desolation of smaug
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- utopian0
3.5/5
- nb0
I'm not really into animated films.
- albums0
IMDB Rating: 8.5/10 - 51,590 votes
- benfal990
The Others
- loool0
if you have a problem with cg, then i don't understand why the hobbit is the film that pisses you off...take a look at shortlisted films for vfx oscars: none of them except gravity and hobbit is actually trying to be a movie in my opinion...i understand hating cg or having a problem with it but then you should take a look at transformers, avengers, pacific rim,spiderman and all the other crap people make just to show off cg...hobbit and lotr is in my opinion a different class then those movies...but that's just me...
- i disagree on Avengers. Highly entertaining and satisfying use of sfx i think, when Transformers was just pointless destruction and eye-candy intended to look so complex that it loses its appeal.spl33nidoru
- and eye-candy intended to look so complex that it loses its appeal. The Avengers fight scene had a lot of punch. Great sound design too imho.spl33nidoru
- sound design too to carry them imho.spl33nidoru
- cannonball19780
Started crappy. Got good. Ended short.
- cruddlebub0
talking about CG, the latest superman was a CG fest towards the end... sorry, i know this is about The hobbit, i am too getting annoyed with all the CG. i understand that to push the boundaries they can only do so with CG but... its getting a bit meh!
- BabySnakes0
Ya the barrel scene and every shot with Smaug were awesome. Need another watch.
- dijitaq0
better than the first. evengeline lily as an elf is frikkin hot! but i want to break out laughing every time they do a profile shot of orlando bloom
- CygnusZero40
I found the cd in this movie to be tolerable. It wasnt obnoxious like it was in Superman. That movie was fucking awful and the cg was so bad. Every time he fought those 3 enemies in back it looked so terrible. Peter Jackson is good at this stuff, Zack Snyder is not.
- pablo280
boring
- set0
- on your mobile again, perchance?Projectile
- Great isn't itset
- set0
- CygnusZero40
Yeah who was the douche that said this movie has no heart? Fast forward to 1:50. This movie was pretty great.
- ETM0
I think the issue with the endless CG (the crappy stuff) is that the goal of effects used to be to suspend disbelief, now it's just to show cool stuff, and they almost WANT it to have a CG look rather than strive for more realism. Why does 1993 Jurassic Park's CG dinos look better than most stuff today? Far too much CG for the budget/timeframe to do well, or it is simply that they actually want that fake aesthetic?
For the Hobbit, why does Golum look and move pretty good, but Legolas looks like a rag doll in CG? Legolas suffered the same fate in ROTK, so is it intentional? Is CG still unable to replicate realistic movement without aid of capture suits?
- ukit20
http://www.qbn.com/topics/441052…
"The movies either come in on a portable hard drive or if you have a server they can be zapped to you via a secure satellite connection. You also need a key file to unlock the encryption on the movie file. "
Impressive...and yet it didn't stop them
- pango0
interesting. I just finished the movie and there's this thread.
- inv0
Is it me or was the CG crapp in this one? Especially the scenes with the liquid gold?
- im sure its not very easy to pull off but it looks ok to meCygnusZero4
- ukit20
Gravity as someone mentioned above is another example of a film that is heavily reliant on effects, but you don't even notice because they are a seamless part of the experience. There's really no reason why The Hobbit had to be any more effects-intense or over the top than say, Game of a Thrones, which is a similar genre and also comes off as naturalistic. With a lot of recent Hollywood films it feels like they are just trying to crank it to 11 with the action sequences - like the movie is storyboarded by a fifteen year old or something. The overall effect is boring instead of exciting.