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OK maybe not, but in a business filled with teasers and trailers for trailers, the 13-minute behind-the-scenes featurette on Warner Bros‘ Peter Jackson trilogy seems like Lawrence Of Arabia — and at least as long as The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey‘s 166-minute runtime. But does it give too much away ahead of the pic’s December 14 opening?
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Spoiler Alert: Bilbo lives, finds a snazzy magic ring that helps him turn invisible, gets old and becomes Ian Holmes.
the storyline and characters strongly resemble “here comes honey boo boo.”
Featurettes are great for building buzz on the internet, but there’s nothing more annoying than having to sit through 30 minutes of trailers and ads before watching a movie. Overlong trailers/previews/featurettes will most likely have adverse effects on audiences.
So if you want to sell your movie, please apply yourselves to making your trailers as tight and enticing as possible, but don’t waste our time! Thank you!
Featurettes do a good job of killing the illusion of cinema. I have no idea why Jackson thought it would be a good idea to bombard us with these things BEFORE the movie is out. Once you’ve seen an hours worth of actors prancing in front of green screens, it kills excitement. The Hobbit holds zero anticipation for me (and we already know what happens to the main characters anyway).
Will this really be a trilogy? Or will they cut their losses and fold the next two into one conclusion? Or will they just write off their losses and leave this as a stand-alone film with an invisible conclusion we should just imagine?
It gives too much away, but it’s nothing new: Warner also put out 13-minute featurettes for Cloud Atlas and The Dark Knight Rises.
The Hobbit is part of the Lord of the Rings story, and with The Simarillion (kind of like the Middle-Earth bible), constitute one of the most epic and beloved stories ever written by a human. Look up the stats on the book if you don’t believe me. There is enough material to make ten more movies if they wanted to, and they would be great if PJ directed them, just like LOTR. I worked at New Line when they were making the LOTR trilogy and few people there thought it had a chance and that it would collapse the studio. All the haters were wrong and they’re wrong about The Hobbit also. I hate to drop the cheesiest but truest line from ROTK, but “There’s good in this world and it’s worth fighting for.” Begin ranting now.
Oh NOOOOOOOOOOOO. stop with Hobbit.
If you don’t like long featurettes, I’ve got a hot tip for you: DON’T WATCH THEM. Nobody is forcing you to do so. But there are people like me out there who can’t get enough behind-the-scene footage and who enjoy these featurettes and production videos tremendously. So, please, stop the hatred.
in my humble opinion, the value of these films is not in the flash-bang of hollywood magic. to me the value lay in the it’s empathetic examination of the human condition.
i believe that there is a reason these films are watched over and over again. they are like a cherished walk in the woods. one might consider such a featurette to be a trail guide, or perhaps a primer, or even an introduction to film analysis for a generation raised on mtv and prozac. for warner brothers to invest in a featurette like this shows a respect for the marketplace, and thought. this does not strike me as the usual self-love epk. it strikes me as a introduction to why this film matters, and for that i am grateful.