Sunday, July 6, 2014

Unexpected Hobbit

I'm pretty disappointed with this.  Sure it's all epic and everything but it's not great movie making. I don't want you to leave stuff out, I don't want you to add stuff in. I don't want comic relief for fucking sure.  The visuals should have been dirtier and stupider.  The drama should have been based on dialog and situations not CG.  The definitive version is yet to be made.

It's so frustrating - multi-million dollar movie making and the overall tone is wrong,  the sense of historic age is said but not felt.   I don't see decades in the buildings and artifacts I see one-dimensional made-for-movie props.  It feels phoned-in, everything is stereotype - made for stupid audiences .  Lots of costumes and hairstyles, little character development or emotional subtlety.  There is no sense of a journey or quest,  no sense of overall uncertainty or doom in the plan,  no questions in the minds of characters.  Mainstream crap.

4 comments:

Jared said...

Nice description of why I don't like so many movies.

queasyfish said...

Felt better about the second installment tonight, but probably by comparison only, situations are grittier but the last hour is mostly made up imaginations. I understand you're writing a story based on whatever but the best version-yet-to-be-made (movie not movies) is going to be the original story as told.

This is cult, you tell as told, what the fuck?

queasyfish said...

The Cohen brothers should have done this with Peter Jackson directing costumes.

SeanH said...

Besides the chick elf from Lost, most (not all) of the "added" stuff is from Tolkien. Jackson and crew added a bunch of stuff from the LOTR appendices and the Silmarillion.