Showing posts with label Hobbit. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hobbit. Show all posts

Friday, December 30, 2011

On The Edge of My Seat: What Are The New Year's Most Anticipated?


Cover of
Cover of Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
In my email today, side, by side  Flavor Pill and The Wire both want to share their most anticipated films for 2012. Many are self explanatory, but there are a couple I know little to nothing about.

I hadn't heard that both a realistic Lincoln and Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter were being made.

Life of Pi
is hard to imagine on the screen; it's in 3-D and its star has no experience.

Oliver Stone's Savages is a crime drama with drugs as the focus.

Les Miserables has made it to the big screen with an all-star cast: Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, Anne Hathaway and Helena Bonham Carter. So many egos in one place!

The return of Dark Shadows brings me back to afternoons hiding from the show my sisters insisted on watching.Johnny Depp will probably bring me out of hiding.

Django Unchained is about an ex-slave befriended by a bounty-hunting dentist.

Ridley Scott directs Charlize Theron and Michael Fassbender in Prometheus, indirectly linked to Alien. Mankind's fate hangs in the balance.
Haywire is being touted as a director's movie, expanding Steven Soderbergh's reach into action.  He also brings Mixed Martial Arts fighter Gina Carano to the screen.

We can't have a year without a comic wedding movie, right?  Judging from the trailer, this looks like a keeper! The Five-Year Engagement features Emily Blunt from The Devil Wears Prada and Young Victoria  and the Muppets and Forgetting Sarah Marshall's Jason Segal.

And, The Innkeepers is The Shining style suspense, thriller and horror from Ti West.

Which am I waiting for?  Well most are not on the lists:  One For The Money, Kristen Stewart's Sleeping Beauty, Breaking Dawn 2, The Avengers, Men In Black III.

How about YOU?

The Wire:Flavor Pill:
Abraham Lincoln Vampire HunterThe Dark Knight Rises
Dark Shadows Django Unchained
Django UnchainedSkyfall(James Bond)
Les MiserablesThis is Forty
Life of PiThe Five-Year Engagement
LincolnMen In Black III
PrometheusThe Avengers
SavagesLooper
The Amazing Spider-ManHaywire
The AvengersThe Innkeepers
The Dark Knight Rises
The Great Gatsby
The Hobbit An Unexpected Journey
The Hunger Games
World War Z

Cover via Amazon
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Cover of Life of Pi















































The Five Year Engagement explains itself:


LOOPER- Groovy Motorcycle 






















"...No photos or trailer yet (just the above on-set footage); according to IMDb, it’s a futuristic tale of a Mob killer (Gordon-Levitt) who recognizes a target as his own future self (Willis)."Flavor Wire


 

Wednesday, December 21, 2011

Breaking News From Bag End, Hobbiton

Ian McKellen
Ian McKellen (Image via RottenTomatoes.com)
WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND - FEBRUARY 11:  Martin...
Image by Getty Images via @daylife
The First Trailer for Peter Jackson's The Hobbit has been released.  The Office's Martin Freeman plays the younger Bilbo as he lives the elder Bilbo's (Sir Ian Holm) spoken memoir.  The trailer features Gandalf (Sir Ian McKellen) and a slew of Dwarves accompanies and a bit of Gollum, and really cool singing.  The score sounds fab.The makeup is amazing; the novel occurs sixty years before the LOTR series and  yet all the actors are older than they were when the LOTR series was filmed.

The Hobbit is set for release on December 14 of 2012 or a year from now! 

After you watch, check out the Hobbit Blog: http://www.thehobbitblog.com/





Friday, November 18, 2011

Classics, Covered!

Silly old me.  The post I put up this morning on Fangs, etc. was meant for here!

FlavorPill, the newsletter from Flavor Wire showed the first covers of some classics:

I picked a couple  to share with you:


My first thought: What a great present for Peter Jackson at the Hobbit Wrap party!
This was when the art was impressed right into the hardboard.
I read The Hobbit in eighth grade, I think. I don't recall how I felt about it. But, I didn't have any jewelry, nor was I mystically inclined. A big footed rustic Hobbit  on a quest just didn't mean anything to me. I was about twelve so it was a while ago.

I didn't read A Clockwork Orange until college, but still in the far distant past. I found it interesting because I still spoke some Russian then and the language took so much from it. Funny how they have the words coming out of the figure's mouth: Yarbles, bolshy great yarblockos to thee and thine.  Balls, Big, great (Russian word Yarbllicka=Apples) Balls to you and yours.(http://soomka.com/nadsat.html). This would have been so shocking when this came out in the 1960s.