Movie talk

I probably won't be able to tell, though, I read it in 2003.

You don't have to have read the book to be able to tell if a movie drags though.

True. Then again, I heard they added some things and linked it to Silmarillion somehow. I might be wrong, I guess I'll see tomorrow.

I haven't read the book, so everything's going to be new to me!

I had the audiobook when I was a child. Liked it, but wasn't obsessed (and didn't try to learn Elvish).

My boyfriend hates Fantasy stuff so I will have to go with my Mum, I reckon. To be honest though, I don't really have high hopes and am peeved that they've stretched it into three films. Also, I think Martin Freeman lacks presence.

i like him in sherlock, let´s see how he´s coping as the leading ... hobbit.

Blood and Donuts, looks exactly like something I will enjoy.
Why is the Vampire crying clear tears? That always confuses me. I know the point is moot, but seems like they would be blood tears. Plus, blood tears just look cooler.

It's my favorite vampire movie.

He is crying clear tears because the film predates Interview, True Blood, and Twilight.

And had a budget of about $350,000, Canadian.

I'm watching it at work right now. I'm digging it. I can't figure out why I like it though...

Boyo reminds me of Morpheus from The Sandman books.

I think making The Hobbit into a trilogy STINKS.

I really liked The Hobbit. Time went by so fast, and I enjoyed pretty much everything. Yay!

Well, I just don't like how he directs anyhow. Just because the book is thick and juicy with fable, doesn't mean the movie is as good.
The visuals are quite cool. But is that his work or the videographer?
Acting is not to my liking, but the casting is good. That is the director's fault.
He needs a good film editor to tell him, "NO. Enough."

I didn't see it today after all, my sister has a test in Maths next week and has to prepare. But I'm sure I can find it online, after all, it's been out for a month already in the States.

I don't understand why three movies were needed.

When you consider the length and difficulty of the book, and then consider the length and difficulty of the Lord of the Rings trilogy, it seems that if the Hobbit needs three movies then LOTR should have had at least nine. Which, though they cut quite a bit of detail out of LOTR, it wasn't ultimately necessary to devote more than one movie per book and still tell the story beautifully.

We just watched U-Turn. It was the only film in my Oliver Stone box set I'd never watched. I shouldn't have bothered!

The Hobbit. UGH so good. My eyes teared up so many times during that movie. It surprised me, but I didn't care. It was just so relevant to everything. And so funny and so great. Inspiring. Beautiful. Just perfect (I hesitated to use this word, but whatever).

I decided not to see it in the end. Just not excited enough about it.

Watched it last night. Nope. Don't agree with you, Fano.

I mean, it was nice and pretty good, but... no. Far from perfect. I blame the source material (being more of a children's fairy tale, it had a completely different tone from LotR, and they tried blending the two for the movie, which... didn't really work).

Aside from that, yes, it draaagged. I was struggling to pay attention in the last hour.

You blame the source material?

Shouldn't you blame the people who tried to manipulate the source material? None of it was written so movies could one day be made.

I completely disagree with you on all points, except the fact that the tone was different. But I liked the tone. And I don't think it dragged one bit. But to each his own.

Yes, I blame the source material, but I think you're misunderstanding what's meant by that statement.

The tone of the original book, which they tried to remain loyal to, offset the feel of the movie. If the filmmakers had taken more liberties, I think it would've been better. In other words, mostly everything that felt wrong in the movie came from sticking to the book (the length, the Grimms' Fairy Tales sort of dialogue and character shallowness, etc).

But yeah. It's just not for everyone. But goddammit, I'm gonna watch the whole fucking trilogy anyway, cuz I'm a sucker, and they know I'm a sucker.

I am hesitant to see it, only because James admitted to me he has not only never read the book, but as well never seen the original animated films.

This makes me sad and I don't want to watch it with him until he at least watches the old animation.

Oh man, those were so good. My brothers and I must've watched those as much as we watched the Star Wars movies on VHS.

Exactly!!!

I am a little baffled at the idea that anyone my age or older hasn't both seen, but loved and seen them many many times.

There's an animated film?

Looks interesting. In the meantime, I'm not as excited to see The Hobbit anymore. Mainly because heck, it's in 3 parts.

I saw Savages and i liked it, even though Oliver Stone can do better even though he hasn't in about 15 years. Anyway, the ending was pretty stupid and cheesy but the rest of it was cool.

I've already said this but the book that movie (Savages) was based on was the dumbest piece of shit I've read since 50 Shades of Grey. Gray. Whatever it is.

It's based on a book? I'll watch it because starting tomorrow I'll be in Gossip Girl withdrawal and the girl who plays Serena is in it.

Yes, a very horrible book.

The Hobbit book and cartoon are much better, than all the movies put together.

If anyone but Stone had directed it, it would have been a much bigger failure. It's still one of his better works though, even though it's pretty much just the best of his worst. I didn't give one shit about any of the characters. I think the only one i even remotely cared about was Salma Hayak's character, which is weird. And i can't stand "fake" endings like that, it's so annoying.

I haven't seen the film, but I read about the end of it, and I can say that it's entirely different from the way the book ended.

I haven't read or seen it. But my writing professor mentioned months ago that he knows the author of that book very well and I think said something about getting him to come to the school next semester as part of a Living Literature thing or something like that.

One kid was like, "Whoa! They made a movie out of his book! That's the dream! A movie with Salma Hayek! Is he like a millionaire now?"

Teacher said, "Hahaha. No. Not even close."

The kid then asked what was the point of it, all of it, and dropped out of the class and, I assume, dropped out of school to better dedicate himself to burning all of his writing full time.

Saw The Hobbit. I liked it--it fits well with the other movies. I just don't understand why they made half the dwarfs look like little men.

I'm watching this.

As a Christmas gift to myself while ordering a gift for my friend, I got the Back to the Future trilogy on Bluray even though I already have it on VHS. So far, the bonus features are completely worth it! I'm learning things about my "perfect movie" that I never knew before.

Brave could have been so much cooler.

True.

Yeah. But that can be said about any movie.

I watched Lilo & Stitch for the second time ever. It was hilarious.

28 Days was perfect. Not so much a Christmas movie, though.

I love The Departed, but I hate watching someone take Matt Damon's girl. Get outta here DiCaprio.

Did you know Huey Lewis and the News had a cameo in 1 and ZZ Top had a cameo in 3? Because I didn't know what they looked like so I never knew that. Oh, Elijah Wood is in 2 but I already knew that.

Originally the Time Machine was going to be a refrigerator. Originally, Marty was going to drive out to a Nuclear Test site to get back home, but they couldn't afford it.

And many many more freakishly cool fun facts about the movies.

True but this is Pixar here. they've never made a bad movie. Brave wasn't bad at all, it was funny and cute and kind of fun to watch. But all it really was was a girl frolicking through the woods with a bear. The wisps and magic could have been used in a better way. I don't know, i found it lacking.

On a different note, i watched this very low budget movie called The truth About Average Guys and it was pretty stupid but SO funny. I laughed the whole time. The acting is really bad though and the scenes with just women in them are crap but it really made me laugh.

Cars.

Also, A Bug's Life is so mediocre it hurts.

In my opinion a mediocre movie is worse than a bad movie.

You're just full of opinions, aren't you?

Try watching Brave with a nine year old girl.