The Desolation of Smaug anticipation thread [SPOILERS]

[Passdagas the Brown]

Argument invalid earth-ling.

Your spaceship is no match for the pancake bunny, and it's big, sharp nasty teeth!

[Smaug's voice]

Cat ate the rabbit.

[Smaug's voice]

A video on the making of that "book":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dy8oMQkUYhs#t=11

While I love this, I am worried too.

Imo, one of the reasons AUJ fell flat among the critics was because I think they created too much hype. Especially the Wellington premiere.

Let's hope this does not do that.

[Passdagas the Brown]

A video on the making of that "book":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dy8oMQkUYhs#t=11

While I love this, I am worried too.

Imo, one of the reasons AUJ fell flat among the critics was because I think they created too much hype. Especially the Wellington premiere.

Let's hope this does not do that.

And one of the other reasons AUJ fell flat among the critics is that it wasn't that good of a movie.

[Beutlin]

Azog will fight Gandalf.

Source: Manu Bennett on the red carpet.

[Voronwë the Faithful]

I'm watching the premier, and they just revealed a big spoiler:

Hidden text.

The host (who has seen the film) is interviewing Manu Bennett and asked him about fighting with Sir Ian McKellen. So there is fight between Gandalf and Azog. Woohoo!!

[Dave_LF]

I think that was actually revealed more than a year ago by the text on one of the action figures, but so much changed with the orc storyline after that that's it surprising any details are still intact!

[Smaug's voice]

Actually what I really dislike about most negative reviews about AUJ is that so
many of them never saw AUJ's core material and story.

Nearly everyone wrote paragraphs on how HFR sucks and the three film split but just a few lines actually commenting on the film. If you reviewed gravity, would you spend so much time commenting on the 3D and so little on the actual film?

I also get the idea that many were expecting an LotR rerun. Otherwise, I don't understand the disappointment with the slow start. Imo, they had made up their mind to come down heavily on the film beforehand i.e. Backlash.

[Voronwë the Faithful]

To Luke Evans: "You're quite an archer in this movie." Is that a sign that Bard does in fact shoot Smaug in this film?

[Dave_LF]

Azog will fight Gandalf.

Hidden text.

The host (who has seen the film) is interviewing Manu Bennett and asked him about fighting with Sir Ian McKellen. So there is fight between Gandalf and Azog. Woohoo!!

And here we can see examples of the two different approaches to distributing spoilers.

[Voronwë the Faithful]

On the other hand: Luke says his favorite scene "in the second movie" is his bringing the Dwarves to Laketown in the boat. Surely if his killing of Smaug was in the film, that would be his favorite scene.

[Beutlin]

Azog will fight Gandalf.

Hidden text.

The host (who has seen the film) is interviewing Manu Bennett and asked him about fighting with Sir Ian McKellen. So there is fight between Gandalf and Azog. Woohoo!!

And here we can see examples of the two different approaches to spoilers.

In my defense this thread is titled "The Desolation of Smaug anticipation thread [SPOILERS]".

[Dave_LF]

A fair argument as far as I'm concerned, but it was still funny to see them side by side.

[Smaug's voice]

I'm watching the premier, and they just revealed a big
spoiler:

Hidden text.

The host (who has seen the film) is interviewing Manu Bennett
and asked him about fighting with Sir Ian McKellen. So there is fight
between Gandalf and Azog. Woohoo!!

What premiere? Are you watching the movie now??!!!

[Voronwë the Faithful]

Beutlin, that's funny! Needless to say, I didn't see your post. And yes, the thread does have a Spoiler warning

[Voronwë the Faithful]

Aiden Turner confirms that his relationship with Tauriel is just flirtatious.

And there have been several references to how long the scene between Bilbo and Smaug is. Yay!

[Beutlin]

SPOILER

SPOILER

SPOILER

The interviewer speaks of a love-triangle (Kili-Tauriel-Legolas) but Aidan Turner questions Legolas' involvement.

EDIT: This time Voronwë beat me.

PS: The interviewer reveals too much IMO.

[Beutlin]

SPOILER

SPOILER

SPOILER

Peter Jackson's daughter Katie is a barmaid in the film. Her father will cameo in the same scene.

[Voronwë the Faithful]

Most likely a confirmation of the return of the carrot man. PJ is being interviewed along with his daughter and the confirm that they are in the same scene together, and PJ says "she is a barmaid,"

[Dave_LF]

And those would be two of the four new characters who had to be costumed for Bree, I'd say.