So, obviously, The Hobbit trailer was supposed to be before Sherlock Holmes. I know this because The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo plays twice instead. Once as the first trailer and then, after two others (one of which is Dan Radcliffe's new horror movie *shudders*) it plays again. The buggers.
Anyways, this is a post briefly about Sherlock Holmes 2. I didn't like the first one because it was good. I liked it because things blow up, Robert Downey Jr. is sexy and stuff happens and is pretty funny. And the music is good. And the special effects. I can pretty much say I like the second one for the same reason, except they did up the hilarity between Holmes and Watson a few degrees. And Mary was a great deal more interesting to watch than Irene Adler. Also, I can't take Stephen Fry seriously. Especially naked.
Holmes is a bit more grown up in this one; a bit more aware that there are other people around him that care and that he cares about. That makes the stakes higher (as if the outbreak of WW0 wasn't high enough - yes that's not a typo, I meant 0). And the filming locations were amazing for this one, much of which takes place outside England. The ferry across to France was particularly beautiful.
So, naturally, I came home and watched The Hobbit trailer on my little laptop instead. Perhaps for the best, as I was the only female in the theatre audience, and girly screaming might not have been well received. Of course, now I'm in my dorm room and girly screaming will bring my roommates running to see what's wrong. Bit of a no win there.
That's what pillows are for.
Seriously, what got me was Galadriel, which I was NOT EXPECTING. And then there were brown haired elves on horseback wearing circlets and I had a bit of a breakdown. [Some of you will know why. The rest don't need to.] The song caught me off guard, but on the second watch through, when I was slightly more coherant (and had already done the frame-by-frame to put my curiosity to rest) I think it worked. It really, really worked. Because I get the feel from this trailer that it's not 'epic'. It's not epic like LOTR was. And it shouldn't be. This is The Hobbit. It's a kids' bedtime story, not a sweeping saga about a world war. It's more...earthy? hardy? personal? I don't have a word. The Germans probably do. Or the Norse. This is sort of more Beowulf than...um...the Fall of the Roman Empire? Bad analogy. I can't come up with better, because no one else but Tolkien has ever done this.
I am loving the missing book parts though. Dol Guldur! GANDALF BEING AWESOME! That is SO worth two movies and 12 months' wait.
I hope they end it right after the Misty Mountains. That it does not end on the cliffy of Gollum and Bilbo stuck underground having a riddling contest (though we better get the riddling contest - I have been waiting for SEVEN YEARS to hear Andy Serkis do that), but rather on the slightly less hangy note of 'they've all escaped to the eastern side' but haven't met Beorn yet or entered Mirkwood. Yeah, that's my hope. That's where I'd break it, if I was spending film time up on stuff from the LOTR Appendices.
Lastly, I want 10 year old Estel.
I'm totally not getting him. Good thing I already wrote that fic.
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