Film The Hobbit
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Fucking LOVED it.
The "slow pacing" people are missing the point - the beginning of the film is paced a lot like the book - setting up a story.
The "OMGZ!!!11! it looks poo!!!1 makeupz!" people are utter retards tbfh. Watched it in 48fps IMAX and I've never seen a picture of such quality in my life. The bits that seemed "fast" are just "correct" and/or "smooth" and easily come to terms with. Yep, it's slightly different from traditional film - but you'd fucking hope so, wouldn't you?
Radagast was ace.
It was funny.
My bird thought it was "slow at the beginning" - but then she thinks Jimmy Stewart was a retard in "It's a Wonderful Life " because he didn't ditch his family and go travelling
Go see it.
The "slow pacing" people are missing the point - the beginning of the film is paced a lot like the book - setting up a story.
The "OMGZ!!!11! it looks poo!!!1 makeupz!" people are utter retards tbfh. Watched it in 48fps IMAX and I've never seen a picture of such quality in my life. The bits that seemed "fast" are just "correct" and/or "smooth" and easily come to terms with. Yep, it's slightly different from traditional film - but you'd fucking hope so, wouldn't you?
Radagast was ace.
It was funny.
My bird thought it was "slow at the beginning" - but then she thinks Jimmy Stewart was a retard in "It's a Wonderful Life " because he didn't ditch his family and go travelling
Go see it.
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A touch drawn out but a good film. The section with the trolls was great.
Sylvester McCoy was really good as Radaghast, suitably demented though I thought the animation on his sled was a bit duff at times.
At a guess, film 2 is Myrkwood, film 3 is Lonely Mountain, Dale and the Battle of Five Armies.
Sylvester McCoy was really good as Radaghast, suitably demented though I thought the animation on his sled was a bit duff at times.
At a guess, film 2 is Myrkwood, film 3 is Lonely Mountain, Dale and the Battle of Five Armies.
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I only vaguely remember Radagast, but I always imagined him differently. But meh My imagination always goes for more dark/brooding characters.
The film was really true to the books - anyone that doesn't like the style can fuck off.
My imagination always goes for more dark/brooding characters. The film was really true to the books - anyone that doesn't like the style can fuck off.
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Enjoyed it. Didn't really feel stretched at all. But...sorry the 4k thing is really distracting; the quality of sets and some of the cgi is badly exposed by the camera"quality"; a lot of the time it looked like telly. It worked fine in The Shire and places where most of the scenery was raw New Zealand, but in The big cgi set pieces... well, Temple of Doom did it better in the 80s. And Ragdahast's sled escape was as bad as a certain James Bond scene.
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I saw it in 3d, I've never seen anything else in 3d, so I dont have anything to judge it by. But I just liked it, so it's ok
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The experience watching the second time could have been so much better without the heavy breathing 25 stone fat fuck that sat next to me and the the three toerag teens two rows forward who had their phones on and talked to each other about school for the entire film, only their age stopped me from throwing my coke bottle at them..that's why I've got a home cinema.
The FACT has that silly seat designation shit, so you can't move before it fills up.
Won't be going again.
The FACT has that silly seat designation shit, so you can't move before it fills up.
Won't be going again.
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Saw it yesterday, really good film. Some issues with the frames, couldn't focus on it properly, "speedy" is the best word for it... I loved walking out of the cinema with people not realising it was going to be more than 1 film.
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What format did you watch it in?
I saw some of the what felt like "speedy" stuff in IMAX 48fps 3D - but it was by no means an issue - and the image quality and lack of strobing on panning shots more than made up for it.
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Probably the 3D that. It won't be the 48fps side of it.
I find the 3D can make my eyes water - but it did so much less in 48fps than in 24.
3D's unnecessary tbfh - I'd be quite happy with just the 48, or 60fps....
