I've finally seen The Hobbit and it was a big disappointment...
A slap on the wrist to the writers who:
1) inserted PC approved speech into a classic that at it's root had more wisdom in its words than all the PC speech in the world that Hollywood writers feel now *must* be inserted in any film. I'm still shuddering over an Alice in Wonderland film that made Alice into "super-charged heroine Alice" which had nothing to do with the books.
2) Looked like the ideas were a chew toy and the writers/producers/directors couldn't settle on one course. They threw everything against the wall and hoped it would stick. Instead it looked slow and poky in the beginning and then went Marvel Adventure hero's as it went on.
3) Sure Thorin is at the base of the quest but the book was about the little Hobbits unexpected journey and not in making Thorin look like a dashing hero that the movie couldn't turn its face away from. In fact, Thorin was a bit of a pain in the book.
4) Why did all the characters look like they were wearing fake clothes? The Wizard's hat looked like it had been made out of Styrofoam. Just an odd looking set design.
5) Of course they had to split it into two movies with the way they wasted the time they had in the first one. Why make people pay for one longer movie when you can make them pay for two? Poor Smaug you lost out to the Great White Orc battle.
I definitely won't be watching the second part of this movie even with the gorgeous scenery and special effects because there was no magical flow that pulled me into their world but instead the feeling of the movie was just stiff and choppy.
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1) inserted PC approved speech into a classic that at it's root had more wisdom in its words than all the PC speech in the world that Hollywood writers feel now *must* be inserted in any film. I'm still shuddering over an Alice in Wonderland film that made Alice into "super-charged heroine Alice" which had nothing to do with the books.
2) Looked like the ideas were a chew toy and the writers/producers/directors couldn't settle on one course. They threw everything against the wall and hoped it would stick. Instead it looked slow and poky in the beginning and then went Marvel Adventure hero's as it went on.
3) Sure Thorin is at the base of the quest but the book was about the little Hobbits unexpected journey and not in making Thorin look like a dashing hero that the movie couldn't turn its face away from. In fact, Thorin was a bit of a pain in the book.
4) Why did all the characters look like they were wearing fake clothes? The Wizard's hat looked like it had been made out of Styrofoam. Just an odd looking set design.
5) Of course they had to split it into two movies with the way they wasted the time they had in the first one. Why make people pay for one longer movie when you can make them pay for two? Poor Smaug you lost out to the Great White Orc battle.
I definitely won't be watching the second part of this movie even with the gorgeous scenery and special effects because there was no magical flow that pulled me into their world but instead the feeling of the movie was just stiff and choppy.
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