'Out Of Gas'
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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.....
Got back from seeing The Hobbit.
I enjoyed it. I think I would have preferred one good 3-hour movie that stuck to the book, as opposed to this weird hybrid trilogy Jackson is doing. It wasn't bad, it just wasn't The Hobbit.
I like the fact that The Hobbit the book is a fairly straight-forward adventure romp. I don't need all the ill-portants and hints of something more and a bunch of Middle-Earth bigwigs standing around talking about what to do about said portants.
Also, Glamdring (and now Orcrist) not glowing still bugs the crap out of me.
Beau and I got back from The Hobbit.
I liked the movie more than he did. He really was bothered by PJ spending way too much time at the beginning of the film in the Shire. He felt the movie could have been shorter by an hour. Beau could not believe that PJ spent 30 minutes on dinner! I think that is an exaggeration, but I think 30 minutes easily could have been trimmed and it would have been a really good movie. This movie felt like the extended cuts version and not a tight, theatrical release.
Vonnie, it has been a long while since I read The Hobbit, so if I am your guide, I think you should see the film. I was surprised by some of the things that occurred - like I didn't know what would happen next!
I agree with many of the comments above though. There is some repetition in events that was noticeable. In our movie, we had EIGHT trailers before the film. Only 2 of which were movies I wanted to see (Star Trek & Super-man) so I was feeling kind of done before the movie started. Then the movie had a slow start, so about 20 minutes in, I was kind of bored. But that subsided and I was pretty into the last 2/3rds to half of the film.
Beau does not like 3D, so we saw 2D and I was perfectly happy with it.
In sum, I enjoyed the film, but wish it had been a bit tighter. I think I will wish PJ had done the book in 2 movies, but oh well. Given the complaints about length I have seen in general on the Internet, I think I enjoyed the movie more than I thought I would.