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  • Hey all, just changed over the backend after 15 years I figured time to give it a bit of an update, its probably gonna be a bit weird for most of you and i am sure there is a few bugs to work out but it should kinda work the same as before... hopefully :)

The Hobbit...

Me too. They could make two Hobbit films a year and I'd watch them for the rest of my life.

Vadim Bobkovsky said:
Not anymore :)
I for one have no problems with that, more Middle Earth is good in my book.
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The real question is whether or not PJ will continue LOTR in a film form. Most people don't know it but LOTR was just the beginning - well including The Hobbit as the beginning of LOTR - of a larger story that remains untold even though extensive notes exist for outlines and such that lead up to an Armageddon-esque conclusion.
 
LOVE Crowded House. Cool red carpet. ;-)
 
One of the frustrating things about the splintered format release for the Hobbit is that it currently seems almost impossible to actually see the film in its intended form (by which I mean HFR 3D and Dolby Atmos). I live in NYC, and there's only one Atmos theater here that I know of (the Empire 25), and that theater isn't showing the movie at 48 FPS.

In an ideal world, we'd all be watching this in HFR 3D on a 4K laser projector in an Atmos theater, of course, but that's not going to be happening for awhile it seems.

Also, anyone get confirmation on whether the 3D version is a 2K or a 4K DCP?
 
L. Langer said:
The real question is whether or not PJ will continue LOTR in a film form. Most people don't know it but LOTR was just the beginning - well including The Hobbit as the beginning of LOTR - of a larger story that remains untold even though extensive notes exist for outlines and such that lead up to an Armageddon-esque conclusion.
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Quite unlikely, apparently. The rights to the Appendices and The Silmarillion are held by the Tolkien family who aren't the greatest fans of PJ's works.
 
L. Langer said:
The real question is whether or not PJ will continue LOTR in a film form. Most people don't know it but LOTR was just the beginning - well including The Hobbit as the beginning of LOTR - of a larger story that remains untold even though extensive notes exist for outlines and such that lead up to an Armageddon-esque conclusion.
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From what I've understood reading about it, Tolkien thought about the idea of sequel to LOTR called The New Shadow for a while but abandoned it eventually. It's the age of Men, most of the Elves are basically gone, dwarf nation is almost extinct and there's lots of nasty power play in post-Aragorn's Gondor, it would be a violent medieval tale with very little magic in it. In the Unfinished Tales there are some hints in the prophecy, in which nation of Men left alone and facing some apocalyptic events, that could end the intelligent life in their world. After that, the celestial beings could just start from scratch again with "new music" and new life... Or something like that, lol. If the Tolkien Estate will ever selling the film rights to their property (which is highly unlikely, since most of them hated the movies), it would be The Unfinished Tales, The Silmarillion (including The Children of Hurin). Any sort of story and films about the events after what's happened in Return of The King would be basically a lot of fan fiction based on very sketchy view of the grim and violent future of remaining living beings in Middle Earth.

Talking about elf and orc fan fiction, we have better chances seeing big screen adaption of Warcraft from Sam Raimi, than anything related to Tolkien's work ever again.
 
Jason Murphy said:
One of the frustrating things about the splintered format release for the Hobbit is that it currently seems almost impossible to actually see the film in its intended form (by which I mean HFR 3D and Dolby Atmos). I live in NYC, and there's only one Atmos theater here that I know of (the Empire 25), and that theater isn't showing the movie at 48 FPS.

In an ideal world, we'd all be watching this in HFR 3D on a 4K laser projector in an Atmos theater, of course, but that's not going to be happening for awhile it seems.

Also, anyone get confirmation on whether the 3D version is a 2K or a 4K DCP?
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Almost same here in Prague. We have only one complex with one Atmos theater, but they are not able to screen 3D in it. So you have only 2D with Atmos sound :(
 
It looks like Portland, OR finally has a 4K screen at Cinetopia. This is the description: "Giant 70 foot screen, 4K Super HD projection, exclusive Digital 7.1 Meyer EXP Sound..." They were on the list of theaters with high frame rate capability, so hopefully they will be doing 48 fps 3D. But, does anyone know, are they releasing a 4K 3D 48 fps version? Or is it going to be 2K, because 2K on a 70 foot screen doesn't sound all that appealing, honestly.
 
Hobbit is 2K on all fronts according to the production info thus far. Even the production Vlogs show 2K resolution on all the post footage.
 
Thanks, that's a bummer. I'd love to see something in 4K now that there is a theater in town that supports it.
 
L. Langer said:
Hobbit is 2K on all fronts according to the production info thus far. Even the production Vlogs show 2K resolution on all the post footage.
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So after all that long waiting for 3D 4K 48fps marvel, we must face that ugly truth that all the 5K resolution will be crushed only into the 2K picture??? WTF... I'm quite disappointed!

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L. Langer said:
Hobbit is 2K on all fronts according to the production info thus far. Even the production Vlogs show 2K resolution on all the post footage.
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It's been confirmed, that they've used Mistika and working in full 5K. But of course most of the theaters still have 2K projectors.
 
http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/film/8011539/Hobbit-premiere-screening-dazzles

"It was fantastic, it was very realistic. And compared to the Lord of the Rings movies it was great to see, that special effects have come a long way," Stephanie Cook said.

"It was amazing, especially the battle scenes and it left you wanting more at the end," Paul Bingham said. "The 48 fps is totally the future of movies. It takes you a couple of minutes to get used to it, but the clarity is amazing. I read the initial media criticism but I have to say: It's just fantastic."



"X-Men" director Bryan Singer was on hand to see the film and tweeted his reaction to the controversial high frame-rate, writing "Just saw #Hobbit. Having some serious frame rate envy. Amazing and involving. Loved it! And @ianmckellen118, my friend, you are brilliant!"



Germany seems to get ready for it ... :)
... around 80 screens announced to show HOBBIT in 48FPS 3d ... :) ...

http://www.digitaleleinwand.de/2012...aggregation&fb_aggregation_id=288381481237582
 
Uhm Detlev they wrote about 150 screens showing HFR ;) or did I skip the text too much?

actually here I got choice of 3 or 4 screens with HFR in Stuttgart and as soon as the drives arrive, I'll get notice from the head of the local Cinemaxx if they will be showing 4K (2D) also. So anxious...
 
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