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swashbuckler332

Audio On the Run

May 02, 2013 19:35

Okay. I have made a decision that I am going to finish the edit on my [i]Lord of the Rings[/i] mix soon and be done with it. My enthusiasm for the project took a serious blow last year when the two Semajic files with the Livejournal entries I was preparing for the discs completely disappeared, negating all of my work on the program notes ( Read more... )

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glenniebun May 4 2013, 22:00:43 UTC

The Hobbit was...unfortunate. One of my favorite things about the Lord of the Rings films, particularly when approaching Fellowship as a non-fan, was the way they immersed the viewer in the world of Middle-earth by implication. The Hobbit takes the opposite approach, loading up with detail the viewer really doesn't need. How can it be necessary for Gandalf to literally sit down and name everyone's swords? Why does the beginning of the movie explain how Frodo wound up sitting under the tree at the beginning of Fellowship? That seems hardly in need of an origin story. Apparently there are going to be extended editions of these films as well; one wonders if they didn't accidentally release the extended version in theaters ( ... )

swashbuckler332 June 23 2013, 13:20:53 UTC

Indeed, the clumsiness of the entire project contrasts greatly with the assured touch of the other films. The movie felt exactly like what it was… Peter Jackson throwing something up on the screen because he figured everybody would go see whatever it was.

The performances were as good as could be expected given the circumstances. Freeman was great, and there are moments in the film that I feel were worthy of a good adaptation of The Hobbit. I'm not a big fan of fan edits, but this is one film that I think desperately needs one. Some enterprising soul will make a single three-and-a-half hour movie with all of this footage, and that's what I'll probably end up watching in the end.

Have you checked out Star Trek Continues? The first episode, “Pigrim of Eternity,” is up, and it's pretty awesome. They even got a shout-out from Steven Novella on this week's The Skeptic's Guide To the Universe.