desolation of smaug
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- Sep0
I heard they're going to make six movies out of the back flap of the book.
- ukit20
Meh. Just another over the top Hollywood CGI wankfest. Watched the preview and I think there was actually a scene where you had elves and dwarves flying around in 3D like in the Matrix movies.
- cruddlebub0
it wasnt great, it wasn't shit. it was boring, and like the first hobbit, i nodded off in more than one place.
i went more for the lady, she likes this stuff, which is cool as i dont get dragged to see shitty chick flicks...
- CALLES0
I enjoyed this one a lot
- baseline_shift0
You guys bitch too much. I thought it was pretty good.
- ukit20
It was better than the first one, but suffered from the same problem of trying to create an epic story out of a short children's book. I thought the best part was the beginning, the shapeshifter and forest scenes before they got too carried away with big action sequences and stuff flying around in 3D.
The original LOTR movies created a world that was fantasy but still felt real. This felt more like being inside a video game.
One thing you can say for sure, Tolkein would have hated it.
- Tolkein is dead. He may well have jacked off to these movies for all we know.CygnusZero4
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- autoflavour0
yep, they would have been much better making it just one film, or maybe 2.. but stretching 3 out of it.. just a waste of time.
also the HFR looks weird. I find it way too distracting. you never get the sense of being immersed in a film, more like watching one of those demo videos played at shops to show off the new HD screens
- ETM0
I am very satisfied lately to hear younger people around me say they are getting sick of too many CG effects. If even the late teens and 20s are feeling fatigue and simply having overblown effects can't draw crowds, then maybe can see a more restrained balance of CG and practical effects... or simply less effects in general.
Nolan's Batman's and the LOTR trilogy has come up several times as a preferred experience (with exception to some primitive CG in LOTR) in the that they demonstrate a balance of both types of effects.
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- Hating on CG is just a scapegoat. It's all in the storytelling, too much vfx or not.inteliboy
- No, the CG is a scapegoat, in lieu of solid film making or storytelling.ETM
- But you can have a great film, with heaps of CG.... Look at Gravity for example.inteliboy
- CG or no CG -- it's the story that counts.inteliboy
- I agree. Problem is CG is a crutch that is far too commonly used.ETM
- < yep. Gravity is a simple powerful story told using CG - its usually the reversefadein11
- prophetone0
Great flick but when it faded to black the whole theatre was like "Aaaahhhhhhh goddammmit!" incl. me.