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| Registered: October 6, 2008 |  Posts: 1,932 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Mole: Quote:
One of my friends saw it, his only comment was "too many elves".....  Reminds me of the one-line review of Avatar: "Dances with smurfs." | | | | Last edited: by CalebAndCo |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 1,796 |
| | Posted: | | | | I'm an avid Tolkien fan, also, got the all the books, even a book of maps and all the DVDs.
I won't see it in the theaters. But will buy the DVD's. | | | We don't need stinkin' IMDB's errors, we make our own.
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 5,491 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Srehtims: Quote:
I'm an avid Tolkien fan, also, got the all the books, even a book of maps and all the DVDs.
I won't see it in the theaters. But will buy the DVD's. this is the one response I was looking for .. Can 48 FPS be transferred to Blu Ray? ... or would that be an entirely different animal ( DVD/BR player) .... | | | In the 60's, People took Acid to make the world Weird. Now the World is weird and People take Prozac to make it Normal.
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  | | Posts: 1,272 |
| | Posted: | | | | Good question. From my quick search it appears that the current standard is that it can't, but from what I've seen there is speculation that it might be able to at some point. My question is the 48 FPS running on 120 HZ TV, I guess they could run it at 96HZ to avoid any sort of pulldown? Also if possible, would it need it's own disc? Or could you use the same encode and run it at 24fps?
Stil not sure if I 'like' HFR, but am glad I experienced The Hobbit in it. | | | HDTV: 52" Toshiba Regza 52XV545U AVR: Onkyo TR-707
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: |  Posts: 3,436 |
| | Posted: | | | | I have seen it yesterday. I am on the camp saying it is too long. The Hobbit is the shortest book of the four and in my opinion not even adding the remaining appendixes from the other books can warrant to make this a trilogy which might end up even longer than the previous one. What reviewer Kermode pointed out, at the end of this film they are about half way through the book already... That said, I certainly enjoyed myself watching it. Once it gets going, which takes a while, it is fun to see those familiar characters again; Gandalf was always one of my favourites. Due to above-mentioned issues there was a few spots where the film slowed down unnecessarily, but then it usually quickly recovered with yet another action set piece. The large amount of characters is a bit confusing and difficult to keep track of. Martin Freeman, Ian McKellen, Andy Serkis and that dude playing the dwarf leader were all great. An extended cut of this...?  It'll probably the version I'll get, but I really don't see the point. Again it was Kermode who pointed out, his feeling was that this is not a pure money-grab, Jackson seems genuinely enthusiastic about the material and apparenly simply wants to squeeze to much out of it as possible, as he will not be able to return to it in the future. Side note: in his interview with BBC's Simon Mayo Jackson pointed out that a) he is stil due to direct the second TinTin film and b) entertains the idea to go back to his low-budget horror roots after that. | | | Achim [諾亞信； Ya-Shin//Nuo], a German in Taiwan.
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Reputation: |  Posts: 1,819 |
| | Posted: | | | | I haven't seen this yet as I said; but my understanding was that the first two films in the trilogy will deal with the material in the book and the third film will be from the appendices and notes that Tolkien had. I'm sure that's what I read. @ya_shin...."that dude playing the dwarf leader"!!! ( ) That would be Richard Armitage, my friend. Very sexy star of Elizabeth Gaskill's North & South, Spooks and other very British fare. |
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| Registered: May 26, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 2,878 |
| | Posted: | | | | I think we're going to see the material from the appendices and notes in all of the films. Just my opinion mind you. But they've already dealt with some of it in the first one: Dol Guldur, the White Council, Radagast, none of that is from The Hobbit. | | | If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 3,436 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Pantheon: Quote:
@ya_shin...."that dude playing the dwarf leader"!!! ( ) That would be Richard Armitage, my friend. Very sexy star of Elizabeth Gaskill's North & South, Spooks and other very British fare. Ah, yes, that's the one. But with all that beard in the way his sexiness was less obvious... | | | Achim [諾亞信； Ya-Shin//Nuo], a German in Taiwan.
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 1,796 |
| | Posted: | | | | Did I see Gollum with blues eyes? Could he be a relative, but blues have only been around for 6,000 to 10,000 years so say scientists. | | | We don't need stinkin' IMDB's errors, we make our own.
Ineptocracy, You got to love it.
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| Registered: March 29, 2007 | Reputation:  | | Posts: 2,737 |
| | Posted: | | | | I saw it yesterday in HFR 3D and the picture has pluses and minuses, but for me most of it was a plus. Oh, yeah, the movie was 9.75/10. The -.25 was for the things they changed from the book and in my opinion could have remained true to the book without costing anything.  | | | | Marty - Registered July 10, 2004, User since 2002. |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 2,293 |
| | Posted: | | | | Saw the 2D and loved it... though still not sure of it being 3 films as it seems to be a lot of the way through the book already (not that I remember the book that well!)... and as the next one is The Desolation of Smaug I really can't see what's going to happen in the 3rd as I remember it finishing after the Smaug bit.
I may see it again in 3D after Christmas to compare and look at the 48FPS transfer | | | | It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong |
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| Registered: May 26, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 2,878 |
| | Posted: | | | | After Smaug in the book is The Battle of Five Armies. | | | If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
-- Thorin Oakenshield |
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| Registered: May 19, 2007 | Reputation:  | | Posts: 5,917 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Voltaire53: Quote:
I may see it again in 3D after Christmas to compare and look at the 48FPS transfer I'm pretty likely to see the movie in IMAX 3D so the question may be moot but if you do see it again in HFR, do let us in on your thoughts about it. |
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| Registered: May 19, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 5,917 |
| | Posted: | | | | I watched the HFR version last night. Overall: I really liked the HFR tech. With the high frame rate, there was far less motion blur so the movie was sharp & in focus. One of the things I don't like about the standard frame rate is all the fast-paced action scenes are blurry, not so with the HFR format. It's like watching it in real life. The HFR version was in RealD 3D format and while I'm not a fan of that format, it seemed to help and cause the eyes to work less to let you enjoy the 3D effect. |
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