Doesn't come out here in Russia until the 19th. IF I can find an English theater that will be showing it, I get to take 6 of my classes, though, meaning I get to see it three times! I'm really, really hoping I can find one.. haha

Anyone else planning on going to the midnight showing tonight (if you're in a place that offers one)? I'm trying to decide. Part of me says I should be an adult and wait since I have to be at work at 8:30 the next morning and all that garbage. And then part of me just screams ALL THE THINGS! ALL THE DWARVESES! ALL THE POPCORNS!

I'm going to a midnight premiere tonight! This will be my first - my 15 year old wants to go (she went last year but was with other friends and their parents, and hubs went and picked her up in the wee hours of the morning!), and so I'm going with her. I have mixed feelings about pulling a near all-nighter - I'm getting too old for that stuff! :bigsmile:

Looking forward to the crowd, the costumes (kid will be in her Hobbit costume - was planning an elf costume, but I was a slacker and haven't gotten it done!), and just the fun of an opening night crowd. You know all the people who will be there for a midnight premiere are there because they love the movie - not like weekend movie goers who go see whatever is new just because. We saw the re-showings of LOTR films a couple of summers back when they showed them in theaters again, and the crowds were just awesome - quiet, no narrating, no texting - it was so refreshing! Same experience with the Doctor Who 50th a couple of weeks ago - awesome crowd.

So aside from being out in line in the cold tonight (we have our tickets, but still have to wait until it's time to go in) and staying up most of the night, I'm looking forward to it! Kid has her last day of school before Christmas break tomorrow, so we'll be up after a couple hours of sleep to get her to school. Poor kid - but she loves it, and did it last year, and since her finals are all done, she will spend the half day in the journalism lab writing her review of the film, so it can be edited and posted before the day is out.

I see a huge Starbucks in my future later this evening. Ha!

I'm a little more excited for anchorman 2, but im hoping to go see both movies on the same day if i plan it right

I hope to see it soon.

Loved it! Can't wait to see it again (when I'm not so sleepy!).

Smaug was AMAZING!

And I sat next to the Witch King at the theater last night! His costume was simple but definitely one of the best there. Awesome mask made of lightweight cardboard and painted, spikes added from rolled paper and hot glued on.

There's a photo here: Wish I had gotten a full shot of him, and before they made him ditch his sword - glad they let him keep his mask, although they made him take it off when he came in....he put it back on though, and it was fun to see people's reactions as they came up the steps past his seat. :bigsmile:

Did somebody say Benedict Cumberbatch? I'm there!

I absolutely loved it. But I haven't read the book. I'm waiting until the third movie for that... this way I don't have to be upset that it's nothing like the books, lol. Worst ending in the history of movies though. Ugh.

It's funny though, I loved the first one so much too, but got bored when I watched it again (I bought the extended version). There's really something about seeing a movie in Imax 3D.

It was pretty awesome! I've read the book and I had my little moments of disappointment but I still thought it was good. Smaug was incredible!! I couldn't get over how awesome he looked.

Was I the only one thinking "Sherlock's trying to kill Watson by breathing fire on him?". Seriously, great casting in this movie. I especially loved Thranduil, wishing there was more of him in the movie.

Got to see it! I thoroughly enjoyed it! I did roll my eyes a bit at the whole subplot with Legolas...but they didn't detract from the story and added some awesome fight sequences. Is anyone else impressed that Orlando Bloom can still look almost exactly the same after so many year between films?
I loved the scenes with dragon sooooooo much! Overall, I enjoyed this more than the first one and it had me constantly sitting at the edge of my seat.

I thought something looked different! Now I'll "have" to rewatch the original trilogy to see. Oh darn!

^^ I was wondering about that because I could've sworn his eyes were blue in the first trilogy, just not as blue as in The Hobbit. Then I saw that snippet, I was wondering. Was planning on watching the original trilogy again sometime just to check out my theory. The part I saw, it was very obvious that they were brown.