Ray in Q4 2013.
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Star War Sex Parrot posted:http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Hobbit-Extended-Edition-Dark-Knight-Trilogy-Blu-rays-Coming-2013-33365.html I understand the concept of extended editions of movies that were always intended to be a trilogy, but had material excised from the theatrical editions for the sake of runtime. Extended editions of a movie that began as a single installment, then as a duology, and then became a trilogy? Holy dogshit. 
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Timby posted:I understand the concept of extended editions of movies that were always intended to be a trilogy, but had material excised from the theatrical editions for the sake of runtime. There's plenty of lore for Peter Jackson to mine. I'm looking forward to it, personally.
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Gianthogweed posted:There's plenty of lore for Peter Jackson to mine.
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Star War Sex Parrot posted:There are plenty of chumps for WB to double-dip on. I think it's more MGM trying to maximize revenue to recover from its bankruptcy.
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Star War Sex Parrot posted:There are plenty of chumps for WB to double-dip on. Glad its out there early so I can wait for the Extended Editions, never did buy those theatrical cuts of the original.
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Bombadilillo posted:Glad its out there early so I can wait for the Extended Editions, never did buy those theatrical cuts of the original. Yeah, same with me.
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I've still be holding off the the LOTR BRs on the off chance they get yet another release with Hobbit footage inserted into the prologue. That kind of thing may have to wait though until all three parts are out though. Seems the type of thing timed for a follow up to the Hobbit final part release.
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I hope when they're promoting the movie they'll bother to rerelease The Complete Recordings soundtrack for TLOTR. The CDs are pretty expensive on Amazon right now; and only ROTK's soundtrack had a proper release on iTunes or Amazon mp3.
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Teek posted:I've still be holding off the the LOTR BRs on the off chance they get yet another release with Hobbit footage inserted into the prologue. That kind of thing may have to wait though until all three parts are out though. Seems the type of thing timed for a follow up to the Hobbit final part release. I'm still waiting for the Silmarillion release myself.
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Star War Sex Parrot posted:http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Hobbit-Extended-Edition-Dark-Knight-Trilogy-Blu-rays-Coming-2013-33365.html WB have now backtracked on this, according to TORN. The EE is no longer confirmed. In unrelated news, TORN seems convinced (after screenings of a rough cut) that the running length of the first film is 2hrs 44mins. I'm taking this with a pinch of salt.
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Mr. Gibbycrumbles posted:WB have now backtracked on this, according to TORN. The EE is no longer confirmed. The screening version of the film is always longer, always. The final marketing master will be shorter. Still, that's pretty long for a film that's been extended. The Campaign went from 142 minutes to 83 for an example.
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This isn't directly hobbit related but I think this is still the place to share these. Welcome from Lothlorien  Gates of Argonath  I'd love it if this guy did some in the same style for the Hobbit, but it appears he has not.
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RembrandtQEinstein posted:This isn't directly hobbit related but I think this is still the place to share these. Wow I love these. In fact this stuff is about the only Tolkien-related artwork I've seen that I'd be willing to display in my house without feeling like a colossal dork.
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Those are basically "What if Lord of the Rings was Zelda: The Windwaker?!" so you would actually feel 100x dorkier.
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I like that they managed to visually recreate the ambiguity of the Balrog's wings. Is it wings... or is it just the ceiling of the cave? 
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ToastyPotato posted:I like that they managed to visually recreate the ambiguity of the Balrog's wings. Is it wings... or is it just the ceiling of the cave? Not that I want to start this hilarious debate of wings or no-wings, but they're clearly outside and on-top of a mountain.
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Wendell posted:Those are basically "What if Lord of the Rings was Zelda: The Windwaker?!" so you would actually feel 100x dorkier. I think they're more "What if Lord of the Rings was done in stained glass?" I'd visit the poo poo out of that church. teagone posted:Not that I want to start this hilarious debate of wings or no-wings, but they're clearly outside and on-top of a mountain. Yeah, that one definitely leaves no room for interpretation. The "Deep into Moria" one does leave a little bit of room for interpretation  there are wings
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No it is definitely ambiguous on the wings. A nice touch.
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RembrandtQEinstein posted:there are wings They are based on the movies so I don't even know what you nerds are spergin about.
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Oct 10, 2012 22:07
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But where are the fluffy slippers?
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These are awesome and I want to install them in my windows of my study where I shall read and smoke a pipe after I win the lottery.
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If I won the lottery I would recreate Bag End and live there.
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Oct 10, 2012 23:09
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Just look up Earth-contact homes. The mortgage rates are high, the resale ability is low and the assessed value by an appraiser is next-to-impossible. But you don't need to win the lottery to build it. Plus you save a fortune on climate-control. Just don't built it in a flood plain.
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teagone posted:Not that I want to start this hilarious debate of wings or no-wings, but they're clearly outside and on-top of a mountain.
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RembrandtQEinstein posted:Welcome from Lothlorien Looks like the power fantasy Galadriel imagined herself a boob job while fighting off the influence of the Ring. :s
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I love Gimli's lock of hair.
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Vicissitude posted:Looks like the power fantasy Galadriel imagined herself a boob job while fighting off the influence of the Ring. :s
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Great. Now I'm imagining Galadriel's cans glittering like Eärendil the Evening Star.
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"In place of a dark lord, you will have a size queen..."
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Vicissitude posted:Looks like the power fantasy Galadriel imagined herself a boob job while fighting off the influence of the Ring. :s So... um.... where exactly is Galadriel WEARING Nenya?
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Well IVE got opening night tickets on the premiere, so december cant come soon enough! There was a huge deal over here where they sold tickets online when there were poor schmucks sleeping in line outside of cinemas not knowing about it. Online sales have now stopped for a period of time, but I've still got tickets!!
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Effingham posted:So... um.... where exactly is Galadriel WEARING Nenya? Do not use Nenya if you are nursing, pregnant, or maybe become pregnant. Call a doctor if you experience a queen; not dark but beautiful and terrible as the morn, treacherous as the sea, stronger than the foundations of the earth.
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Piney posted:Well IVE got opening night tickets on the premiere, so december cant come soon enough! There was a huge deal over here where they sold tickets online when there were poor schmucks sleeping in line outside of cinemas not knowing about it. Online sales have now stopped for a period of time, but I've still got tickets!! It's not coming out until Boxing Day here so I think I'll spend most of December locked in my room with my internet subscription cancelled, crying myself to sleep. Or you know, man up and just wait out the two or three weeks.
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Now that we're getting closer to release are there any more details on what's happening with the 48fps release? I know they're supposedly scaling back their plans but it's hard to find any solind info.
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