Re: Critics review 'An Unexpected Journey'

by chris63 Wed Dec 26, 2012 6:07 am

http://sacnoths.blogspot.com.au/2012/12/hobbit-movie-review-part-three.html

by RA Thu Dec 27, 2012 5:05 am

This guy really hates the Hobbit Laughing

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mobileweb/frank-schaeffer/the-debacle-that-is-the-m_b_2360368.html

"Peter Jackson's watchwords in this latest series seem to be Bigger, Louder, Longer and More Violent as if somehow sheer scale provides cover for having failed to tell the basic story Tolkien wrote well, let alone faithfully. If Jackson undertakes the Jesus story next, expect 10,000 Jesuses to be crucified alongside a million thieves and a crèche scene set in a stockyard with a million head of cattle and armies of wise men in combat hacking their way to the Nativity scene."
lol!

by Pettytyrant101 Thu Dec 27, 2012 5:52 am

All seems pretty accurate to me. Nod

by Mrs Figg Thu Dec 27, 2012 12:56 pm

sad but true. they are getting all steamed up in TORn about this critic.

by Pettytyrant101 Thu Dec 27, 2012 12:59 pm

Thats how you know its accurate Mrs Figg. Nod

by **Orwell** Thu Dec 27, 2012 8:40 pm

Haven't seen it yet -- wondering if I'll even bother... Suspect

by halfwise Thu Dec 27, 2012 8:43 pm

Oh just go see it. Once you've accepted it's not Tolkien's Hobbit much of it is quite watchable. I just saw it a second time (adding 3D) and could enjoy it more because I wasn't caught off guard by the stupid bits. Same thing happened with LoTR.

by **Orwell** Thu Dec 27, 2012 8:52 pm

I was planning to take a Figgian sensibility with me to the see the movie and view it as an 'imaginative interpretation' and not a 'definite adaptation', but even Mrs Figg was disappointed with the movie! Eegad! Suspect

I'm even hearing the LotR movies described as being closer to the book than The Hobbit movie is!

Eegad!

Eegad!

No fankyu! Sad

by Pettytyrant101 Thu Dec 27, 2012 9:11 pm

You have to see it Orwell so there is at least one other person here as crabbit about it as me. Twisted Evil

by Eldorion Thu Dec 27, 2012 9:16 pm

Oh come on Orwell, you can't back out now. I've been waiting for weeks to hear what you think of it. Very Happy

I'm still going to see The Hobbit a second time in HFR to see what I make of the new technology (and to see if my opinion of the movie changes), but that probably won't be for another week or so.

by **Orwell** Thu Dec 27, 2012 9:23 pm

If anyone here thinks I'll go and see it just to have my memories of the book absolutely tarnished as LotR was, well then you've got rocks in your heads...

Mind, I probably will go and see it.... fookin' curiousity is a killer every time... Sad

Actually, I now have such low expectations, I might even enjoy it. But not yet. Too much work on, too much responsibility handed down to me at moment (Gawd I hate being responsible for the actions of others! Mad

), and too tired to give anything a fair go... Next week .. maybe...

by Eldorion Thu Dec 27, 2012 9:42 pm

"Absolutely tarnished"? I thought you liked the movies, at least that you did relative to Petty. {{{I might be mixing up which Banks persona says what. scratch

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by CC12 35 Thu Dec 27, 2012 9:45 pm

Ally was pretty crabbit about it Shrugging

by **Orwell** Thu Dec 27, 2012 10:06 pm

I have incredibly mixed feelings about the LotR movies... gut wrenching mixed feelings... though some of it I thought excellent. Indeed, some un-Tolkien things I even liked... you know, the idea of replacing Glorfindel with Arwen (though the initial scenes especially were extremely poorly handled! Rolling Eyes