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The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
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The Hobbit is the first "real book" I can remember reading. I can't bear to see the movie...I couldn't even bring myself to open your spoilers.
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Kichi got me "The Hobbit" in hardcover for Xmas.
I've just started reading it again for the first time in some years. ![[Image: mybannerglitter06eee094.gif]](https://images.weserv.nl/?url=i118.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fo112%2Fpussinboots_photos%2FBikes%2Fmybannerglitter06eee094.gif) If you're not supposed to ride faster than your guardian angel can fly then mine had better get a bloody SR-71. 
I was going to see it next week but then I found out my local IMAX theater isn't showing the high frame rate version. The HFR version was the only reason I was going to see it. Now I don't know if I will.
I said it in the disappointing movie thread, to me it felt that once they got out of the shire, it was just two straight hours of running from one disaster to the next (with one brief break) it felt off to me.
Also, Gandalf keeps arriving and saving the day, every single time. We're watching 'the hobbit' not 'Gandalf the magnificent.' It's been many years since I read the books but I don't remember it being like that, I'm fairly sure they got themselves out of most predicaments in the book.
Nemo me impune lacessit.
The first hour was fine.
The rest was garbage. Slave to the Patriarchy no more
 RE: The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
December 28, 2012 at 1:00 pm
(This post was last modified: December 28, 2012 at 1:00 pm by Faith No More.)
It's been so long since I read the book that I wouldn't even know if it was a faithful adaptation. That being said, I did want to see it for the high frame rate, but I didn't realize that only certain showings have it. If the local showing doesn't have the high frame rate, I probably won't see it in the theater.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
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December 28, 2012 at 1:09 pm
(This post was last modified: December 28, 2012 at 1:14 pm by Anomalocaris.)
If you strip away the glacial pacing, pointless plot "points", recycled "LOTR" music scores, and blantant effort to hang on to LOTR coattail, you don't have much left.
  meh I'll wait until it's out on DVD tnxby 
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RE: The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
January 4, 2013 at 10:44 pm
(This post was last modified: January 4, 2013 at 10:46 pm by Tea Earl Grey Hot.)
I saw the Hobbit today in IMAX 3D at the normal 24 fps. I didn't have trouble wearing the glasses and it appeared in focus and in 3D for me but 30 minutes into it I started getting a headache and nausea. For most of the movie I was miserable. Got worse after the movie and I've been in bed all day.
It felt like my eyes were pulled out and stuck in one of those old Viewmaster toys for 3 hours. |
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