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[stefan86]

 

[PhlegethonVeins]

 

[Belac]

 

[stefan86]

 

[Belac]

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[PhlegethonVeins]

 

[DarkGift]

Just watched the Hobbit - An Unexpected Journey... I hate saying this so much because I went in expecting to completely enjoy it, but it's not a very good movie, and it is mostly because the movie looks so damn fake. Seriously what happened? In LOTR Peter Jackson used real actors, props, sets and camera tricks as often as possible to make it feel like a real world, and for some reason almost the ENTIRE Hobbit movie is painfully obvious green screens and fake looking CGI. Almost every Orc and Goblin you see is 100% CGI instead of a real actors interacting with other real actors and environments, and it just looks cheap as hell even though it clearly wasn't cheap to make. One of the most obvious scenes was when The Dwarves were surrounded by elvish horsemen outside of Rivendell. You could almost see the outline of the greenscreen around the characters and the horses in the background were very blurry and clearly not in the same space as the dwarves. It almost looked like there was a giant TV screen playing behind the characters, it lacked depth it looked flat for lack of a better word.

This is the George Lucas approach to film making man, I feel like I just watched The Phantom Menace again... LOTR was such a massive achievement with so many moving parts in production and so many departments working together to create a real world that completely sucked you in. If this were some other movie these things might have been okay but this just did not translate. I can look past CGI and effects most of the time but not when a movie of this magnitude is filmed almost entirely in a studio.

I'm really disappointed, I had no idea this whole movie would look so utterly fake that I couldn't actually become immersed, my suspension of disbelief was constantly broken to the point I wasn't able to enjoy it as a movie. I felt like just spent the entire movie being removed and picking out terrible shots. Half the Dwarves look like something you would see at some kind of renaissance festival since you can very clearly see the fake beards (the edges of the beards where the beard meets skin were so clean cut you could tell it was stuck on), while the other half looked passable to great.

This kind of filming is fine for some movies if they are supposed to look that way stylistically such as 300 which was perfect filmed like that. As a follow up to a masterpiece like LOTR full of practical effects mixed in with appropriate and effective CGI this was a total flop for me and I'm actually happy I didn't waste money at the theatre. I imagine seeing it in 3D+48fps would have completely taken me out of the world and made it that much worse. Desolation of Smaug will probably stay under my radar, it just wasn't an enjoyable experience constantly being removed from the movie because of painfully obvious effects and green screen sets.

I agree with everything you just said. Also, I watched it in 3D+48fps, it was horrible

 

[Kerlif]

And I watched it in the cinema

 

[DarkGift]

me too

 

[Kerlif]

OK you win. 3D is for suckers

 

[Belac]

Should I watch the entire extended LOTR trilogy, or should I watch the original Star Wars Trilogy? I have not seen either Trilogy in a long while, and I used to make it a point to watch each once a year!

 

[End of Glory]

Should I watch the entire extended LOTR trilogy, or should I watch the original Star Wars Trilogy? I have not seen either Trilogy in a long while, and I used to make it a point to watch each once a year!

Love both but go with Star Wars! Classic and the only movie(s) I like that contains space, planet traveling and so on. And Liam Neeson rules.

 

[Belac]

Liam Neeson does rule, but I don't plan on doing the Prequels. Although I don't hate them as much as a lot of fans (Well I did hate Phantom Menace besides Darth Maul's scenes), they just don't have the magic and great cast connection of the original trilogy. I will say I enjoy Attack of the Clones, and I think Revenge of the Sith somewhat redeems the prequels. Also Obiwan is awesome, he literally saves the first three episodes from mediocrity in my opinion.

I'm kind of leaning towards Star Wars though I admit. It's tough to beat the original trilogy

 

[End of Glory]

Liam Neeson does rule, but I don't plan on doing the Prequels. Although I don't hate them as much as a lot of fans (Well I did hate Phantom Menace besides Darth Maul's scenes), they just don't have the magic and great cast connection of the original trilogy. I will say I enjoy Attack of the Clones, and I think Revenge of the Sith somewhat redeems the prequels. Also Obiwan is awesome, he literally saves the first three episodes from mediocrity in my opinion.

I'm kind of leaning towards Star Wars though I admit. It's tough to beat the original trilogy

Well I love all Star Wars movies. They've been through my whole life from the age of (around) 6-7 'till now. Otherwise you can watch some Batman. Who doesn't love the humor of the Joker?

 

[stefan86]

 

[DarkGift]

episode 1 2 is ok and 3 is pretty good

by batman i hope you mean the dark knight

 

[stefan86]

kuket

 

[End of Glory]

by batman i hope you mean the dark knight

Ofc I do

 

[wandering_taco]

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Me and my brother have always thought it sounds like he growls STAR WARS. Now sometimes we'll just randomly growl STAR WARS at each other and bust out laughing.

 

[stefan86]

misheard lyrics <3

and that CD rules