Re: Countdown to Release [2] SPOILER THREAD

[Tinuviel]

I already didn't like the scene, but hearing it with that music just killed any dignity it might have been clinging on to! Bellisimo!!!

[Eldorion]

Thanks everyone. When my brother and I went to see The Hobbit (again for me, first time for him) tonight we both started humming the Benny Hill song just as the chase scene started. Hopefully we weren't too loud and didn't annoy the other people there.

[Pettytyrant101]

Its time to begin the long wait for the next film- and it seems to get very bloody crabbit about it already and its only January the 8th!!!!

From Empire magazine-

'As they venture deeper in Mirkwood, Bilbo and posse will need to brace themselves for the kind of arachnophobia even John Goodman can’t help with. The forest’s giant spiders await. They’ll speak in a form of “psychic communication”, promised Peter Jackson in December’s Empire edition, so “only Bilbo hears them”. Evidently, possession of the One Ring grants Bilbo the kind of psychic powers usually commanded only by Jonathan Cainer himself, although how the spider-chat manifests itself remains to be seen. '



Fry ended up being recruited to play the greedy and grotesque politician, who makes up for with belly what he lacks in backbone. And by all accounts, the character has given Jackson the chance to gleefully hark back to his icky early work. “[The Master] is an opportunity for sheer grossness,” says Fry.



While talking to Empire in September, Ian McKellen hinted that the White Council’s assault on Dol Guldur, in which Gandalf, Saruman, Elrond and Galadriel and Radagast take on the Necromancer’s foul forces, might not end well for the Grey Wizard. Obviously he won’t expire, but could he be taken out of action for a while? “There was a mocked-up doll of Gandalf that Cate [Blanchett] was carrying — she obviously couldn’t carry me — and we decided to call it Michael Gambon,” McKellen said. Well, as Galadriel said in An Unexpected Journey: “If you ever need my help, I will come.” Sounds like she keeps her promise.

[Eldorion]

Didn't Fry previously say that he ate (presumably fake) testicles as the Master?

EDIT: Yes. Yes he did.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/17/the-hobbit-stephen-fry-ate-testicles_n_1155242.html

[Pettytyrant101]

Yes there is mention of that too in Empire magazine so its seems true. As well as conformation Dain does indeed ride a boar into battle.
I fear film 2 is going to require more than editing to save.

[Amarië]

Petty... you need to replace the Crabbit meter with a Crabbit kilometer, or it will explode and kill us all before we reach February.

[Pettytyrant101]

I fear you may be right Amarie- I can feel the crabbit approaching like a wave with PJ riding the crest of it laughing.

[Norc]

Thanks everyone. When my brother and I went to see The Hobbit (again for me, first time for him) tonight we both started humming the Benny Hill song just as the chase scene started. Hopefully we weren't too loud and didn't annoy the other people there.

;D well, me and my sister is like that when watching lotr, only with that isengard song..

[Norc]

“There was a mocked-up doll of Gandalf that Cate [Blanchett] was carrying — she obviously couldn’t carry me — and we decided to call it Michael Gambon,” McKellen said. Well, as Galadriel said in An Unexpected Journey: “If you ever need my help, I will come.” Sounds like she keeps her promise.

Michael Gambon this is actually too funny cus Ian was inicially asked to play Dumbledore

though the rest? why so crabbit? Talking spiders, sensible reason why Bilbo can communicate, nice scary spiders, and some gross Lake Master. that is just great (not sarcastic)

[Norc]

Didn't Fry previously say that he ate (presumably fake) testicles as the Master?

EDIT: Yes. Yes he did.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/17/the-hobbit-stephen-fry-ate-testicles_n_1155242.html

well, in many culture that is normal.

[Norc]

a boar? if it is a wild boar, then hell, why not probably with the same super-sized balls as we saw the pic in Hobbiton had.

[Pettytyrant101]

Point out to me Norc where in the book we have boar riding dwarves, Gandalf being carried about by Galadriel, testicle eating and telepathic spiders? Where is PJ adapting this stuff from cause it aint Tolkien?- I'll tell you bloody where, from the inside of his own skull!!!

