It's about as bad as it gets, Jilli.
Movie needed
MOAR SMAUG.
Because, well,
dragons!
Paul, being fonder of the actual source texts than I am (the writing style is not my thing), would have preferred more
Beorn.
We both made the
o.0 at the barrels.
Unlike me, he didn't watch the stupid animated Hobbit movie a million zillion times (I have The Greatest Adventure stuck in my head now, AGAIN, and I don't care if it's awful and dumb and whatever, I STILL AM FOND), so that limited my ability to have the deep discussion about differences in adaptations. Though it was amusing to outline the climactic differences in the animated movie vs. the book as we speculated about Hobbit 3.
Apparently, I have a deeper fondness for The Hobbit than I do for the rest of the Middle Earth stuff, though, so I've actually liked these movies more.
Jilli,
I'm not an arachnophobe and those scenes nearly put me under the chair. Do not open your eyes even once.
Nothing good will come of it.
Uh oh. I better warn my kids.
So Franny has decided that taking a few friends to see The Hobbit will suffice for the lack of birthday party this year. Isaac is possibly on board as well.
I wanted
more Beorn
too. He's important, damnit.
I have....very mixed feelings about this. I would love to believe it can be pulled off.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt will direct and star in Sandman.
Huh. OK. I'll be interested in seeing that. I kinda figured it was destined for Tim Burton, but I've certainly enjoyed other things JGL has done.
I saw that Sandman news yesterday, and was...kind of perplexed.
I thought the
barrel
scene in The Hobbit was hilarious.
Looks like they issued a correction for that article, JGL will produce, not direct.
With amych and Suela on the desire for a single-movie Phantom Edit of the whole trilogy. That would be wonderful.
I loved the animated Hobbit growing up. It lead my 8 year-old self to find and read the book and started my life-long love of fantasy. I haven't watched it recently, though I still have fond memories of that movie's version of the songs from the book. (The Greatest Adventure, not so much. And I recall the elf song in Rivendell being annoying.)
The weird mutant wood elves bugged me, though.