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Ham_Sammy
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Jun 16 2013, 4:02pm
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I just wish the old New Line was marketing this instead of WB. New Line and Ordesky I think understood marketing better. They were more involved with the fans whereas WB seems more hands off. I'm not sure what it is exactly and I can't exactly quantify it. It seems like LOTR had a better comprehensive and continuous marketing whereas WB seems to have these long draughts. Maybe it's just my own perception which is entirely possible...
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Thranduil05
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Jun 16 2013, 4:06pm
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Also in the Special Features of LotR, Ordesky was interviewed quite a bit and seemed to be just more hands on in general with the making of the film. I'm surprised WB haven't announced a string of video games as well for TH, I'd have thought they'd want to milk the franchise for all it's worth!
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Ham_Sammy
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Jun 16 2013, 4:25pm
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They're overall marketing has been lackluster. Even the marketing of the Weta items has been sparse. Sideshow did a much better job and had more stuff than what Weta and WB have marketed for this film. Also, Ordesky was all over a direct dialogue with the fans. The whole film frame collectible thing they did for Trilogy Teusday (and Trilogy Teusday itself) was a huge marketing gig for ROTK. Although we are only at the second film and are not yet there it really feels like WB isn't interested in too much fan interaction other than "come see the movies". Granted the ydid do the lego stuff, which was fun for the kids, but I dunno what it is. I remember with FOTR there was much more buzz both before and after the movies, the stuff was selling like hotcakes on EBAY and elsewhere and the TORN was used as a pretty much direct marketing channel to the fans. Although that is there this time it really seems like TORN is doing the heavy lifting and WB is just sitting in the background.
As I said maybe I'm wrong. I just have really questioned the whole marketing model.
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Captain Salt
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Jun 16 2013, 4:42pm
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Agreed, the DoS teaser was quite dysfunctional, IMO
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Focus on supporting characters with nary a word from the two leads, and obvious digital doubles in the first teaser? Ugh. The first AUJ teaser was fantastic, the others...not so much.
Also agreed the LotR trailers/ads were IMO little masterpieces unto themselves to match the films.
My Top 5 Wish List for "The Hobbit"
5. Legolas will surf down Smaug's neck
4. Bilbo will be revealed to a Robot
3. Naked PJ cameo as Ghan-Buri-Ghan
2. Use of not only 3D, but smell-o-vision, plus the inclusion of axes coming out of the seats and poking the audience when appropriate
1. Not only keep the claim that Thorin & Co. ran amok in Mirkwood "molesting people", but depict said incident in vivid detail!!!!!
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Elessar
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Jun 16 2013, 4:50pm
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The Lord of the Rings is something so very special and three favorite films of all time. What Jackson did with them is something amazing and everything I love about the books is there on screen. That being said I loved AUJ. It has a few issues which I've talked about before but I think it's a pretty darn good film. Like you it had me smiling from start to finish. I felt it was every bit as good at being The Hobbit as The Lord of the Rings is at being itself. The additions to the film I also really enjoyed. So I walked away feeling the love and feel from AUJ that I do from the book. I also like Thorin in the movie more than his book counterpart and that's going to make more of a impact when he dies.
I think DoS is going to be great fun and another winner for films based on Middle-earth. I loved what we saw in the trailer for the most part and it looks to continue the feel of The Hobbit book. All in all I love that each series feels like their book counterparts but connected at the same time. Same way the books are.
In the end I love what we're getting and it makes for a great experience.
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JWPlatt
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Jun 16 2013, 4:51pm
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It was fairly obvious that the first teaser was about introducing the characters new to the second film (Legolas, Tauriel, Beorn, etc). It did its job.
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Captain Salt
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Jun 16 2013, 4:52pm
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In any event, after my initial reaction to the DoS teaser, I've gone back to waiting for DoS and TABA more as curiosities as a Tolkien fan/fan of PJ's LotR, and out of a sense of duty, rather than an expectation of actual enjoyment on the level of LotR. I suppose it'll have to be enough to derive what I can from a return to ME in SOME form, even if it is, as you say, as a CGI-laden blockbuster. I suppose some disappointing ME is better than no ME at all.
I was hoping DoS would return more to the realm of LotR (especially as we're now dealing with Elves and Men again), but the teaser certainly seems to be moving further away from it - guess it's up to TABA now. Even so,it would be nice if there are things to appreciate, even through the heavy layer of CGI and the action-movie conventions, ETC.
