Re: The Desolation of Smaug pre-release thread [SPOILERS]

[halfwise]

Here we are getting all excited about packing Norc off to Germany, and she goes and blows the thing. Whole trip wasted. I mean, honestly!

[Pettytyrant101]

Bet she remembered to try the beer though.

[Norc]

i drank beer, yes, and i saw the wall, bought some clothes, visited the tower, took the U-Bahn all alone+bus to the hotel all alone, went out, talked german, bought a replica of Snape's wand and a mini Glamdring. no, not wasted. I went to starbucks almost on a daily basis (we don't have frappe chinos mocha with coffee and whipped cream here or starbucks...) and had rock, met brad pitt, einstein, mozart, beethoven and obama at madam tusaas .. tusaseus.. tussahs.. though forgot strudel and dunken donuts.. and went to a fancy cinema and we were like the only one there.. almost.

[halfwise]

Starbuck's and Dunkin' Donuts are NOT German culture.

(they're not worth traveling to the USA for either....)

[Norc]

no, starbucks sucks, it's just the frappechino is so good! and well.. there were a lot of starbucks but as i said, the trip was great. i have glamdring and a wand

edit: nope, it's Anduril. heh.. that's how far my german goes.. it's Anduril i should've known.. sorry.

[halfwise]

Dratted German language. I'm sure "Glamdring" could have rolled right off their tongue, but in the attempt to say something as smooth as "Anduril" it came out as "Andurisprichtamduring" or something. They just can't help themselves, gotta shovel in more Teutonic syllables to make it sound good. Not your fault you didn't get the right sword.

[Mrs Figg]

erm Snape's wand, is it 12" bendy made from hard wood?

or what?

[CC12 35]

i had panini jumpers painted in iliac in Berlin once

[halfwise]

Of course you did, Carly - I mean, being in Berlin and all.

[CC12 35]

and john skechenzki cut my bangs snd we dud it in heels #bestfriends

[Norc]

Dratted German language. I'm sure "Glamdring" could have rolled right off their tongue, but in the attempt to say something as smooth as "Anduril" it came out as "Andurisprichtamduring" or something. They just can't help themselves, gotta shovel in more Teutonic syllables to make it sound good. Not your fault you didn't get the right sword.

haha, well, i wrote the wrong sword here, but i had to search it up because i didn't know if it was anduril or narsil.. she seemed a bit offended when i asked...and glamdring looks a bit like anduril/narsil. u see i wanted to know what sword was closest to the book, but she didn't understand what i was asking about.

[Norc]

erm Snape's wand, is it 12" bendy made from hard wood?

or what?

harrypotter wiki says this:

The wand of Severus Snape is of unknown length, wood and core materials. Presumably, Snape purchased this wand in 1971, when he was eleven years old and beginning his time as a First Year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

i think that says it all..

[chris63]

[halfwise]

Dratted German language. I'm sure "Glamdring" could have rolled right off their tongue, but in the attempt to say something as smooth as "Anduril" it came out as "Andurisprichtamduring" or something. They just can't help themselves, gotta shovel in more Teutonic syllables to make it sound good. Not your fault you didn't get the right sword.

haha, well, i wrote the wrong sword here, but i had to search it up because i didn't know if it was anduril or narsil.. she seemed a bit offended when i asked...and glamdring looks a bit like anduril/narsil. u see i wanted to know what sword was closest to the book, but she didn't understand what i was asking about.

Okay, now I don't even know which sword you wanted.

[CC12 35]

everybody belived I me until I woke up

[Norc]

i wanted a sword, i just wanted to know what sword i bought

[CC12 35]

The sword defines you

[Norc]

i am really looking forward to this.

it's gonna be awesome.....whatever it is.

[Norc]

i assume it's from the preview thing.



open these in new tabs.


video here (filming at the treasure and talking smaug): http://sherlockisthebest.tumblr.com/post/46193726036/bilbo-smaug



lool .. so much for buying the dvd to accsess the seak peak


also another video here(Dominic and Billy talking and asking): http://jess511.tumblr.com/post/46196895122/more-hobbity-stuff-again-the-quality-isnt#notes
and here: http://jess511.tumblr.com/post/46194032110/hobbity-stuff-im-sorry-about-the-quality-but-i#notes
(gotta scroll up at the vid-site)
and why do PJ keep saying SCHMAUG?!

[Norc]

Gandlaf with Thráin, Thorin father from tonight’s The Hobbit sneak peek.







i have my doubts that this movie is legit as it shows.. smaug.. and he looks like shit.


also open these in new tabs.








(lol, i said i'de avoid spoilers)

this is the last one....i think..




