The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies

[The Ween]

Who.

My son will want to see that.

They're awesome!

 

[Adolfo]

Damn, look at that combined box office take

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The video sales were pretty big too

 

[The Ween]

I'm posting this here instead of bumping the other thread.

In case anyone cares, TNT now has the rights to show The Hobbit The Unexpected Journey and it will debut on Saturday at 7pm est. On Sunday they will marathon The Lord of the Rings Trilogy at 8am then show The Hobbit UJ.

 

[cmiller99]

Someone's finally done it.

"There and Back Again" — “There and Back Again” A Hobbit’s Tale Recut by...

 

[The Ween]

Some of the scenes he cut out were too good to cut. A little one was the smoking scene with Gandalf and Bilbo. That scene was short but great.

 

[BagginsOfBagEnd]

Some of the scenes he cut out were too good to cut. A little one was the smoking scene with Gandalf and Bilbo. That scene was short but great.

That was one of the best scenes in the film!

 

[amvmm]

Hobbit extended edition trilogy in theaters this october!

This could mean that the Blu-Ray will only be released in 2016.



Hobbit Extended Edition Trilogy in Theaters this October | Hobbit Movie News and Rumors | TheOneRing.net™

 

[The Ween]

If Fathom events is putting these on, then the nearest theater to me will be close to 50 miles away. Add that it's a work night and I'll have to pass.

 

[cmiller99]

Some of the scenes he cut out were too good to cut. A little one was the smoking scene with Gandalf and Bilbo. That scene was short but great.

That is a shame.

I might see if I can watch it this weekend or sometime soon.

 

[Adolfo]

BOTFA EE is R rated?..just heard

 

[cmiller99]

Yay! More gratuitous decapitations push it over the edge!

'The Hobbit: Battle of the Five Armies' Extended Edition is Rated R | Rope of Silicon

 

[Adolfo]

I will go to the theater for BOTFA EE only

 

[The Ween]

They probably won't show the R rated on in the theater since the other two aren't.

 

[cmiller99]

They probably won't show the R rated on in the theater since the other two aren't.

That is a point, I wonder how they will manage it. Will they just not show the R version? Will they edit it? Will the entire trilogy be rated R for this theatre run? I doubt the last one.

 

[Bucky Underbelly]

My guess is it's something small that's pushing it just a little too far over the edge.

That said, it's hard sometimes to figure out what the MPAA is thinking. (I seem to remember they objected to the shot of Lurtz licking his own blood off Aragorn's hunting knife in Fellowship. They were okay with him getting gut-stabbed, arm-lopped and beheaded, but not with knife-licking.)

My guess is this R is for something involving violence toward a human. Probably the Alfrid death scene that's been rumored. The MPAA seems to be okay with violence toward orcs or goblins or trolls, but not humans.

Either that or there's a shot or two in this cut that has blood in it. They get squeamish about that. That's why there can be 300,000 decapitations in this trilogy. As long as they don't bleed. Luckily, orcs seem to contain almost no blood. Especially the digital ones.

Whatever the case, I have no doubt they'll make whatever tweaks they need to make to bring it in at PG-13. They won't want to do anything to limit sales of the DVDs and Blus.

 

[Jrobertson]

The extended edition comes out November 17th and it is still listed as rated R.

 

[jye4ever]

Yup, it will be R on DVD/Bluray.

But I was expecting 30 minutes added back in, the movie is 20 minutes longer.

 

[The Ween]

Yup, it will be R on DVD/Bluray.

But I was expecting 30 minutes added back in, the movie is 20 minutes longer.

9 hours of extras.

 

[Adolfo]

9 hours of extras.

Is there gonna be a collectible edition like all the previous ME films had?

 

[67L88Stingray]

Is there gonna be a collectible edition like all the previous ME films had?

Probably, not sure why that has not gone up for preorder yet like the others though. maybe they are saving it for a trilogy set.