People consider GoT adult and complex? I think it's totally hilarious (the show and the opinion). A great soap opera with beheadings and boobs and the occasional dragon or two.
I've avoided the GoT threads, btw, because I'm still catching up. But I think it's a hoot. Mostly well acted and extremely well executed in service of totally silly sword and sometimes sorcery stuff. I love its embrace of grime and bad things happening to good and bad people alike. The Hobbit movie is just so bright and mechanical compared to pretty people rolling around in the mud and blood.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 11 June 2013 21:35 (ten years ago) link
i dunno i'd rather just read about actual medieval history, that shit is way more dark and fascinating than any contrived swords n' sorcery claptrap.
i'm willing to bet that there are some people who read both
― polyphonic, Tuesday, 11 June 2013 21:48 (ten years ago) link
Curb is great but it is also 90% people yelling at each other. Seinfeld at least knows how to have fun.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 11 June 2013 22:00 (ten years ago) link
Yeah, those bombadil scenes were a bit silly, but I always liked what he signified for the mythos.
The shape and history of that world is mapped out so exhaustively, from the creator god down to the smallest of small details. And just when you think it's all pretty much pinned down and you know where you stand, along comes bombadil to upset the apple cart. Tolkien basically pulls the rug out from underneath the whole hierarchy that he created. I mean, I wish TB didn't sing so much, but I like his status as more or les the only total mystery in his universe.
Fwiw thought this film was excellent in places but a bit of a drag over 3 hours, same as most everyone else it seems.
― Windsor Davies, Friday, December 21, 2012 5:33 AM (5 months ago) Bookmark
http://i.imgur.com/TVF1a.jpg
― i wanna be a gabbneb baby (Hungry4Ass), Tuesday, 18 June 2013 17:55 (ten years ago) link
just saw this
it was SO BAD
like, really the opposite everything that worked about the LOTR movies. Paceless, graceless, jumpy and overstuffed. Everything charming about the story comes off wrong somehow, and everything that was just made up for the movie was borrrrring and generic. What a trainwreck. And they're committed to two more? Yikes.
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 15 August 2013 17:54 (ten years ago) link
ok so I thought I was too cool for Hobbit, but I finally saw this today and mostly loved it!
It felt a bit more overtly cg'd than the LOTR movies, that was the only thing stopping me from losing myself completely in the movie. And in ways I can't really explain except parts of it looked really computer-game like? But Martin Freeman was really lovely as Bilbo, loved the Goblin King/Bazza Humphries -- Humphries did some great stuff with the voice I thought -- and Sylvester McCoy as Radaghast was really great, he had a very Jim Henson-esque playfulness that I just loved, he felt like a character out of The Dark Crystal. The goblin battle felt like it dragged with all the collapsing bridges and whatnot, but the final scenes were quite thrilling and I loved that final shot of smaug in the gold coins.
It made me want to go back and read the Hobbit, definitely. It's such a pure fantasy-adventure story, the movie reminded me how much fun it was reading the book the first time.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 3 September 2013 00:32 (ten years ago) link
I adored the LOTR flicks to the point of sitting through all the extended versions, all the extras, everything... but this I couldn't get into after a weekend of trying. As for the next 6 hours, let me know if they manage to shoehorn Farmer Giles of Ham in there.
― "Turkey In The Straw" coming from someplace in the clouds (Sparkle Motion), Wednesday, 4 September 2013 05:40 (ten years ago) link
i went to the library today & borrowed the Hobbit :D
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 4 September 2013 05:50 (ten years ago) link
the book's great, i reread it right after seeing the movie (which i also kinda dug while wishing it were an hour shorter and, yes unfortunately, looked less like a fucking computer game as designed by thomas kinkade) and if anything it seemed better than when i was a kid. can't think of a better adventure story.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Wednesday, 4 September 2013 06:03 (ten years ago) link
Rad this version if you can, it's got a wealth of information: http://www.amazon.com/The-Annotated-Hobbit-J-R-R-Tolkien/dp/0618134700
― Domo Arigato, Demi Lovato (Phil D.), Wednesday, 4 September 2013 09:38 (ten years ago) link
sure phil, I will RAD that version
:)
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 4 September 2013 16:24 (ten years ago) link
Annnnnd...new trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbOEknbi4gQ
We finally get the Cumberbatch speaking as Smaug at the end.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 1 October 2013 14:21 (ten years ago) link
hey, I never actually said anything on here about how wholly enraging I found the first Hobbit movie to be, did I
I mean it just fucking went on and on and on with all these cutesy scenes that were tolerable at first but kept happening and dragging on, to the point where I started being all "OKAY I GET IT, JUST GET TO THE FUCKING DRAGON" and then they did and THE FUCKING MOVIE ENDED
― smang culture (DJP), Tuesday, 1 October 2013 14:36 (ten years ago) link
Oh shit, not looking forward to Elves in Love subplot.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Tuesday, 1 October 2013 15:03 (ten years ago) link
Please tell me the movie is 4 hours long, because there's a lot of story to tell.
