LoL. Legless Lego Legolas!
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talkpoliticsWith just a week remaining before the official premiere of The Hobbit part 1, news and hints of the movie are flooding the global info-sphere like a horde of Orcs. Now that we know the movie will be stuffed with spectacular battles and elf-on-dwarf love (Kate from Lost playing an elvish warrior princess, WTF?), the latest addition to this awesome hype is Colbert's series of interviews with actors from The Hobbit, which has spanned the whole week: first Gandalf ("You! Shall!... Pass!"), then Bilbo himself ("Here's a Lego Legolas. A leg-less Lego Legolas."), and then monkey Caesar... er, I mean Gollum, etc etc etc. Also, where the Orodruin Hell did Colbert get the Sting from!?
The map at the beginning of this week's Colbert Report is hilarious btw:
"Hipster's Deep"? ROFL!
I loved this bit the most:
And yes, there IS a legless Lego Legolas!
Btw what's all this debate on the 48 frames per second thing? Why do some people seem to hate it so much?
The map at the beginning of this week's Colbert Report is hilarious btw:
"Hipster's Deep"? ROFL!
I loved this bit the most:
And yes, there IS a legless Lego Legolas!
Btw what's all this debate on the 48 frames per second thing? Why do some people seem to hate it so much?
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Date: 7/12/12 17:09 (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 7/12/12 17:18 (UTC)Apparently there were similar complaints when films were moving towards the current 24 fps - people were used to the jerky motion of the 14 fps silent films, and 24 just seemed wrong to them. I'm sure we'll all get used to 48 fps, eventually. Hell, even Edison, back in the day, thought we shouldn't be showing films at anything less than 46 fps.
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Date: 7/12/12 17:30 (UTC)Why, you haven't done anything disappointing yet. :P
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Date: 7/12/12 17:35 (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 7/12/12 17:46 (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 7/12/12 17:53 (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 7/12/12 18:01 (UTC)That said, once you get those big gorgeous landscape shots or massive effects sequences, the higher frame rate really makes it pop.
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Date: 7/12/12 18:18 (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 7/12/12 18:35 (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 7/12/12 18:39 (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 7/12/12 19:11 (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 7/12/12 19:16 (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 7/12/12 19:22 (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 7/12/12 19:24 (UTC)I'm betting on Gollum.
(no subject)
Date: 7/12/12 19:24 (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 7/12/12 19:28 (UTC)Also things like seeing Gandalf wearing contact lenses creates distraction rather than enhancement.
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Date: 7/12/12 19:34 (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 7/12/12 19:51 (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 7/12/12 19:56 (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 7/12/12 20:08 (UTC)That guy is a complete and utter Tolkien geek. Back when he was on the Daily Show, Stewart read a question to Elijah Wood concerning the specific Elvish dialect spoken before the shards, a question so full of detail that it had to be Colbert. Wood confirmed what the question asked, shocking Stewart; he had probably assumed Stephen pulled the question out his ass.
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Date: 7/12/12 20:29 (UTC)That's not to say it's guaranteed to be more successful in terms of story, just that at least there's more to draw from and being able to avoid the appearance of padding.
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Date: 7/12/12 20:51 (UTC)Elijah Wood tells the story about the Fellowship tattoos. I'd forgotten about that. It's part of what made the cast commentary (and director's commentary) on the Extended Editions so great - you really get the sense of a real camraderie they formed during the making of the film.
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Date: 7/12/12 20:55 (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 7/12/12 21:10 (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 7/12/12 21:20 (UTC)then I went looking for the Quenya translation of the story's name, as it was referred to in Tolkien's work, and instead discovered that Christopher had finished / fleshed out that particular tragic narrative and it is now available as its own work.
SQUEEEEE!!!!!
(no subject)
Date: 7/12/12 21:23 (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 7/12/12 21:26 (UTC)Such phenomenal creativity.
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Date: 8/12/12 01:44 (UTC)(Tolkien, Author of the Century is a must-read for LOTR decipherers.)
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Date: 8/12/12 09:59 (UTC)(no subject)
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