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Dec 20, 2012
The Hobbit, An Unexpected Journey
This is extra-long One Minute Review of the extra-long Hobbit movie. Both are self-indulgent and filled with more content than you need. That's called being "meta."
Great minds think alike, not only on the film (though I did enjoy it a bit more than you, I think) but on the review. I'm splitting mine into two parts. Part I is here:
I consciously refrained from invoking Phantom Menace in my blog review, but it was very much in mind while I was thinking through my impressions of the The Hobbit. I see where you're coming from, but I'm giving Jackson the benefit of the doubt. If the next two movies go well (and that's the expectation) I think it will bed down pretty well. Given that these trilogies will eventually be considered a series, though the two primary sources are stylistically very different, I think Jackson is making some prudent decisions about style, length and pacing that will harmonise the two units in the long run. However I don't hope for an extended version of this. Saw it in 3D/24fps and thought everyone looked lively enough.
Agree with most everything except the make-up and (kinda) Thorin. He's a dwarf - of course he's not as cool as Aragorn. And as for editing, you're absolutely right, but I think this film will be the roughest of the three when it comes to that (PJ and the crew finished the movie 2 days before the premiere, after all).
Great minds think alike, not only on the film (though I did enjoy it a bit more than you, I think) but on the review. I'm splitting mine into two parts. Part I is here:
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I consciously refrained from invoking Phantom Menace in my blog review, but it was very much in mind while I was thinking through my impressions of the The Hobbit.
ReplyDeleteI see where you're coming from, but I'm giving Jackson the benefit of the doubt.
If the next two movies go well (and that's the expectation) I think it will bed down pretty well.
Given that these trilogies will eventually be considered a series, though the two primary sources are stylistically very different, I think Jackson is making some prudent decisions about style, length and pacing that will harmonise the two units in the long run.
However I don't hope for an extended version of this.
Saw it in 3D/24fps and thought everyone looked lively enough.
Agree with most everything except the make-up and (kinda) Thorin. He's a dwarf - of course he's not as cool as Aragorn. And as for editing, you're absolutely right, but I think this film will be the roughest of the three when it comes to that (PJ and the crew finished the movie 2 days before the premiere, after all).
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