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The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

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    #1472
    Zubeneschamali
    Registered Users Posts: 16,686 ✭✭✭✭Zubeneschamali


    pixelburp wrote: »
    the first film really killed my enthusiasm stone-dead

    I watched the second one, and it's worse than the first if you like Tolkien or the book. It's OK as a generic CGI action movie.

    The Hobbit is a tiny little book, so we knew Jackson was going to add in a lot of LotR related stuff (he owns the rights), plus (on his previous record) a lot of bollocks he thinks is cool, but he still felt the need to cut stuff in the book out to make room for the LotR backstory and invented bollocksology.

    I'm avoiding trailers and such for the 3rd part, since I'll be bringing the kids to it at Christmas, and I do not need to know in advance that Smaug shows up at the battle after surviving Laketown only to be killed in hand to hand combat by Bilbo.

    Or whatever.


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    #1473
    david75
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    pixelburp wrote: »
    I still haven't got around to seeing the second film in the series: the first film really killed my enthusiasm stone-dead, and another 3 hours spent in a Lucas'esque CGI wasteland seemed like a chore rather than entertainment. Is the second part worth the investment? Seems like the barrel sequence gets mentioned a lot as a particular lowpoint


    This will seem hard to believe, but the first is better than the second by a large degree...if you can find the extended edition, watch that..its only an extra 11 minutes or so but it actually does add a lot.

    the second, is such a disappointment..all it needed to do really was to make Smaug awesome, and it does that for the most part, but it takes *forever* to get to that point


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    Mickeroo
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    Preferred the 2nd one myself, though it feels like it ended a half hour too soon.


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    #1475
    Zubeneschamali
    Registered Users Posts: 16,686 ✭✭✭✭Zubeneschamali


    Mickeroo wrote: »
    Preferred the 2nd one myself, though it feels like it ended a half hour too soon.

    Ah, but that half hour will now be stretched into a whole 3 hour movie!


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