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idontunderstand:

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--- Quote from: idontunderstand on 28 Dec 2012, 14:43 ---Life of Pi. Well worth seeing, though I have to say I didn't get the ending at all.

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(click to show/hide)Anti-nihilism or anti-atheism
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No, I got the major point, I just didn't get what he meant by:

(click to show/hide)"It's the same way with God". What, of course we'd think the story with the tiger was better, we'd just seen a two-hour movie about it with fantastic special effects about it. If we'd seen the other story we would have preferred it... because it would have been the truth. Is that the way it is with God? You've gotta pretend miracles did happen? It doesn't make sense to me.

Lupercal:

--- Quote from: Bev on 29 Dec 2012, 00:49 ---Saw the Hobbit last night, and quite frankly, it's a piece of crap. Peter Jackson has really gone over the deep end with this one. It's far too long and stuffs in far too much crap that doesn't serve the story, just so Jackson can link it to the LOTR trilogy, instead of letting it stand on its own. This always should've been one family friendly movie and not so closely linked to the trilogy. Bilbo gets very little in the way of character development until his forced actions during the climax. The worst offenders are the cartoonish goblins and orcs that are renders in horrible CG instead of makeup, the goblin king comes off as horribly unbeleivable, while most of the action set pieces are set against fake backdrops. Hell, even the fire in the fireplace in Bilbos house was CG, it's just a horrid misuse of the technology that takes away from the grounded realism that the LOTR trilogy had with it's miniatures and make-up. Overall, it's a mess of a movie that doesn't have me excited at all for the next two films.

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I wouldn't go so far as to say its a piece of crap. I actually liked the fact that there was an amount of backstory involved. This was also a lot more "family friendly" than the Lord of the Rings. In what way was it linked to the original trilogy? The same characters are there (Gandalf, Elrond etc) and the beginning, I think, serves as a good jumping off point. Frodo is given "There and Back Again" or whatever its called by Bilbo at the end of Return of the King, so it seems only reasonable that Bilbo would be recollecting his adventure in this book.

Bilbo gets very little character development? I think he's given plenty of space throughout the film, to be honest. He was never a fighter - Tolkien made Bilbo a reluctant hero. Which is what I believe he was shown as throughout the film. I mean, Hobbits are pretty much the only characters we see actually develop over the entire film saga - everyone else is already pretty good at what they do.

I will agree that the CGI was misplaced and if you compare the lead Uruk-hai to the Pale Orc...one is a lot more believable than the other. As for the backdrops, I think Andy Serkis did a great job as second unit director. The action pieces are set against...New Zealand. I couldn't help noticing, again, the beautiful sweeping vistas and the wonderful untouched countryside that the country holds. There really is no other place on earth like NZ.

Carl-E:
I have to agree that the goblin king was a low point.  It wasn't so much the cgi blubber, but rather the voice - it just didn't sound right.  Not the pitch or timbre, though it seemed a bit high - my problem was the accent.  I realize (according to my daughter) that he's some well known NZ actor, but the voivce just didn't fit the character!  Why should the goblin king come off as a high society twit with a cruel streak? 

Bluesummers:

--- Quote from: Carl-E on 30 Dec 2012, 07:52 ---Why should the goblin king come off as a high society twit with a cruel streak? 

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Because he's the Goblin King, not the Goblin Earl of Sandwich.

I dunno, I haven't even seen it yet. :psyduck:

riccostar:
I need a French film to watch (in french) for a project.  Any ideas?

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