[Movie] The Hobbit Trilogy - Page 90

On January 04 2015 08:54 Skynx wrote:
Just my 2 words about Legolas and the ending:

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On January 04 2015 22:14 don_kyuhote wrote:
Just came back from the movie.
Just from all the posts in this thread, my expectations were not high at all. I just wanted to see some fighting action.

1st of all, that cheesehead troll ramming himself to the wall and proceeding to faint has to be the funniest scene in all of 6 movies.

Secondly, I really didn't like how there is really no ranks in the elvish army. There is the King, his one lieutenant guy, and all foot soldiers. No generals, colonels, captains... Isn't a King supposed to be protected by swarms of generals and commanders in battle?

On January 06 2015 13:18 Alzadar wrote:
Also what's the deal with the Silvan Elves wearing the exact same armor and marching exactly the same way as the Noldor we saw in the prologue of FotR? It's like a history movie where the Vikings are dressed as Roman Legionaries.

On January 06 2015 13:18 Alzadar wrote:
Also what's the deal with the Silvan Elves wearing the exact same armor and marching exactly the same way as the Noldor we saw in the prologue of FotR? It's like a history movie where the Vikings are dressed as Roman Legionaries.

About us

Why are we studying responses to The Hobbit?

We are academics interested in how audiences respond to and find meaning in films. In 2003-4 a number of us were involved in a project to gather responses to the Lord of the Rings films. That project brought together researchers in 18 countries and 14 languages. It managed to gather about 25,000 responses from across the world to a specially devised survey. We learnt a great deal about what ‘fantasy’ means to people in different parts of the world, and how they used it to add to their lives.
But there were a lot of questions we couldn’t answer, and new questions have emerged since. When we heard about the filming of The Hobbit trilogy we knew we had to do it again – this time increasing the range of countries and the number of languages we worked in. We could also try to get right things that hadn't quite worked last time.

What do we hope to find out? We want to find out how The Hobbit trilogy is understood and judged by different groups and communities, in different parts of the world.

What do you enjoy, and what disappoints you? Who is your favourite character, and why? What do you think of the films’ special digital features? Or the fact it is a big budget Hollywood production? How do the films compare with The Lord of the Rings? What difference does it make if you have read the book? Do a viewer’s age, sex, wealth, or country matter, and how? What relevance does liking or disliking The Hobbit have?

Through these questions, we want to contribute to some broader debates about issues such as the dominance of Hollywood. We also want to see how local cultures in different regions might affect how people judge films like this. But it is hard to get good evidence to test different ideas on these. This is something we believe we can do, if we can gather enough responses to allow us to look for patterns and connections.

Many of us also have personal reasons for being involved. There are some serious Tolkien fans amongst us. Some of us are interested in children’s literature or fantasy literature. Many are film enthusiasts. We hope very much that this research will interest a wide audience, not just academics. We will be working hard to share our findings with everyone.

This is the first ever collaboration on this scale. We hope that this international teamwork will help advance all our fields of research. We have designed our research so it can be conducted entirely online, and shared via social media.

We are not connected in any way with New Line Cinema or Peter Jackson – although of course we would be very happy to hear from them and share our results with them.

We are grateful to the UK’s British Academy which has funded the creation of this website, its questionnaire and database. In other countries, some of our research teams have also managed to gain research funding and support. But beyond this, we are doing this just because we think it is worthwhile. So we are dependent on people like you passing on information about the project to relatives, friends, forums and websites.

This survey will remain online for several months, to gather as many responses as possible. When we close it, we will begin our analysis of all the responses. Once we have some basic information, we will post back to this site a summary of what we gathered, and what we are learning from this. Eventually, the project’s entire database will be made freely available to other researchers.
The World Hobbit Project Team

Coordinators:
Martin Barker (Aberystwyth University, United Kingdom)
Matt Hills (Aberystwyth University, United Kingdom)
Ernest Mathijs (University of British Columbia, Canada).

On January 25 2015 15:03 Scarecrow wrote:

Yep, lowered my expectations heaps after the second but still had to walk out. I hope Jackson enjoys the cash he traded away his reputation for. Reminds me of Lucas and the massive drop-off between the two Star Wars trilogies.