I
just watched the newly released trailer for The Hobbit: The
Desolation of Smaug and I wanted to make some comments on it based on
my first impressions. You can watch the trailer on Youtube here.
First
of all, I must say that I've been waiting with great anticipation for
this trailer for months. I loved the first movie of The Hobbit
trilogy and this second one looks like it will be just as amazing. In
the trailer, we get to see more awesome scenery from New Zealand,
more of Bilbo and the dwarves, more of Gandalf and Radagast, more of
basically everything you would want to see in a trailer for this film.
Furthermore, the
trailer showcases some new music which is different from either the
previous Hobbit movie or The Lord of the Rings trilogy which is great. We get to see different locations and characters which if you
saw the sneak peek of Desolation of Smaug with Peter Jackson you'll
be familiar with. Specifically, Legolas, Bard the Bowman and Tauriel
are all shown as well as Thranduil who appeared in the first film.
The
forces of evil also appear here including Azog the Defiler, the Necromancer
(though he's not really seen in any detail) and even Smaug the
dragon. Unfortunately, this is where my one problem with the trailer
lies. The end scene with Smaug looked very unrealistic to me. You
really lose your immersion in the trailer when you see this part
because you can tell almost immediately that Smaug doesn't look all that real, nor does
the background that he's in (the treasure). Perhaps there's
only one shot that's like this (i.e. the shot looked this way because Smaug wasn't illuminated or something else), but it really reduced the experience
for me.
With
that being said, the rest of the trailer is completely awesome and
I'm really excited to see the movie. In addition, Peter Jackson did
some video blogs for the first movie, and he announced that he was
going to be doing them for this movie as well (so you don't have to wait
until December to see more of The Hobbit), so I'm definitely looking
forward to those as well.
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