The Hobbit

[MLB 51]

Well. What say you HB, good or bad?

[deedsker]

It was decent. It is a little long winded at the beginning, but it is decent overall.

[The Dude]

Well. What say you HB, good or bad?

 

I'll let you know tomorrow.

[The Dude]

Is that an axe blade broken off into Bifur's skull???

Ha. I never noticed that.

[BigRedPowerWagon]

It was good but to be honest, for me the first Fellowship of the rings was better. Only to the fact that the whole thing was new to me. I had never read or even heard about the books so like someone watching star wars for the first time int he 70s i was cast into a new world in which i knew nothing about. I was kind of neat to see them tie some of the things from Lord of the Rings into this movie. Though it made me think if i knew about these things before hand i wouldnt of enjoyed the Lord of the Rings series as much as i did. Over all it was good and the picture was beautifull as they always are. Story did seem to drag a bit but i think thats just how the first book was i guess. I assume the next 2 will be more action packed. I wouldnt let my kids see it though, not for a while.

[The Dude]

This movie is an absolute masterpiece. I'll be seeing it again in theaters, and I never do that.

 

I don't understand the criticisms about the beginning being drawn out. It was an excellent introduction to the characters and faithful to the book. What more could anyone possibly want?

[Landlord]

This movie was either absolutely brilliant or decidedly average, depending entirely on your fondness for all things Tolkien.

 

 

I personally loved it. I loved that it was incredibly faithful to the books, down to minute and arguably unnecessary details and moments. Why? Because I loved the book. I love Middle-Earth. I love Gandalf, Bilbo and the lot. If I didn't have that knowledge and keen desire to experience those characters a bit, I would have been pretty annoyed with the amount of fluff in the film. I also really appreciated Jackson fleshing the story out with non-Hobbit material; I believe it was much needed. The Hobbit is a children's book, and is, at a surface level, not a terribly epic or exciting story. However, the movie's inclusion of themes with Sauron/Necromancer, Gandalf's true intentions and schemes and the orcs add a lot of grandeur and feeling of weightiness to the story.

 

It's been a long time, and I never thought I'd miss Middle-Earth as much as I did right before the movie started. I need to read through the Silmarillion, I'm unfamiliar with a lot of this backstory.

 

 

The only other thing I'll say is that Martin Freeman's Bilbo was a bit peculiar at first. He seemed a much more grouchy, irritable character than I expected from reading the books. In the novel he seemed a bit more uh...obliviously pleasant and naively good-natured? But as soon as he left Bag End, he seemed to fit in great.

 

Edit: The Dude, that's exactly the thing. What more could have been done? Nothing. People wanted less done.

[MLB 51]

Guess I will have to take the wife to see it.

[zoogs]

Over all it was good and the picture was beautifull as they always are. Story did seem to drag a bit but i think thats just how the first book was i guess. I assume the next 2 will be more action packed. I wouldnt let my kids see it though, not for a while.

 

Well, there was only one 'Hobbit' book. So I don't know, I guess it's interesting that for once, the movie isn't going to be super-condensed with a lot of book material cut out. Less of a cinematic experience and more of an artistic homage to Tolkien's world -- and if anything deserves that treatment it would be Tolkien.

 

I can't wait for the Silly Marillion two-part quintology.

[The Dude]

This movie was either absolutely brilliant or decidedly average, depending entirely on your fondness for all things Tolkien.

Can't it be absolutely brilliant just based on the exceptional film-making!?

[Landlord]

This movie was either absolutely brilliant or decidedly average, depending entirely on your fondness for all things Tolkien.

Can't it be absolutely brilliant just based on the exceptional film-making!?

 

 

It can be, but it's not...

[knapplc]

One of the great things about these movies is putting tangible physical things in place of my imagination. Like this collection of shields from Middle Earth. It's not exactly how I imagine them, but lots of them are pure awesome.

 

[The Dude]

This movie was either absolutely brilliant or decidedly average, depending entirely on your fondness for all things Tolkien.

Can't it be absolutely brilliant just based on the exceptional film-making!?

 

 

It can be, but it's not...

That's just absurd. At worst, it's on par with Fellowship. Which is pretty brilliant in its own right.

[HuskerThor]

This movie was either absolutely brilliant or decidedly average, depending entirely on your fondness for all things Tolkien.

Can't it be absolutely brilliant just based on the exceptional film-making!?

 

 

It can be, but it's not...

That's just absurd. At worst, it's on par with Fellowship. Which is pretty brilliant in its own right.

I haven't seen it, but I would suspect millions of others would agree with you.

[Landlord]

This movie was either absolutely brilliant or decidedly average, depending entirely on your fondness for all things Tolkien.

Can't it be absolutely brilliant just based on the exceptional film-making!?

 

 

It can be, but it's not...

That's just absurd. At worst, it's on par with Fellowship. Which is pretty brilliant in its own right.

 

 

http://www.metacritic.com/movie/the-hobbit-an-unexpected-journey

 

 

http://www.metacritic.com/movie/the-lord-of-the-rings-the-fellowship-of-the-ring