The Quest stands upon the edge of a knife. Stray but a little, and it will fail, to the ruin of all. Yet hope remains while the Company is true. Go Flames Go!
always expected that to happen but it's still a little disappointing considering where I think the 2nd is going to end, going to be a long year after next december
So I'm finally watching this now. I was against the 3 movie route and now that I'm watching it, I'm extra annoyed at all this stuff they added to stretch this out. This entire Azog sub plot is annoying and completely unnecessary. There is more than enough story to tell in the Hobbit.
I really enjoyed the Hobbit. It was beautifully made and the story was fun.
I didn't feel the same connection to the Dwarves that I did to the Fellowship from the first three movies. Perhaps because there were so many and didn't get a lot of screen time individually. Hopefully they get fleshed out a bit in the next two movies so we can see more of their personalities.
I've never understood the desire to pick apart movies for their plot holes/inconsistencies. I much prefer to sit back and be entertained for a couple hours. Especially in a movie like this. If there are plot holes in the movie, it's likely they are in the book as well.
I completely agree, many of my friends saw it in the theater and didn't like it so i wasn't expecting much. I feel the only real flaw was how the movie basically started twice, first with the back story and having a voice over "explain" everything to us. I believe that resulted in the audience not having much connection to the stories main characters.
I've never read the books but the movie was missing that scene in the first Rings movie when all four hobbits where hiding under a fallen tree log from that Ringwraith, the music playing loudly, the insects coming out of everywhere, the scared sh*tless looks on all of their faces, you truly felt for the hobbits then and that help connect us to them. I'm hopefully Jackson can establish it in the second movie but still on a whole, i enjoyed The Hobbit and thought it was a lot of fun while it looked spectacular on my TV
Finally got to watch it yesterday, have loved Jackson's Middle Earth so I felt I was safe to just go out and buy it.
Overall I enjoyed it very much, right from the start with the familiar Hobbit theme in the score starting up. Love it.
I wouldn't change much of anything, I really liked the exposition of things that happen "off page" in the book (white council meeting, Radagast, back story on the fall of Erebor, reclaiming Moria, etc), however I could have done without the Pale Orc subplot with Thorin. I feel like it was taking away from Bilbo being the main focus of the movie. I was kind of hoping that plot was going to be quickly resolved near the end, but it looks like it will carry into the next one.
Solid acting all around, Freeman is great as Bilbo and the recurring cast is solid as always (how can you not love Ian McKellan as Gandalf, so good!), I'd give this first entry in the trilogy a very solid 7/10.
Saw it again today at the Dollar theatre. It is way better than the crap it has taken on the net.
I find it amusing that movies are so bad right now that the cheap theaters are still showing The Hobbit over all the other crap that's been out lately.
The Quest stands upon the edge of a knife. Stray but a little, and it will fail, to the ruin of all. Yet hope remains while the Company is true. Go Flames Go!
__________________ "In brightest day, in blackest night / No evil shall escape my sight / Let those who worship evil's might / Beware my power, Green Lantern's light!"
The Quest stands upon the edge of a knife. Stray but a little, and it will fail, to the ruin of all. Yet hope remains while the Company is true. Go Flames Go!
__________________ "In brightest day, in blackest night / No evil shall escape my sight / Let those who worship evil's might / Beware my power, Green Lantern's light!"
Yeah, that trailer had more elf than dwarf in it. I was hoping that the second movie would focus on the different dwarves more and really flesh out those characters and relationships. Now I'm worried they'll be treated as shallowly as they were in the first, with too much focus on the elves instead.
Well, I guess I can hope that the extended edition does a better job of that.
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