Desolation of Smaug

[Chilly]

If you're offering

You can't be paid, so there's no point offering

EVERYONE has a price for pretty much everything. I wager you'd give up a nut for £100m.

 

[Billargh]

You can't be paid, so there's no point offering

EVERYONE has a price for pretty much everything. I wager you'd give up a nut for £100m.

We all love a bit of hyperbole though, right?

I'd do just about out for £100m tbh, even a bukkake session from you lot.

 

[Chilly]

We all love a bit of hyperbole though, right?

I'd do just about out for £100m tbh, even a bukkake session from you lot.

Is now the time to reveal that I am the heir to a vast paperclip fortune?

 

[Billargh]

Is now the time to reveal that I am the heir to a vast paperclip fortune?

Only if the payment is upfront, and not pre covered in spunk.

 

[Chilly]

unsubscribe.

 

[Bigmac]

We all love a bit of hyperbole though, right?

I'd do just about out for £100m tbh, even a bukkake session from you lot.

I feel a kickstarter coming along

 

[Scouse]

I feel a kickstarter coming along

Bit early for that. Gotta have the backwards auction where we decide who'll do what for what money. - For example, for 99.99 million I'd perform said bukkake session on TV.

However, it's gonna be pretty hard to beat @Wij, who'll suck his mum's dildo clean for a tenner

 

[Wij]

Hang on. I'll see if I can find a tenner.

 

[Job]

http://www.engadget.com/2013/12/17/hfr-the-desolation-of-smaug/

Nice article on HFR

 

[Scouse]

HFR for the win tbfh.

Advantages in clarity outweigh the shitty outdated tec we currently run on.

 

[Job]

Got to agree with the 'feels like your on the set rather than watching a movie', funnily enough my mates Panasonic plasma does the same thing to everything, all footage has this weird 80s video camera feel that makes it seem like its an outside broadcast.
I don't know if its the contrast or lag...maybe the frame rate, but somethings up, watching Dowton Abbey and it felt like we were watching alive feed from the set.

 

[Scouse]

Got to agree with the 'feels like your on the set rather than watching a movie'

At times, yep.

I like that. It feels like I'm in the theatre, or actually there. And the characters are more real because of it.

 

[old.Tohtori]

Saw it, worth the dragon, otherwise as someone who hasn't read the stuff it had some stuff in that was just padding with no real reason to be there.

Good movie, bit long, in short.

 

[Job]

Shouldnt have watched Martin Freeman on GrahamNorton before seeing it, he came across a bit of
a sarcastic know it all and it upset my immersion now and then during the film.

 

[PLightstar]

Loved watch Cumberbatch as the Dragon, could listen to his monologue all day. Watched it in the Higher Frames, As I rarely go to the cinema it was worth seeing it in the best possible way, well until we got D-Box cinema seats.

 

[TdC]

Going to see it on Sunday

 

[Yoni]

Going next Thursday

 

[Lakih]

It was good. Not great. Smaug was awesome, both the way he was made and the voice acting. Sadly Steven Fry killed a big part of the movie. I don't mind Steven Fry, I think he did a really good job in V for Vendetta but he just didn't fin into Tolkien's world.
It didn't feel like a close to three hours movie though, which is good.
Also, put some damn ladies miracle cream on Orlando Bloom, he looked 20 years older from the previous films.

 

[Scouse]

I thought Fry was OK tbh.

And I liked Orlando Bloom looking older as well - less annoying boyishness and more Elf

 

[Turamber]

Enjoyed it very much, the dragon was superb in particular as were the action scenes. The particle effects used for the fog in Bree were spectacular, HFR at its best. In other places it continued to make the film look like in-game CGI in a 90's roleplay adventure.

Very neat touch that I noticed, don't think it's been done before...

Spoiler

The iris of Sauron's eye was him dressed in the black armour, straight from the Last Alliance of Men and Elves as shown in the prequel to Fellowship of the Ring.

 

[Urgat]

Never decided for sure in any of the books IIRC. Tolkein left it hanging.

Not in ghe books no, but he confirmed it himself, when he was explaining about Sauron bieng the main threat in LOTR, and how he needed to reconcile his activity through the ages. (In the series of letters by Tolkien that Christopher had published)

Going to see it again on Monday prob. Can't wait.

I think i have a man crush on Cumberbatch

 

[Jupitus]

Shouldnt have watched Martin Freeman on GrahamNorton before seeing it, he came across a bit of
a sarcastic know it all and it upset my immersion now and then during the film.

Yeah - I saw the same show and I was honestly a bit confused as to whether he really is such a smug asshead or if he was just hamming it up for the Norton show a bit...

 

[PLightstar]

I think i have a man crush on Cumberbatch

Yep, I can see that. Both in this and Into Darkness I could just listen to his voice forever.

 

[Tom]

I enjoyed it immensely up to the point where they arrived at Laketown, where I thought a lot of time was wasted. The barrel-chase-flight-fight sequence was absolutely fantastic, I was laughing my head off at what Bombur ended up doing. The dragon was also outstanding.

I don't agree with those who claim the CGI isn't very good. I think they're nit-picking. I saw it on IMAX 3D HFR and with the possible exception of that bit where Legolas goes after Bolg on the horse, everything looked utterly real to me.

I suffer from tinnitus and thought that the film I watched was too loud - sometimes even spoken voices were painful.

 

[soze]

I found this rather boring much like the first. The dragon CGI was very good but I still did not care about it. The Elf fighting scenes were fucking epic though I would really like to see an hour and a half of the next film be nothing but LogoArse and the Ginger one kicking wholesale orc arse.

 

[Job]

I do believe the she elf actress has the most perfect face Ive evee seen.

 

[leggy]

Evangeline is perfection.. The dragon is sort of ok.

 

[Job]

I found this rather boring much like the first. The dragon CGI was very good but I still did not care about it. /quote]


Same here..I was very underwhelmed by the Dragon..a bit Harry Potter to me.

 

[Nate]

Enjoyed it got to see it for £3.50!

 

[TdC]

I enjoyed it (much) more than the first installment. I watched it in 3D HFR and felt it was quite well done, but I did notice a couple of times when scenes swapped from exterior to studio shots What *really* got on my tits is that (imo) the editing was done by a fucking amateur. For such a long film, it's ever so clear that PJ chopped out at least an hour's worth of footage. Dayum, but that's annoying. Also, I felt the additions or re-imaginings if you will were heavy handed and a bit cack tbh.

I did enjoy Bombur and the other non-prominent dwarves; I like it that where every elf is a ninja, the dwarves, while portrayed as slightly bumbling, are actually really bad-ass fighters in their own right, especially when there are more than one of them and they can work together. I love Azog and Bolg, but I find that the difference between them and the average grunt orc is too great.

I typed a whole lot more but accidentally hit ctrl-z and lost most of it for some odd reason so I am doing the forum equivelent of a rage quit here.