I saw the Hobbit yesterday. How apt, a movie that points signs of the doom coming upon Middle Earth on the very day of the End of the World.
I'm getting better and better at tuning out distractions especially that I've rediscovered a way of dealing with it: food. We came for an early afternoon screening and because I didn't want to be late I decided not to eat anything. I bought a sandwich to take inside and was too preoccupied with not spilling food on myself that I couldn't care much about the people yapping around us. But again one guy decided to take calls during the movie. Twice. Some things never change. Heh.
A couple of weeks ago while I was holed up again in the IMDB forums, I read another thread where people argued if a certain movie was good or bad. One poster wrote that Lord of the Rings was a bad movie. Is it? Was I too dense or just too dumb to figure it out?
With that in mind, I went to see the Hobbit with an already skewed perception.
And I must say, I love it.
Sure, the dialogue can be borderline cheesy as the characters talk about courage, and strength and all those sappy shit like that but it's expected.
Like the LOTR, the scenery was amazing. The story on the surface was fairly simple but with plenty of throwbacks to LOTR. Or what's coming in LOTR, as technically LOTR hasn't happened yet. From the beginning it picked up quickly. There's plenty of action, and even when the action slows down, it's never dull. My only complaint was that it left me unsatisfied. I need the second part right now!
As I'm not a film critic, I wouldn't really know how this stacks up to whatever standards and techniques there are in film. It was magical, do I really need anything else?
I'm getting better and better at tuning out distractions especially that I've rediscovered a way of dealing with it: food. We came for an early afternoon screening and because I didn't want to be late I decided not to eat anything. I bought a sandwich to take inside and was too preoccupied with not spilling food on myself that I couldn't care much about the people yapping around us. But again one guy decided to take calls during the movie. Twice. Some things never change. Heh.
A couple of weeks ago while I was holed up again in the IMDB forums, I read another thread where people argued if a certain movie was good or bad. One poster wrote that Lord of the Rings was a bad movie. Is it? Was I too dense or just too dumb to figure it out?
With that in mind, I went to see the Hobbit with an already skewed perception.
And I must say, I love it.
Sure, the dialogue can be borderline cheesy as the characters talk about courage, and strength and all those sappy shit like that but it's expected.
Like the LOTR, the scenery was amazing. The story on the surface was fairly simple but with plenty of throwbacks to LOTR. Or what's coming in LOTR, as technically LOTR hasn't happened yet. From the beginning it picked up quickly. There's plenty of action, and even when the action slows down, it's never dull. My only complaint was that it left me unsatisfied. I need the second part right now!
As I'm not a film critic, I wouldn't really know how this stacks up to whatever standards and techniques there are in film. It was magical, do I really need anything else?
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