The Hobbit
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- BabySnakes0
I thought it was good, around as good as Fellowship, though Two Towers is still my fav. Only bad thing is we have to wait a whole year for next part and another year after that again...
- robotinc0
It was lots of fun. 48 fps was awesome. In your face motion blur!
- arne0
- autoflavour0
"I think I may have just witnessed Peter Jackson's Phantom Menace."
- 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
- OP310
I enjoyed it, wasn't a good film but watchable and fun. Honestly though the characters are constantly falling from great heights the entire movie. Falling from trees, falling from cliffs, falling from cliffs that are giants. Falling off wood bridges. They practically fall all the way to that damn mountain.
- It wasnt good at all? I would say Twilight isnt good. This has to be better than that.CygnusZero4
- how else are they supposed to start their journeY? gotta go down before you can come up!dan5382
- lol, it was a fun movie with intense fallingOP31
- and yes it is better then twilightOP31
- cannonball19780
Not as many "themes" as LOTR. This one seemed more about the thrill of adventure and that's it.
- detritus0
they've filmed it all, right?
if so - fuck 'em for staggering releases out over years.
shitheads.
- pango0
gonna watch it tonight. what kind of drugs should i be on?
- Miguex0
Watched it last night.
In my opinion, that 'soap opera' look is due to lighting and color grading, not fps.It is more noticeable on the 'daylight' scenes, but everything else is ok. Give the man credit for trying something different!
People usually hate on these things only because they are different, we've all seen it over the years. The good thing is that (as every designer knows) it's easier to downgrade / scale down in quality than it is to do the opposite, so it's not even a big deal. Go watch it at an old theater or wait till it comes on vhs.
- i dont get what's the problem? it just looks more lively? more joyful?k_temp
- pango0
don't know what's the fuzz... looked fine to me.
- cruddlebub0
Am going today with the lady... Hope it's a goodun
- you'll enjoy it. 3 hours went by in a flash for me.pango
- 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.
- 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.
- 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".
- jtb260
@Cygnus - I've seen it twice now and I agree, with the lack of substance. The first 30 minutes seemed really thin.
That said I thought it was a boat load of fun once it got moving. Though I could have done with less time running through the cave toward the end. No idea how they do 3 films. I guess they'll spend a lot of time on the necromancer.
3D looks way better @48fps. Didn't care for 3d in the imax, overall it felt unnecessary and distracting.
- prophetone0
it was great. entertaining. amazing cintog and fight scenes. prob plenty to complain about but honestly i'm concerned about getting my $10 worth and it delivers the goods. good as lotr? nope, but hey it's either this or guilt trip...
- Miguex0
I thought 3D looked cool but my eyes were hurting by the middle of the movie. I think hollywood is pushing the 3D experience on a last attempt to try to lure people into theaters. I personally don't enjoy it as much as I did back in highschool, where I would go see any movie they played. Now with people texting next to you, or eating tortilla chips in the middle of the movie, or just talking loudly w friends... kinda gets annoying.
I much rather watch a movie at home nowadays. 3D is cool to see once or twice but I don't think it's necessary. (I thought In Coraline was amazing though.)
- I agree, Coraline was one of the few movies that really took advantage of 3Dukit2