[Ringdrotten]

"...testicle eating... Where is PJ adapting this stuff from cause it aint Tolkien?"

Ultimate Survival with Bear Grylls

[Norc]

Point out to me Norc where in the book we have boar riding dwarves, Gandalf being carried about by Galadriel, testicle eating and telepathic spiders? Where is PJ adapting this stuff from cause it aint Tolkien?- I'll tell you bloody where, from the inside of his own skull!!!

riding boars.. well, it doesn't say they don't..
Gandalf being carried, yes, that is stretching it..
testicle eating, well, they don't have to spell out everything, why not. I mean, they don't write them going to the toilette or whatever.
telepathic spiders, well, it is always seen from Bilbo's view and he ahd the ring on and it would just be better.. because how would spiders even talk.. like so that the dwarves could here..like with mouths, easier if it is telepathically, but how then does Bilbo understand and hopefully comunicate, well, he's wearing a dark magic ring. why not.

[Mrs Figg]

If Galadriel does carry Gandalf. That will be the most ridiculous scene in movie history. wtf?
I really hope they are joking. Way to kill stone dead any thoughts of Galadriel as an ethereal Elven Queen, she is not a Mexican wrestler by jingo!

[widfara]

All seems perfectly legitimate to me.
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[Elthir]

The wild boars obviously come from the myth that Christopher Tolkien's house in France is protected by them.

Thus it is well attested in Tolkien circles and some bistros and whathaveyou.

[Eldorion]

well, in many culture that is normal.

I'm sure that Peter Jackson will treat the custom of eating testicles with his usual restraint and tact out of respect for the various ball-munching cultures of the world.

[Eldorion]

The wild boars obviously come from the myth that Christopher Tolkien's house in France is protected by them.

Thus it is well attested in Tolkien circles and some bistros and whathaveyou.

I would laugh if there was some sort of thinly veiled Christopher Tolkien expy in The Hobbit with an army of wild boar.

I'm not sure why this occurred to me. I just woke up.

[Eldorion]

I was reading the article that Petty mentioned a page ago and a few more things jumped out at me.

http://www.empireonline.com/features/hobbit-2-and-3/

If anyone was wondering why God gave us five fingers, it’s to keep count of the participants in The Hobbit’s climactic battle. Forces of humans, elves, dwarves, eagles, and a category we’re just calling ‘the bad guys’ (orcs, wargs, bats, COBRA, Thanos, Dick Dastardly and Muttley) make up the Battle Of Five Armies, with a sky-based skirmish a likely standout. In it, explains Richard Armitage, the eagles get to prove that they’re more than just Middle-earth’s taxi service. “There’s a manic fight in the air,” he told Empire, “in which eagles are fighting vampire bats.”

Okay, sounds neat.

The original Grizzly Man, Beorn plays a key role in the dwarves' journey through the tangle of Mirkwood. But on screen the shapeshifter, who lives a reclusive life away from men, orcs and Werner Herzog’s camera crews, will also gets his paws dirty dealing with some orcish miscreants. “I started with a severe torture scene,” explains the man who plays him, Mikael Persbrandt, a Swedish actor best known from Susanne Bier’s In A Better World. “It was awkward and embarassing.” The set-up involves the quizzing of an orc for information that may or may not be followed by a Jack Nicholson-style “You can’t handle the truth!” for the benefit of liberals in the room. It’s Zero Dark Fur-ty.

The Hobbit, world-famous children's book, now with 200% more testicle-eating and "severe torture".

[Norc]

HOW MANY BLOODY TIME DO I HAVE TO SAY IT! EAGLES SUCK AT AIR FIGHTING! SEAGULLS AND CROWS AND SPARROW CAN OUTDO THEM!!!


i hope the torture bit is just exaggerations..

[Ally]

Is masterbating considered a foreign act in the US?

Masterbate? more like MasterGREAT! haha, anyways I'm your new teacher, welcome to kindergarten

[halfwise]

{{{ I will not rise to the bait....I will not rise to the bait....I will NOT rise to the bait....}}}

[Mrs Figg]

by jingo!

[Norc]

I like a good math debate