Three times I have gone to a movie specifically to see a trailer. In the dark times before the internet, I saw Saturn III, a horrific stinkfest with Harvey Keitel, Kirk Douglas, and Farah Fawcett solely for the previews. This was the worst movie ever to feature naked Harvey Keitel or Farah Fawcett. However, this crapulence was the first time eager fans got to see a full trailer for The Empire Strikes Back. I went to see “The Bounty” to see the trailer for Star Trek III. The last movie I saw just for the preview was the Cuban Missile Crisis movie Thirteen Days, directed by the same guy who made “The Bounty.” Thanks, Roger Donaldson, for creating vessels for two such fine trailers! I sat through Kevin Costner’s terrible “Thirteen Days” Boston accent just to see the trailer for “Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring.” If the internet did not exist, I would have been in the theater today watching whatever crappy new Roger Donaldson movie was showing the trailer for “The Hobbit.” Thanks, internet, for sparing me “Thirteen Days II” or “Return to the Bounty”! Here it is, the trailer for “The Hobbit.”
I have an unreasonable degree of excitement for this film. I read the book when I was about eleven, and I’ve been longing for a decent live-action movie version forever. Can it match up to the Lord of the Rings movies? Is splitting it into two movies a good idea? What the hell are Galadriel and Frodo doing here? Let’s discuss it in obsessive detail!
The trailer is also available on Apple if the youtubes go kablooie. The Hobbit poster image is also from Apple.
