I haven't yet gone to see BoFA, and still don't know if I'm going to. I was *livid* over where they cut DoS and haven't gotten over it enough to bother with BoFA. The Galadriel stuff is the only thing tempting me at all.
But I mean, hell, you could cut the stupid barrel escape fight scene and drop half an hour right there easily. I'm pretty sure I could cut the whole thing down to a duology myself, and I know nothing about film editing. :p
I don't know if I'd go so far as 'livid' in my reaction, but I was definitely most pleased. It wasn't an ending, it was a stop.
[Very mild BoFA spoiler]And it was made worse, if possible, by the fact that Smaug's death came in the first 10 minutes of this film, before the title came up on the screen. It was a god damn prologue. *spit*
The Galadriel stuff is the only thing tempting me at all.
If you can find a clip at any point of just the Galadriel stuff, watch it. It's awesome. [Tiny strutural spoiler]And pretty much self-contained with no influence on the rest of the movie.
But I mean, hell, you could cut the stupid barrel escape fight scene and drop half an hour right there easily.
Agreed. Pretty much anything I would bill as 'make Legolas look awesome' is ripe for the cutting room floor IMO. :P
okay, okay, LIVID is probably an exaggeration, but I was genuinely pissed off. And yes, of course that spoiler thing happens immediately, because they were clearly five minutes away from it. *swears*
Yeah. Anyway. I live in the faint, if unrealistic, hope that among the various Director's Cuts, there will actually be a director's cut of The Hobbit. It only has to be about 90-120 minutes long, and it'd be wonderful. @.@
I can't say that the reviews I'm hearing about BoFA are making me want to rush out and do it (I did decide that I could potentially see the last one in theatres, since I definitely would have gone to see a single movie version).
Haha. :)
I was actually prepared to go see it on my own as my usual movie buddy put her foot down about seeing it in the theater, after the 'quality' of the first two (and especially the second one, I think). For me...well, it gets into those "completionist" tendencies I have--I saw the first five in the theater, I wanted to see the last one there, too (plus, the movies are cinematically gorgeous if nothing else and the big screen is the only way to really get the full impact).
My one concession was the one I make when I'm borderline about a movie--I saw it as a matinee. They got my money, but they didn't get all of it
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Kel and I went to see the first movie in the theaters and I was so bored. All the action-y stuff felt like I'd seen it before, and I had no emotional connection to the characters. I was really disappointed. Like you, I loved the LotR movies, so this trilogy was such a let-down. I did watch the second movie on DVD, but I honestly can't even remember most of it.
Iknorite? The only character I think I really connected to the entire time was Kili. And that may have partially been because I liked his actor before coming into this. :/
Long boring inconsequential action sequences are death.
Both previous movies were full of them and each could easily have 45-60 minutes cut from the by either eliminating unnecessary action sequences or trimming them down to only the relevant parts.
I'm not sure I'm going to see the 3rd on in the theater or not. I mean, sweeping battle scenes do look better on a big screen. But I'm still angry at the whole treatment of Smaug and the ridiculous battle seen in Erebor in the second movie that should never have happened *at all*.
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But I mean, hell, you could cut the stupid barrel escape fight scene and drop half an hour right there easily. I'm pretty sure I could cut the whole thing down to a duology myself, and I know nothing about film editing. :p
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I don't know if I'd go so far as 'livid' in my reaction, but I was definitely most pleased. It wasn't an ending, it was a stop.
[Very mild BoFA spoiler]And it was made worse, if possible, by the fact that Smaug's death came in the first 10 minutes of this film, before the title came up on the screen. It was a god damn prologue. *spit*
The Galadriel stuff is the only thing tempting me at all.
If you can find a clip at any point of just the Galadriel stuff, watch it. It's awesome. [Tiny strutural spoiler]And pretty much self-contained with no influence on the rest of the movie.
But I mean, hell, you could cut the stupid barrel escape fight scene and drop half an hour right there easily.
Agreed. Pretty much anything I would bill as 'make Legolas look awesome' is ripe for the cutting room floor IMO. :P
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Yeah. Anyway. I live in the faint, if unrealistic, hope that among the various Director's Cuts, there will actually be a director's cut of The Hobbit. It only has to be about 90-120 minutes long, and it'd be wonderful. @.@
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Haha. :)
I was actually prepared to go see it on my own as my usual movie buddy put her foot down about seeing it in the theater, after the 'quality' of the first two (and especially the second one, I think). For me...well, it gets into those "completionist" tendencies I have--I saw the first five in the theater, I wanted to see the last one there, too (plus, the movies are cinematically gorgeous if nothing else and the big screen is the only way to really get the full impact).
My one concession was the one I make when I'm borderline about a movie--I saw it as a matinee. They got my money, but they didn't get all of it ( ... )
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Both previous movies were full of them and each could easily have 45-60 minutes cut from the by either eliminating unnecessary action sequences or trimming them down to only the relevant parts.
I'm not sure I'm going to see the 3rd on in the theater or not. I mean, sweeping battle scenes do look better on a big screen. But I'm still angry at the whole treatment of Smaug and the ridiculous battle seen in Erebor in the second movie that should never have happened *at all*.
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