A General Criticism

[lil_shepherd]

At the end of Django Unchained, the conversation went something like this.

Me: Great movie, but it could have done with 20 to 25 minutes cut out.
Ina: Yes. They will not kill their babies nowadays, will they?
Me: And you haven't even seen The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey.
Ina: Yeah. On purpose.

Comments

[secritcrush]

Wise choice not to go see The Hobbit. It is very bloaty.

[lil_shepherd]

It is very boring.

[fatpie42]

What would you have cut out from "Django Unchained

[lil_shepherd]

I was dreadfully bored with the dwarves and hated the so-called 'humour' in An Unexpected Journey. It felt (and was) padded and it gave you far too much time to think about the motivation of the characters and why they were doing what they were doing. I hated Rhadagast with a deep and dreadful hatred, and likewise his bloody bunnies. Some of the CGI was crap, too. I didn't find it funny or fun. Oddly, I prefer the extended cuts of LotR, but then they made the motivations clearer, though I would have cut the Smeagol and Deagol scenes in RotK and the multiple endings, started with Isengard and ended with the wedding.

I understand the extended cut of An Unexpected Journey will give us even more pratting about in Hobbiton, something that almost made me give up when I first started reading The Fellowship of the Ring back in about 1965.
I'd've cut quite a lot of the non-witty chat in Django Unchained, particularly towards the end. The dialogue could have been a lot tauter.

[fatpie42]

I hated Rhadagast with a deep and dreadful hatred, and likewise his bloody bunnies.

But, that's the best thing to come out of any of Jackson's LOTR movies!

(I'm very possibly highly biased. Sylvester McCoy was my version of The Doctor growing up...)

I understand the extended cut of An Unexpected Journey

Hang on, what? I thought the whole purpose of having three movies when adapting The Hobbit was so we didn't NEED extended cuts....

[lil_shepherd]

According to Empire which has an in depth article this month (and a cover for The Desolation of Smaug there will, indeed, be an extended cut.

[la_marquise_de_]

:-)
I can so hear that conversation.

[lil_shepherd]

Yes, well...