Three Times The Hobbit?

[Inziladun]

They have got to be kidding.

[Galadriel55]

Originally Posted by Inziladun

They have got to be kidding.

The video is actually better than the article makes it sound. It's quite funny. Personally, I wouldn't mind if my school morning announcements went in that fashion...

[Inziladun]

Originally Posted by Galadriel55

The video is actually better than the article makes it sound. It's quite funny. Personally, I wouldn't mind if my school morning announcements went in that fashion...

What next, though? Gollum giving a public service message about the need to cook fish properly?

They're really milking the publicity aspect this time around, it seems.

[Galadriel55]

Originally Posted by Inziladun

What next, though? Gollum giving a public service message about the need to cook fish properly?

I sure won't trust a word he has to say on that topic!

But, when it comes down to it, you're completely right about milking the publicity aspect, as you well put it, and I absolutely agree with you. Just sometimes I think that if I can't prevent them from doing it, I might as well enjoy some of it, as long as it's not totally over the top. Personally, I think that this message was not over the top and actually rather funny. So why not.

[William Cloud Hicklin]

Well, I can't get very upset about PJ making a PSA- he is after all probably the most famous Kiwi since Edmund Hillary.

[Inziladun]

Originally Posted by William Cloud Hicklin

Well, I can't get very upset about PJ making a PSA- he is after all probably the most famous Kiwi since Edmund Hillary.

*sigh* The message itself is admittedly a positive one, but it still irks me to see the characters commercialized. And the cynic in me finds it difficult not to ascribe the ulterior motive of movie hype to everything of that sort I see. Whether it's the case in this instance or not, other recent instances of eye-rolling marketing gimmicks make it hard to separate the wheat from the chaff.

[elbenprincess]

Hi,

I havn´t read the entire topic, I just wanted to know how many of the three movies are finished (or is only the first part "An Unexpected Journey" finished?) and if Cate Blanchett will be in all parts, if this is known at all.

Thanks

[littlemanpoet]

Yeah, I agree with most of the spirit of the criticisms regarding PJ.

But.....

I'm really looking forward to

• seeing the White Council attack Dol Guldur and send the Necromancer fleeing,
• the exchange between Gandalf and Thrain,

and I'm sure there's more.