Sunday, January 20, 2013
The Hobbit is awesome.
Having been out since mid-December I had been hankering to see this the theater. Thanks to My sister-in-law for her visit and staying home to watch the kids.
Having kids really puts a halt to your life outside the house and I really haven't seen a movie in the theater since Fast 5! We really have no family around to depend on and we are kind of a worrisome couple of parents, so babysitters are not really an option right now. We, rather I really wanted to see the Hobbit in theaters before it went away to blu-ray.
Wow, the Hobbit, we didn't see it in all it's 3-D glory but the 2-D was really all that needed to see Gandalf in all his glory. I read the book but it has been awhile. Much happened to what I remembered in the book, much I did not. From what I hear Peter Jackson took "liberties" to the story and to J.R.R. Tolkien's other works.
Overall this was a very long, (movie clocks in a 2hrs 45min) and very enjoyable experience. Lots of laughs. The book and the movie are very much high fantasy. The wizards, the dwarfs, the goblins, the orcs, the giant eagles, the hobbits and the dragons. Magic abound. Gandalf is just the wandering wizard, Bilbo is just a hobbit from Bag End. This story of the Hobbit gives more insight to what Middle-Earth was, more than LOTR, you got a little taste in Fellowship, but Hobbit is still living within the old rules of trolls and the dangers of roaming the world. Anybody who has read the Hobbit it is a different kind of read. Tolkien is a story teller in the world, and interacts with the reader. The Hobbit just has some mysticism that LOTR just doesn't convey as well. I am re-reading Hobbit to make sure my conjecture is correct.
Looking forward to the Peter Jackson version of the Hobbit, they bring back Legolas for crying out loud, how cool is that!?
Squealing quietly like a school girl for the rest of the series...
SWS out.
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From what I've heard, the movie includes elements of the Silmarillion, which is why there are bits you may not recognize from the book.
ReplyDeleteI don't know about you, but I think Jackson relied a little bit too much on CGI this time around - the mountain giant fight at the end started to feel a little to Michael Bay for my taste. And some of the scenes seemed a little silly - the slapstick between the trolls, the gratuitous use of hungry hungry dwarves, &c. I get that Jackson is trying to make it more accessible to a younger audience, but at the expense of the maturity of the movie? I think that Jackson could have trimmed some of the fat off the film *cough* every scene with Radagast *cough* and made it a bit shorter, too - I was getting a little impatient by the end of the movie.
The plan being two movies, and bing! hey, get a hold of Tolkien's son, let's make three! I actually like Radagast... Watching this from the view that Jackson is actually bringing in more of Middle-Earth lore is kind of appreciated in my opinion. Just wish the run time was a little leaner. The Hobbit is a less serious book in general. Thorin in the book is just another dwarf; in the movie he is glorified, you notice the difference in the first chapter of the book.
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