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Its a looong movie for 3D. I was watching it in IMAX and I was just far enough back for it to work, but I was getting a bit of a headache by the end. The cinema I was in has only just launched their IMAX screen and tbh they should take out the front four rows of seats; one customer actually walked out before it even started because they'd twigged the seats were going to be useless.
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I hope not. Make no mistake: Smaug is a devastating creature, easily capable of taking out a city: remember he wrested the Mountain from the Dwarves in the first place, basically only leaving Thorins dad and uncle alive to tell the tale (and ofc all the Dwarves who *weren't* in the Mountain at the time).
Smaug says (in The Hobbit, of himself, and I paraphrase) that he is awesome, fearsome and totally bad-ass, going on to say that he was even so in his youth but less; eg he's gotten worse with age rather than mellowing out, as one would expect from sleeping on an incomparable treasure for...quite some time.
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Saw it today, though it was OK. 3D effects were nice. Need to see the last 2 movies to have an opinion.
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Went to see this on Saturday at the Vue in Westwood Cross. As it was 3 hours long elected for the not cheap seats so i could move around a bit
Was in 3D but not HFR. Those who've seen the 3d but non hfr version, did you notice alot of jerky movements in high speed bits of the film? For example when things flew past the camera or out from the camera, donno if it was the 3d but it was annoying. I dont normally watch films in 3d, so donno if this is normal.
Anyway, really loved the film. Martin Freeman is excellent as Bilbo, Sylvestor McCoy was great as Ratagast. Found myself actually remembering the various dwarves names which i was surprised by.
Was in 3D but not HFR. Those who've seen the 3d but non hfr version, did you notice alot of jerky movements in high speed bits of the film? For example when things flew past the camera or out from the camera, donno if it was the 3d but it was annoying. I dont normally watch films in 3d, so donno if this is normal.
Anyway, really loved the film. Martin Freeman is excellent as Bilbo, Sylvestor McCoy was great as Ratagast. Found myself actually remembering the various dwarves names which i was surprised by.
I didn't like the dwarves arrival at rivendel. Felt like it was setup to put them on edge. Also Saruman just seems to be generically evil
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Yeah, my mate's in a wheelchair so we had to sit right at the front and I don't think that helped at all. Other 3D films I've seen I got a headache at the start and then it went away ten minutes or so in.
Saruman was one of the few things I was disappointed with. For someone that's supposed to be so subtle he may as well have been wearing an I Heart Sauron t-shirt.
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I disagree.
I don't think Saruman was "converted" by Sauron at this point. I think he was just naive and a denialist - thought they lived in peaceful times and refused to countenance alternative views - which explains his disliking of the "not normal" Radagast.
You see this sort of blinkered idiocy every day in normal life - from the average and normal Germans who, *eyes wide open* allowed Hitler to do what he did - to people on these boards who don't understand that any restriction on freedom of speech is a slippery facist slope that kills freedom of speech immediately. They would do this because they find some things offensive - and rather than man up and take it they would (innocently in their minds) destroy those who don't.
Tolkein knew very well what people who are "intolerant of difference" are like - so he wrote about it in his books. The fact that Saruman ends up as Sauron's bitch is *no coincidence* - it is, in Tolkein's opinion (and mine) the natural conclusion for people who are like that.
I don't think Saruman was "converted" by Sauron at this point. I think he was just naive and a denialist - thought they lived in peaceful times and refused to countenance alternative views - which explains his disliking of the "not normal" Radagast.
You see this sort of blinkered idiocy every day in normal life - from the average and normal Germans who, *eyes wide open* allowed Hitler to do what he did - to people on these boards who don't understand that any restriction on freedom of speech is a slippery facist slope that kills freedom of speech immediately. They would do this because they find some things offensive - and rather than man up and take it they would (innocently in their minds) destroy those who don't.
Tolkein knew very well what people who are "intolerant of difference" are like - so he wrote about it in his books. The fact that Saruman ends up as Sauron's bitch is *no coincidence* - it is, in Tolkein's opinion (and mine) the natural conclusion for people who are like that.