Posted by Dusty

Spoilers: Bilbo finds the One Ring.

Movie ruined.  

Posted by Rexx

Don't forget Avatar which is probably their most popular work creating Pandora.
I first heard of them from when they did some promotional stuff for Halo 3, and they also made a fully functioning warthog.

Wow, how did I forget that. o-o. But I think LotR is probably the best known.

Posted by Higbey

dont forget we have the first man to climb mount Everest, and the Giant squid specimen we have preserved, and the last dinosaur (tuataras).

also weta did the district 9, and their own steampunk scifi gun wielding comic series called professor zorbigullaghjsjjghafa cant remember his name.

W-w-we?!

Higbey.

Why have you not told me this before now.  

Good decisions: making The Hobbit a film.

Bad decisions: making The Hobbit three films.  

I don't think we should judge the three films thing until we actually see how they've done them. Peter Jackson was knighted in nz, and he hasn't really done anything but make movies. :3 I trust him to make them interesting. He's adding several characters that aren't in the Hobbit (like Galadriel or however you spell her name), and hopefully they'll make it interesting. (Hopefully)  

Posted by Pazx

Bad decisions: making The Hobbit three films.

TLotR trilogy was lengthy, and a lot of content was cut. I don't mind it being a trilogy because I get more to enjoy, and most likely with less story cut to fit the time. I mean if I had a choice between one lengthy Hobbit movie or an even longer one cut into three movies, I'll take the trilogy. More enjoyment, and with Netflix I can enjoy it without having to buy all three until the price drops(like with TLotR).  

The first movie coming out is suppose to be 2 hours and 40 minutes long. Now if the next two movies are that long or longer that's over 8 hours of movie based on a book I could probably read twice in that time.
I hope they don't drag out and belabor the story...  

a plane air new zealand recently unveiled:
http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/n33Er9nDzVlphIDEjou9sw--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7cT04NTt3PTYzMA--/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/gettyimages.com/zealand-prepares-hobbit-unexpected-journey-20121123-154806-954.jpg (Unsupported image host)  

wow lol  

they also gave a boeing 777 (I think) an all black livery to support the all blacks, as well as an all new safety video for them.

oh, that reminds me http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBlRbrB_Gnc

edit: Premieres in half an hour minutes. 600 metre red carpet. 100,000 people in Wellington for it, supposedly.

Wellington airport: http://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphoto...70678096_n.jpg
http://news.mymiddleearth.com/files/...lumairport.jpg
http://img.scoop.co.nz/stories/image...ta-210-med.jpg

As I'm assuming you can tell... this is kind of big for Wellington airport  

Posted by Dusty

TLotR trilogy was lengthy, and a lot of content was cut. I don't mind it being a trilogy because I get more to enjoy, and most likely with less story cut to fit the time. I mean if I had a choice between one lengthy Hobbit movie or an even longer one cut into three movies, I'll take the trilogy. More enjoyment, and with Netflix I can enjoy it without having to buy all three until the price drops(like with TLotR).

There's also a lot of material in the appendices of ‘The Lord of the Rings,’ to extend the movies even further and tie them into the Lord of the Rings trilogy.

Also off topic but the producers of The Hobbit are suing the studio that is making Age of The Hobbits because they are afraid it will cause confusion, as they both release on the same day. You know I think society is stupid enough for this to be a big issue (as in, people accidentally seeing Age of The Hobbits thinking it is The Hobbit) if they don't win the sue.  

Peter Jackson said he had so much footage he could have made the movie last 10 hours if stuff hadn't been cut out.  

Posted by Pimpsy G.

There's also a lot of material in the appendices of ‘The Lord of the Rings,’ to extend the movies even further and tie them into the Lord of the Rings trilogy.

Also off topic but the producers of The Hobbit are suing the studio that is making Age of The Hobbits because they are afraid it will cause confusion, as they both release on the same day. You know I think society is stupid enough for this to be a big issue (as in, people accidentally seeing Age of The Hobbits thinking it is The Hobbit) if they don't win the sue.

If this is the movie summary:

In an age long ago, the last village of clever, peace-loving Hobbits is attacked and enslaved by the Java Men, komodo-worshiping, dragon-riding cannibals. Now the young Hobbit Goben, along with his father and sister, must seek help from the "giants" (human hunters) to find the Javas' lair and rescue the last surviving Hobbits, Goben's mother among them. In their quest to destroy the Javas, the heroic partnership of humans and Hobbits will transform both species forever.

then they deserve to be sued.  

I think the lawsuit is more that the other hobbit movie is sort of piggybacking on the lotr hobbit, because people will search for the hobbit movie, and since this other movie is on the same day, same key words in the title, same hobbit fantasy genre,
It's kinda making publicity, getting more attention, probably selling more tickets from people that are at the theater already and decide to watch both...  

They will get money via the unaware/ignorant, without having 1% of the production cost or marketing cost. Even if their movie sucks they may make a profit purely because they're riding off the coat tail of The Hobbit.

It's sleazy and lazy and they deserve to be sued.