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Hack&Lube · 12-15-2013, 01:32 AM

My issue with all the Hobbit films (not sure if that's applicable to LOTR because I haven't seen them for a decade) is that they have too many ridiculous CG action scenes that go on forever and don't make a lot of sense.

It's just random chaos of things falling, crashing, smashing, etc. on a massive scale at incredible speed where everything magically falls into place and all the heroes end up back together unscathed at the end by some stroke of luck, impossible physics, or deus ex machina (Tolkien calls this eucatrophe or something like that). They boggle the mind, bore me to tears, and would probably give me a migraine if I watched them in 3D on a giant screen at 48 FPS.

I saw an advance screening of DoS as part of a vendor marketing event and it honestly is not a film I would have paid money to watch in the theatres. The version I saw was in 2D in one of the smaller theatres in Chinook and didn't look like 48 FPS.

Anyway, I get the impression that the ridiculous 3D action sequences are padding in these films so that they could turn them into a trilogy. For years and even throughout the year of production, it was only supposed to be a 2 film series.

12-15-2013, 01:32 AM	#767
Hack&Lube Atomic Nerd Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Calgary Exp:	My issue with all the Hobbit films (not sure if that's applicable to LOTR because I haven't seen them for a decade) is that they have too many ridiculous CG action scenes that go on forever and don't make a lot of sense. It's just random chaos of things falling, crashing, smashing, etc. on a massive scale at incredible speed where everything magically falls into place and all the heroes end up back together unscathed at the end by some stroke of luck, impossible physics, or deus ex machina (Tolkien calls this eucatrophe or something like that). They boggle the mind, bore me to tears, and would probably give me a migraine if I watched them in 3D on a giant screen at 48 FPS. I saw an advance screening of DoS as part of a vendor marketing event and it honestly is not a film I would have paid money to watch in the theatres. The version I saw was in 2D in one of the smaller theatres in Chinook and didn't look like 48 FPS. Anyway, I get the impression that the ridiculous 3D action sequences are padding in these films so that they could turn them into a trilogy. For years and even throughout the year of production, it was only supposed to be a 2 film series. Last edited by Hack&Lube; 12-15-2013 at 01:55 AM.