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GDavis
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Dec 22, 2013 - 06:53pm PT
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Oh geez... not THAT long ago, but I was only about 11 or 12. Middle school I think? Like 6th grade? However old that is. Good fun though :) Thoroughly enjoyed both movies but I don't have crazy high standards in movies being shot-for-shot remakes of the book - rather, an interpretation of thematic elements and basic story lines brought out in the novel.
But I digress.
It's just Jacksons interpretation of the book, and likely the book will be made in films again in the future. It really isn't a big deal and shouldn't be taken as seriously as I think it is. The hardest of the hard core LotR fans will never be sated, and though some things I would have/wouldn't have done it's just a fun family movie. In that, I feel it delivers.
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anita514
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Great White North
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Dec 22, 2013 - 06:53pm PT
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read it in my teens a couple times, so in the 90s.
loved the book. I'm afraid to see how bad jackson fagged up part 2
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Mimi
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Dec 22, 2013 - 06:56pm PT
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source? LOL!
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Mimi
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Dec 22, 2013 - 07:04pm PT
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I meant the specific chapter and paragraphs. Nevermind, I'm butthurt, the Saints lost again.
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Mimi
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Dec 22, 2013 - 07:15pm PT
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Ah, the Silmarillion? I have to admit I didn't finish that one.
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Jaybro
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Wolf City, Wyoming
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Dec 31, 2013 - 10:51am PT
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Nice recap DMT!
I still haven't seen this one yet. Gotta see it in a loud bouncy theatre!
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jstan
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Dec 31, 2013 - 11:13am PT
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The Hobbit was practice for the later Ring Trilogy. Just backward from the films. You could see the influence of the MBA's on the Hobbit. Every scene that worked well in the Ring movie was reproduced exactly in the Hobbit. The Hobbit needed to be different.
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go-B
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Hebrews 1:3
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Dec 31, 2013 - 11:18am PT
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Went yesterday and liked it way better than P1, the scenery and camera angles were amazing and I got Lost in the Elfin world!
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Hou man, me 'n dingus have a thing for the same Elf. Even After I repeatedly warned him about redheads......
This one diverges the most, I'm not sure how I feel about that.
This is the first of all of these that I didn't first see in a theatre. Another redhead thing perhaps. The iPad / headphones experience is wonderful but might allow too many distractions!
Pay heed to dingus on his overview, the boy from Tennessee sees clearly in this.
I look at this similarly to a play production, as peter Jackson's take on this. I look forward to other interpretations.
A magnificent movie on the entertainment level at the very least.
They have Sylvester McCoy and Stephen fry here. Is it too much to hope for tom baker, Eric idle and john Cleese in the next one? There are still some unnamed wizards in the order!!
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ms55401
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minneapolis, mn
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in other news, Return of the Jedi was a complete piece of shittt!
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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And, Dave Koz, LOTR is no three books. I don't have it in front of me but it's six-9 . Check a copy out. A good friend of mine pointed out at the time that they should have made a movie if each of those. I'm just now seeing how right he was.
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Lorenzo
Trad climber
Oregon
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I found the 3d visual effects so jarring they shook loose 2 floaters in my left eye which still haven't settled out.
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jstan
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The Hobbit was practice for the later Ring Trilogy. Just backward from the films. You could see the influence of the MBA's on the Hobbit. Every scene that worked well in the Ring movie was reproduced exactly in the Hobbit. The Hobbit needed to be different. jstan
I found the obvious commercially driven imitation of LOTR annoying. Hobbit was LOTR II.
I was in my 30's before I first encountered Tolkien. In the 1940's we were living in Middle Earth each and every day.
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Jaybro
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Wolf City, Wyoming
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The strength and weakness of these movies is that they, Jackson et al, get so many key things right; gandalf, bilbo, dwarves, details that nerds such as dmt and myself note, that they use this as license to insert their own imprint. Some of it is cool, like showing how much elves kick ass, something underplayed in the books, other things seem gratuitous.
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Balin= Bob Scarpelli, though taller. Something I think I told him twenty years before these movies were in sight!
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mcreel
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Barcelona
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Dec 18, 2014 - 04:39am PT
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I thought this was about Hobbit Book in Tuolumne, pitch 1. I agree about the movie, reading the book only takes a little more time, and it's a lot better.
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Dec 18, 2014 - 06:28am PT
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Geese jus honked overhead as I read his....
Haven't seen this one yet, but hope to see it next week in a loud bumpy hi tech ca theatre with my daughter and youngest nieces.
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Dec 18, 2014 - 06:38am PT
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Always!
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caughtinside
Social climber
Oakland, CA
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Dec 18, 2014 - 08:53am PT
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Saw p. 3 yesterday. Pretty good but they could have cut 30 minutes out easy and only improved the story flow. But of a tradition with the guys at work, play hooky for the hobbit.
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Dec 18, 2014 - 11:02am PT
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Sounds like you work at the right place!
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