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    The Hobbit
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    Looks both distinct and similar to LOTR. I would chalk much of that to the digital photography and lighter tone.
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    The game and the soundtrack are both incredible.
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    It is fantasy, that or science fiction. It's still an inherently fictional idea with fictional elements. Nolan just grounds it all in a way that comparatively feels closer to reality than the previous Batman movies did. This isn't a new idea; Donner did essentially the same thing with Superman. The difference was that had a more lighthearted tone and Superman is a more fantastical character so it cannot be grounded as much.
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    Anybody who tried to actually do what Batman does would end up in jail or dead within a week. There is no way for a man to really do that even if he is a billionaire with extraordinary means and willpower. And that's not even getting into the fact that most of his arsenal doesn't exist. What Nolan did with his trilogy was essentially a magic trick or illusion; taking something that is totally fictional and making it almost feel like it could be real. But that doesn't make the character or the films realistic.
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    Superman isn't realistic. Then again, Batman isn't either.
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    It boggles my mind how good the show is. If they stick the ending, and I'm sure they will, it'll go down as one of the greatest pieces of television.
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    Though that is a contradiction of Sam's mission as told to him by Gandalf in Fellowship, this moment never bothered me. It's an instance of defeat. Sam is following Frodo's orders.
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    The Dark Knight The Dark Knight Rises
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    Sad news. Very underrated actor. I wish him the best.
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    "Heaven's Light/Hellfire" - Hunchback of Notre Dame
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    That's absolutely right, especially about Zimmer's score.
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    Better luck next time.
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    I'll reserve judgement until I see more, especially the first actual movie just to understand what Jackson's doing with the whole thing. I want to love this, but decisions like this just baffle me. I'm still have hope, but I'm cautious.
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    I thought it strengthened the character, personally. After having a main antagonist in TDK that was hardly even a person at all with Joker without any room for sympathy, it was nice to have a villain with some semblance of a heart underneath the monstrous exterior. I thought Hardy really sold it with the tears. It also kind of puts Bane's motives in a whole new light in so much as he was trying to honor Talia through fulfilling what her father set out to do. Yet he hated her father because he was expelled from the League?? No logic. At no point does he express hatred for Ra's. He explicitly states more than once that he wants to fulfill Ghul's destiny by destroying Gotham.
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    Both fit their respective characters and work in the movie. As a standalone listen I'd say they're about equal as well.
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    I thought it strengthened the character, personally. After having a main antagonist in TDK that was hardly even a person at all with Joker without any room for sympathy, it was nice to have a villain with some semblance of a heart underneath the monstrous exterior. I thought Hardy really sold it with the tears. It also kind of puts Bane's motives in a whole new light in so much as he was trying to honor Talia through fulfilling what her father set out to do.
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    I loved seeing the dwarven soldiers briefly in the latest production blog. The whole Battle of the Five Armies is the thing I'm most looking forward to, especially because of the dwarves.
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    The score was mixed too loud in the film. I've always felt that the music has fit the films even though they have never been as good as they could be. I've made peace with them.
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    After seeing this again my liking of it was cemented a lot more. The whole film felt much more cohesive the second time around, and characters that I thought were a bit underused suddenly felt much better handled. It still has issues and things that I'd would have done differently, but they weren't as detracting from the experience. I don't think it's totally necessary or useful to compare it to TDK, but if this isn't as good as that movie it isn't by a whole lot. The ending affected me even more. There's some mixed opinions regarding it now, but I think time will be kind to this movie, especially when people start looking at through the prism of its predecessors.
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    Saw this thing last night in IMAX. I'm still not completely sure what to think of it. I'm going to have to see it again. I definitely liked it, but I feel as though I need to reconcile a lot of what it did, namely with the sheer number of characters and plotting that it has. The ending threw me a bit for a loop and I wasn't sure if I was totally satisfied by it, but after sleeping on it and ruminating on it (which this film practically forces you to do) I've decided that it works very, very, well. I, for one, loved Bane. The voice had a great dichotomy to his appearance. I was shocked by how large and imposing he was on screen.
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    I think this release should have been longer. A few tracks are less than a minute long.
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    There's a real immaturity to that term.
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    Most if not all movies are adaptations of something else in one way or another. There isn't much difference between remaking a film and adapting a book into a film in that you are taking a piece of work and redoing, often with reinterpretation included. Yet usually when a book is adapted into a film there isn't a lot of bother given.
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