The Hobbit
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- CygnusZero40
Yep. That was fucking awful. The thing I liked about LOTR is even though its all fantasy shit, it still felt pretty heavy and serious. The acting by Elijah Wood was great in LOTR. The new guy playing Bilbo sucked. No emotion from him at all.
Hobbit was a childrens movie. It was nothing like LOTR at all. Not just that, but the story was boring and aimless. So the dwarves are trying to get back home. Well who cares about that? In LOTR at least the fate of the world was hanging in the balance.
I really dont think the book is deep enough to be made into a great movie. LOTR was much more thought out and rich with content to work with so it made a great movie.
- randommail0
Well, Ian McKellen did call it a "kid's movie" during his appearance on The Colbert Report.
- randommail0
re: the poster above
The 2nd guy in the top row looks so out of place.
- _me_0
just saw it - 48fps takrs a while to get used - but then the drama is lovely - the superprine lenses Jackson used in collaboration with the 48fps makes the super sharp digital look even more extreme...
its fine- but at some points they look badly comped on to a green screen set - doesn't detract from the drame
OMG the battle scenes are fuckin amazing!
- CALLES0
good to hear _me_
- HijoDMaite0
I don't mean to rain on your parade but you are suppose to watch this film in a theater that shows it at 48fps. It's supposed to make watching 3D easier, it makes everything crystal clear...no motion blur. I watched it here in Turkey and the quality was crap. :( And of course there is no option to watch in non-3D. Unfortunately Turkey doesn't even have a theater to watch it in it's proper format. Here is the list around the world.
- EMRIKAAAA!!! WOOOOCALLES
- thanks for that linkernexbcn
- Nice, 1 theatre in my state. 4 hours away. Round trip is 8 hours, plus the 3 hour movie, 11 hours. Waiting for Blu-Ray.elahon
- yeah nice linksea_sea
- I don't mean to rain on your parade but all of this crap is just a way of adding more onto the price of your ticket. 3D is pointless, shooting in 48fps in order to make 3D 'work' is pointlesser.eoin
- pointless, shooting in 48fps in order to make 3D 'work' is even pointlesser.eoin
- 48fps just makes everything look fake, not least because you can see make-up/wigs etc.
eoin
- HijoDMaite0
I just saw the movie here in Turkey and we were all forced to watch it in 3D. I hate the 3D bullshit but I sat through it nevertheless. The 3D glasses have dark lenses so the entire time I felt like it was too dark. I would rather watch it on BlueRay on my home system. PLus was it filmed in 3D? I heard only movies filmed in 3D look good in 3D like Avatar.
I'm not a big fan of the fantasy sci-fi stuff so I don't have much to add as far as a review.
- ukit20
I felt like they overused the CGI in this movie. In LOTR you had huge battle scenes, but there was some restraint in the depiction of characters (orcs all being played by real people for example). Here it was like they just threw all restraint out the window and did everything with computers. The problem is that as good as studios have gotten with this stuff, it still doesn't look real to me. The white orc, goblin king, etc...looked like characters from a video game. Compare this with something like Pan's Labyrinth where they used mostly costumes and animatronics...the characters in that movie were far more convincing and scary.
- Yeah these crazy CGI movies worked for me in the late 90s and 2000's, not anymore though.CygnusZero4
- It actually almost felt dated to me because the trend now is practical effects as much as possible.CygnusZero4
- This movie is such a huge CGI fest, felt like it should have come out 10 years ago.CygnusZero4
- i_monk0
Started re-reading the book today.
- sandpipe0
i will watch it on my ipad nano.
- sandpipe0
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- scarabin0
i don't remember anything about storm giants in the book. or galadriel. or any of the thorin/orc guy beef.
but then i haven't read it since i was 9
- Stone giants were in there. Galadriel was not. Goblin guy (Azog) was mentioned briefly, but had a different role and died before book began.tcmmct
- Theyre trying to take 1 book and spread it across 3 movies, there's stuff added and other things handled differently.CygnusZero4
- nb0
Wow, that was awful.
- i understand. you are probably short, hobbitlikeCALLES
- Exact thing I said to my gf after it ended, wow that was awful.CygnusZero4
- That's what she said.Amicus
- sandpipe0
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- CygnusZero40
Yeah I know a lot of people worked very hard on it. I watched all the videologs on youtube.
Honestly I have a feeling that this went south after Del Torro quit. It seemed like after that they scrambled to get it together too quickly because the script feels so rushed. There just wasnt enough emotion in it to make us care about the Dwarves mission. They spent a little time talking about that in the beginning, but then its never really mentioned again until 2 hours later at the very end.
Everything that happened to them during the whole movie felt random and pointless. In LOTR they were always reminding you what the point of everything was with Frodo and ring so that added gravity to everything that happened to them. He was always touching the ring, hating it and falling in love with it at the same time.
Maybe the next 2 parts will be better... I hope.
- robotinc0
white orc was a dude in a suit.
- CygnusZero40
@jtb- Yeah I knew the Hobbit was a childrens book and I was expecting it to be more light-hearted than LOTR, but really stretching this over 3 movies is a huge mistake because in the 1st part nothing really happens.
There is an epic amount of pointless filler in the middle. Literally just 2 hours of random things that happen to them that has no bearing on the story at all, so you totally lose a sense of why they're going through all of this since its not mentioned much outside of the beginning and the very last scene.
An example of where the studio knows this will be a major cash cow for 3 straight years and wouldnt allow this to be 1 movie, but this would have been FAR better if the whole story were told in one 3 hour movie.
A good Bilbo quote from LOTR that is extremely fitting for this movie. "It's like butter spread over too much bread".
- marychain0
Thought it was pretty great...not as epic as lotr...but still a fun time. Effects are even better than last time.