Amph One Thread To Rule Them All: The Rings of Power + The Hobbit & Lord of the Rings Trilogies

I think the Mouth of Sauron's... mouth... is one of the most effective special effects I've ever seen. It's so simple, but so completely jarring it freaks me out even now.

 

I think the lack of tension has to do with Jackson failing to develop fleshed out characters you cared about. Thorin and his dwarves are just action hero props for the most part. You cared about the Fellowship and thus when danger was around you feared for them. I did care about Bilbo and so there was some tension when he was in danger but then again Jackson thinks the hobbits are weak otherwise you wouldn't have so many bits where they have to be saved by warriors.

 

Too many dwarves and not enough fleshing out of them. I can name several of them but not all of them. I can also tell you the relationships of some of them but nowhere near as good as LOTR.

 

There are a lot of dwarves, though. There were nine in the Fellowship, and they got more fleshed out as the movies went along.

 

Dwarves "not fleshed out"? As opposed to the book, in which, aside from Thorin and maybe Balin, they're basically just a list of names?

 

Okay. The dwarves were fleshed out more in the movies than the books. But the dwarves were not as distinct as the Fellowship to me.

 

If so, Bilbo's mother has some serious explaining to do.

 

By the Valar! I hadn't seen that one coming... It certainly earned more than a chuckle on my part. Now I have this absurd image of the Necromancer and Bilbo, and the former going all "No, I am your maker" on the latter. Which would also be true in a way, given that Bilbo does carry Sauron's essence in the One Ring.

I know there's a Crack!Fic idea there somewhere, but for the life of me I don't think I'd be able to pull it of...

Cheers,
Lauré

 

That's what she said.

 

I just came in here to use the phrase "fleshed out."

So...when is the EE being released?

 

It should be released in time for the holidays! I can't find the date on when it comes out.!!!!

 

does anybody own the hobbit now, and is it released in 24 per frame seconds on dvd if you do own it?

 

Does DVD even support 48 FPS?

 

Not the I know of, but is the dvd in 48 fps?

 

That's... what I'm asking. If it supports that in the first place.

 

I don't know either!!!! But I did ask Rouge-one-in-a-half that and rouge said it will most likley be on 24 per frame second on dvd.

 

I wish they would say what the EE deleted scenes will be, so I know whether to buy now or wait until Christmas.

 

At least one of the deleted scenes will involve the Necromancer.

 

If I knew for sure there was going to be an EE (do we know that, yet?) then I would not buy the theatrical cut. So I suspect they're not going to confirm until the theatrical cut has been released.

I don't know what to do.

 

Warner Bros. first confirmed the Extended Edition of AUJ in late 2013, but subsequently retracted. Could it have been a slip-up, someone revealing the news prematurely? I'd like to think that's the case.

 

They'll sell more Blu-Rays if they hold off on an official announcement of an EE release.

 

That is obvious.

 

I'd like to think the same. Probably won't be enough to stay my hand come April 8th, though. Which is their cunning plan.

 

Rent it, then buy the EE. An Evertonian and his money are not soon parted.