I saw the movie, it was....not good. It was choppy, dragged, and that cliffhanger is incredibly played after 3 hours of sitting and going through a cluster experience. I dont like that the film feels bloated and that there is just too much going on yet it makes little sense at times. I like the acting though of the dwaves, Bilbo, Gandalf, Bard, and the dragon was good too but COME ON, how stupid can that dragon be???? Getting outwitted by dwaves every time? These first two Hobbit movies have been disappointing, I am sure the third one will have a big payoff and what not but this movie had no resolution. No characters had any stories resolve. Again, that ending was horseshit...Seriously very annoying.
I didn't realize it was a trilogy. If so, I would have waited for the download instead of wasting cash going to see it. Same for Hunger Games II. I usually skip the 2nd of 3 as most times, its only a bridge to the third in the trilogy. This movie is no different. Just a bridge to Hobbitt III.
There is nothing after the credits. I think you guys would be less critical if you just took The Hobbit for what it is. That is what I have done.
Thank God I didn't stay then. :grin: Nothing after the credits? I think there were perhaps 4 people that stayed and I would imagine they were pissed after sitting thru all that shit for nothing. Like I said, no more middle movies for me. 1st and last movies only.
I ran out the theater as soon as it was over...Best part of the movies was seeing the Interstellar and Godzilla trailer
I loved it!! Orks, Elfs, Dwarfs. The chase scene down the river was awesome. I was a little disappointed with how it ended though, even though I knew there wasn't going to be much resolution. I expected Desolation!!
I had no issues with it. Was entertained for 2 and half hours. That's one chatty fire breathing dragon, though.
Fun movie. Not LOTR, but I thoroughly enjoyed it. Hard to capture the complete essence of the book because that was supposed to be read a chapter at a time to kids, that's why it seems so choppy. The whole walking, SOMETHING HAPPENS, more walking, SOMETHING HAPPENS, walking again..., another thing happens, doesn't lend itself as well to the big screen as it does to a story book.
The reason it was choppy is probably that you saw the double framerate version. It looks weird and unnatural because we're used to movies being shown at 24 fps, which is closer to how we view things in real life. (Yes, we still only see the 48 fps at our eyes' 30 fps, but the faster frame rate has much less motion blur, and that then looks unnatural to our eyes.) The reason it feels bloated is that they wanted to do 3 movies to make more money, but the Hobbit isn't really long enough of a book for 3 movies.
I haven't seen any of the Hobbit movies yet, going to marathon them. But I just realized that Bilbo is the guy from the Fargo tv show.
The first movie was watchable at least. The second movie not so much so. SPOILER ALERT: If Legolas can shoot it with an arrow he can ride it down a hill like a fucking sled. This is 30 minutes of screen time. Elf dead guy sledding. As cool as that sounds, it's not. Or how they have to smuggle the dwarfs into fishtown in barrels because the place is "impossible to sneak into" yet the orcs are EVERYWHERE later with zero guards to be seen. Or the complete lack of understanding on how metallurgy works. Or the giant golden statue of a dwarf that's not a Gundam and has zero chance of killing Smaug with it gooey warm jizz blast all over him. Shit movie is shit.
I've discovered that this series was a shameless effort to once again throw Liv Tyler and Fagolas into the faces of people that knew they were never in the first book, and basically trying to get teenage girls to talk their asshole fathers into taking them to see a movie they didn't care about.
