Tracy ,'The Message'
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You're probably right, it's there more than it could have been. But somehow I wish there was more. Maybe Suela's term, whimsy.
In other news, do any of you know where I left my Silmarillion? Because I can't find it. Ebook time? Is there an ebook Silmarillion?
Amazon has a Kindle edition of the Silmarillion. [link]
Some asshole (a professional movie critic no less) in my timeline compared "The Hobbit" to "The Phantom Menace."
Okay, even if I think "The Hobbit" is garbage when Beau and I see it tomorrow, ain't no possible way PJ fucked up that badly.
Ain't no way. Too many critics seem to enjoy doing an Armond White on movies and don't really know (or what to seriously assess) whether a movie is BAD or not.
Some asshole (a professional movie critic no less) in my timeline compared "The Hobbit" to "The Phantom Menace."
Yeah, no. It doesn't piss on the original by undercutting it. And the cast is uniformly good. But PJ does seem to have fallen in love with his technology to the detriment of the story.
Heading out to see Hobbit in IMAX 3D 48 FPS.
If fall into movie will have Bilbo put message for you-all in the Red Book.
My family is going to drag me to see The Hobbit. I get to sit next to my brother's girlfriend so we can both bitch about how we don't want to be there and didn't like the PJ LOTR trilogy to begin with.
ha ha ha!
Sounds festive.
Well, I'm back.
chrismg, did the 48fps make you feel ill, or was it wonderful?
Neither? I could definitely tell something was different, but I definitely didn't get sick. I kind of wonder if the 3d effect made it better.
You know how you'll see a ChromaKey effect on an older show, and the image quality difference jumps out it you? It was like that, only the ENTIRE image had the slightly-too-real effect. I'd really like to see something non-realistic with the effect. Too bad Del Toro couldn't use it for Pacific Rim.....