Man, Cabbagepatch is more ubiquitous than Jessica Chastain.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 1 October 2013 15:23 (ten years ago) link
this looks like torture, not even bloomps can save us
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 1 October 2013 16:19 (ten years ago) link
I am currently considering tearing off my own face rather than watching this movie
― smang culture (DJP), Tuesday, 1 October 2013 16:20 (ten years ago) link
Pretty sure I'm going to spend the next few moths saying how it looks shit, then go to the cinema and actually enjoy it quite a lot.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Tuesday, 1 October 2013 16:20 (ten years ago) link
It already looks like twice as much of everything that was just unbearable about the last one.
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 1 October 2013 16:22 (ten years ago) link
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, October 1, 2013 10:21 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark
it sounds like they applied a dubstep drop filter to his voice
― 乒乓, Tuesday, 1 October 2013 16:30 (ten years ago) link
i'll watch this, it looks like good clean fun
― 乒乓, Tuesday, 1 October 2013 16:31 (ten years ago) link
Wizards and elves and stuff. I'll probably see this, and in 3D no less.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 1 October 2013 16:39 (ten years ago) link
Second film is a taut 2 hours and 40 minutes
― polyphonic, Wednesday, 27 November 2013 20:31 (ten years ago) link
wish they'd stop rushing thru this story
― Noodle of the Vague family (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 27 November 2013 20:34 (ten years ago) link
one hopes that in this one the thrills n spills sequences will at least feel like something is at risk, since big fucking dragon etc
― yes, i have seen the documentary (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 27 November 2013 20:35 (ten years ago) link
what in the world is going to be in the third movie? is that where they're adding in new stuff?
― akm, Wednesday, 27 November 2013 20:43 (ten years ago) link
2nd breakfast, elevenses, etc
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 27 November 2013 20:47 (ten years ago) link
The battle of Five Armies is hours and hours.
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 27 November 2013 20:50 (ten years ago) link
The Battle of Five Hours
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 27 November 2013 20:51 (ten years ago) link
the first on screen battle projected in real time
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 27 November 2013 20:56 (ten years ago) link
Remember how the cartoon Hobbit had a higher dwarf death count than the book? I bet this is the same -- a lot of expendable characters there.
― jmm, Wednesday, 27 November 2013 21:13 (ten years ago) link
They should have expended some of the dwarves before they began shooting. Full dwarf qty was not a point where they needed to adhere strictly to the book.
― yes, i have seen the documentary (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 27 November 2013 21:50 (ten years ago) link
would have hung together so much better with like 6 fkin dwarves
Snow White only had seven. Who is Bilbo to think he's better than Snow White?
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 27 November 2013 21:52 (ten years ago) link
Let the spiders chew up a few imo
― jmm, Wednesday, 27 November 2013 22:12 (ten years ago) link
let the spiders crinkle their heads to death
― yes, i have seen the documentary (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 27 November 2013 22:14 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHhrZgojY1Q
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 27 November 2013 23:42 (ten years ago) link
so apparently they were sacrificing goats and horses in order to make this shitty picture: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/nov/20/the-hobbit-animal-deaths-farm
I'd kinda forgotten seeing this last year, yeesh. When the dude told some boring story over a 20-minute cutscene that should have set off alarm bells. No lie, I looked at my watch at one point and like an hour had passed and the wee cunt hadn't even left his fucking house yet
― malapopism (wins), Thursday, 28 November 2013 14:29 (ten years ago) link
I'm probably going to see this on opening night, be annoyed, then go to it again on Christmas and be annoyed again.
― i too went to college (silby), Thursday, 28 November 2013 19:38 (ten years ago) link
I'm probably going to go and see it and really enjoy it despite obvious glaring flaws like I did the first one.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Thursday, 28 November 2013 19:39 (ten years ago) link
w chap
― CANONICAL artists, etc., etc. (contenderizer), Thursday, 28 November 2013 19:50 (ten years ago) link
If i could be arsed to fp everyone itt putting a cent in jackson pockets i would. sinful use of money in a world where ppl starve.
― 30 ch'lopping days left to umas (darraghmac), Thursday, 28 November 2013 21:21 (ten years ago) link
BRING IT
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 28 November 2013 21:26 (ten years ago) link
Feel like I deserve every fp I get
What an appalling movie
― malapopism (wins), Thursday, 28 November 2013 21:27 (ten years ago) link
Thats prob yr 1st ever id say, didnt enjoy it but what could i do
― 30 ch'lopping days left to umas (darraghmac), Thursday, 28 November 2013 21:29 (ten years ago) link
don't worry i'm clean
― Noodle of the Vague family (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 28 November 2013 21:30 (ten years ago) link
Ass=u+me that was aimed at veg xp
― malapopism (wins), Thursday, 28 November 2013 21:32 (ten years ago) link
Yeah, i didnt assume yrs was the first tbh
― 30 ch'lopping days left to umas (darraghmac), Thursday, 28 November 2013 21:34 (ten years ago) link
NYTimes capsule tag apparently sums it up:
"The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug” has lots of battles.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 13 December 2013 17:23 (ten years ago) link
Tolkien-loving friend from work went today. just as bad as the first one apparently. tho he was watching in 2D tbf so maybe with enough gimmicks in your face it's amazing.
― wee knights of the round table (Noodle Vague), Friday, 13 December 2013 17:27 (ten years ago) link