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The Hobbit...

Dominik Muench said:
Does anyone know who performed that acoustic song that played during the end credits ? that was great.

found it:
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Ending? What Ending?

(great song)
 
Dominik Muench said:
the end credits lol...not the actual movie ending...since there wasn't really one...gotta wait another year for that :/
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you caught that too?

we're sitting there at 1am enthralled with Smaug and bam it was done.

someone in the theater commented, "I cant sit through another one of these..."

I don't agree but did feel for the bloke.

I honestly did not know it was a trilogy.

Oh well, it was an amazing ride :)
 
Eric Santiago said:
you caught that too?

we're sitting there at 1am enthralled with Smaug and bam it was done.

someone in the theater commented, "I cant sit through another one of these..."

I don't agree but did feel for the bloke.

I honestly did not know it was a trilogy.

Oh well, it was an amazing ride :)
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hahaha I didn't read the book(s) so I thought they would have at least killed that little worm in the second one.
Overall I enjoyed it apart from the fact that Evangeline Lilly had far too little screen time :/
 
It really was a great movie. The first flick in a long time I wanted to see again right away.
 
Will Keir said:
Pretty easy to spot GoPro footage in this professional movie? What were they thinking? They could have spend 20k on an Epic underwater housing and tested that MTF edge to edge sharpness from one of our fine builders in the Bubble Blowers Thread!
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They could have put ANYTHING else in there, Scarlet footage seeming most obvious, but those looked so bad in an otherwise perfect movie. I wonder if non-camera people notice? I gotta imagine at least subconciously. Seriously, you see that in your edit, you gotta just take a couple hours to drive out anywhere, and float a dslr or pocket cam or something down the river to replace those.
 
Jeffrey T. Morgan said:
They could have put ANYTHING else in there, Scarlet footage seeming most obvious, but those looked so bad in an otherwise perfect movie. I wonder if non-camera people notice? I gotta imagine at least subconciously. Seriously, you see that in your edit, you gotta just take a couple hours to drive out anywhere, and float a dslr or pocket cam or something down the river to replace those.
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Watched it with my little brother last night who has no camera knowledge and as soon as the scenes came on for just the split seconds they lasted, he leaned over to me and said "what the hell was that ?". I thought it really took you out of your viewing experience for a second, like being slapped in the face...after all this beautiful crisp footage...bam...jerky jittery gopro stuff whacked in.
 
Jeffrey T. Morgan said:
It really was a great movie. The first flick in a long time I wanted to see again right away.
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I got to convert a new gf to the genre ;)

She watched the first one Wed and agreed to sit through first night.

Walked out of theater at 1am thinking, another one left....

I didnt bother to pixel peep, I enjoyed it that much :)
 
Eric Santiago said:
Walked out of theater at 1am thinking, another one left....
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haha, you lost another one? i hate it when that happens...

i had a girl with me who wasn't into the tolkien-thing at all :emote_whack:

we couldn't even make it through the first one, but she came along anyhow so that's cool, i guess
 
paulherrin said:
haha, you lost another one? i hate it when that happens...

i had a girl with me who wasn't into the tolkien-thing at all :emote_whack:

we couldn't even make it through the first one, but she came along anyhow so that's cool, i guess
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Haha funny :)

I like watching movies with earthlings.

For some reason they dont interrupt you during odd frames :)
 
so says that youtube video you just posted as well, phil... lol ;)

from pj...

We have a tradition in our Tolkien films of having a song over the closing credits. It's very important that the song feels right for the world of the movie - and also carries the emotional resonance of the end of that particular film.

The Desolation of Smaug is no different. The ending of this film requires a voice and sensibility that will allow a viewer to process what they have just experienced.


It's always tricky to think of the right person to create and perform these songs. Someone who shares our passion for Tolkien, and somebody who is prepared to respect the film.


This year we are thrilled to have Ed Sheeran write and perform our closing song, "I See Fire".


