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The casting was outstanding, though, and for the most part the effects were top notch (there's one shot of the Brown Wizard guy on the rabbit sled leading the orcs on a chase that had ridiculously bad FX). Again, overall I enjoyed the movie, and I'll see the next ones. But it wasn't what I'd hoped, and it wasn't what I expected. My 2 cents. |
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Saw it yesterday,. Pretty solid and entertaining. Seemsl like LOTR lite of course. Some over the top shit so far.
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12-26-2012, 07:10 AM | #4 |
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I loved it. It captured the book well and goes away from the seriousness of the lotr films a bit
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I am currently reading The Hobbit. It seems that the Gandalf in the books is not as much of a bad a$$ as the way he is portrayed in the LOTR movies. Not that he is weak or anything, but not nearly as powerful and confident. Of course, I have yet to see the movie, The Hobbit. I also haven't read TLOTR but plan to read it in the near future. So take that with a grain of salt, I guess.
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It's difficult to reconcile them, really. The books are written differently with different audiences in mind. It's not really age. Gandalf is a Maia, he's waaaaaay old. The 60 years or whatever between the events of the Hobbit and the events of LoTR would be like saying a guy who is 60 years and 3 months is older than when he was 60 years and 2 months. Well, yeah, but...
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I saw this last Sunday. We saw it in 2D. I don't know if it was the theater we saw it or what, but there were some scenes that were just a mess of blur, particularly the opening scene with Smaug's attack. I want to see it now in 3D HFR to compare.
I loved the movie, though. The scene that everyone is complaining about didn't bother me. Anyone who follows fantasy knows that dwarves are nearly indestructible. They also had a wizard along that could have done something to soften the blow. As others have mentioned, it sucks that I have to wait a year for the next one to come out. |
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This movie was way too long. The pacing for the next two is going to blow ass, too.
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Hahahaha. You can never make these movies long enough.
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