Official 'The Hobbit' Thread - - - - - Part 14

[Vartha]

I liked it better when the Dwarves sang it to be honest.

I like both because I love Renaissance faire music. After working at one for 13 years that particular version reminds me of a Group of minstrels I hung out with after hours.

 

[Vartha]

Not actually the same song.

I'm having a heck of a time trying to locate Neil's lyrics

edit: every time I think I have it it's off by a line or two

 

[Vartha]

GODS the 8th can't get here soon enough!!!!! I want to watch DoS BADLY

 

[Silvermoon]

GODS the 8th can't get here soon enough!!!!! I want to watch DoS BADLY

Well it shouldn't get here TOO soon so many fun things to see between now and then (new episode of AoS tonight, seeing Cap once this weekend.... or twice..... or three times )

I do have mine on preorder though - went ahead and am getting the set with the Erebor bookends (to add to my figurine collection)

 

[DarthSkywalker]

This weekend is awesome. TWS, GoT returns, The Final Four. Good few days for me.

 

[Quasimod0]

This week is gonna be good for me too. SHIELD episode tonight. TWS thursday and probably saturday too. lol
Gonna hold out for the extended blu ray of DoS. Anybody know when it comes out?

 

[Silvermoon]

This week is gonna be good for me too. SHIELD episode tonight. TWS thursday and probably saturday too. lol
Gonna hold out for the extended blu ray of DoS. Anybody know when it comes out?

My guess would be that they'll probably keep the time frame roughly similar as the previous EE releases (a month or so before the next film hits theaters), so I'd say probably November?

 

[green]

It's been out on iTunes for a couple of days now...

 

[regwec]

Has anyone seen it? Was anything done about the appalling CGI?

 

[green]

No, honestly its actually worse. Atleast it came across that way to me.
I saw it in the theatre in 48 fps 3D and thought it looked fantastic, saw it again in regular 2d and saw what so many were complaining about. At home I really saw what people were complaining about. Still love the movie though.

 

[redhawk23]

The cgi didn't bother me so much as random GoPro video shots during the video scenes. Those were awful.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

The cgi didn't bother me so much as random GoPro video shots during the video scenes. Those were awful.

Yep. Truly awful.

 

[Vartha]

No, honestly its actually worse. Atleast it came across that way to me.
I saw it in the theatre in 48 fps 3D and thought it looked fantastic, saw it again in regular 2d and saw what so many were complaining about. At home I really saw what people were complaining about. Still love the movie though.

The theaters HERE won't show the higher frames per second films lol

 

[hammerhedd11]

Has anyone seen it? Was anything done about the appalling CGI?

Is it not tiring at this point for you to continue to put so much effort into hating these films?

 

[Vartha]

Is it not tiring at this point for you to continue to put so much effort into hating these films?

He's angry because they couldn't find a REAL dragon lol

 

[Marvolo]

Is it not tiring at this point for you to continue to put so much effort into hating these films?

I was also hoping the cgi would be touched up. The scene when smaug is thrashing around in the furnaces and the carts and cables are swinging around looks like a ps3 cutscene. And I dont mean that in a hyperbole way. The first time I saw the film my jaw hit the floor during that scene cause I couldnt believe the film got released with a scene like that unfinished. And thats what it is. Unfinished. No way does an animator in 2014 look at that scene and say its ok or finished. The liquid gold is atrocious as well. That whole section of the film is hit or miss. More miss than hit. And this is coming from someone who endlessly defended the cgi orcs and use of cgi prior to release.

 

[regwec]

Is it not tiring at this point for you to continue to put so much effort into hating these films?

No, no effort is required.

 

[vinsanity]

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[hammerhedd11]

No, no effort is required.

Yeah, maybe not. I would think returning to a thread every few months to reiterate how much I thought something sucked would definitely lose its appeal after awhile, but what do I know?

 

[jacobed]

I loved Smaug and Bilbo once the dwarves come in it gets horrible fast. Really horrible. None of that action worked. They made Smaug into an idiot after setting him up as the opposite. Their plan to stop him didn't even make sense. The cg was embarrassingly bad. Just embarrassing. And then to top it off they just end it in the middle of the climax.

 

[regwec]

Yeah, maybe not. I would think returning to a thread every few months to reiterate how much I thought something sucked would definitely lose its appeal after awhile, but what do I know?

It's nice to converse with like minded people, and tons of people here don't like this film.

 

[jonathancrane]

Granted the Scooby Doo chase could have been removed, the ending had some nice symbols--the monument to the dwarves ' greed melting--and the parallel action of Sauron unleashing his army and Smaug flying to Lake Town were great. The cgi was fine in the film. It's a fine film and an improvement on the source material; those who say the Hobbit is better than the film must have read it through rose tinted glasses.

 

[regwec]

It might just be that we read it.

 

[jonathancrane]

It's like Tolkien took the worst parts of Sir Thopas, and crafted them into a novel. While Chaucer was kind enough to end Sir Thopas when it started to become grating; Tolkien went two hundred pages further. I's a great book to read when one is six, but not as an adult. It is hard to believe that he wrote The Lord of the Rings; there is a large disparity in the refinement and style. LOTR is a literary masterpiece, a synthesis of European history, religion, and myth. The Hobbit is a black hole that consumes one's time and joy. All that one retains is a burning desire to whack Tolkien over the head with the book.

 

[regwec]

The Hobbit is a book written for children, that appeals to children and adults who remember it fondly.

The movies are CGI train-wrecks made for the broadest possible demographic, that appeal only to the very young or the very forgiving.

Smaug was pretty good, though. Up until that unintentionally hilarious scene with the Gold-1000.