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The latest tease for Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey dropped this morning. The merry dwarves are back along with menacing monsters and fresh footage since the first trailer from last December. This one also has extra Gollum. This will be the first picture in what recently became a trilogy of Hobbit movies. In July, it was confirmed that Jackson would split what was a planned two-picture story into three films from JRR Tolkien’s book and 125 pages of appendices that the author included in a later publication of final Lord Of The Rings installment, The Return Of The King. Set in Middle-earth, 60 years before LOTR, The Hobbit trilogy kicks off with n Unexpected Journey on December 14 this year, followed by The Hobbit: The Desolation Of Smaug on Dec. 13, 2013 and The Hobbit: There And Back Again on July 18, 2014.
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omg! a REAL movieeeeee!!!! weeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!
I doubt the movies will be as good as the 25+ year-old Hobbit cartoons…those were Solid.
Looks like a TV show. Where has the epicness of LOTR gone? Some of those sets look made of cheap plastic.
It’s the 48FPS and the RED. Digital gets closer every day, but it still doesn’t look like film.
Look, this movie is going to be a lot of fun…
But it would look so much more epic, imaginative and cinematic if it was shot in film. Digital just makes it look like a soap opera. There’s just no denying that shooting digital is a serious compromise.
Like Star Wars The Hobbit will make lots of money and, probably, be stunning to view.
That being said, after the first trilogy spanning some 10 plus hours of films, I honestly have no desire to basically invest another 10 hours (forget the cost) in this new trilogy as it all looks and feels the same except for the new monsters and villains.
The world may be truly excited about this Hobbit trilogy…I shall respectfully pass.
Peter Jackson has already filled my cup to over flowing with Tolkien and middle earth.
I am sure I stand quite alone on this…but, it is what it is…for me.
I understand you, brotha. It’s the law of diminishing returns. You spend more and more and more, and each time you get 10% less, 15% less…
I’m sure the last Ohio Players album was very expensive to produce, compared to the first Ohio Players album.
Do Hobbits wear bellbottoms?
Of course I’ll see it (and so will everyone else), but the trailer left me cold and unimpressed. It may be the clinical look and feel of the digital images or the Michael-Bay-like music and editing, but for now – and just like the first teaser – this doesn’t feel exactly right.
We’ll see.
Wow. It looks so plastic, cheap and videoy. The DP and light crew needs to be let go for the sequels.
Also, why does the cg on Gollum look more cartoony than LOTR?
Maybe establishing a pipeline and creating plugins from what they learned making the original trilogy to speed up the cg process in this is making the cg company lazy and turning out shoddy work.
This looks terrible, the humor is not funny, and the action looks like lazy sweeping crane shots zooming in.
The problem with HD or 48FPS or whatever “hyper realistic” medium they’re using is that make-up effects still look HORRENDOUS. Film added texture. Gracefully blurred and diffused the line between natural and artificial. With HD a prosthetic looks exactly like…a prosthetic. Check out the NOSES in this trailer. Or check out Jude Law’s fake tooth in Soderbergh’s CONTAGION. 40 feet high you can’t miss it.
Sorry, kids, but this just looks… precious.
Haters can go hug a Balrog.
This trailer brings tears to my eyes.
These are the days of high adventure.
Adventure, I say!!!!!
Looks like a cheap re-hash of LOTR; face it, the genie’s out of teh bottle … New Line.2 will do well on this, but nothing like the first one … nothing!
I cannot wait for this!
Not enough Hobbit singing for me
Eats it whole. So excited
It looks great!!!!!
Looking forward to this. Looks absolutely fantastic and epic.
As for those whining about the quality of sets, fx and overall look of the film need to realize they couldn’t even come close to doing better themselves. Your self-importance is clearly evident in your posts.
This looks absolutely amazing – I’m not sure why everyone is complaining about the look of the film. I also think the tone matches the book perfectly – it’s a much smaller and fun story than the LotR stories, but still has intense action mixed in.
And Martin Freeman is an inspired bit of casting.