06/04/2013 (0 of 1 found this helpful)

Pseudo-epic prequel of the epic LOTR

Peter Jackson is back! The Hobbit: An unexpected Journey , is really unexpected. His previous blockbuster epic LOTR (Lord of the Rings) ended with a brilliant mark. Now he has entered to bring back the prequel. I am right. The Hobbit is a prequel to the LOTR. With a hefty runtime of 169 minutes, The Hobbit is a patience tester. The real feeling of it being the prequel, comes when Golem arrives on screen. Until then, the gone 120 minutes seemed too idiotic and rather forceful with back to back action scenes at every interval. I cared for the purpose here. For example: Bilbo Baggins played by Martin Freeman, spends his time in his house with unwanted guests fighting and singing in the dinner table that runs for forty five minutes into the movie. Where is the fun? What is the purpose? There ...

Rating of
2.5/4 

03/27/2013 (0 of 0 found this helpful)

Hoping for next films to be far better :)

Suddenly became a part of a journey with thirteen other dwarves, Bilbo Baggins finds himself on an adventure he never expected.

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I can't remember why I didn't expect this movie to be as fun as it is. Maybe I thought it would be an adventure-packed one, though I am not saying that it failed on an adventure category. Gollum, oh my! He is so cute on this movie, I think his parts were the funniest and most enjoyable scene in the movie.

As a prequel to a very famous trilogy, I felt like this movie fell short in some aspects yet still managed to make all the viewers enjoy the film. I saw the trilogy (LOTR) and in terms of action and adventure perse, this first installment of the hobbit seemed to save something for the next installment. Yes, we all know that a single book is set to b...

Rating of
3/4 

02/27/2013 (1 of 1 found this helpful)

Fun with Dwarves

I found the movie to be exceptionally well done. I loved Martin Freeman as Bilbo, just a fanatic casting choice. He has the right feel of average and extraordinary. This was always my favorite of the books, may be because I love dwarves, and I feel they did a great job with it. I personally like that they are taking their time telling the story, but I could see that being an issue with less devoted fans. The Hobbit is funnier and lighter than the Lord of the Rings, but that is something I've always liked about it. I hope people with stick with the story, which is one of the great straight adventure stories. On a technical note they did a fantastic job getting all the heights to be right in every single scene. It is really very remarkable. Can't wait for more dwarves!

Rating of
4/4 

01/05/2013 (0 of 1 found this helpful)

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey review

The only characters worth investing your time on are Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman), Gandalf the Grey (Ian McKellen) and Thorin Oakenshield. This reviewer feels the picture suffers due to its length (trying to rush the characters or just plain overwriting), overloaded action sequences (wish in this raters opinion was missing from Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring)/characters, emphasis on visual effects rather than appropriate plot points and the sluggish pace in most scenes. On the positives: the score, certain camera direction, cinematography and screenplay were effective. Some nice quotes: Thorin - "Loyalty, honor, a willing heart, I can ask for no more than that." Gandalf - "It's the little things that are important! Love or an act of kindness that are the things that k...

Rating of
2.5/4 

12/30/2012 (0 of 0 found this helpful)

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012) Set sixty years before “The Lord of the Rings,” a Hobbit named, Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman), is picked by the wizard Gandalf (Ian McKellen) to journey across Middle Earth with thirteen Dwarves to reclaim their homeland from a giant dragon. I think the biggest problem with the film is that it tries to show too much - as if Director Peter Jackson tries to capture and film everything that happens in the book. Films based on books usually have to be cut back, because they would just be too long, but Jackson seems determined to make three films out of one single book. The film is way to lengthy, at times looks like a video game, and just doesn't quite have the soul and majesty of the Lord of the Rings films. I liked Martin Freeman as Bilbo, a sort o...

Rating of
3/4 

12/17/2012 (2 of 2 found this helpful)

"The Hobbit" is easily the best movie of the year

Peter Jackson has done it again, with an utterly brilliant adaption of the first third of the classic novel “The Hobbit”, augmented for the better with material from the Appendix of “Return Of The King.” Ignore the naysayers who say the movie is too slow (it’s not), technically deficient (it has some of the best special effects and production design ever put to film) and lacks emotional punch (try to keep dry eyed during the dwarf “hug” at the end of the movie). The movie is as close to perfect as possible. It starts exactly the way it should with an older Bilbo talking to Frodo just before the start of “Fellowship Of The Ring”, which includes an utterly fantastic flashback sequence involving the destruction of the Dwarven kingdom of Erabor by the dragon Smaug. There is another flas...

Rating of
4/4 

12/15/2012 (0 of 0 found this helpful)

The Best Lord of the Rings Film to Date

Note: I saw The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey in the standard 2-D 24fps format, rather than the 3-D or 48fps format.

You've likely heard of the surprising critical reaction to Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings prequel, The Hobbit. While the reviews have not been negative, they've been very mixed, and they're certainly not garnering the critical success of the first three films. If the mixed reaction from critics is keeping you from seeing The Hobbit, ignore what they say. The Hobbit tops all three of it's predecessors, and provides an engaging and entertaining experience for Tolkien fans and newcomers.

For those unfamiliar with the plot; here goes. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey is an adaption of the first 100 pages of J.R.R. Tolkien's book (The Hobbit). Bilbo Baggins, a peacef...

Rating of
3/4 

12/15/2012 (0 of 0 found this helpful)

Review - The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

Peter Jackson's The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey is a visually spectacular experience, jam-packed with tons of action and adventure. While it doesn't have as much clarity as the Lord of the Rings films, it's still a totally solid epic.

Like many of Peter Jackson's films, there are moments of greatness and moments of tediousness and boredom, notably in the first hour of the film. This leads me to the central problem with the movie - poor narrative structure. Jackson decides to stretch many of the sequences that play very little part in the rest of the movie. I remember saying to myself, "alright come on, let's get going," a couple times. Jackson and the script put a lot of depth in Bilbo and the leader of the thirteen dwarves, Thorin, but the supporting characters (mainly the rest of t...

Rating of
3/4 

12/15/2012 (0 of 0 found this helpful)

This Journey Feels a Bit Familiar

I was surprised at just how much The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey linked up with Fellowship of the Rings. Like the original movie, both films open on a history lesson: in Fellowship, it was the war vs. Sauron and how the one ring fell to man (and was soon after lost) only to land in the hands of a hobbit.... In The Hobbit, we see the great Dwarven kingdom of Erebor and the town Dale prosper until greed, and the arrival of a very angry dragon named Smaug, cause the kingdom to fall and people to scatter...

Both films feature the cross-country trip of a group of companions: The Fellowship of the Rings has it's, well, fellowship and Hobbit has 13 Dwaves, the Wizard Gandalf and the reluctant Hobbit Bilbo Baggins. Both groups face numerous threats and battles along the way - both groups hav...

Rating of
3/4