The Final Hobbit Movie Teaser Trailer Hits The Internet!
July 29, 2014 by brennon
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies has got it's teaser trailer, first shown at Comic-Con over the weekend just gone. You can check it out above and the new teaser poster below...
That's all very cool of course and I can't wait to see the film as while I think it's very much been adapted away from the books they have still been a very good set of Middle-Earth films. However, this does bring up a few interesting points for those of us looking at things from a wargaming point of view!
New miniatures! It looks like we'll see a wartorn Bilbo with his mithril coat on, a Thranduil with duel blades and coated in rather spiffing armour, armoured versions of the Company of Thorin, a whole new army of Elves and Dwarves, Dwarves riding rams into battle, a plastic set of Dol Guldur Orcs, and maybe even a resurgence of the War of the Ring rules to fit this new big epic battle scene.
There might be a lot more in there too but this is what I spotted. Did you see anything else?
Are you excited for the final film?
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With that wall of Elven archers all I can see is the new version of WotR.
They’ll make it look very pretty, we know that much at least.
Gutted this is potentially the last time we get to enjoy a new Middle Earth movie on the big screen. Unlikely we’ll ever see the Silmarillion. The use of CGI over practical effects has made The Hobbit far less immersive than LOTR in my opinion, but I’ve enjoyed them just the same and excited for this new entry.
That looked rather meh.
Am I the only person in the world who has been enjoying the Hobbit trilogy thus far? Sure, it’s not as good as LOTR but I think they’re still good films.
Btw, imagine the Thorin says “Sure, I’ll have peace.” The End.
I’ve enjoyed them more than LOTR 🙂
I have very much enjoyed the films yes. The first one was rather awesome, the second was better and I think the final film is going to be spot on. I think it’s the tonal shift towards the feeling of Lord of the Rings that will swing it.
Also the extended edition (of Unexpected Journey) is pretty neat and solved the problems I had with the film – I’m sure the extended edition of Desolation of Smaug will do the same.
BoW Ben
I’m enjoying them- they’re certainly no LotR but they’re still pretty good films and I love the world so I was always going to love them. 🙂
That said; Dwarf-Elf-Elf weird love triangle thingys? I hate those bits of the second film, I genuinely think if you cut out the 2 or so minutes of painful and unnecessary flirting going on with Kili then the film would feel much more like a proper LotR film tonally… Still not quite as good, but close.
Cannot wait! 😀
Sure, the hobbit movies has some issues, but I love them all the same^^
A little underwhelmed by that trailer – though I accept my expectations are pretty high.
Very excited for the wargaming possibilities. If GW don’t knock this one out of the park, someone should lose their job over it. Unless they already did, of course…
I really didn’t like the first movie. In Jackson’s mind all dwarves are comedy dwarves, his elves are more like Star Trek aliens than mythical beings and wizards ride in sleds pulled by rabbits. Hated it. Despite that I went to see the second movie hoping it would be better. It wasn’t. To cap all of the ridiculous, gratuitous fights and the blatant fan service of giving legolas (one of my favourite characters in the books, my least favourite in the movies) a big part, Jackson then cuts the single best scene of that part of the book (the invisible… Read more »
My only issue with the second film was when Smaug was covered in gold. There’s no chance for the characters to celebrate and draw the viewers. Sure, all the book readers knew he was coming back but those who didn’t would have got a kick if the gap had been longer than the two or so seconds. As an aside, I remember watching scenes from the fellowship being played on a big screen in a nightclub that was behind the DJ. That was a weird experience for all but it did get me hooked (on the films and not drugs).
Biggest issue that I have with The Hobbit movies is that they took 400 page book and turned it into three over long movies with lot of padding. With LotR they had three 500 page books to adapt into movie trilogy and it worked. The Hobbit movies are more like train wreck because of those basing issues.