MORE VIDEOS!!!
http://peptomilkshake.tumblr.com/post/46188152275/the-somewhat-trailer-like-montage-at-the-end-of
http://peptomilkshake.tumblr.com/post/46189776470/thranduil-and-legolas-from-todays-desolation-of
http://peptomilkshake.tumblr.com/post/46192047376/tauriel-from-todays-desolation-of-smaug-sneak
http://peptomilkshake.tumblr.com/post/46193404653/anonymous-asked-peptomilkshake-if-it-wouldnt-be
http://peptomilkshake.tumblr.com/post/46196008096/thranduil-and-bard-the-bowman-from-todays

you are very lucky to have me. peace out. i don't want to expose myself to spoilers anymore (haven't seen the videos either)

(if u want to venture on the spoiler quest, just go through "the Hobbit" tag or "desolation of Smaug" tag on tumblr.

{{{{here's all in one piece if anyone wants to see it http://new.livestream.com/accounts/3190971/events/1975611?query=smaug&cat=event}}}}}}

[Eldorion]

http://www.theonering.net/torwp/2013/03/24/70188-a-running-commentary-made-during-the-live-sneak-peek/

Bilbo – I should never come along, we have a saying in the Shire “never venture east” he seems rather miserable

I should never have left Bagend. we have a saying in the Shire, we learn it from birth, Never Venture East.

Is anyone really surprised that they're back-tracking on Bilbo's character development from the end of AUJ? Anyone? Bueller...?

[Pettytyrant101]

Thaks Norc- there seemed a good break down by a poster over on Torn-
This was posted by one Beeromir (sound like someone after my own heart!)

'It was about 2 minutes of interesting reveals, and about 54 minutes of filler.

I am not kidding about the filler. For example, he spent a few minutes talking about the mug he got when he was on the Colbert Report.

There were celebrity questions from:

Dom Monaghan
Billy Boyd
Evangeline Lilly
Orlando Bloom
Stephen Fry (no, not a question, just a really cheesy running joke where they would cut back to him every 10 minutes or so and he was still talking)
Lee Pace
Luke Evans
Stephen Colbert

And then a few questions from fans. Most of the questions had little to do with plot points, and where they did, Peter was very stingy with info.

I guess we found out that Peter acknowledges that woodland elves are a lesser brand of elves than the Sindaran. And he showed some concept art that has Thranduil's halls as a subterranean cavern with lighting breaking in through cracks in the ceiling and bridges fashioned from giant tree roots.

We saw a lot of green screen action. Tauriel will fight orcs at some point. One will get captured, and she'll threaten to kill it before being admonished to stop.

You see Thorin and co. arrive at Laketown and announce their entrance (again, on a green-screen set).

Looks like Legolas' physics-stretching fight scene in this one involves each leg balancing on moving beams as he fights, but they were green screened so who knows what those items are supposed to be (horses? giant spider legs? both sides of a convulsing ground as a crack opens up? some sort of industrial device? can't say).'


The scene shown was Gandalf entering the High Fells tombs of the Nazgul. It's a spiral staircase around the edges of a deep hole, with each level housing a tomb of the nine. They're all busted out -- out being a key phrase, as he says they've been broken from the inside. As has been noted elsewhere, Radagast shows up and it really feels like this was the original introduction to that character that is now being repurposed without any attempt to address the awkwardness of it all.

Nothing on Beorn or Smaug. They showed some dragon stuff early, but it's clear it wasn't Smaug.

We saw the dragon hoard, and Bilbo apparently fell into it above his head like a little kid in a ball pit. We see him climbing out of it and shaking himself off. So much for sneaking around, I guess.

There was a greenscreen scene where Thranduil is talking with Legolas, but I couldn't make out any dialogue.

That's about it.'



So glad I didnt feel presured into the dvd just for the code for that then- so much to hate in so little footage!

Oh and apprently there is a Tauriel line of dialogue in the film-

""YOU LIKE KILLING? YOU LIKE DEATH? I SHALL GIVE IT TO YOU."

No, really.

Amazing how injecting a feminine side to the story appears to produce a female character trying to act and sound (badly) like a male!

[Pettytyrant101]

Is anyone really surprised that they're back-tracking on Bilbo's character development from the end of AUJ?- Eldo

Well given they wound up Bilbo and Thorin releatonship and Bilbo was already killing with impunity and rescuing dwarves from wargs and orcs my the end f the first part I cant see what else they could do I suppose- Maybe just end the film there for all our sakes!

[Eldorion]

They could have had Bilbo pimp slap his way across Wilderland before stabbing Smaug to death. That might have been better than what we'll eventually get.

[Eldorion]

The Desolation of Greenscreen