*singing* Far over the Misty Mountains cold, to dungeons deep and caverns old, the pines were roaring in the height, the wind were roaring in the night, the fire was red it flaming spread, the trees like torches blazed with light.
Plot: Bilbo Baggins once was a popular and respected hobbit before the wizard, Gandalf comes to him asking to come on an adventure. Eventually this leads to thirteen dwarves lead by Thorin Oakenshield asking Bilbo to specifically come on their adventure to try to face the dragon Smaug and regain their kingdom. So Bilbo eventually agrees which starts his many adventures toward the Lonely Mountain.
Okay I'm going to start this reviewing with just saying the two billion, zillion dollar questions. 1) Is this a good movie - is it generally well done and enjoyable and all that jazz? Yes. 2) Is it as spectacular and classic as the Lord of the Rings Trilogy? No. I mean most of it is what things are suppose to be when it comes to Lord of the Rings/The Hobbit were Peter Jackson is concerned. It's mostly slowly paced, the visuals (despite having maybe too much CGI) were beautifully done, the characters were a lot of fun - Thorin was very well set up, Gandalf was a little more of a bad-a, Martin Freeman was a good Bilbo, and Gollum was possibly even better in both acting and visuals then he was in the Lord of the Rings trilogy - and it had an interesting way of giving us different places, different versions of wargs and orcs, and even some new creatures that were awesome. And I can never get enough of the song "Far Over the Misty Mountains Cold". And they also bring up a couple of things outside of the story of The Hobbit that might be connected with The Lord of the Rings or just brought up to learn a little more about Middle Earth. But there are some flaws that must be pointed out. Firstly, I say MOSTLY slowly paced because the first... half hour or so was a little forced and had a couple of scenes that either had the be quickened or not there at all. Also there were a lot of things that were too similar to The Lord of the Rings when it came to things like action and some of the music. But I think the biggest thing that kind of ruins this film is if you see it when it's 48 frames per second. In some ways it's cool but it just kills some of the magic that this film's trying to bring. I mean I saw it in 48 frames and now I want to find a good time soon to see it again only this time with it at 24 frames. And without giving too much away, after seeing the film you will end up curious yet nervous at the same time with where they're going with the other two films.
And that's my review for The Hobbit: The Unexpected Journey. It has a number of flaws that keep it from being as majestic of a film as the Lord of the Rings trilogy are, but it still is an enjoyable film that I liked enough to want to own it on DVD or Blue-Ray. If you haven't seen it yet but you're going to, make sure that you see it on 24 frames per second and NOT 48, and if you did see it on 48 frames, I recommend you should see it again on 24. Otherwise, just enjoy what this movie brought and hope with all your might that the next two will at least be roughly just as good as this of not much better.
Good review. Way, way too long, but that was expected (and there are two more movies!). Not convinced on 48 fps, looks beautiful but gets very weird in action. I guess that’s just how I feel and accepted it as.
ReplyDeleteYeah pretty much. And Thank you!
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