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Originally Posted by Beast
Appealing to Benny Hill fans with fast motion doesn't really sound like it would speak to younger people. As if they know who Benny Hill is.  |
At this point, anybody who's stepping up with "Fast motion" jokes is just plain admitting they haven't seen the movie (or HFR version) yet.
I have, and I've already posted the comparison to those snooty Fathom HD Met Live operas already in another thread. You've at least seen the trailers for THOSE, haven't you?
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Originally Posted by Grand Bob
IMO there is a quality missing from this film that was present in the LotR films. It is difficult to describe, but there seems to be a lack of inspiration, completion, or urgency that I sensed in the LotR films, where most of the scenes seemed to be extensively considered and carefully composed.
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I don't want to compare to Wolverine in terms of "Prequel anally obsessed with backstory-reffing every single aspect of the better-known first film", it wasn't
that bad--
More to one of the better Narnia movies, where there was pretty extensive padding and "ramping up" simple children's-book scenes to Epic level, by giving every single unexplained motivation Deep Subplot Significance, and you could tell what had been added.
Here, with the need to both expand the movie and bring it into line with the Trilogy, it settled into the rhythm of:
- 1) Book chapter
2) Added Deep-Subplot Establishing scene
3) Book chapter
4) Trilogy character callback cameo
5) Book chapter of peril, followed by "cavalry" of dwarves rushing to rescue against epic CGI hordes, with orchestra blaring the Misty Mountains theme
(Repeat as needed)
It's certainly the
least of the now four movies (pushing up Two Towers), but even least is...pretty good.
(My complaint, apart from the un-darkening of Riddles, was that they threw away Smaug's "Thieves! Fire! Murder!" line by giving it away to Radagast, rather than save it for his big moment in the second movie.)
Probably because Smaug technically doesn't
say it in the book, but it's still one of the most true-to-life depictions of a dragon's thought processes I've yet read in a fantasy novel.
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