The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

[The Josh]

Not really But frankly I don't care if that's how you look at it.

 

[Deckard]

Josh, stop deleting my posts. Seriously, this is a discussion board.

I'm pretty sure the other mods and Dave wouldn't agree with some of your actions as of late. You can't just put posts back up that a user deletes when you feel like retorting it or delete posts that you don't agree with. I can see when a user is breaking the rules, but what you're doing is clearly an abuse on your part. This isn't your forum, you just moderate it. These aren't your threads, not even these Hobbit ones. Take it easy. Next post of mine that is reinserted, deleted or edited by you, I'm making a stink about it in the forum suggestions thread.

+rep. Agreed. Many of us have noticed and discussed this in the past.

 

[Darth Snoopy]

I know. That wasn't a menopause joke though or a dig. It was sincere and following up Khev's post. November and December right before a new Hobbit movie Josh gets extremely touchy and sensitive about this subject matter.

Understood, let's just let it go and continue the discussion without jabbing or digging at each other.

Someone is always bound to get their feathers ruffled one way or another.

 

[DiFabio]

Understood, let's just let it go and continue the discussion without jabbing or digging at each other.

Yup no problem, I gotcha. No harm to Josh, just wanted to have my say. This has been going on for a bit and I was a little frustrated. Moving on, don't want to turn this thread into a venting one.

 

[Darth Snoopy]

Yup no problem, I gotcha. No harm to Josh, just wanted to have my say. This has been going on for a bit and I was a little frustrated. Moving on, don't want to turn this thread into a venting one.

Thank you.

 

[carbo-fation]

For me, nothing beats the EE versions of LOTR. Watching all three back-to-back is pure bliss. I can understand why most people prefer certain TE versions, but as a Tolkien fan, the more Middle Earth, the better it is.

 

[ZaCHw117]

The best EE, and the only flick of the series I go out of my way to rewatch is fellowship, it does nothing but make it a better all around film. The other's are grand as well, and all I own are the EE's but none of them hold interest like fellowship. I usually end up turning them off or not even pay attention to them while they run in the background.

Not too mention it's quite annoying to have to flip a BR disk over to the other side half way through.

 

[jye4ever]

FOTR w/o the other 2 counting is like only caring about a girls breasts and neglecting her other parts, that's just wrong. :

 

[DiFabio]

Not too mention it's quite annoying to have to flip a BR disk over to the other side half way through.

This.

After the council and the fellowship is formed, having to changes discs kills the flow. I saw the extended versions of the trilogy in theaters and no intermission or changing discs was a huge plus. The Fellowship extended is my favorite of all of them. It makes a great film even better. There are some things I could do without, but I wouldn't change a thing with the Shire/Bilbo introduction. I remember getting chills the first time I saw "The Fellowship of the Ring" title as it pans through the Bag End corridor with Bilbo writing his book.

The Two Towers Extended has the Boromir/Faramir/Denethor dynamic is pretty important to me as well as Saruman and Wormtongue in Return of the King, but a lot of the Extended scenes other than that in Two Towers and Return of the King is pure fluff. There's a point midway though Return of the King where it feels like it's dragging not long after Grond.

One thing I would have done is taken the Aragorn/Arwen scenes from Two Towers (the ones where Elrond tells Aragorn to stay away from Arwen and Aragorn tries to give her back the evenstar). Those cuts just don't seem right in the Two Towers narrative via flashback, especially when the Fellowship Extended has Elrond talking about his mom and the departure of the Fellowship. Those flashbacks in Two Towers happen within minutes of what goes on in Fellowship, just keep them in it. It seemed like they were just trying to give Liv Tyler a part in Two Towers by spreading them out.

 

[Irvy]

I was so excited when the EE were announced on blu, then they still had two bloody discs

 

[pixletwin]

I like the flip. it's poo time.

 

[jye4ever]

I was so excited when the EE were announced on blu, then they still had two bloody discs

Wait until 4K EEE, there will be 2 flips.

 

[Adolfo]

Wait until 4K EEE, there will be 2 flips.

Just like the Laserdiscs did.

 

[The Josh]

I like the flip. it's poo time.

It is a good bathroom break time.

 

[a-dev]

Just like the Laserdiscs did.

.....Laserdisc was still around for the LOTR movies??? Or have I misunderstood...

 

[DiFabio]

I think he just meant DVD.

 

[Adolfo]

No laserdisc never had LOTR(I think) .. I just meant that with Laserdiscs you had to flip every 1/2 to 1 hour of viewing depending on the layers of the disc(CAV discs only held Max of 1/2hr on each side. I had a big collection and some long epic films had 3-4 discs and that's a lot of flipping . Laserdiscs were great picture was as good as a reg DVD and sound was phenomenal and was the first to incorporate widescreen/letterbox. And all started about believe it or not about 35 years ago. Something special holding the Album covers too. Loved em. Early disc players you had to flip em your self while later ones automatically played the other disc side which was nice

 

[jye4ever]

In the intro narrative of FOTR, it is mentioned that the rings were created for the elves, dwarves and men and that Sauron deceived them by creating his own master ring to control.

But it specifically never mentions who created the other 19 rings.

Was it Sauron?

 

[DiFabio]

I think Sauron just made his own.

 

[jye4ever]

I hate it when my wife asks a question and I don't have an answer.