Posted on 12/15/2012 2:39:40 PM PST by Perdogg
I was going to avoid it because I saw too many mental Hobbits (no offense to Hobbits) on election day. I was wondering if it was any good.
Next week I will see "Jack Reacher" and post a review.
gandolf said that hobbits make good thieves. Therefore I’m not going to see a movie about hobbitual criminals.
;-)
especially on opening weekends with masses of crowds.
I think Adam Baldwin would have made a great Jack Reacher.
We thought there would be crowds this afternoon, and had bought our tickets in advance and arrived early, but the showing we saw was lightly attended, at most 1/3 full. Everyone got the seats they wanted!
This was at a low-tech-visuals screening, due to our taking fairly young children (6-year-olds), and my problem with throwing up. I didn’t ask our organizer what she thought about the kicked-up 3D version when she saw it with her teenagers last night. We’ll discuss it at Tolkien’s Birthday Party on January 3, when we meet for Thematic Snacks and the last hurrah of the Hobbit Club.
I don’t think I’ve seen a Tom Cruise movie all the way or most of the way through since “Top Gun.”
I heard Reacher is getting delayed due to the CT shooting.
The three movies are NOT “in that book.” Most of what the movies consist of are from the Appendices in “The Return of the King.” It gives the origins and histories of the races of Middle Earth, and therefore, are essential to “The Hobbit.”
Please, cast aside your preconceived ideas about “The Hobbit,” and look at it as a movie (or Movies) to be experienced, as LOTR was.
Just sayin’. ;o]
I did not find that it dragged. I enjoyed the way the characters were done, even if they were different from how I would have written them.
As for the book on its own, I think it would have been hard to do a great job in one movie, and three would be too much. Maybe two, allowing for more of the author’s dialogue.
I was going to go see it today . . . but $7.50 for a matinee ticket? huh?
I remember getting to see two movies, get a box of popcorn and a soft drink and get about 35 cents change back on my dollar.
I remember when movie cost 15 Cents for kids.
Even when money was tight, our parents would let me and my two Brothers go to the Bay Theater in Panama City on Saturdays.
There would usually be a Gene Autry or Roy Rogers or Tarzan movie on. There would also be a cartoon amd a serial.
I saw it in 3D with the family. I only go to the theater once a year (hate bankrolling the American hating hollywood ingrates). I did enjoy the movie. Didn’t much care for radagast brown with bird poop down the side of his face nor his wicker sled pulled by rabbits at Mach 2. The fight/flee scene in the mountain had me thinking I was watching an extended “Raiders of the Lost Ark” roller coaster scene. If I had it to do over, I would watch again. 7/10
Totally agree. That RUINS it for me and I will NOT pay money to see THAT! *SPIT*
I mean, it was bad enough when they cast him as ‘LeStat.’ Who TF is his agent? That person must have the BEST negotiating skills on the PLANET to have foisted Cruise off in all these roles he’s SO unsuited for!
Jack Reacher is HUGE. Bigger than LIFE. Blonde, blue-eyed and mean as hell...and then gentle as a kitten where we womenfolk are concerned, LOL!
I was surprised by Ted Kennedy’s cameo as the goblin king - he really nailed it.
Thank you! :)
The grown kids asked if when I was going to see it. I said when it is free on my TV. Someone will bring a DVD or a copy for me to watch. I told them I will not support theatres or Hollywood anymore to watch my values being trashed. I know LOTR and the Hobbit it is different, but like you am tired of spending money for the enemy.
LOL - brilliant insight!
In "Crank About the Text" mode, I had to wonder what Azog the goblin is doing there, aside from showing off his way-cool steed. He should be dead. Other than Ted, who got his, the orc-antagonist is "Bolg, son of Azog ... whose father, oh Dain, you slew in Moria."
Throw a bone to those of us with excellent verbal recall, Peter Jackson, or I'll dance on your grave.
Cruise knows what he is doing have read the books he is going for the franchise thing.
The Jack Reacher books would not have gone to film without Cruise signing on.
Saw it tonight; loved it, absolutely LOVED it.
The variations from the book were little embellishments, not major story changes like the The Fellowship where Arwen takes over a character role.
What I really liked it Jackson seemed to keep the character of the book so strongly; he captured the children’s book flavor and kept it exciting without making it exceptionally dark. I recognized so much of the dialogue from the book and they actually sang a few of the songs!
My favorite movie this year, and I like it best of the trilogy. So much charm to it.
“Childrens movie”I hope your kids can handle heads and other body pars being chopped off. This ain’t ET! It has some wonderful Christian themes though. Read the 4 books when I was ten and the first job I got enabled me to buy the books Leather-bound. I also have the Simerillian.
I will always remember the first time I read the Silmarillion because I caught a debilitating case of two week poison ivy when I was in the middle of it as a kid. Ah, the memories!
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