My daughter Katie, deserves total credit for bringing Ed to our movie. He was touring New Zealand earlier this year, and Katie introduced me to his music. Beautiful haunting songs, full of passion and coming from a very genuine place in his heart.


We heard that Ed was a fan of our movies, so while he was playing in Wellington, we invited him around for a tour.


He then headed off to join Taylor Swift on a concert tour. But we had exchanged e-mail addresses.


A few weeks ago, we were puzzling about who to approach about the song that had to be written and recorded very quickly. We now had a strong feeling about the tone of the song, but we needed to find the right voice.


Katie reminded us about how great Ed's voice was, and how right it would be. Fran and I got it the second she mentioned it.


And I had his e-mail address.


I wrote to him on a Sunday morning, and asked if he was interested. He would need to fly down to NZ to see the movie, because it was critical he write from the perspective of the audience.


Within 48hrs he was in Wellington, having immediately jumped on a plane from London with his manager Stuart Camp, who was instantly supportive and helpful.


Ed watched the movie at Park Road Post, immediately went into a room, and started writing and singing. Much of what you will hear on this song was recorded that same day, with a few overdubs and tweaks the following day.


Despite having never played the violin in his life, Ed thought he might try overdubbing one himself, and Katie raced out to borrow a rather battered one from a school friend.


Pete Cobbin from Abbey Road was at Park Road mixing Howard's musical score, and was able to mix the song with Ed.


It was a great experience, and what you will see in this video are moments captured by our behind the scenes team during the creation of the song.


But the images are only supporting Ed's wonderful song. This is his direct emotional response to seeing The Desolation of Smaug, written and performed on the same day he saw the movie.


I am very proud to present "I See Fire”.

11/05/13
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Andrew Huse said:
I agree. To me it feels like its breaking the fourth wall. I was so distracted by it. And I think it happens twice or so.
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I immediately noticed that two shots in the barrel sequence were of lesser image quality but the cuts were rapid, the effect was supposed to be disorienting and the shots were half under water. The shots were perfectly justified to me and didn't cause me a second thought. (OK a third thought. They didn't cause me a third thought.) :-)

The frame rate was interesting at first but not distracting enough to have any negative impact on my ability to surrender to the story. If I were distracted... enough to consider the 4th wall in jeopardy it would have been by the 3D. It called far too much attention to itself and not just in the occasional old style campy 3D novelty way. My general feeling about 3D remains that aside from the odd specialty shots the 3D should feel effortless. Stereography should mostly be as invisible as editing IMHO. For me it was not.

I can imagine a time in the future when stereo imaging is no longer a novelty and a kind of vernacular evolves. For an audience that acclimated to 3D I could see 3D manipulation being used to enhance the hyper-real feeling of the environment, but don't really feel that time is now.

Overall I felt their 3D was very good, particularly after the 3D trailers that preceded the film. One of those was pretty ghastly.
 
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I caught the last HFR3D showing on Sunday evening and I'm mostly sold on HFR but I think I just need to see more of it over time. As for the movie, I do think PJ went a little overboard in some areas but I think it was more because he can pretty much do whatever he wants with the technology now and not because he just wanted to go ballistic. That being said, I did like the script choices he made such as Tauriel and breaking up the dwarves into two groups but not so much the visual insanity and intensity of some of the action scenes in HFR3D, especially the Legolas: Warrior Princess stuff. Still, I would not condemn the movie nor would I hold it against PJ as it is his labour of love and I wouldn't want anyone else doing it. That being said, I'm looking forward to the eventual extended edition.
 
Saw it last night finally with the family. I am not going to become a big cheerleader for 48fps but the I thought the film as a whole was very well done.
 
I watched the first one in 48 FPS 3D and the second one normally, with no 3D. I enjoyed the 24 FPS version way more than the 48 FPS version. But I might only not be used to 48 FPS. Liked the second movie better!
 
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