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Posted on 4/9/24 at 3:48 pm to i am dan
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The Hobbit
This is the only salvageable movie out of the Hobbit "trilogy" because it's the closest one to the actual source material.
Posted on 4/9/24 at 4:01 pm to skrayper
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This is the only salvageable movie out of the Hobbit "trilogy" because it's the closest one to the actual source material.
Do you mean the first one in the trilogy? They're all called "The Hobbit" with different subtitles.
Posted on 4/9/24 at 4:04 pm to Aubie Spr96
quote:Pretty sure there are like 5 or more. None of them are easy for an old man like me to access. Here is a download page that I only sorta understand.
Where is this at?
Posted on 4/9/24 at 4:37 pm to i am dan
I have a few big issues with The Hobbit trilogy:
1. So many long, drawn out scenes with extraordinarily bad looking CGI (trolls, goblin king, river barrels, gold madness, battle of the five armies). They look so obviously fake that it ruins my suspension of disbelief and thwarts any feelings of danger. The scenes go on so long that they remove all of the tension and just become a chore.
2. So much filler threw off the pacing. What makes The Hobbit a perfect fantasy novel is its extraordinary great pacing (up until the final battle, imo).
I will say, the most important scenes from the book, they absolutely nailed like: the dwarves coming to dinner, Bilbo meeting Gollum, riddles with smaug, etc).
1. So many long, drawn out scenes with extraordinarily bad looking CGI (trolls, goblin king, river barrels, gold madness, battle of the five armies). They look so obviously fake that it ruins my suspension of disbelief and thwarts any feelings of danger. The scenes go on so long that they remove all of the tension and just become a chore.
2. So much filler threw off the pacing. What makes The Hobbit a perfect fantasy novel is its extraordinary great pacing (up until the final battle, imo).
I will say, the most important scenes from the book, they absolutely nailed like: the dwarves coming to dinner, Bilbo meeting Gollum, riddles with smaug, etc).
Posted on 4/9/24 at 4:42 pm to kingbob
The river barrel hopping scene and Legolas running up falling stones was atrocious CGI. The behind the scenes showing Ian Mckellen’s abject disappointment shooting with all the green screen sums this trilogy up.
Posted on 4/9/24 at 4:57 pm to i am dan
Shiny shiny bait
Posted on 4/9/24 at 6:36 pm to Aubie Spr96
quote:so true
The cartoon version of the Hobbit was better than the movie version of the Hobbit. Fact.
Posted on 4/9/24 at 6:41 pm to Aubie Spr96
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The cartoon version of the Hobbit was better than the movie version of the Hobbit. Fact.
100%.
Somehow they made the CGI look worse in the three Hobbit movies than the original trilogy. That took effort.
Posted on 4/9/24 at 7:06 pm to TigerFanatic99
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The cartoon version of the Hobbit was better than the movie version of the Hobbit. Fact.
The Bass/Rankin version has a much better Smaug (Richard Boone) than Cumberbatch.
John Huston is a damn good Gandalf as well.
Posted on 4/9/24 at 7:12 pm to iwyLSUiwy
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story stretched way too thin
Would you say it felt thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread.
Posted on 4/9/24 at 7:26 pm to i am dan
I disliked it. Peter Jackson disliked it. He didn't want to do it, but had a contract for 3 more movies. So he stretched out The Hobbit so he could stop dealing with the studio.
It's way too much. Too much action. Too much made up stuff. Too many characters. Too many plots, etc.
The whole of it feels like some non-stop action movie, you hardly get a breather.
It's way too much. Too much action. Too much made up stuff. Too many characters. Too many plots, etc.
The whole of it feels like some non-stop action movie, you hardly get a breather.
Posted on 4/9/24 at 10:51 pm to rebelrouser
quote:As a big Tolkien fan, it saddens me to see what studios put out using his name. It seems they just don't understand what his stories truly were about.
As I said in the Rings of Power thread, it sucked and is a good candidate for a remake. Hollywood loves remaking good movies. Why not correct this abomination?
Most of The Hobbit is basically a PS3 game put on film, instead of a charming story.
And the guys making Rings of Power are basically clueless- I keep coming back to Eragon. Let's toss some Dwarves and Elves into the tale, and it's all good, right?
Posted on 4/10/24 at 5:04 am to Mo Jeaux
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Do you mean the first one in the trilogy? They're all called "The Hobbit" with different subtitles
Yes.
Posted on 4/10/24 at 5:07 am to LSUGrad2024
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I disliked it. Peter Jackson disliked it
Ian McKellan damn near had a breakdown because in a scene where he’s supposed to be talking to Bilbo it’s just him in a room filled with green crap and something with a picture of Bilbo taped to it for him to look at.
Posted on 4/10/24 at 11:13 am to skrayper
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Ian McKellan damn near had a breakdown because in a scene where he’s supposed to be talking to Bilbo it’s just him in a room filled with green crap and something with a picture of Bilbo taped to it for him to look at.
Never knew that. Seems like everyone working on it, was unhappy.
Posted on 4/10/24 at 1:36 pm to ScottFowler
maybe the best thing to come from the Hobbit movies is the videos of Cumberbatch in the stop motion capture suit
it’s so ridiculous and completely unnecessary
it’s so ridiculous and completely unnecessary
Posted on 4/10/24 at 1:43 pm to kingbob
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I will say, the most important scenes from the book, they absolutely nailed like: the dwarves coming to dinner, Bilbo meeting Gollum, riddles with smaug, etc).
This is what makes the trilogy so frustrating to me. It would be easier for me to wrap my head around it if they hadn't delivered on these scenes.
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