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I'm suddenly looking forward to The Hobbit
By: Enterprising Young Man Date: November 19, 2012, 2:51 am
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Someone forwarded a video to me which was I think a converted
version of the first Hobbit trailer - converted to 60 fps, I
think. I can't find the link now but I thought it looked great.
I doubt it'll be released here in 48 fps 3D, but if it is, I'm
definitely checking it out. Otherwise, I'll just wait for a 48
fps 2D blu-ray.
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Re: I'm suddenly looking forward to The Hobbit
By: MrLoveTear Date: November 19, 2012, 11:00 am
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I'm interested in the new technology that it's boasting if, as
you said, it's released where I live. I suppose I am also
curious to see how some of the big scenes from the book are
going to be visualized. I can't shake my worries about the
trilogy, or Jackson's decline as a director though. :-\
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Re: I'm suddenly looking forward to The Hobbit
By: Winter_Is_Coming Date: November 19, 2012, 1:24 pm
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I haven't read the book, but I do want to see it. Mainly because
the Star Trek Into Darkness trailer will be attached to it, as
well as a 9-minute preview in some IMAX theaters.
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Re: I'm suddenly looking forward to The Hobbit
By: Hermes_The_Exile Date: November 19, 2012, 5:43 pm
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It's weird but I really don't care about it one way or the other
now. I'm sure I'll see it, but I'm not counting down and it's
not exactly on my radar or anything. *shrugs*
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Re: I'm suddenly looking forward to The Hobbit
By: Enterprising Young Man Date: November 19, 2012, 8:57 pm
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If there's a movie I care less about than The Hobbit right now,
it is "Star Trek Into Darkness." I'll wait for the trailers but
that title just sounds horrible.
Hermes, I was like that for a while... could not have cared less
about The Hobbit. I was interested sometime earlier in the year
but the trailer underwhelmed me and then as more and more news
started coming out (particularly that it was suddenly going to
be a trilogy), I started caring less and less. It's just this
trailer in 60 fps looked wonderful. And this was converted, so I
can only imagine what the real 48 fps will look like (though I
dislike 3D, I wouldn't mind seeing it in 3D as apparently the
higher frame rate will make 3D easier to watch). It's pretty
much the only thing about these films that interests me right
now. I can tell you though, I'm sure the higher frame rate is
gonna be pretty divisive. I remember the mixed reaction from
CinemaCon had me wondering if we're gonna get a "Public Enemies"
here... but now I don't think so. The problem with PE's
"realistic look" wasn't simply the digital it was shot on (which
was pretty bad on its own) but it was also shot and directed
pretty poorly. I may not be much of a fan of Jackson outside of
the LOTR trilogy but I don't believe for one second that his
film will be that horribly staged and edited.
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Re: I'm suddenly looking forward to The Hobbit
By: MrLoveTear Date: November 20, 2012, 9:40 am
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The gripe I take with the Hobbit, and the direction Jackson
seems to pushing it towards, is that it really just seems to be
losing the essence of the story. As it is, it merely looks like
Jackson's trying to reinvent it into LOTR. The trilogy, the
expansions, the scope, the runtimes. I'm not sure why, though I
get the impression that he's trying to capture his former glory
(especially after how forgettable Kong proved, and how terrible
Lovely Bones turned out). Problem is, LOTR was an ambitious,
genre-defining mythological epic, the Hobbit was a story Tolkien
read to his children at bedtime. LOTR kind of needed the three
films and their longish runtimes. The Hobbit has required
Jackson to fish out background details to pad it out – hell,
look at the soundtrack, if that's any indication the first hour
of the film will cover the first chapter of the book!
Simply put, it's a grim recipe for bloat. I'm sure people will
lap up that's Middle-Earth and LOTR again, but I don't think
it'll have the impact. I'm not against the expansion as a
principle, by all means the White Council and Dol Guldur are
cinematic to see, but it doesn't stop the fact that most of what
Jackson's adding is from his own imagination and, as it appears,
most of these additions seem like an excuse to throw in more
action scenes. If you're going to turn a children's book into a
trilogy, then, please, have better reasoning than simply
watching stone-transformers battle.
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Re: I'm suddenly looking forward to The Hobbit
By: Enterprising Young Man Date: November 20, 2012, 9:42 am
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Troll stampede ftw!
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Re: I'm suddenly looking forward to The Hobbit
By: Doctor Leo Date: December 4, 2012, 12:27 am
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I'm not looking forward to it. Don't plan on seeing it really.
The trailers looked pretty ehhhhhhh to me. Though I'm not the
biggest fan of the LotR trilogy so I guess I was never going to
be excited for it. Some of the tv spots looked kinda cool and
made me a little interested but now I'm seeing some of the early
reviews and they are pretty mixed on the film itself so that is
killing any interest. And the 48fps experiment is apparently a
fail.
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Re: I'm suddenly looking forward to The Hobbit
By: Hermes_The_Exile Date: December 4, 2012, 12:56 am
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It's a week and a half away and I could not give less of a shit.
It feels weird admitting it, but it's true.
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Re: I'm suddenly looking forward to The Hobbit
By: MrLoveTear Date: December 4, 2012, 7:52 am
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The reviews are coming in, and it seems to be a lukewarm
response. On the plus side, a lot of critics have said that it
looks spectacular visually and that there’s quite a few
memorable set-pieces. On the other hand, there’s also some
feedback about the film being overlong, the first hour is very
slow, it feels like a rehash with a few too many LOTR nods and
that some of the subplots are confusing. Hmm.
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