The Hobbit : An Unexpected Journey

[Geazergimli2]

The trailer was finally released yesterday, and man! does it look amazing!!

 

[HFR]

I literally screamed like a little girl.

 

[Deleted member 157129]

It looks exactly like Lord of the Rings, with more dwarves, as it should - for consistency, anyway. Nothing special, though. Trailer doesn't give me anything because I'm solely concerned with how the story is presented.

 

[The_wand_mirror]

I thought this was based on the book?

So the dragon will come in part 2 or what?...

I've actually only read the hobbit graphic novel.

 

[Vengeancekael]

I literally screamed like a... boy?

 

[Gilles]

I'm finished, hand me a cigarette.

Seriously though the trailer obviously doesn't prove it's going to be awesome. Still can't wait to find out for myself.

 

[MGCǂSpectre]

Recently watched LotR on TV again, I still loved the return of the king. There you have elves, orcs, humans and undead, the lich king too. LotR movie is so war3. This should be interesting idk.

 

[Deleted member 157129]

Recently watched LotR on TV again, I still loved the return of the king. There you have elves, orcs, humans and undead, the lich king too. LotR movie is so war3. This should be interesting idk.

WC3 is so LOTR. But nowhere near the quality.

 

[EloTheMan]

December 14, 2012... I have waited for 7 years now so I guess one more is fine

So there will be more than one movie to cover the book?

 

[rcshaggy]

December 14, 2012... I have waited for 7 years now so I guess one more is fine

So there will be more than one movie to cover the book?

There will be two very large parts, kinda like what Harry Potter did for the final movie.

Oh and I'm really excited for this. /)^3^(\

 

[Asomath]

2 Parts... they could have done it in one... but there is alot of content to cover.

I like how they just arent recycling the LoTR soundtrack. There were new scores too! I'll be ready for a killer soundtrack to listen to.

I am ready for the midnight release.

~Asomath

 

[Skycraft]

If there is going to be two separate parts to this, then I'm happy with that.

If it was bunched up into one movie I don't think I could sit in the cinemas for 50% of the movie only to have the other 50% on a DVD.

 

[MGCǂSpectre]

WC3 is so LOTR. But nowhere near the quality.

That's true because the book is somewhere from the (50s of 20th century) and war3 was started from it but the LotR movie is somewhat copied from War3 or war2, hard to say as the 1st lotr was kind of 2001 afair

Also I thought this was uploaded among the fake trailers existing on YouTube like Avatar 2 and matrix 4. Now i see it is real.

 

[Asomath]

I dont get in what ways the LoTR movies were derived from Warcraft...

~Asomath

 

[MGCǂSpectre]

The visual look of orcs, undead, wolf riders, similar to kodo beasts only elephants.. plenty of them

 

[EloTheMan]

The visual look of orcs, undead, wolf riders, similar to kodo beasts only elephants.. plenty of them

The orcs in wc3 are green and brutish while the LotR ones are shorter and pretty dark in their skin color.

Also the undead are just ghosts in LotR, well the svamp part might be similar.

 

[Asomath]

^Yeah. The visual elements just dont look very similar between the two

~Asomath

 

[Billy the Cat]

Being a LotR fan myself I was a bit worried The Hobbit would dissapoint, but so far I really like what they've been showing, think they picked the perfect guy for Bilbo and the soundtrack so far sounds great to me as well.

 

[Orcnet]

YES! the hobbit movie showing "orcs as the bad-ass villains" ever come into lotr trilogy, also the dwarf song gave me goosebumps!

 

[MGCǂSpectre]

Well you cannot deny that there is a lot war3ish in lotr, ofc they can't be green and 1:1 the same or it would be obvious but I'm surprised there is not even notice that something's been used from the game for the movie. It's so obvious.

I thought it was gonna be the same Bilbo from LotR, will see how it is with this one.

 

[EloTheMan]

Well you cannot deny that there is a lot war3ish in lotr, ofc they can't be green and 1:1 the same or it would be obvious but I'm surprised there is not even notice that something's been used from the game for the movie. It's so obvious.

I thought it was gonna be the same Bilbo from LotR, will see how it is with this one.

I don't see any resemblance between LotR orcs and wc orcs except for their teeth and the general humanoid body.

Its more likely that warcraft got some ideas from LotR as the books are older. Also if I remember correctly there were detail descriptions in The Hobbit book that I read of how creatures looked like.

And since games has been seen as a toy for children for a long time what are the odds of the designers who works most of their time to say "hey, lets check out how the game industry designs their orcs"

Well the possibility is still there that they copied and changed but the odds are against it and also how much can you copy from a 2d game?

 

[Billy the Cat]

Well you cannot deny that there is a lot war3ish in lotr, ofc they can't be green and 1:1 the same or it would be obvious but I'm surprised there is not even notice that something's been used from the game for the movie. It's so obvious.

I think the designs for LotR would be more inspired by other creature designs that were made way before Warcraft 3 came out. I think the inspiration was more the other way around in that LotR inspired WC3. :b

I thought it was gonna be the same Bilbo from LotR, will see how it is with this one.

From what I've seen they will have both Ian Holm (the actor playing Bilbo in the Lord of the Rings) and Martin Freeman, where Ian Holm will play the older "Lord of the Rings" Bilbo. Since The Hobbit is set way before the story of The Lord of the Rings too place I doubt Ian Holm would be the right actor for that role (especially when taking into consideration that many years have passed since they started filming for The Lord of the Rings).

 

[MGCǂSpectre]

My whole point was that the movie and im talking about just the movie LotR - the way some creatures would look was based on the already existing in war3 - with changes so that they don't look exact copies from war3. Im talking about their visualization here. My opinion is that Warcraft whether War3 or WoW helped the visualization of these creatures, there is a lot of similarities and the book can hardly give you an idea how to make these creatures unlike seeing already made creatures from games..

As for warcraft originating as a story, yes, since lotr is older.. Whatever

 

[Billy the Cat]

and im talking about their visualization here.

In which John Howe and Alan Lee played a large role. Alan Lee did illustrations for the novel as well around 1990, while John Howe had been working on maps between 1996 and 2003. :v

 

[Asomath]

The Fellowship of the Ring movie came out before War3 so...

~Asomath

 

[NhazUl]

I'm really eager to see how the events in Unfinished Tales (the war between dwarves and orcs, the sack of Erebor, the White Council gatherings, the attack on Dol Guldur, Saruman's corruption etc.) are shown and how the Tales' darker tone is balanced with the fairytale-sounding Hobbit.

Also why was Galadriel gently stroking Gandalf's hair in the sunset? >.> And the only thing I dislike so far is Thorin having a short beard. He's a dwarf, damn it, a dwarven king.

 

[EloTheMan]

The Fellowship of the Ring movie came out before War3 so...

~Asomath

The original Wc and wc2 came out a couple of years before the movie

 

[HFR]

Actually all 3 movies were filmed around 1999-2001, with effects, soundtrack, some extra scenes and stuff being added later.

 

[MGCǂSpectre]

Well, im no longer interested in fantasy type i.e magic and mythical creatures but in sci fi. Either way when I was more into the fantasy I've read some fantasy series and among them I've read the books Hobbit, then LotR, so my reading part is done.

 

[EloTheMan]

hey guys I was listening to this and then all of the sudden this popped up in the related video section:

 

[HFR]

Nothing new at least for me. That movie is either loved or absolutely hated, never saw one with a mild opinion about it.

 

[leet.firefox]

So I heard you like bumping.