Yep, I finally got to see The Hobbit (with First Small Person and a Tolkien-loving friend) this afternoon...
We'd booked to go and see it at our local big multiplex, in 3D HFR - booking to see specifically the HFR version, which I was curious enough to want to try and do, proved a bit of a slog as the website of the cinema company in question, when
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He was just absurd. He can be eccentric, but he shouldn't be ridiculous. The flamin' Racing Rabbits of Rhosgobel? PURLEASE.
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My cringe-worthy moments were the endless, blaringly loud, implausible action sequences. The blatant disregard for the laws of physics destroyed any feeling of suspense. Those characters should have died many times over. After the first hundred miraculous escapes, you stopped worrying about them.
Favorite bits were the unexpected party itself and the riddle game.
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XACLY. {hugs Lady Branwyn for making me feel I'm not alone in this!} (A RL friend thought he was insulting me on FB earlier today by calling me a "Tolkien snob". He doesn't know me as well as he thinks he does, does he?)
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The bunnies seem to be pretty universally panned.
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Gollum - ohmygodohmygod Gollum. There was a masterful scene. Watching Gollum and Bilbo interact both visible and invisible - amazing, fantastic, wonderful!
I loved the 3-D and since I know I'll only have 2-D on DVD, I'll happily watch the 3-D version as often as I can in the theatre.
- Erulisse (one L)
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Gollum - ohmygodohmygod Gollum. There was a masterful scene. Watching Gollum and Bilbo interact both visible and invisible - amazing, fantastic, wonderful!
YesyesyesYES. No disagreement there. Best bit of many wonderful bits. Absolutely pitch-perfect.
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