So I saw The Hobbit

[cleolinda]

Due to the computer trouble (see the previous entry) and also my general and regrettable allergy to deadlines, I haven't finished the Breaking Dawn thing yet. However, even if I do finish it this weekend… I'm not sure when it will be appropriate to post it, given the really, really awful events in Connecticut. Charlie's Over-Protective Father

Comments

[katieupsidedown]

I enjoyed the movie quite a bit, although I wasn't a fan of the book or the cartoon (both put me to sleep at an age where I was regularly reading and enjoying adult fiction and non-fiction).

Can we talk about how Elijah Wood is still adorable and does not age? Please? I mostly just really want to rewatch Fellowship now.

I think my biggest issue with The Hobbit was this moment when they're doing the traditional Helicopter Shot of Everyone Walking In A Line On A Hill, and suddenly I found myself wanting a lot more character development. By the time we got Massive Group Quest Shots in LotR we had already established the relationships between the characters. We'd had hobbit giggling and devotion and Boromir wrestling Merry and Pippin and Elf/Dwarf Snark Banter, and we were attached not just to the characters but to the developing bonds between them.

And then in The Hobbit there wasn't so much of that, and you know Bilbo and Gandalf won't die because they're in LotR, so whenever something goes wrong you're like "Noooo, I hope nothing happens to... that pretty one." Who literally has no characterization so far except Pretty One Who Shoots Arrows.

[hopeandmemory]

i don't know, i felt they did a pretty good job differentiating the dwarves. i can tell them all apart now, whereas in the book they had essentially no character development at all aside from thorin and balin (and bombur, i guess). i loved ori's "i'm not afraid" bit, dori's endless politeness, bofur's obliviousness and yet complete sincerity, and the way fili and kili played off one another so well and showed themselves to be a little naive and callous sometimes (the thing about the orcs that leads into thorin's Tragic Backstory). i think we could have gotten more out of gloin, bifur, and nori, but i'm sure they'll have more introductory material in the extended dvd. (not to count my chickens before they hatch, but we all know it's going to happen.

[sianmink]

Sorry to disappoint but they digitally de-aged Elijah Wood, Hugo Weaving and Cate Blanchett.

[katieupsidedown]

I've seen recent pictures of him. I stand by my earlier comment, regardless of what they thought was necessary for the film.