The Hobbit (Dec 14, 2012/Dec 13, 2013/Dec 16, 2014)

[Boyiee]

Rip in piece barrel scene, welcome cart scenes.

[Cail]

All my wants, all my takemymoney.jpegs

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[BaneTheBrawler]

sure looks like bilbo is conscious. that can't be right.

[Cail]

All of my can't-waits

[Rulke]

sure looks like bilbo is conscious. that can't be right.

I've commented several times how I would have loved to see Blibo just take a snooze and peace-out on the whole battle like in the book. However, I can see where having the main character gone for 70% of the movie just won't fly cinematically. /shrug Oh well.

[BaneTheBrawler]

idk i think it could be done, but you'd end up with more comedy than they've been going for. you continue the movie as normal, and every now and then do a dramatic cut back to bilbo just laying there snoring.

[Cail]

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[Cail]

All of my FUCK YEAs

[Rulke]

^ Just yesterday I was thinking "Hm, its November,we are due a new trailer for The Hobbit" W00T!

also:

[Cichy]

Holy shit does that look good. LOTR till this day has best battles so I'm so hyped for these ones

[BaneTheBrawler]

awwww yissss

[Fievel]

Holy fuckkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk

[Laugana]

Is there some sort of time skip going on? I mean, I know this film resumes from the end of the last film, but to gather those armies together, that would surely take some time?

Oh and I read the book like 20 years ago, so don't worry about spoilers.

[BaneTheBrawler]

not really. the armies are pretty much already formed when smaug is killed. The Dwarves are in the Iron Hills, iirc, with Dain II. The Elves are already marching on the Mountain, because Thranduil figured out where the Company was going and decided to go kick their asses. The Men of Laketown and Esgaroth all live pretty much right there. The Goblins/Orcs were already getting ready to launch a massive attack on pretty much everyone, and the meeting between the goblins of the mountain and the Wargs was part of that setup. Their main army is gathering to the north, near Gundabad. Every army that isn't already there is capable of long, sustained, swift marches. The Beornings and the Eagles are special cases, obviously, so they do what they want.

There is a period of several days, maybe up to a week, where the Company sends messages with the help of the thrushes and other birds, and then just sits in the mountain while Thorin, Thranduil, Bard, and the Mayor yell at each other. The Elves and Men don't have a particularly strong bargaining position (they don't really want to fight and the Mountain is still a stronghold) and Thorin is playing for time so Dain can arrive. They will probably fill this time with shots of birds flying, the dwarves marching, and Gandalf and the White Council doing battle with the Necromancer.

[Cichy]

and when Gandalf goes to the fortress during last movie you can see all those orcs there

[BaneTheBrawler]

reminds me, they will probably shift the orc army from Gundabad to Dol Guldur, rather than introduce a new fortress, so they will likely have the White Council arrive just after the army leaves. plus that way they get to play up the Azog story some more.

[Laugana]

Thanks for that Bane. The way that that dwarf was talking to Thorin, saying he'd changed, implied to me that some time had passed, but obviously it must have been since they set out on their journey or something and not in this film itself. If that makes sense.