I thought it was wonderful I gave five out of five stars. Chris Evans was way better in this than Captian America’s.
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Granted, that’s probably hyperbole on my part, but I came out of Desolation of Smaug feeling pretty sickened by it.
In the book, the bit where Bilbo helps the dwarves escape by putting them into barrels and sending them down the river is both clever and brave, and yet it still seems as if he’d bungled it, somehow. The elves don’t realize they’ve escaped until it’s too late to catch them. It’s precisely not the dwarves gloriously fighting their way out, and it’s a bit comic, with Bilbo and the dwarves finally washing up in Laketown, all sick. It’s the perfect example of how Bilbo solves problems throughout the story, and how neither Bilbo nor the dwarves, but only Gandalf, appreciates it until the end. All that’s lost in the movie version.
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I was just now reminded of Big Hero 6, which I thought was very good. My stepsons and I enjoyed it immensely.
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Feh. I was with the guy until his unqualified love of the profoundly disappointing Godzilla (the first actually boring entry in the entire sixty-year franchise) followed immediately by his tepid regard for Guardians of the Galaxy (which, while not without flaws, was easily the best comic book movie of the year).
And then. Oooohhh, and then.
He dares to put the nearly content-free Star Wars teaser ahead of two sublime and utterly thrilling Fury Road teasers. That’s purest horseshit. The Force Awakens may well turn out to be a perfectly cromulent movie, but when a teaser trailer is released less than a month after completion of principal photography of an FX-heavy extravaganza like any Star Wars movie, there really isn’t gonna be anything to see. And there wasn’t. I don’t blame Abrams, I blame the time frame. But honestly, there is practically nothing of interest in the Force Awakens trailer, whereas the two Fury Road teasers gave me my full $12 of entertainment in advance. I practically feel like I should buy a ticket whether or not I actually ever see the movie.
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Is Fury Road a straight remake of The Road Warrior? That’s what the trailer gave me the impression it was.
Nah, I believe it is meant to take place between the events of the first two movies. Though I can’t be sure; he wrecks The Last of the V8 Interceptors in The Road Warrior and seems to do so in similar fashion in the Fury Road trailers, so maybe it is a sort-of remake.
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1 bajillion times this.
Yes, and no. My understanding is it’s a reboot/prequel kind of dealie.
I want to know more about the amplified band-truck, and the fate of the guitarist (who looks limp n one of the brief shots).
To be fair, that part of the story doesn’t feature Bilbo very prominently.
I’m with you; I defended nearly every change Fran Walsh and Peter Jackson made to LOTR, but really can’t on The Hobbit. I won’t even excuse it with him stepping in at the last minute to replace Guillermo del Toro. It’s just…really, I appreciate the effort to make it similar in scale and tone to their take on LOTR, but I felt like it fell flat.
The completely CG Billy Connolly was pretty impressive, though. I don’t care what the haters say, that took artistic skill.
My wife and I went to see Hobbit one day, and Into The Woods the next; I definitely enjoyed Into The Woods more, Johnny Depp notwithstanding.
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Though it certainly looks like that in the movie, I believe in the comic (its based on a French comic from the 80’s in case you didn’t know), the train is supposed to be thousands of cars so the experiences in the individual train cars are not necessarily linear… I could be wrong though. Regardless, I think it is a pretty good anti-capitalist allegory, too.
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I so love that movie, but it is one I am always afraid to recommend to friends.
Since I can’t afford $15+ for a movie ticket often I don’t go to to many. I did love Guardians mostly cause it was fun and my inner 10 year old was thrilled completely with it. This movie is a modern version of Flash Gordon, Buck Rogers, Roy Rogers, or whatever you want and it didn’t pretend to be anything more than that but with better effects.
The Hobbit part 3, well yeah glad I saw it on the big screen with my kid and it was cool to find out what Gandalf was up to while he was away, but man that really should have been 2 movies not three. The first one I had some feeling of well they could have cut this bit and that bit down but it didn’t feel like the 3 hour movie it was. This one did feel it.
I did not know that. Thanks!
The CG Billy Connolly was really impressive. After all of the CG creatures running around, I’d like to think I can tell what’s real and what’s fake, but my friends and I had to seriously debate if Dáin was CG or not.
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