The Hobbit

[Anthony]

I thought this Bilbo was good, but the previous one was even better. The previous one was a perfect, perfect old man Bilbo for me.

The reason they made some of them human is so that you would focus on them I imagine. Like you artificially create background/foreground characters by changing facial structures to add reliability. Felt a bit like a cheap trick, I couldn't see them as Dwarves most of the time, which made the height tricks all the more jarring. I never really felt that way about the hobbits in the original series, or Gimli.

[Rumpy]

Did you like the movie Ant?

[Space Pirate Roberts]

The "human looking" dwarves are basically the dwarf-years equivalent of teenagers.

[Doc Holliday]

So Thorin was a teenager? That explains why he was so moody.

[James]

I really liked the 48fps look. I wish I'd have been able to see it without 3D, but it did make the 3D more tolerable. It also really helped the action scenes move along more smoothly. Screw people who say 24FPS is better just because that's how it's always been. The analogy to analog vs digital audio doesn't hold up even a little.

James

[Space Pirate Roberts]

Well, not Thorin, but Fili, Kili and the beardless one.

[YellerDog]

Screw people who say 24FPS is better just because that's how it's always been.

What about the people who say 24FPS has a hundred years of stylistic application in narrative filmmaking?

[Advocate]

What about the people who say 24FPS has a hundred years of stylistic application in narrative filmmaking?

Those same people complained when Film went to colour.

[Frogacuda]

colour.

You're not from Canada, goddammit.

[Gondolin]

Saw this last Fri. on IMAX 3D and was thoroughly entertained. I even liked it better than the TLotR trilogy (which I was never enamored with), but this was entirely due to my expectations having been flip-flopped. It's been years, probably 15, since I've read The Hobbit, so the liberties that Jackson & co. took with the story went mostly unnoticed. I DID, however, geek out to the references to ancient Gondolin. Anyway, I dug this movie enough that I plan to go back and check it out in 2D at 48fps.

Oh, and the Star Trek preview was "meh," but the new Superman trailer was quality in IMAX 3D with 30k watts assaulting the senses. Also, HOLY CRAP that new Oz movie looks good!