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 Post subject: Re: Movie: The Hobbit
PostPosted: Mon Dec 10, 2012 3:43 pm 
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Yeah, that was my plan: I have tickets to see it Sunday in 2d and then again on Friday in 24fps ATMOS.


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 Post subject: Re: Movie: The Hobbit
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Sad news. Ian McKellan has prostate cancer. Roll on the 'you shall not pass!' jokes.

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dimejinky99 wrote:
Ian McKellan has prostate cancer.

*for six or seven years now

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 Post subject: Re: Movie: The Hobbit
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Wow. Pillar of strength and not one joke. He's a tower.

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 Post subject: Re: Movie: The Hobbit
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dimejinky99 wrote:
Wow. Pillar of strength and not one joke. He's a tower.

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[Update: Chris Andrews, who represents McKellen, denied that the actor has prostrate cancer]
"No, he does not have prostate cancer. … That was taken out of context and from an interview from years ago," Andrews told ABCNews.com.

Read more at http://global.christianpost.com/news/ia ... 3WPg2hb.99

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 Post subject: Re: Movie: The Hobbit
PostPosted: Sat Dec 15, 2012 4:50 am 
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If what you crave is a Lord of the Rings sequel featuring a sight gag wizard with bird poop in his hair who rides a rabbit sleigh, orcs (or like creatures) who deliver one-liners after being disemboweled, humorous beheading sequences played for cheap laughs, extended dish-cleaning footage, and lots of fight-scene ideas lifted straight out of Pirates of the Caribbean...this is your movie.

Honestly, though, it was enjoyable enough. Not worth seeing twice (unless the sequels rock muh socks, in which case I could see doing the "let's just watch the set" thing next time my wife is pregnant and ruined), and not up to the standards of the previous trilogy, but not a Phantom Menace or Crystal Skull level destructive. Just cornier and plodding. If you view the original trilogy as THE story, and this movie as ancillary or bonus material, it's fine. If you try to think of it as an equal part of the telling of the story, the comparison hurts it.

Bonus: one of the two very bored guys sitting in front of me offered the following thought as the credits rolled: "Shit, white people is weird." The more I think on it, the more this summarizes Lord of the Rings entirely. And maybe Tom Cruise, too.


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 Post subject: Re: Movie: The Hobbit
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This is getting bad reviews, ya? I read one where they compared it to Lucas returning to A galaxy far far away with his prequels....


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 Post subject: Re: Movie: The Hobbit
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Saw it for a second time last in regular 2d and enjoyed it a whole lot more than the first time.

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My brother said watching this in HFR 3D was like watching a really long Xena: Warrior Princess episode. Minus all the cool lesbian overtones, of course.

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 Post subject: Re: Movie: The Hobbit
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im not sure why, because i love Jackson and the LOTR triolgy was super cool, but i dont care for this one.
I even read the Hobbit a long time ago, and its pretty good too...but this one..i just dont care.
I would like Peter Jackson to make a film without special effects....please make another Bad Taste.


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 Post subject: Re: Movie: The Hobbit
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Interesting article the science of HFR & The Hobbit.

http://movieline.com/2012/12/14/hobbit- ... er-second/

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Seeing this in a few hours.

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 Post subject: Re: Movie: The Hobbit
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HFR? 3D? 2D? 0D? OCD?

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 Post subject: Re: Movie: The Hobbit
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Pete, don't go see it in IMAX 3d. It's genuinely annoying to watch. Go regular. You'll be much happier.

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cutuphalfdead wrote:
Seeing this in a few hours.


It was my fault, wasn't it? It was the promise of sight gag side characters with rabbit sleighs. The world does revolve around me, so.

Well, I hope you especially like the very long scene where he leads the bad guys in a random chase scene in a continual circle around our heroes, causing them to do the classic Lord of the Rings run in an unending back and forth that would have actually made for a halfway decent SNL skit mocking the series.


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I enjoyed this. The 3D was distracting, but it wasn't as bad as everyone made it out to be. Some parts were definitely worse than others though.

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I think the worst part of the 3D experience is it makes it hard to focus on the entire screen and take the whole picture in.

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 Post subject: Re: Movie: The Hobbit
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cutuphalfdead wrote:
it wasn't as bad as everyone made it out to be. Some parts were definitely worse than others though.


As compared to the LotR "shit, that was cool."

I fully expect this to age poorly, for all the reasons I've already stated.


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