My Top 5 Wish List for "The Hobbit"
5. Legolas will surf down Smaug's neck
4. Bilbo will be revealed to a Robot
3. Naked PJ cameo as Ghan-Buri-Ghan
2. Use of not only 3D, but smell-o-vision, plus the inclusion of axes coming out of the seats and poking the audience when appropriate
1. Not only keep the claim that Thorin & Co. ran amok in Mirkwood "molesting people", but depict said incident in vivid detail!!!!!
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Captain Salt
Tol Eressea
Jun 16 2013, 4:55pm
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Yet the TTT teaser wasn't just Theoden/Eowyn/Eomer
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with a bit of Faramir, a bit of Gandalf, and fleeting cameos from the rest of the Fellowship.
My Top 5 Wish List for "The Hobbit"
5. Legolas will surf down Smaug's neck
4. Bilbo will be revealed to a Robot
3. Naked PJ cameo as Ghan-Buri-Ghan
2. Use of not only 3D, but smell-o-vision, plus the inclusion of axes coming out of the seats and poking the audience when appropriate
1. Not only keep the claim that Thorin & Co. ran amok in Mirkwood "molesting people", but depict said incident in vivid detail!!!!!
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jtarkey
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Jun 16 2013, 5:42pm
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Yes,there were a few moments sprinkled throughout the film
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However, they were too few and far between. The quiet moments seemed like they were just trying to offer a break from the action, instead of driving the story in the way that LOTR did.
It seems like LOTR wasn't trying to be an action, or a fantasy film (if that makes sense). The action was pretty much just an added bonus to the excellent story and characters. In The Hobbit, it seems like the story doesn't flow from the heart in the same way.
I've used this example before, but I feel it's very fitting. Remember the scene between Aragorn and Boromir in Lorien? Not only does it give us a very touching. and complicated moment between two characters, it also delivers a lot of important information about Minas Tirith and Denethor. There wasn't so much straight forward exposition as what filled The Hobbit. It seemed like scenes were either; an action scene, a heartfelt scene, or just exposoition.
It was very choppy.
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kbdiggity
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Jun 16 2013, 6:29pm
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honestly, there was just as much moaning on these boards a decade ago during the theatrical release of the LoTR films.
"I hate how they portrayed Frodo"
"What is this Arwen warrior princess crap"
'Too much Legolas shield surfing"
"Denethor is terrible"
"They wasted Faramir's character"
blah, blah, blah....
It is terribly ironic that so many people on here are either unaware of that fact, or they have chosen to forget it.
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Aragorn the Elfstone
Tol Eressea
Jun 16 2013, 6:32pm
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...but I was in love with every single frame of LotR from day one. So I've not forgotten anything. I have genuine issues with the route PJ has taken with The Hobbit.
Criticism aside, I really do enjoy AUJ and expect to get more on board with these films after DOS is released. Tempered expectations will do wonders I imagine.
"All men dream; but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds awake to find that it was vanity; But the dreamers of day are dangerous men. That they may act their dreams with open eyes to make it possible."
- T.E. Lawrence
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malickfan
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Jun 16 2013, 6:36pm
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Well to be fair the Faramir stuff still seems to come up all the time anyway
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And I've only been a member for two years. I didn't necessarily hate Frodo's portrayal, but Wood did get a tad annoying...
Anyway I guess it boils down to The Hobbit having a much bigger potential audience this time around-so there will be more complainers. I (and all my friends) was totally unaware of LOTR until PJ's films, and ignorant of many of the discussions/arguments...this time round though, I'm often the guy starting them...how times change.
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Ataahua
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Jun 16 2013, 7:03pm
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that those in charge of directing WB's marketing don't understand how to work with fandom as well as those who were in charge of NewLine were. Remember WB's big blue a few years back when it announced that 'something big' would be announced soon about Middle-earth? Anyone worth their salt would have known that the one thing fans were talking about the most was when The Hobbit would get its very much delayed green-light, and the anticipation on TORN's discussion boards went into overdrive - only to be burst when the announcement was about the LOTR Blu-ray. The first announcement was clueless and tone-deaf to the fans' priority at the time, and the stuff-up knocked WB's credibility.
I give them enormous credit for getting these films off the ground, but they've got to get their marketing sorted.
Celebrimbor: "Pretty rings..."
Dwarves: "Pretty rings..."
Men: "Pretty rings..."
Sauron: "Mine's better."
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The Mitch King
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Jun 16 2013, 7:10pm
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I think they appropriately have captured the difference in feel between the two stories. I don't have a problem with any of the cgi so I guess I really liked it all. I was very uncomfortable about Azog the very first time I saw it but now i accept him and don't get bothered too much. BluRay really changed my views on the cgi. I think the next two will amp up the emotion and danger in a BIG way.
