As you’ll be the opposite of shocked to find out, Air New Zealand has a Middle Earth-style flight safety video in celebration of The Hobbit showing in planes these days, and it’s not online for us all to enjoy. It’s adorable, sports a fun cameo, and is especially hilarious as it will move from a guy in a shitty rubber Gollum mask to an actual WETA rendering of Gollum in the plane. I also like that there are something like three Gandalfs on the plane, and the business Gandalf smokes pipe weed.
Oh, and apparently that’s Royd Tolkien (great-grandson) about 30 seconds in.
Flight from Atlanta to New Zealand start somewhere around $1800, so if you’ve absolutely got to see this on an actual plane it might be the most expensive movie ticket you’ve ever bought.
As for The Hobbit, it’s a mere month and a half away and already showing up on TV.
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Only six weeks away…and it has about the same anticipation level of Tron Legacy. That’s not a good sign.
How in the shit are you even claiming to measure such a thing? Are you actually making the suggestion that the movie is not going to be monstrously successful?
Renn – cool your shit. I was making the observation that anticipation levels should be thru the roof by now. This was supposed to one of the movie events of the decade. It probably will make a gazillion, but right now the sense of apathy is more than a little tangible, at least in the geek sphere.
I recall anticipation levels being pretty goddamned high for Tron Legacy.
First trilogy was enough for me. Great set of films…no real interest in seeing these. I will watch them eventually, but in the theater…only if there is nothing else interesting showing. I don’t need anymore LOTR. The thing I am most excited to see it Colbert’s cameo. the rest? zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
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