The movie is good, but too damn long. I watched it in 4dx (movement, sound, smell bla bla bla). Imho they shouldn't have added all the Tauriel stuff. I liked it, but I wasn't blown away. I still think lotr is miles ahead this movie...
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For the first time ever I walked out from the cinema very disappointed. This is by far PJ worst movie to date. The whole movie felt like a fellowship vs bilbo filler. The idea of the director from pacific rim making bilbo now doesn't seem that bad.
some "fun" things to notice:
rive scene, notice the POV shots from a gopro camera, takes you out completly from 48fps/3d
missing gold textures while Thorien is riding the gold stream (no joke)
missing sound from smaug stamping in the treasure chamber
The orc leader in laketown was inches away from killing legolas but instead he walks away?
Liked it well enough. It does much more with the dwarves than the book, so that's a plus. Some of it is a bit forced, like the romance, but it's better than literally 'nothing at all'.
Was hoping for a bit more Stephen Fry, was refreshing to see him in a bit of a villainous role.
And of course the best thing in the whole movie is Smaug. Perfect sense of scale (pun half intended ), amazing CGI and animation. Wish Cumberbatch's voice was less distorted though. It's a waste to have him if we can't tell that it's in fact his kickass vocal cords doing it.
What really sucked was the gold stream. Among all the ridiculously spectacular visuals, it looked incredibly fake.
Also, wonder where they hid Colbert. Jackson's cameo was a bit of a chuckle.
Keep that scene in mind and you can clearly see it's Colbert, even though he does look a bit more rough, he isn't really concealed heavily with makeup or clothes.
No way! I'm not watching anything below 720p these days (well in very few cases and not that much below). I hate how long it takes for movies to show up in proper releases these days. Still so much left to wait for this...
And why is that? cause some people say it's boring?
Because The Hobbit was shit (as a Tolkien film - and redundant as a fantasy film) and everything I'm hearing about this sounds like what I hate about Jackson's new style of ignoring Tolkien and adding superficial teenage battle scenes and farcical humor.
Although they could have dropped the fattie barrel roll, the rest of the movie is amazing. Especially the encounter with Smaug, which was epic to say the least. I honestly don't see much difference between Lotr and Hobbit other than the epic scale battles and such.
Although they could have dropped the fattie barrel roll, the rest of the movie is amazing. Especially the encounter with Smaug, which was epic to say the least. I honestly don't see much difference between Lotr and Hobbit other than the epic scale battles and such.
I'm sure you don't and that's ok.
FoTR was an amazing film that stayed true to the material and which didn't add anything that bothered me.
TTT was when it started going downhill (Legolas surfing, endless Gimli burpy humor, abysmal Eowyn, etc.) - but I still loved it. RotK, however, had too much crap and messed up too many things from Tolkien.
That said, I'm a HUGE fan of Tolkien and I have tremendous respect for his creation - so I'm naturally not happy about changes that go counter to his spirit.
I feel the same way about the new Star Trek and the new Sherlock Holmes crap coming out.
There are few things that I admire and respect that much when it comes to the entertainment industry - but Roddenberry's original vision and Conan Doyle's character of Holmes are definitely among them.
Very little can compare to the experience I had with FotR in the theater. TTT and RotK didn't entertain me on the same level - but it's true that they had more spectacle.
They did have some fantastic scenes though - and I even loved the Elrond to Arwen "peptalk" scene
And why is that? cause some people say it's boring?
Because The Hobbit was shit (as a Tolkien film - and redundant as a fantasy film) and everything I'm hearing about this sounds like what I hate about Jackson's new style of ignoring Tolkien and adding superficial teenage battle scenes and farcical humor.
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), amazing CGI and animation. Wish Cumberbatch's voice was less distorted though. It's a waste to have him if we can't tell that it's in fact his kickass vocal cords doing it.
