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quester,
in answer to your question, there is very little spider involvement in the first movie. What you see are legs crawling over a home structure and the back of large spiders as they run away in the distance.
specifically, the scene(s) in question involve the brown wizard. So when you see him trying to tend to a sick hedgehog. Avert your eyes for about 5-10 minutes.
I bet The Hobbit is the first film where the Director's Cut is a ton shorter. For DVD, you'll be able to get just The Hobbit, with all the Rise of the Dark parts cut out, and then a separate DVD set that is the Appendices/Silmarillion stuff.
If not officially, then probably someone will make it.
Will and I are going to go see The Hobbit on Thursday and have decided on 3D. It's showing 3D with higher frame rate and I guess the slower frame rate.
I haven't been following the frame rate issue, how does it change things?
My lil bro got himself a LOTR ring and declared that it's a promise ring from Sauron. I love my dorky little brother and his elvish fighting knives.
Thanks le nubian!
I know zombies have been a Thing for awhile. I just meant they haven't been Romantic before.
Some people find the high frame rate gives them migraines and is too realistic so the set looks like a set.
it's uncanny valley at the shire!
I bet The Hobbit is the first film where the Director's Cut is a ton shorter. For DVD, you'll be able to get just The Hobbit, with all the Rise of the Dark parts cut out,
I will totally buy this if it happens.
I don't mind the other Necromancer parts being involved, but I do want a Phantom Edit with 60% less troll snot and goblin-battling, and I could live without either prologue: they made the narrative bumpy and confusing.
I don't think PJ has ever heard the term "incluing".
It looks like The Hobbit opens here on the 21st, but I can't tell if it's going to be dubbed or subtitled yet. Also, the theater is in a part of town that's an Orange Zone (meaning we have to clear travel with the security officer, get a driver and an armored vehicle, check in at set times, and absolutely can't be there after dark).
Of course I saw Trilogy Tuesday at the Uptown in DC, so it won't be much different.