Bear in mind they have also drawn on the appendices as well for some of the movie. The whole section on Dol Guldur is not in The Hobbit but is a welcome addition to the plot as it’s all happening alongside the main quest for Erebor and shouldn’t really be ignored. I think once again the key thing to remember is that this is an adaptation. It’s going to have some differences from the books – some sections omitted – some expanded – just like Lord of the Rings did. No one complains about it now but with Lord of… Read more »
I agree with some of what you’ve said Ben but totally disagree with other parts. I’m really not surprised that the Tolkien estate isn’t happy. I think Tolkien himself would have hated the Hobbit movies. Yes, The Hobbit is a children’s book. It is charming and whimsical, has light hearted moments and moments of deep sadness and gravity. The films have lost all of this replacing it with mindless CGI spectacle, over the top action sequences and obvious, lowbrow attempts at comedy. What is beautiful about the books is the characters and the wonderful dialogue, that is why they have… Read more »
I don’t know Ben, I’m a bit of a Tolkien purist and I have loved what PJ has done with his adaptations of both Hobbit and LotR. I pretty much have the same standpoint in that the films are adaptations and I appreciate them for what they are. There are plenty of subtle touches in The Hobbit that give a nice nod to the tone of the children’s books as well for those that look for them.
Back to the topic of ‘potential’ last hurrah for GW on The Hobbit miniatures, Iron Mountain Dwarves riding Mountain Goats?..Hell yes please!
Boom.
The best part is Pippin’s song, rem(a)inder of a once exciting franchise. I did enjoy the Hobbit films (the first more than the second which was badly cut) but only as generic, action-based fantasy movies. Might be, ten years are a long time to outgrow that hype about LotR, which was in its time new and fresh, and visually set the scene for so many fantasy productions ever since. Hence this second run feels somewhat outdated, the more since Peter Jackson so far has failed to add more than an overload of CGI and silly character twists. This third part… Read more »
I look forward to it. There may be flaws but I can ignore them. It looks stunning.
No bewbs?
I’d actually quite like to see a War in the North – based film, you see the Easterlings at the end of the Two Towers and that’s it, why is it the dwarfs and the Mirkwood elves didn’t come south to assist in the defence of Minas Tirith? Because of a funking huge army of easterlings marching on Erebor! (spoilers 😛 ) Sure, the only direct continuity you’d get from the Hobbit to this new one would be some of the elves and the locations that star in the two trilogies, Galadriel, Thranduil and now, Tauriel (if she survives this… Read more »
I suppose some Fourth Age flicks would be cool now you mention it @bigdave. 🙂
Personally I’d like to see something about The Last Alliance conflicts of the Second Age. Including War of the Elves and Sauron, forging the Rings of Power and the corruption and drowning of Numenor.
oooh, on that note, The Fall of Arnor…
Or a Rohan origins story born out of the destruction of Rhovanion…
Hopefully the battle at the end will be as good as the Minas Tirith battle.
Perhaps PJ will do the Silmarillion later would be good to see army’s of Dragon’s & Balrog’s.
I cannot wait! I love these movies. I can easily lose myself in them over the course of a rainy day. 🙂
This looks amazing. I will hold my hands up and say that when it was announced that the Hobbit was going to be three movies, my first reaction was “LotR Trilogy, yes, that works. The Hobbit trilogy… is this about movies desperately trying to milk the success of previous franchises and hope it works?”. How glad I am to be proved (in my opinion), wrong. I think a trip to the IMax cinema in Bradford will be on the cards again… Well, I saw the first 2 in 3D, it would be rude not to see the third in 3D… Read more »
Dwarf-Elf-Elf love triangles… The Lore of the Flings? 🙂
Nerdgasm, although hopefully this will be an improvement on the second film. The first was enjoyable and I could except the modifications to tell the wider story. The second film was also enjoyable but no longer felt Tolkienesque. Lets hope for a return to form in the third.
Also Dwarf ram riders, just saying
Not as exciting as LoTR IMO but I have still very much enjoyed the Hobbit movies.
I think @Brennon summed things up very well in his post.
Personally would love to see the story of Numenor told properly, particularly to see Sauron in his ‘fair’ form.