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The first images were released from Peter Jackson’s upcoming two-part adaptation of The Hobbit, which I believe will be released sometime around 2054. They’re neat! Look at them, ya nerd!
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Let's all go to the movies, and let's all see the same movie, and let's discuss it here.
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Hey, anybody else remember when Peter Jackson used to actually make good movies, before someone started giving him a budget? I miss that.
All I remember is “Meet the Feebles.” I wish I didn’t remember “Meet the Feebles.”
That’s fair. But at least it was something clever and original, and didn’t rely on flashy special effects. But Bad Taste? Bad Taste was great! The Frighteners, also great! That one with the girls who kill the one girl’s mom! SO GREAT!
Okay Lovely Bones was pretty bad, and i’m on the ‘this was garbage camp’ when it comes to KingKong as well (mostly because of how Jack Black said “it was beauty that killed the beast” at the end).
But i don’t see anything wrong with the LOTR trilogy.
Why can’t they use real hobbit actors? That is clearly a normal person in a giant room.
You take what you can get if you want to live in the greatest shire in the world.
You mean Yorkshire, right?
yes, new yorkshire, to be precise
I just came in my elven robes.
Goddamnit, it’s not bad enough I have to wait almost a year for the next season of Game of Thrones, now I know this one is gonna be awesome in ten years? Grrrrrrrrrr
They should have released half that picture now and half next year.
I can’t wait for the part where Gandalf makes a politically incorrect joke about Orcs and then Bilbo mugs for the camera.
This is a minor complaint/observation, but here goes:
Does anyone ever notice how expressive feet are? I draw, and often times see myself staring at people’s figures and anatomy quite a bit, observing and making mental notes. Considering that feet are at the base of us doing our bipedal balancing act, they move A LOT. every shift in weight will move toes around, or the foot side to side, ball and heel, arch and whatever other anatomy of the foot there is (this isn’t a quiz! get off my case!). Independently of our balancing act, they also twitch and move while we’re thinking, sitting in our chairs, etc. Feet are very expressive. If our hands are expressive (duh) then so are our feet.
So whenever I see the actors in their Hobbit feet I always feel that they are missing out on some serious potential for body language. They have HUGE feet. Actual, fictitious Hobbits probably express a lot with them. But since the filmmaking community’s tools are limited in creating these fantastical features, certain compromises must be made and such. If they wanted something other than “feet shoes” that they have been using, they would have limited options:
1) Practical effects- Animatronic feet. But something tells me that making robot parts into the feet shoes would not be good. They would probably break a lot, plus puppeteers would be needed to move toes around or whatever.
2) Computer effects- which comes in two possibilities and are probably too expensive: a) Completely computer animate the feet (which would be noticeable and potentially dreadful-looking), and b) Have the actors in bare feet and then use a computer to blow their feet up to Hobbit size (which would also probably be noticeable, plus now the actor’s feet could be injured day in and day out. Also, makeup effects on the feet to get them properly proportioned and hairy).
All of these efforts would probably be costly, fruitless endeavors, so I understand why they’ve just gone with feet shoes for the actors, but we can all admit that when we watched the LotR trilogy and saw the Hobbits we went, “Oh look, they made their feet big by making Hobbit feet shoes,” right?
So in conclusion of my tl;dr essay about Hobbit feet: feet are expressive, and the Hobbit feet shoes are noticeably fake-looking.
This guy gets it
I was debating whether to incorporate a Quentin joke directly into my comment, but I didn’t want to bring up the fetishization of feet in an attempt to keep it observational and serious. One thing is for sure tho- Quentin certainly has not shied away from showing how expressive feet are in his films.
Where is hobbit David Brent?
Sorry Tim from the British Office, but no matter how famous you get you will always be Tim from the British Office.
“MARTIN FREEMAN (BILBO BAGGINS)”
i read this as “morgan freeman” and was in a chaos of confusion for about two seconds.