Hobbit Woes and Christmas Indigestion
Hello and Merry belated Christmas... season.
It's all about family and work these days, but there are a couple of random fan-things I'd like to mention.
1. South Park: Finished Season 14. I laughed a lot with "Crippled Summer", "It's a Jersey Thing", "Insheeption" and "Creme Fraiche", so wrong and yet so hilarious. Like Tom Cruise's house, full of closets. I also love Coon and friends, particularly the friends. And the Gothic kids! I am still catching up slowly but surely and, although it has its weak episodes, I never get tired of the show.
2. The Hobbit: Disappointing. I haven't read the book, I chose a 2D cinema on purpose, and I really didn't care where they got the plotlines as long as it was good. It was entertaining, but it was not good. Fluidity failed big time. It was a careless cut. The route they take makes no sense to me, it makes very random turns. I know The Hobbit is supposed to be a more childish book, a real tale, but the talking monsters were sometimes embarrassing to listen to, reminded me of Phantom Menace's awful prequelism. Some scenes with main characters were embarrassing, too, like Galadriel moving like a twirling doll in a musical jewellery box for effectism; Thorin standing hands-on-hips, looking at the infinite for several minutes while the dwarves tell his story; Saruman talking about the nocive effects of too much mushroom consumption and denying reality like a bad politician, etc. My favorite scene, and that which reminded me most of the previous trilogy's spirit, was that of Bilbo and Gollum. I loved it so, so much. Nice too was the brief Nazgul resurrection flashback with the Necromancer. Nazgul moments never fail to excite me. Also, Thorin embracing Bilbo full of gratitude, although the heroicism of that scene is more than questionable, it was a bit gratuitous and OOC. Thorin was too much like Aragorn, only gloomier, if that is even possible,and he felt more human than dwarf. Characterwise, maybe, just maybe, it's the lack of humans what failed to engage me as well. Humans are usually my favorite Tolkien characters and one hobbit was not enough. I don't think I'll watch it twice until it's on BR, but I'll try to watch the two other sequels on the cinema. At least now I really want to read the book, if only, to read the story fluidly without random interrumptions and stupid mountain fights for no apparent reason. I've had it since I was 17, but never felt the urge to read it, was waiting for the right time.
3. Catching Fire: I recently bothered to check out the cast and learnt that Jena Malone (lovely Rocket in Sucker Punch and the pregnant teenager of Saved!) will be portraying Johanna Mason! I don't like Finnick's choice very much, but I think he'll play the insufferable playboy masquerade very well. Beetee is nothing like I had imagined, but I am curious. This is one movie I am really looking forward to, as it is my favorite book in the THG trilogy, the most explos... exciting.
It's all about family and work these days, but there are a couple of random fan-things I'd like to mention.
1. South Park: Finished Season 14. I laughed a lot with "Crippled Summer", "It's a Jersey Thing", "Insheeption" and "Creme Fraiche", so wrong and yet so hilarious. Like Tom Cruise's house, full of closets. I also love Coon and friends, particularly the friends. And the Gothic kids! I am still catching up slowly but surely and, although it has its weak episodes, I never get tired of the show.
2. The Hobbit: Disappointing. I haven't read the book, I chose a 2D cinema on purpose, and I really didn't care where they got the plotlines as long as it was good. It was entertaining, but it was not good. Fluidity failed big time. It was a careless cut. The route they take makes no sense to me, it makes very random turns. I know The Hobbit is supposed to be a more childish book, a real tale, but the talking monsters were sometimes embarrassing to listen to, reminded me of Phantom Menace's awful prequelism. Some scenes with main characters were embarrassing, too, like Galadriel moving like a twirling doll in a musical jewellery box for effectism; Thorin standing hands-on-hips, looking at the infinite for several minutes while the dwarves tell his story; Saruman talking about the nocive effects of too much mushroom consumption and denying reality like a bad politician, etc. My favorite scene, and that which reminded me most of the previous trilogy's spirit, was that of Bilbo and Gollum. I loved it so, so much. Nice too was the brief Nazgul resurrection flashback with the Necromancer. Nazgul moments never fail to excite me. Also, Thorin embracing Bilbo full of gratitude, although the heroicism of that scene is more than questionable, it was a bit gratuitous and OOC. Thorin was too much like Aragorn, only gloomier, if that is even possible,and he felt more human than dwarf. Characterwise, maybe, just maybe, it's the lack of humans what failed to engage me as well. Humans are usually my favorite Tolkien characters and one hobbit was not enough. I don't think I'll watch it twice until it's on BR, but I'll try to watch the two other sequels on the cinema. At least now I really want to read the book, if only, to read the story fluidly without random interrumptions and stupid mountain fights for no apparent reason. I've had it since I was 17, but never felt the urge to read it, was waiting for the right time.
3. Catching Fire: I recently bothered to check out the cast and learnt that Jena Malone (lovely Rocket in Sucker Punch and the pregnant teenager of Saved!) will be portraying Johanna Mason! I don't like Finnick's choice very much, but I think he'll play the insufferable playboy masquerade very well. Beetee is nothing like I had imagined, but I am curious. This is one movie I am really looking forward to, as it is my favorite book in the THG trilogy, the most explos... exciting.