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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsSunday I went to see The Hobbit in Imax 3D.
I found the book a hard read because I'm not that into elves, dwarfs, faeries, and mythical places.
However...
I completely lost myself in the movie simply because of THE MOVIE. I was actually dodging things in my seat and ducking. It was a movie experience unlike any other I've had. It was breathtaking and I found myself following the movie plot very closely.
And Gollum? Worth the price of admission alone!
Yes, I will see The Lord of the Rings, but ONLY in Imax 3D.
onehandle
(51,122 posts)cherokeeprogressive
(24,853 posts)I was reading somewhere in a review that the 24 frame per second version was actually "richer" somehow.
pokerfan
(27,677 posts)Response to onehandle (Reply #1)
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Orrex
(63,228 posts)But the people for whom the format works, they say that nothing else comes close to it.
Glad you enjoyed the film!
BarackTheVote
(938 posts)Hate it; for years, we've been trying to make video look more like film. Well, we're pretty much there, and now Cameron is trying to push digital back to look like video? Why? No idea, other than that Cameron secretly hates film and wants to destroy the medium. Note: I saw it at 24fps, and the image had a very prominent jutter, more so than any other big budget production I've ever seen and it has to be because of the shutter speed associated with shooting footage at twice the normal rate, then down-converting it to 24fps. Ugh.
ANYWAY!
I enjoyed The Hobbit quite a bit, especially once I started to get over the first ten minutes (which took me about a half hour). I HATED the stuff with Elijah Woods and Ian Holm... it felt so damned out of place! Why not just make it a straight prequel instead of hitting the audience over the head? Did we all REALLY need to be reminded that, Hey, Martin Freeman is playing the same character as Ian Holm? And it made no sense since... Bilbo had only just started writing There and Back Again the day of his eleventy-first birthday? The day he was planning on leaving and never coming back? And he was writing this for Frodo? Why? Seriously, why?! Peter Jackson is many great things, but subtle, he is NOT. If the movie had started with Martin Freeman sitting in front of his Hobbit hole, I swear, the movie would have been a full star better.
Other than that... loved the Dwarfs, though Thorin was trying WAY too hard to be Aragorn. And I like a lot of the Wizard stuff they added in. Not a huge fan of the albino orc being added, but I kind of want to read the story in The Unfinished Tales that supposedly mentions him, just to make sure... thing with Tolkien, was that he was constantly retconning, especially as far as the Hobbit is concerned. When he came up with the Hobbit, he had no idea Gollum's ring was going to be the Big McGuffin of the universe (at least, as I understand it, that was the case). But, oh, yeah! Gollum was FANTASTIC! Amazing CGI, and Andy Serkis delivered another fantastic performance. I agree whole-heartedly, one needs to see The Hobbit just for that one scene.
Also loved Bilbo's line to Gandalf--(paraphrasing, of course): "Are the other Wizards bad-asses, or are they more like you?"
All in all, three stars, about the same as The Two Towers (more entertaining than that movie, but also more uneven).