The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey - Review Thread (Spoilers)

[Mahatma]

Originally Posted by TheMan

That guy is hilarious. He's also ****ing nuts though.

I remember him saying after having a motorcycleaccident that he was lucky he didn't wear a helmet,or it could have been serious Wonder what he's doing now,besides talking to himself

[Mandalorian]

Originally Posted by Mahatma

I remember him saying after having a motorcycleaccident that he was lucky he didn't wear a helmet,or it could have been serious Wonder what he's doing now,besides talking to himself

That made me sad, because he was a competent dramatic actor until his accident. It's a shame where he ended up, but...

His ramblings are almost always hilarious.

[Duffy12]

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Box Office Mojo All Time Box Office


#06 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King $1,119.9

#21 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers $926.0

#28 The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey $886.2

#31 The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring $871.5

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[Will21st]

Originally Posted by Duffy12

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Box Office Mojo All Time Box Office


#06 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King $1,119.9

#21 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers $926.0

#28 The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey $886.2

#31 The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring $871.5

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IIRC it is still to be released in China,so it will probably beat Two Towers.

[frogmort]

Originally Posted by Duffy12

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Box Office Mojo All Time Box Office


#06 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King $1,119.9

#21 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers $926.0

#28 The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey $886.2

#31 The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring $871.5

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It's kind of funny that my favorite movie (not transfer) is at the very bottom. It came out before Peter Jackson jumped the Sharkû.

[Blu Titan]

Originally Posted by Will21st

IIRC it is still to be released in China,so it will probably beat Two Towers.

No doubt it will go over a billion worldwide.

[Ernest Rister]

Originally Posted by frogmort

It's kind of funny that my favorite movie (not transfer) is at the very bottom. It came out before Peter Jackson jumped the Sharkû.

It's also not adjusted for ticket price inflation. FOTR is 12 years old and predates specialty auditorium ticket prices (IMAX, 3D, etc.). Not that it matters, just trying to tell you not to feel discouraged. Regardless, I think FOTR is the best of all four.

[KarmaNL]

Apart from some silly out of place jokes and a little too much singing, I thought it was pretty good. Really liked the ending too.

Might even say I enjoyed it more than LOTR

That said, a lot of it seemed very stretched out and slowed down

[Will21st]

Originally Posted by Blu Titan

No doubt it will go over a billion worldwide.

Yeah,you're most probably right.

[JamesKurtovich]

Originally Posted by KarmaNL

Might even say I enjoyed it more than LOTR

I enjoyed it just as much as LOTR. I can't wait to add it to the collection.

Although I'd still take FOTR any day. Jackson really put his all into that one.

[Kaiju]

Originally Posted by JamesKurtovich

I enjoyed it just as much as LOTR. I can't wait to add it to the collection.

Although I'd still take FOTR any day. Jackson really put his all into that one.

Agreed. Easily the best of the trilogy, IMO.

[mjbethancourt]

Originally Posted by Grand Bob

I thought it was a certainty going into the theater, given the wonderful Fellowship of the Ring prologue - showing each race with their rings of power - the Elves with the three, the Dwarves with the seven, Men with the nine, and Sauron with the One, that we would see the rings (the unifying element between The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings) in action. And now the Hobbit movie era where the nine and the three are active, the only Dwarf ring mentioned in any detail by Tolkien is active - is overlooked. I found it especially odd that

[Show spoiler] at the White Council, one of the extremely few instances where all three Elven rings are present at the same time (perhaps since their creator Celebrimbor relinquished them), that no mention is made of them. But we did get a bunny sled.

You know, Bob, it occurs to me that there is a fair chance that they could still be saving this for the 2nd film, at least regarding the Dwarf ring. We're not really to a point where Gandalf can just run off and beat up The Necromancer. Something more needs to happen to get the White Council into action. Perhaps it could be the discovery that The Necromancer has taken the Dwarf Ring from the mad dwarf lord, which would raise the interest of Saruman.

[Blu Myers]

Finally saw The Hobbit in the theater last night. I believe I was seeing the 24FPS version...2D. First off, never read the book, love the LotR movie trilogy. With that out of the way, I wasn't "moved" by this one like I was with Fellowship. It kind of seemed all over the place and I couldn't get into the characters as well. I also agree that the first hour was kind of weak. I'm hoping a second viewing will bring me around.

