The Hobbit - The Battle of the Five Armies Official Main Trailer

[Grindigo]

[QUOTE=pansarkurt;46427678]Calling it now, when the Elven king says "I came to reclaim something of mine" he's gonna follow up with "My honour" and then fight alongside the dwarfs.[/QUOTE]

The music goes all quiet, then he makes stupid excited face and says, my honour blah blah and orchestral music explodes into epicness and the next scene is him leading the horse charge or some shit.

[DarthStardust]

[QUOTE=cyclocius;46426894]The CGI looks so inconsistent, and the sheer amount of it baffles me and it looks terrible. I'm sure the film will be great, but that much CG when Lord of the Rings got away with far less and it looking much better puts me off a bit. Reminds me of the Star Wars Prequels.[/QUOTE]

With each Middle Earth movie they increase the computerised effects. Fellowship still feels the most real with the strongest character relationships of the bunch.

It's a shame because I think film is on the edge of going back to what Jackson did with Fellowship (Star Wars for example). Blending practical and CGI without overusing CGI. It will end up being his lasting legacy on the movie industry. One that he didn't stick to himself.

[Fr3ddi3]

[QUOTE=Saxon;46426089]I liked how insanely detailed everything was in the original 3 movies. Peter Jackson put him self through hell to make sure everything had a high amount of detail. It made his life a living hell which was why he was reluctant at first to do The Hobbit. When these movies came around he decided to just say fuck it and use more CGI.

They use to spend all day hand crafting unique armor sets and background stories for orcs that would only have a few seconds of screen time :v:[/QUOTE]

Actually you're kinda wrong, The original goblins were real actors wearing incredible costumes that went through months of tweaking, originally just using face masks like the Orcs in LOTR, then using animatronics head gear to get them more realistic, adding rubber tubing under the costumes to show the bones moving through the skin ,make up artists painting on the boils ect. The problem however was not the cost of it all nor the scale, it was the actors being human. The suits were too hot and they were really worried that someone would die in one, they tried everything they could to maintain the costumes look as best as they could while trying to make it safer for the extras but they just could not do it. They had actually filmed a lot of the Goblin town sequence with the extras( multiple times with the costume changes and tweaks) but they had to do it all over again from scratch using the motion suit Serkis had. And obviously with CGI you can have the goblins move and contort in ways a human can't which opened doors, and lastly it was obviously easier. PJ was really pissed off though, similar issues cropped up with other scenes for example Azog was casted 2 or 3 times with a real actor in cosmetics and what not but they just could not find a real person imposing enough (aka not tall and bulky enough who could also act). The set's were also built IRL and had the same kinda care and attention to detail with CGI backgrounds, but instead of the miniatures they did used a hefty amount of CGI, sadly.

The extended edition documentary's is where you can see all the above if you're interested and i thoroughly recommend them even if you're not that big a fan of the new films just because of how interesting they are, i mean the shit Ian Mckellan had to do in bag end was simply brilliant from a class actor, especially at his age.

[BenJammin']

The Hobbit movies have had many problems, but I still enjoyed them quite a lot.

I am still kind of sad that peter jackson has become this computer tech hound similar to James Cameron though. I miss the fucking awesome cult b-horror movie works he did. Hell, I think Brain Dead is one of the best movies of all time.