The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey reactions (SPOILERS)
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Wednesday Boy
The Nerd WhoFell to Earth
For the first time I got over a 60% on one of your quizzes! And I got 100% this time!
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Wednesday Boy
The Nerd WhoFell to Earth
I'm with you on the rationale but the execution didn't work for me.
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That was the only part of the movie I really disliked, I can say I HATED it. Radagast should look eccentric, but that was really stupid.
Otherwise I really enjoyed the film. That was the one bit that really destroyed my immersion.
tuxgeo
Adventurer
Saw it today, 7 Jan 2013.
The ending came abruptly for me--I was ready for the story to go on for another hour or so.
Best part: Martin Freeman as Bilbo. His delivery of the verbal nonsequiturs was wonderful. The best one was when he was explaining to Thorin why he was still there (after the goblins), when he switched from "I think of my home a lot" to "and that's why I'm here." Almost as good was when he stabbed a warg with Sting, and stabbed an orc with Sting, and then demurred, "I'm no fighter. No burglar, either."
(I may be paraphrasing.
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I thought the stone giants in the mountain pass were unnecessary. I was surprised when Gandalf's staff split the rock. (I wanted to hear "Dawn take you all and be stone to you," but if he said that then I missed the wording.) I expected Orcrist to be less like a cutlass. (Yes, I know it's an elven blade, but I would have been pleased to see it looking more like a falchion.)
I really wanted Howard Shore to put in some (more) minor-key harmonies in the dwarves' "Far over the Misty Mountains cold . . ." song. That sounded like Human harmonizing. More strangeness would have helped sell it as a dwarf song. (I don't know -- more flat-fifths? minor thirds? more diminished chords? something.)
I didn't like the "ravens." They weren't black enough. Couldn't they use the word "thrush" for copyright reasons? What?
The ending came abruptly for me--I was ready for the story to go on for another hour or so.
Best part: Martin Freeman as Bilbo. His delivery of the verbal nonsequiturs was wonderful. The best one was when he was explaining to Thorin why he was still there (after the goblins), when he switched from "I think of my home a lot" to "and that's why I'm here." Almost as good was when he stabbed a warg with Sting, and stabbed an orc with Sting, and then demurred, "I'm no fighter. No burglar, either."
(I may be paraphrasing.
) I thought the stone giants in the mountain pass were unnecessary. I was surprised when Gandalf's staff split the rock. (I wanted to hear "Dawn take you all and be stone to you," but if he said that then I missed the wording.) I expected Orcrist to be less like a cutlass. (Yes, I know it's an elven blade, but I would have been pleased to see it looking more like a falchion.)
I really wanted Howard Shore to put in some (more) minor-key harmonies in the dwarves' "Far over the Misty Mountains cold . . ." song. That sounded like Human harmonizing. More strangeness would have helped sell it as a dwarf song. (I don't know -- more flat-fifths? minor thirds? more diminished chords? something.)
I didn't like the "ravens." They weren't black enough. Couldn't they use the word "thrush" for copyright reasons? What?
They did refer to thrushes: "when the thrush knocks thrice" I believe.
The ravens are a different thing - there's Ravenhill, one of the spurs of the Lonely Mountain, where there live ravens capable of speech, friendly to the dwarves of Erebor before Smaug. One such raven, named Roäc, carries news to Thorin that Smaug is dead, and then carries news to Dain that the mountain is theirs, creating the setup for the Battle of Five Armies.
jbear
First Post
I'm going to see it tomorrow at the Embassy Theatre in Wellington (where it was premiered) in 3d. I'm pretty excited! I got to play an orc (though the scenes I am in are part of the second movie, not the first), so having been behind scenes and in full orc costume etc. amps up the excitement value. 
Kaodi
Legend
I finally saw the movie on the last night the theatre was showing it. I enjoyed it, but I have read the books too many times to be satisfied by it.
Of all the things they did with it (it has been a long time since I read the book, so a lot of continuity stuff I had forgotten) the one that was most viscerally grating was the Goblin King, I think. Because 1) as has been mentioned, he is too erudite, and 2) by Eru Illuvatar that is a troll, not a goblin! It does not even make sense to portray Azog as being significant because he is really big and then pretend you have a goblin that would tower over him.
Of all the things they did with it (it has been a long time since I read the book, so a lot of continuity stuff I had forgotten) the one that was most viscerally grating was the Goblin King, I think. Because 1) as has been mentioned, he is too erudite, and 2) by Eru Illuvatar that is a troll, not a goblin! It does not even make sense to portray Azog as being significant because he is really big and then pretend you have a goblin that would tower over him.
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