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Awesome movie. Can't wait for the next one.
The first half-hour of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey – including a battle scene – is painful on the eyeballs. The look on the screen is distracting but familiar – somewhere between a soap opera, a sports-bar football game and a direct-to-video kids program from a bygone era. By doubling the frame rate of traditional 35mm film production and current high-definition video, the new format provides twice the visual information. Instead of being immersed in the action, you find yourself staring at the prosthetics and props.
The repeated iterations of fight, flight and respite here get wearing. Especially perhaps because, with Jackson's fetish for detail, they take more time to watch on screen than to read about.
It did a pretty good job of following the book as well. I've been a fan of the books for decades. I love how Peter Jackson is bringing it to life.
It did a pretty good job of following the book as well. I've been a fan of the books for decades. I love how Peter Jackson is bringing it to life.
Yup the two haters probably never read the book or if they did didn't like it.
I thought it was very good. I am a big fan of the books and it followed them very closely. There was plenty of action. It wasn't non-stop but there was plenty.
Like the books, people either love it our hate it. A very interesting point about the stories: they’re universal. Every nation on earth has a following. If you go to the Shire in New Zealand you’re taken by bus to the site. Our one bus had visitors from 15 nations.Awesome movie. Can't wait for the next one.
You serious? I thought it dragged on and on and on..
Little action, silly plot, retarded acting. I can't think of anything that I thought they did a good job on. To each his own I guess.
I wasn't that crazy about the book, either. More for kids. The movie was a long drawn out battle scene.I haven't seen a movie that bad in decades.
I've read LTR so many times I've pretty much got them memorized. Never liked The Hobbit much, though. It was okay--set the scene for what was to come, but nowhere near as good as the trilogy.It did a pretty good job of following the book as well. I've been a fan of the books for decades. I love how Peter Jackson is bringing it to life.
I've read LTR so many times I've pretty much got them memorized. Never liked The Hobbit much, though. It was okay--set the scene for what was to come, but nowhere near as good as the trilogy.It did a pretty good job of following the book as well. I've been a fan of the books for decades. I love how Peter Jackson is bringing it to life.
Yes. The books hold so much more than just the Quest. There is so much sweetness and nobility woven into the books; the hope unlooked for, the intricacy of the Elvish legends, the hobbits who kept us grounded in humanity, the beauty and the loss and the valor against all odds. It would have taken a dozen movies to add it all and I don't suppose it could be done. The movies teased out the action story line. When you are reading the books, the war scenes and battles don't take center stage the way they do in the films. That was only one part.I still wanted more.
Yes. The books hold so much more than just the Quest. There is so much sweetness and nobility woven into the books; the hope unlooked for, the intricacy of the Elvish legends, the hobbits who kept us grounded in humanity, the beauty and the loss and the valor against all odds. It would have taken a dozen movies to add it all and I don't suppose it could be done. The movies teased out the action story line. When you are reading the books, the war scenes and battles don't take center stage the way they do in the films. That was only one part.I still wanted more.
My favorite scene is when Aaragorn kneels to the ring bearers at the coronation. That was real LTR.
You serious? I thought it dragged on and on and on..
Little action, silly plot, retarded acting. I can't think of anything that I thought they did a good job on. To each his own I guess.
Yes. The books hold so much more than just the Quest. There is so much sweetness and nobility woven into the books; the hope unlooked for, the intricacy of the Elvish legends, the hobbits who kept us grounded in humanity, the beauty and the loss and the valor against all odds. It would have taken a dozen movies to add it all and I don't suppose it could be done. The movies teased out the action story line. When you are reading the books, the war scenes and battles don't take center stage the way they do in the films. That was only one part.I still wanted more.
My favorite scene is when Aaragorn kneels to the ring bearers at the coronation. That was real LTR.