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Reasonably spectacular so as to satisfy your inner child but not quite the same on an adult level. Martin Freeman began to wear me thin with his being adorable and his dithering. The rest of the cast has begun to look long of tooth and much CGI was used on their faces to make them appear younger.I sat there for almost three hours only to be stymied at the conclusion.
This, like all other gazillion dollar serials, compels you to attend to witness the spectacle but just doesn't quite hit the right notes.
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Not a Tolkien fanatic...did not know this was another trilogy. There was NO indication something was to follow.
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A real treat. The pans were awesome. No jittering at all, very smooth. If anyone doesn't like this, then they are simply foolish, who likes seeing a jittery background as the camera pans? This is the future. I quickly acclimated to it and enjoyed it to the max.
The 3D was nice. Nothing done to reach out and grab you except for a few fight scenes where you find yourself ducking arrows! Very nice. I really don't care a lot for 3D. If it is done well, you don't notice it. It seems a lot of extra work and technology for just a few payoffs, like the arrows.
Being a fan of Tolkien, I really liked the story. And I like how it was presented in a more leisurely manner. Obviously padding a bit to stretch out a single book into three epic 2+ hour movies. I sort of miss this; nowadays we expect everything to race across the screen at breakneck pace. There was a lot of stuff added that wasn't in the original book, "The Hobbit," but is found in "The Silmarilion." I must admit, I tried, and failed, to read "Sil," so I know little of it but that it covered a lot of "history" of Middle Earth. It is my understanding that a lot of these extra characters and incidents happening are pulled from this other work.
I'm not sure what Grits was thinking, but it was painfully clear what the troop was after and they were no where near finishing the journey.
Oh, the popcorn was out of this world!
We'll have to agree to disagree about global warming until the next global cooling scare comes along
Saw the trailer to the new OZ movie. A must see for the kid in all of us. We truly are living in the golden age where computer graphics can bring almost anything to the big screen.
Saw the nine minute into to Star Trek 2. Looked awesome. Spock looks so much like himself I kept staring.
We'll have to agree to disagree about global warming until the next global cooling scare comes along
I could live without all the battles, they could do more with less action, but, it has to make money, so we get CGI up the yin yang!
I did like Gollum though...
Before making the following statement I want to point out a few facts:
1. Whilst I loved The Lord of the Rings as a child I didn't read The Hobbit until I was 15 and was not overly impressed;
2. I came to enjoy The Hobbit far more in reading it to my children;
3. I though that the film of The Fellowship of the Ring was a Tour de Force, and wasn't overly taken with the following two.
....so The Hobbit?
I loved it.
I can see what many critics disliked, but, if you love the world of Tolkein then this is brilliantly rendered (sic).
Is Jackson slavishly true to the book? NOT at all. He adds characters to heighten dramatic tension, but without diverting from the spirit.
The time in the cinema just flew as PJ lavished the time and love on the material that is normally reserved for the best of TV, where time is available.
Did the plot feel unnecessarily bloated? Not by me. PJ has included scenes from throughout the Tolkein canon, and it is easy to see where this is going to pay off in the following films.
If you enjoy Tolkein I would be surprised if you find anything here to dislike.
However, I DID watch this in my favoured format, glorious 2d. I will be going to see in in 48fps 3d.
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Yup...they've got to have lots of action to satisfy the crowds.Less battles and more warm feelings of Hobbit people with their parties and pubs and tiny Hobbit houses, and Hobbit gardens is more to my liking. I like the adventure of the quest and some of the dangers that go with it in that it makes a good story.
I haven't seen "the Hobbit" but have read all the books and have seen the Trilogy "Lord of the Rings".I'm going to see the 'Hobbit' at a new Arc Light Cinema in WS 3D. I'd like to see less violence than the Lord of the Rings.
I can't decide which. 3D is dimmer and combined with all the dark indoor scenes, maybe some of the details would be blotted out. Maybe I'll see it in WS 3D the first time then go again later in WS 2D.
I usually wait til DVD is issued but the only way to see 48 F/S in in the theater.
before two-hours I was arguing with myself over leaving.
...2D, 3D, IMAX 3D, 24fps, 48fps...whew!!!
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