New Hobbit Trailer - Page 11

Shyria Dracnoir · 12-11-2012, 10:47 AM

Warner Bros. moves to temporarily block release of "Age of Hobbits" Asylum-knockoff

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"Asylum's argument appears to ignore the connection between the term used to describe Homo Floresiensis and Tolkien's hobbits," the judge writes. "Asylum treats the use of the two terms as completely unrelated, but the terms are in fact closely related: Scientists gave Homo Floresiensis the nickname 'Hobbit' because its appearance resembled Tolkien's hobbits, as described in his novels.... Given that Homo Floresiensis received the nickname 'Hobbit' specifically because of its resemblance to Tolkien's fictional hobbits, the Court finds Asylum's argument that its movie is wholly unrelated to Tolkien's work because it is about Homo Floresiensis to be disingenuous."

"Age of the Hobbits," a film about a "last village of clever, peace-loving Hobbits ... attacked and enslaved by Java Men, komodo-worshiping, dragon-riding cannibals," was scheduled to release tomorrow.

So, ignoring the arguments about copyright infringement Asylum somehow managed to mash up the literary hobbits with the scientific hobbits and throw all of that in with Komodo dragon riding cannibal ape men.

...I need to see this film. Morbid curiosity.

Bells · 12-11-2012, 11:12 AM

this is the sort of movie that deserves a web screening premier of flamming glory.

On the other hand, i wouldn't want to give money for that...

RickZarber · 12-11-2012, 02:04 PM

...It has Christopher Judge in it... Teal'c, how did you get roped into this?!

Also, I finally bought my tickets for the midnight showing of the Hobbit! I was worried they'd sell out but then the ticket guy told me they had only sold 28 so far... >.< (This being for the HFR version, that is.) But hey! I'm cool with not waiting in line and getting nice seats!

Magus · 12-11-2012, 04:22 PM

That's pretty cut-and-dried copyright infringement. The generic public domain term is halfling. Hobbit is clearly a creation of Tolkein.

Nique · 12-13-2012, 03:11 PM

Lot's of negative reviews floating around for The Hobbit. Whether it's actually bad or not I guess will have to wait until I see it but the content of these reviews is confusing ...

Like, a lot of the complaints are about it 'looking too good' which is just the dumbest 'back-in-my-day' mean-nothing complaint. Some guy from The Sun, I think, complained that three films is too much and was an effort to cash in on the success of LotR, which is a stupid complaint to me because clearly this is not just supposed to be the story of The Hobbit but the story of The Hobbit in the same cinematic world as Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings.

And also within the same review complaints about it being too serious for the original story but too much comic relief and shots of Freeman grimacing humorously, which... ok??? Which way would you like it???

Like, look, here's the thing - Tolkien's middle earth has a huge, complex mythology, and if Jackson has used The Hobbit to show more of that world in his cinematic universe (which is already not supposed to be identical to the original individual books) then I guess I don't really see a problem with that. These reviews sound like pedantic Tolkien purists who have forgotten that the same elements they don't like in The Hobbit were present in LotR (see: dwarf comic relief), and also that The Hobbit as a book is merely the tip of the Tolkien iceberg.

Professor Smarmiarty · 12-13-2012, 03:23 PM

I don't know, pretty much every review I've read is Jackson has gone up his own ass showing off petty bullshit that only like a small bunch of basement dwelling tolkien nerds would possibly want to see.

Nique · 12-13-2012, 03:28 PM

Yeah like, that could be the case, but if it's all flash and no substance then these guys could be saying that. Instead they're sounding like they've got some agenda about the movie they wanted to see which is also fine I guess except it isn't really sounding like the objective movie review that they get paid for and also it sounds like they forgot what LotR and all it's extended editions looked like.

Professor Smarmiarty · 12-13-2012, 03:43 PM

No I think its acknowledged those were shit too and these took the worst bits about them and got rid of the best bits making them even more shit.

rpgdemon · 12-13-2012, 03:43 PM

Looking too good is a legitimate complaint: It's good to look fake, because as the realism gets upped, you can start seeing that things are just sets and costumes.

Like, it no longer looks like a movie, it looks like people standing around in costume talking.

Nique · 12-17-2012, 02:30 PM

Just saw it last night. This movie is long as hell and probably didn't need to be but it was still a lot of fun. The dwarfs were not as comically bumbling as I was expecting which was a pleasant surprise. Orcs and Goblins and Wargs are all still evil for no reason but I mean it's Tolkien, so, there you go.

My main complaint is Bilbo's seeming lack of plausible motive for joining Thorin 'n Co. but I can't remember if that's a failing of the book or not. It was fun, it hit all the good stuff from The Hobbit and had a bunch of other tolkien stuff in it with a few action scenes added to fill out the 3 hours, so, yeah, not perfect but worth seeing.

12-11-2012, 11:12 AM	#102
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12-11-2012, 02:04 PM	#103
RickZarber Please Be Well Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Virginia Posts: 2,715	...It has Christopher Judge in it... Teal'c, how did you get roped into this?! Also, I finally bought my tickets for the midnight showing of the Hobbit! I was worried they'd sell out but then the ticket guy told me they had only sold 28 so far... >.< (This being for the HFR version, that is.) But hey! I'm cool with not waiting in line and getting nice seats! __________________ Twitter / Art Tumblr / Personal Tumblr

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rpgdemon Not a Taco Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 3,313	Looking too good is a legitimate complaint: It's good to look fake, because as the realism gets upped, you can start seeing that things are just sets and costumes. Like, it no longer looks like a movie, it looks like people standing around in costume talking. __________________ I did a lot of posting on here as a teenager, and I was pretty awful. Even after I learned, grew up, and came to be on the right side of a lot of important issues, I was still angry, abrasive, and generally increased the amount of hate in the world, in pretty unacceptable ways. On the off chance that someone is taking a trip down memory lane looking through those old threads, I wanted to devote my signature to say directly to you, I'm sorry. Thank you for letting me be better, NPF.

12-11-2012, 04:22 PM	#104
Magus Archer and Armstrong vs. the World Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Pennsylvania Posts: 7,164	That's pretty cut-and-dried copyright infringement. The generic public domain term is halfling. Hobbit is clearly a creation of Tolkein.

12-13-2012, 03:23 PM	#106
Professor Smarmiarty Sent to the cornfield Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: K-space Posts: 9,758	I don't know, pretty much every review I've read is Jackson has gone up his own ass showing off petty bullshit that only like a small bunch of basement dwelling tolkien nerds would possibly want to see.

12-13-2012, 03:43 PM	#108
Professor Smarmiarty Sent to the cornfield Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: K-space Posts: 9,758	No I think its acknowledged those were shit too and these took the worst bits about them and got rid of the best bits making them even more shit.