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I'm sorry I seemingly dropped off the earth there for a little while. Apparently LJing gets difficult when you have things happen? Strange :P
I had a great weekend, the belated Christmas party at work was surprisingly fun. It's weird how we really come together and have a great time when we're out of that office mode. Everyone's still trying to get to know each other, but it seems like the weird social atmosphere at the office has improved somewhat after the weekend.
After the party, me and a couple of others ended up going to a bar/club place that seemed more like one of those teen discos from the 90s than anything else. We had the place completely to ourselves for most of the night, and it was a lot of fun. I spent the rest of the night dancing to terrible music. We kept complaining at the DJ, who kept telling us "I'm playing what the crowd wants", which was hilarious, considering we were the only people there (a group of like 5 other people showed up later) ....
A coworker of mine drunkenly invited me to go urbexing. He got way too drunk to be able to go anywhere that night, so that offer hangs awkwardly in the air now. Neither of us have mentioned it since getting back to work this week.
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I went and saw The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey yesterday. The film was pretty much exactly what I thought it was going to be, so at least I wasn't too disappointed. It doesn't come close to capturing that childish sense of adventure of the book, but that's a different story.
I loved the soundtrack and the parts that were recognizable as the story from The Hobbit (the Riddles in the Dark sequence was very well done, I thought - but they left out my favourite riddle!). The film was so long, though. I admit I dozed off at one point. I think perhaps when they were in Rivendell? I can't even remember.
I've always been a firm believer of different formats, different story, and this still applies, so I won't compare book with film. I just find it strange that the people who got LotR so right get The Hobbit so wrong. But we obviously have different ideas of what The Hobbit is supposed to be. Some see it as a small fraction of a bigger story that needs to be put into context and told properly, whilst others see it as a simple children's story.
I still hope someone, somewhere will make a book cut of the film, leaving out all the LotR appendix bits. There was just so many fight sequences and other unnecessary things. Even the pretty straight forward troll encounter had somehow been made into an epic battle ... like I said, this is what I thought the film was going to be, so I was prepared, but it's not at all what The Hobbit is to me.
We'll see how the other films turn out, hahaha.
The Elvenking, though.
I had a great weekend, the belated Christmas party at work was surprisingly fun. It's weird how we really come together and have a great time when we're out of that office mode. Everyone's still trying to get to know each other, but it seems like the weird social atmosphere at the office has improved somewhat after the weekend.
After the party, me and a couple of others ended up going to a bar/club place that seemed more like one of those teen discos from the 90s than anything else. We had the place completely to ourselves for most of the night, and it was a lot of fun. I spent the rest of the night dancing to terrible music. We kept complaining at the DJ, who kept telling us "I'm playing what the crowd wants", which was hilarious, considering we were the only people there (a group of like 5 other people showed up later) ....
A coworker of mine drunkenly invited me to go urbexing. He got way too drunk to be able to go anywhere that night, so that offer hangs awkwardly in the air now. Neither of us have mentioned it since getting back to work this week.
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I went and saw The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey yesterday. The film was pretty much exactly what I thought it was going to be, so at least I wasn't too disappointed. It doesn't come close to capturing that childish sense of adventure of the book, but that's a different story.
I loved the soundtrack and the parts that were recognizable as the story from The Hobbit (the Riddles in the Dark sequence was very well done, I thought - but they left out my favourite riddle!). The film was so long, though. I admit I dozed off at one point. I think perhaps when they were in Rivendell? I can't even remember.
I've always been a firm believer of different formats, different story, and this still applies, so I won't compare book with film. I just find it strange that the people who got LotR so right get The Hobbit so wrong. But we obviously have different ideas of what The Hobbit is supposed to be. Some see it as a small fraction of a bigger story that needs to be put into context and told properly, whilst others see it as a simple children's story.
I still hope someone, somewhere will make a book cut of the film, leaving out all the LotR appendix bits. There was just so many fight sequences and other unnecessary things. Even the pretty straight forward troll encounter had somehow been made into an epic battle ... like I said, this is what I thought the film was going to be, so I was prepared, but it's not at all what The Hobbit is to me.
We'll see how the other films turn out, hahaha.
The Elvenking, though.