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Captain Salt
Tol Eressea
Jun 16 2013, 7:14pm
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I had issues with Faramir and Denethor, but loved LotR overall...
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To me, Fellowship is a perfect movie, and TTT and RotK are near-perfect....meanwhile, TH is horribly disappointing.
Different films, different reactions. Seems pretty understandable to me.
My Top 5 Wish List for "The Hobbit"
5. Legolas will surf down Smaug's neck
4. Bilbo will be revealed to a Robot
3. Naked PJ cameo as Ghan-Buri-Ghan
2. Use of not only 3D, but smell-o-vision, plus the inclusion of axes coming out of the seats and poking the audience when appropriate
1. Not only keep the claim that Thorin & Co. ran amok in Mirkwood "molesting people", but depict said incident in vivid detail!!!!!
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Faenoriel
Tol Eressea
Jun 16 2013, 7:41pm
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I'll just acknowledge its existence and that I can't help it. It's a matter of taste, perhaps, but to me the Hobbit films simply look cheaper, less lyrical, less artistic and less inspired films which lack individual spirit. Or in short, they're worse cinema. But that's my opinion.
But every word you say today
Gets twisted 'round some other way
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JWPlatt
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Jun 16 2013, 8:07pm
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I've seen the complaints about "what they did to Faramir." But I liked Faramir in the movie. He is closer to my own sensibilities than most other characters in the story. I thought he was well portrayed.
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Ham_Sammy
Tol Eressea
Jun 16 2013, 9:19pm
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They don't "get" the fandom at all. You can just tell the difference it's palpable. They just don't seem engaged and with a franchise and fandom that kind of engagement is important. The films will do well regardless, but it does take some of the fun out of it. Their marketing does need to get sorted and quickly IMO. They are darned lucky that PJ is as good as he is with fans, the fandom and this openness with the community or it would be even worse.
Thank you for your questions, now go sod off and do something useful - Martin Freeman Twitter chat 3/1/13
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Ham_Sammy
Tol Eressea
Jun 16 2013, 9:24pm
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Yes, Yes there were. I remember those. I was a member then but left for awhile then the new boards came about and I had to re register because i forgot my log in information but I do remember.
1) Sacrilege! Arwen wasn't in LOTR and there was no romance and she shouldn't be in the film!
2) How dare Arwen take Glorfindel's place at the Ford of Bruinen PJ is going for the cheesy sex aspect!
3) No bombadil? What??? This film is an abomination!
4) It's all flashy battle sequences and non substance. It's all Viggo Viggo waving his sword around and Frodo only walks around looking spaced out!
5) Tiki Torch Denethor! Outrage! That never should have happened!
6) Faramir's character was wasted!
7) Gandalf's character is too domineering he was never that way in the books!
I remember all of those comments all too well.
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Magpie
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Jun 16 2013, 9:33pm
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One massive difference from then to now
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At the beginning of filming for LOTR, one of the executives for NewLine, actually talked to fans!
Michael De Luca, President and Chief Operating Officer of New Line Productions (at time of LOTR). Xoanon called him emailiac as he seemed to be comfortable with and prolific in chatting up fans by email, often divulging information about the LOTR movies to them.
haha... don't see that now, do we?
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Lusitano
Tol Eressea
Jun 16 2013, 9:45pm
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"the Hobbit films simply look cheaper, less lyrical, less artistic and less inspired films which lack individual spirit. Or in short, they're worse cinema "
I couldnt have stated it better myself.
Cheap is a good word to describe them. Ironic, since they are costing those 500 million dollars to make.
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Ham_Sammy
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Jun 16 2013, 9:46pm
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That's exactly right Magpie. They actually reached out to the fans and involved them. It felt like a family experience. YOu don't get that feeling here. The studio is distant and removed. Any takers on whether we get another "trilogy tuesday" type event? I'm guessing not. I don't see us getting that at all this time around.
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Brethil
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Jun 16 2013, 9:48pm
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Been hoping since the beginning
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That's exactly right Magpie. They actually reached out to the fans and involved them. It felt like a family experience. YOu don't get that feeling here. The studio is distant and removed. Any takers on whether we get another "trilogy tuesday" type event? I'm guessing not. I don't see us getting that at all this time around.
for another Trilogy-style opening. Loved the first one so much. I don't know if they will go for it, but I for one would be in line.
Manwe, when asked a simple "Yes" or "No" question, contemplated, and responded "the middle one."
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