The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey reactions (SPOILERS)

[El Mahdi]

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[Kaodi]

I'm not sure what you mean by the Goblin King being erudite. He actually seemed quite stupid in the movie, and the only knowledge he expressed was basically the same knowledge that he expresses in the book.

Was not the knowledge. It was the accent. Azog speaks only in subtitles, yet the Great Goblin speaks in perfect (un)accented American English.

In any case, looking at pictures now I see that the Great Goblin has pointed ears and the trolls rounded ones, and the Great Goblin may have been a fair bit smaller. But still. That I could even confuse the Great Goblin for a deformed troll instead of a big deformed goblin is something of an indictment of how he was designed.

I guess I may have misremembered the description of him as tremendous, though I still think he may have been too tall. Tremendous could refer primarily to his girth, after all.

 

[DnD_Dad]

I took my daughter opening night and we both loved it. I'm a huge Tolkien nerd and I love how Jackson interweaves his own ideas and concepts and characters into that universe. I want a word for word rendition of the Hobbit and LOTR, but I'll take what I can get. There is very little in the ways of fantasy/swords and sorcery these days and I want more.

 

[sabrinathecat]

Was trying to find a theater showing it today. LotR1 was around for almost a year before it reached the discount theaters for 2 weeks and then faded away. Hobbit pt 1 has almost disappeared after just what--2 months? 3? It is still playing in 1 theater within 15 miles, but that is a pretty drastic fall.
Still, I expect the movie to be at least decent.

 

[Hand of Evil]

Was trying to find a theater showing it today. LotR1 was around for almost a year before it reached the discount theaters for 2 weeks and then faded away. Hobbit pt 1 has almost disappeared after just what--2 months? 3? It is still playing in 1 theater within 15 miles, but that is a pretty drastic fall.
Still, I expect the movie to be at least decent.

Not really, it is number 12 on this weeks BoxOffice but its numbers show it has about run its course, Widest Release: 4,100 theaters, In Release: 52 days / 7.4 weeks, now at 1,300 Theaters. Note: Theater does NOT equal screens!

Total Lifetime Grosses: Domestic: $296,203,000 31.2% + Foreign: $653,000,000 68.8% = Worldwide: $949,203,000

Big Screen demands are the first couple of weeks, then make way for the next batch of releases. Gone are the days of movies running months, they want to get them to the DVD market, where I hear the really big bucks can be found.