Having said that, this film had some amazing visuals and special effects, which I really enjoyed. The action sequences were fantastic.

My honest rating would be a 3.5/5.

[Blu Ian]

http://www.elendilion.pl/2011/10/06/...eaks-sindarin/

[budious]

It's really hard to have any respect for IMDB when 200k idiots can up vote this crap of a film to an 8.3, if the owners had any sense of shame they would ban all 200k accounts and scrap every vote every one of those users who gave the film more than a 6 had made on any other movies.

Horrible movie, money grab, proof that stupid people will watch anything and like it.

[chris_sc77]

Originally Posted by budious

It's really hard to have any respect for IMDB when 200k idiots can up vote this crap of a film to an 8.3, if the owners had any sense of shame they would ban all 200k accounts and scrap every vote every one of those users who gave the film more than a 6 had made on any other movies.

Horrible movie, money grab, proof that stupid people will watch anything and like it.

Sorry that you dont like it but the vast majority of filmgoers worldwide seem to really really enjoy it. It was very good cinemascores from audiences and more favorable critical reviews that unfavorable critical reviews. It is also one of the most successuful films of all time. If this was indeed just a money grab and the filmmakers didnt care about the material we certainly would not have gotten a massive 170 minute epic. We would have gotten something half as long that had very little effort into it.

[NYorker]

Originally Posted by budious

It's really hard to have any respect for IMDB when 200k idiots can up vote this crap of a film to an 8.3, if the owners had any sense of shame they would ban all 200k accounts and scrap every vote every one of those users who gave the film more than a 6 had made on any other movies.

Horrible movie, money grab, proof that stupid people will watch anything and like it.

You don't happen to be a film critic for CNN, do you...?

Seriously, though, calling this film 'crap' is exaggerating a bit, no? there's a fair list of films that can be called that before getting to The Hobbit...

[Duffy12]

Originally Posted by budious

It's really hard to have any respect for IMDB when 200k idiots can up vote this crap of a film to an 8.3, if the owners had any sense of shame they would ban all 200k accounts and scrap every vote every one of those users who gave the film more than a 6 had made on any other movies.

Horrible movie, money grab, proof that stupid people will watch anything and like it.

What about our own poll at the top of the page, plus the Rotten Tomatos audience poll too?

Do you not respect them also?

[Grand Bob]

Originally Posted by mjbethancourt

You know, Bob, it occurs to me that there is a fair chance that they could still be saving this for the 2nd film, at least regarding the Dwarf ring. We're not really to a point where Gandalf can just run off and beat up The Necromancer. Something more needs to happen to get the White Council into action. Perhaps it could be the discovery that The Necromancer has taken the Dwarf Ring from the mad dwarf lord, which would raise the interest of Saruman.

I hope you're right, as the White Council segment was lethargic and largely wasted. I'm not even sure that the segment deserves to be rated as a "White Council", but more as a "reintroduction to the audience of familar cast characters from the LotR movies". That is a symptom of the problems with this film. Despite the good action scenes and special effects, there are just too many "Why did they do that?, Why didn't they ... ?, or What the... ?" moments in the movie. Since this is the first of the three Hobbit movies and primarily a set-up film, one has a feeling that the last two will alleviate many of these problems. However, The Fellowship of the Ring, as the first of the three LotR movies did not suffer in this manner and from a story perspective was the BEST of the three. What has me concerned is that with each movie, the screenplay trend has been less Tolkien, more Jackson/Boyens. If this progression can be reversed, the remaining two films will put the franchise back on track and the trilogy will be a classic.

[stvn1974]

Originally Posted by budious

It's really hard to have any respect for IMDB when 200k idiots can up vote this crap of a film to an 8.3, if the owners had any sense of shame they would ban all 200k accounts and scrap every vote every one of those users who gave the film more than a 6 had made on any other movies.

Horrible movie, money grab, proof that stupid people will watch anything and like it.

While I liked the Hobbit I think that The Dark Knight being number one goes more to the point of movie goers being idiots. But we all have our own likes and dislikes.