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  1. Glóin the Dark
    That was one of the most frustrating cinematic experiences of my life.
  2. Glóin the Dark
    I think the most frustrating cinematic experiences I've ever had were those of watching The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers and The Return of the King in the cinema for the first times.With The Hobbit, I'm already resigned to feeling deep dissatisfaction with a lot of aspects of the films. My main interest today is in 48fps experience - as well as finding out how the score is used in the film.
  3. Glóin the Dark
    That happened to me last year. "They're having problems ingesting the film into the system" said the cinema manager. I had to make a last minute decision whether to see the film at the low frame rate or take a refund. I opted for the latter and ran outside to get a taxi to the Odeon. Got there just minutes before the HFR film began...
  4. Glóin the Dark
    It's a pity that most 3D-glasses can only be worn one way round...
  5. Glóin the Dark
    The thought of long parts without music worries me. I found some parts of An Unexpected Journey to be jarringly unscored. Perhaps the most glaring example is the aerial shot with the sound of Wargs howling just before Radagast's attempt at a diversion begins; I always feel that some urgent and atmospheric music is need there to counteract the (already pretty severe) mundanity of the scene. The music begins a few seconds later, but, to my mind, the damage is already done. And that's just a short part without music.
  6. Glóin the Dark
    Ah! That makes more sense - I think I can imagine something fairly plausible for it now. *prays to Aulë that it's not about disastrous music editing*
  7. Glóin the Dark
    Bilbo or Lewya (or anybody else who's seen it!) - the word is that Sauron manifests himself in eye form when confronting Gandalf in Dol Guldur. How is this represented? I can only imagine a flaming eyeball hovering there in mid-air, which just seems silly.
  8. Glóin the Dark
    Cheers...sounds good. By the way, does he find the Arkenstone in this film?
  9. Glóin the Dark
    I've always thought it was quite a negative place anyway... Can you remember how "Inside Information" was used in the film? Does it begin before Bilbo and Smaug first interact, and what do the urgent passages towards the end relate to?
  10. Glóin the Dark
    That is brilliant! Especially "Beat It over the Misty Mountains Cold".
  11. Glóin the Dark
    That one's disconcerting, right enough - though not necessarily in a bad way.
  12. Glóin the Dark
    Yeah...he also consistently says "Shméagol". Anyone heard him mention Robin Smallburrow? Probably. The Appendices alone are worth it. I'll do the same as I did with AUJ, and skip buying the theatrical version and wait till the EE drops in price a bit. Ditto. And I remember by the time they got to doing all the ROTK docu stuff how familiar it all felt. Not sure I feel like wading through 9 hours of extra's for AUJ. The theatrical cut of AUJ was plenty long enough for me. The thing about the LOTR trilogy -- even if FOTR and ROTK played much better in their theatrical cuts -- the additions didn't really mar the experience. I wanted to learn more about the massive undertaking Jackson started back in 1999 and finished in 2003. It's just not the same with The Hobbit prequels. Jackson lost his sense of story pacing back with King Kong, and he never wants to kill his darlings anymore (i.e. drop superfluous scenes or character beats for the sake of dramatic pacing). I frankly don't want to endure the 15 minutes' worth of additions, there's far enough padding in the theatrical as it is. I've always found the extended edition of The Fellowship of the Ring to be vastly better than the theatrical one. Same with The Two Towers if you overlook the contemptible cut away to Fangorn following the "Where Is the Horse and the Rider?" monologue...
  13. Glóin the Dark
    I was wondering that myself. I think he must go out in disguise.
  14. Glóin the Dark
    All of the reviews say...
  15. Glóin the Dark
    With The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey last?
  16. Glóin the Dark
    12:40 on Friday for the first time. 16:30 on Friday for the second.
  17. Glóin the Dark
    I'm hoping for something like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SnhmTKGbsk
  18. Glóin the Dark
    On the basis of a quick look at the scores for some recent films, I'll guess that The Desolation of Smaug will settle (in the medium term) at about 8.5.
  19. Glóin the Dark
    I saw The Wrong Mans, and thought it surprisingly good.
  20. Glóin the Dark
    Yikes. I guess the music from the CD was all cut, then.
  21. Glóin the Dark
    That last one is amusing, given what we've heard in the soundtrack.
  22. Glóin the Dark
    It does indeed. And a straggler in the herd, at that.
  23. Glóin the Dark
    Breaking Bad. I like to be different.
  24. Glóin the Dark
    There was a link to a fake review posted on IMDB, but these latest spoilers seem authentic.
  25. Glóin the Dark
    We're here till take beck are wee mountain, so we are!
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