I like how the poster completes the removal of Bilbo from his own movie that Desolation of Smaug started.
I’m pretty sure there will be multiple posters. This is just the first one, and it’s for Comic-Con.
I heard they were gonna have three posters, but stretched the last one into two more.
Heh. They say it’s to increase merchandising profits, but that’s so cynical. It’s the third movie in a trilogy that needed five movie posters to do it justice.
You know, that is a good question. Why isn’t there any good single player Middle Earth RPGs. I can tell you the franchise is difficult for a few reasons…the biggest being magic.
Interplay did a decent single player RPG back in the day. Buggy as all hell … you could shoot projectiles right through walls … but it effectively captured the spirit of the books, I thought. Only went up to Rivendell, though (I think.)
Classic Angband? =p
Never played it though, and have no idea how well a rougelike captures anything.
I suppose the hack-slash with RPG-upgrades don’t count, right? Those were pretty competent games for the PS2, and War in the North wasn’t a bad action RPG either.
EDIT: Also, how did we end up on this topic?
I GM’d a MERP campaign back in college. Great little system by Iron Crown Enterprises.
I’m actually looking forward to the new movie. No, it’s not a faithful retelling of the book, but I think they’re nice fantasy romps.
I bought the hardcover of the 2nd edition of MERP in 93 and really enjoyed reading through it, though we never got around to gaming it.
I bought a boxed set with the rules and an adventure etc right around the same time. Wish I could have had a hardcover rules book too!
Here’s your Bilbo in the poster:
A trailer dedicated to me? Aw, you shouldn’t have!
Really, you shouldn’t have.
Well its over already, Bilbo dulled the tip of his sword blade in that photo, how is he going to stab anything? :p
I actually have no idea what “the defining chapter” is actually supposed to mean, anyone want to help me out? Does it mean you should just pretend the first two movies didn’t exist? Because I don’t need a poster to tell me to do that.
Maybe it means that something will happen this time? I watched Smaug the other week and it was kind of amazing how all that sturm und drang accomplished was wheel spinning. The only character with any kind of arc was was Tauriel of all people.
That’s what happens when you spin out a moderately-sized children’s tale into three movies for profit maximization. :(
Ah, yes - Tauriel. It’s not often I get to repeatedly whisper “forbidden love” in a movie theater, so I guess I’ll watch the defining chapter when the movie opens.
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While I’m certainly disappointed in aspects of Jackson’s version of The Hobbit story, I have every intent of seeing the third film in a theatre this holiday season. And buying the extended edition trilogy on blu ray when it comes out sometime next year around this time. In the end its the only big screen version we are going to get anytime soon (even in this era of Hollywood endless remakes and reboots) and I still enjoy them for what they are - movies.
The lack of a Beorn goblin ragdoll toss scene in the last movie coupled with Smaug the Incompetent…I don’t have high hopes.
