The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
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I just got home from the premiere in my country...
It was a nice movie, exactly what you'd expect of the makers of LoTR. Yet, in some ways you can see it's a bit different. It's also weird seeing stuff not as you usually do it (spoilers below)
It was a nice movie, exactly what you'd expect of the makers of LoTR. Yet, in some ways you can see it's a bit different. It's also weird seeing stuff not as you usually do it (spoilers below)
Like Saruman being a good guy, and apparently the Witch King of Angmar being a necromancer, or at least partly being connected to a necromancer and stuff. Very odd indeed o_o
it's was a great movie binding in not just the hobbit but also other things happening at the same time you just skimm through in the books, loved that.
i do believe it was the ghost who was the witch king of Angmar and Sauron was the Necromanser.
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nothing unusual bout that, saruman was good at the begining of lotr and ofc hes good in the hobbit, well actually he went bad before but hes acting good, witch king isnt the necromancer, sauron is the necromancer
so yes the witch king is conneced to him PS: why does : and P make that ugly smiley face, it should be smiling and innocently showing its tongue
Rand al'Thor
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Sauron was never a necromacer..:|..he is a maiar..one of the lesser valar. ie the servants of the valar...The gods...he had the ability to shape shift and all other weird powers until he lost them when the valar fought against morgoth and cast him down
If you want the innocent face you would need to put : followed by pnothing unusual bout that, saruman was good at the begining of lotr and ofc hes good in the hobbit, well actually he went bad before but hes acting good, witch king isnt the necromancer, sauron is the necromancer
PS: why does : and P make that ugly smiley face, it should be smiling and innocently showing its tongue
I run a movie theater in the town over from where I live and I got the hobbit yesterday and watched it..
..Prepare for awesomeness everyone.
Just a note:
If you're really into LOTR and that whole fantasy world then you'll love almost every scene. If you're being dragged to it or just like it, don't you worry it may drag for some bits but it has many worthy moments.
..Prepare for awesomeness everyone.
Just a note:
If you're really into LOTR and that whole fantasy world then you'll love almost every scene. If you're being dragged to it or just like it, don't you worry it may drag for some bits but it has many worthy moments.
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Well, Peter Jackson ruined LotR (may his soul forever be in agony), so maybe he's trying to make amends by at least doing the Hobbit in three parts. :shrug: He chopped out all the good parts of LotR and just put in the boring ones, then the small good ones he left in were horribly depressing, not at all like the books. On top of that, the LotR movies were very loosely based on the books...it's like they were just taking the names of people and places and having an adventure that sorta' resembled the one in the books. -_-
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It's not on the level of LOTR and at the start of the film I actually didn't like it, but I realised it wasn't the movie it was me, I went to watch the movie with expectations of seeing something like LOTR. Don't go watch it with the same expectations of LOTR, this is actually very different from LOTR. It's more lighthearted and humorous, the book was also intended to be a childrens book so I suppose it's my own fault for thinking I'm going to see a LOTR type vibe.
This movie is really really good, I enjoyed it more than I thought I would. The music and cinematography is amazing! The story is very intriguing and blends well with the LOTR storyline, just done in a more comical way. I was upset when the book is intended to be a 3 part movie, but after watching this first one you can see how it can actually work.
The CGI put me off a bit, I think there was a bit too much and after 10 years of LOTR you would expect it to be better, but it's not. I think that's the 3D's fault, since most movies released in 3D makes the CGI look a bit too animated.
Overall this is a brilliant movie, can never top the likes of LOTR, but it is very good and I would recommend that everyone go watch this on cinema. I can't wait for the second movie.
This movie is really really good, I enjoyed it more than I thought I would. The music and cinematography is amazing! The story is very intriguing and blends well with the LOTR storyline, just done in a more comical way. I was upset when the book is intended to be a 3 part movie, but after watching this first one you can see how it can actually work.
The CGI put me off a bit, I think there was a bit too much and after 10 years of LOTR you would expect it to be better, but it's not. I think that's the 3D's fault, since most movies released in 3D makes the CGI look a bit too animated.
Overall this is a brilliant movie, can never top the likes of LOTR, but it is very good and I would recommend that everyone go watch this on cinema. I can't wait for the second movie.
The movie was impressive, with a light hearted vibe in comparison to LOTR. The high frame rate, with CGI and 3d together at times looked wayyy too animated and fake, but other than that the cinematography and effects were rather grandiose. I did feel it was a bit long, a similar complaint I have about the original LOTR movies.
Sauron was a necromancer at one stage
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He might not have been what we think an necromancer is, but he has shadows as his units(the nasguls)and he was according to lore the lord and keeper of dol guldur at that moment. Until he moved to Barad dur.
Yes he is a mair but one of the strongest there is, he is said to have under the tutalage of aule the valar who creates.who knows what powers he had. Also he didn't lose his shape shifting abilities until the fall of numenor and numenoriens, when manwe cast down a mountain on the numenorien fleet
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What? Peter Jackson did what Tolkien himself deemed utterly impossible =/ You should be ashamed of yourself to even say such a thing. If you actually expected that a movie would follow blindly the book it was based on, then you're just naive and unreasonable. Peter Jackson did a magnificent job considering the kind of task he was doing. I've seen the making of the LotR several times and it's even longer than the actual movies itself. The amount of work that went into it was ridiculous, especially when you would compare it with other movies (I often watch making of's), and most of that work people aren't even aware of nor can even be seen.
Even though it's completely subjective whether a movie is good or bad, there are limits to how unreasonable you can be. How is it possible it was one of the greatest and most successful movie projects of all time if it was ruined? There are big differences between movie and book mediums. When a movie is made based on a book, they are going to try to transfer it from on medium to another and not just 'film' the book as it was written. If you don't know the difference, you shouldn't criticize it and you clearly don't.
Let me tell you that originally it was planned to have only two movies of LotR, however the movie company who was supporting Jackson deemed it too much of a risk and wanted to only have one movie in the end. Jackson refused and so he had to look for another company. Eventually he found one, but they wanted three movies as otherwise it wouldn't work. So don't start blabbering about things you clearly don't understand. Jackson did an amazing job and you should be ashamed of yourself. If you really read the books, you should have realized what he did.
If you think that making a book based movie is just filming scene's from the book you have no right to say anything about Jackson doing a good job or not as then you have absolutely no idea about the complexities behind making a movie. You can be sure that the primary reason that The Hobbit became a trilogy too was because of the success of LotR. As a matter of fact the entire project of The Hobbit might even have been the result of the success of LotR. Jackson did an amazing job as for the record a lot of people who worked on the movies were huge LotR fans, including him.
Shame on you.
That's very relative as LotR had also a lot of CG characters and often it's a combination of CG and real persons. I just saw the movie. I don't know much about the making of The Hobbit, however I'm pretty certain that the major characters, the good and bad ones, were at least partially real persons when it was possible.
It was awesome
I just saw it =DD They tweaked stuff, but as you said it's not like they made things up.
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