The HOBBIT......don't bother

[cheezydemon3]

The Matthew Broderick GODZILLA was dog sh!t, plain and simple. I think that is where Darwin was coming from.

I refuse to watch Pacific Rim unless it is free. Looks like a bad mix of Robotjox and Days of our lives.

 

[Darwin18]

I refuse to watch Pacific Rim unless it is free. Looks like a bad mix of Robotjox and Days of our lives.

If you like gigantic fighting robots then it's not bad...for first 30 minutes or so. Then it just drags on and on. It is what it is though - mildly entertaining. Not to get too far of track, but Charlie Day was abysmal in that movie. Zero difference between his character in Pacific Rim and Sunny, and I love Sunny.

 

[emjay]

I only watched it because of Guillermo Del Toro. :rockin:

It was alright.

 

[cheezydemon3]

I only watched it because of Guillermo Del Toro. :rockin:

It was alright.

Guillermo did NOT direct that........produced maybe.......say it aint so!!!!

 

[cheezydemon3]

WTF?

No I hafta watch Pacific rim........and pay to

 

[emjay]

Bwahaha

 

[Homercidal]

Pacific Rim wasn't as bad as it might seem. The story is entirely predictable and the whole premise is just STUPID, but if you can just sit and enjoy giant robots beating up giant aliens from the ocean, then it's not bad. It was well made and the acting wasn't that bad.

And I liked Charlie Day. He was a lot like his character from Sunny, but I liked his character in Sunny!

Anyway, we were discussing Hobbit, not Godzilla or PR, although I'd totally go see a Godzilla movie. What man here wouldn't go see it just because it's GODZILLA!? Remember those things from your youth?? They would have a series of them each day for a week on Channel 5 that would could get most days. I'd go outside afterwards and pretend to smash things and throw big chunks of snow and try to make Godzilla sounds...

So, ok back to The Hobbit...

 

[cheezydemon3]

Well, I may be done then, I will not pay to see the hobbit 2 or 3.

If they named it something else, I might skeptically go to see a new fantasy fiction film, but probably not.

I am not a complete sap, but I really remember the Hobbit fondly, and have barely managed to erase that first piece of sh!t from my memory.

If you are pondering going to see any of them, I suggest you actually improve your IQ and read the book. (as opposed to lowering it by watching another hollywood CGI actionfest)

 

[GuldTuborg]

Well, I may be done then, I will not pay to see the hobbit 2 or 3.

What, you're not going to see "Die Hard: The Desolation of Smaug" in theaters? Are you crazy?


I'm still up in the air about it. I read an LA Times review, where the reviewer said that part 2 was significantly better than 1, primarily because part 2 wasn't "so weighed down by reverence to the source material" and went its own way much more. I'm not making this up. It kinda makes me want to rip Jackson's gizzard out and eat it for dinner. Rat bastage.

 

[cheezydemon3]

What, you're not going to see "Die Hard: The Desolation of Smaug" in theaters? Are you crazy?


I'm still up in the air about it. I read an LA Times review, where the reviewer said that part 2 was significantly better than 1, primarily because part 2 wasn't "so weighed down by reverence to the source material" and went its own way much more. I'm not making this up. It kinda makes me want to rip Jackson's gizzard out and eat it for dinner. Rat bastage.

Fava beans and....ya know.....some kind of italian red wine.

 

[cheezydemon3]

OK. (last )

Pacific Rim......"Reset the Clock"....BATTLESTAR GALLACTICA

"some new weapon that destroys networked computers.....but some OLD sh!t we have lying around WiLL KICK SOME ASS..............." BATTLESTAR GALACTICA.

Suck it.

 

[Darwin18]

I ****ing love Battlestar Galatica. Great show, great cast, great writing. Ending was ehhh....but everything else was awesome.

 

[Homercidal]

Pacific Rim, because it makes sense to build World-Wide-Poverty-Causing Giant Robots for Trillions and Trillions of dollars, rather then a few million dollar MOABs, or even just some good old fashioned armour piercing explosives...

I can't imagine why a reviewer would be so negative about Tolkien's book. I can understand the need to liven up, or maybe even leave out, some scenes, or even to fill in some areas with background story from the Silmarillion or Unfinished Tales or something. But it almost seemed as though HALF the movie was extraneous BS IMO. This could have easily been at most a 2 hour movie.

 

[Darwin18]

True. I thought the scenes at Dol Guldur, which weren't depicted in the Hobbit, were pretty solid and filled a missing void.

 

[cheezydemon3]

Pacific Rim, because it makes sense to build World-Wide-Poverty-Causing Giant Robots for Trillions and Trillions of dollars, rather then a few million dollar MOABs, or even just some good old fashioned armour piercing explosives....

I would have traded ALL of those ridiculous robots for 1 B-52 loaded with nukes. Or how about a well armed submarine?

PREEEEEEEEEEEEEEE posterous.

I can't imagine why a reviewer would be so negative about Tolkien's book. I can understand the need to liven up, or maybe even leave out, some scenes, or even to fill in some areas with background story from the Silmarillion or Unfinished Tales or something. But it almost seemed as though HALF the movie was extraneous BS IMO. This could have easily been at most a 2 hour movie.

That reviewer should be shot.......but for some reason........

THE SHINING that followed only approximately 9% of the book, is a far better movie than the later remake that followed 93% or so. I think that is a fluke, and a testament to Kubric's genius, not a model to try and replicate.

 

[headbanger]

Pacific Rim is an excellent movie, anyone who doesn't like it is stupid.

 

[Homercidal]

Pacific Rim is an excellent movie, anyone who doesn't like it is stupid.

I agree. I liked it, but not for it's intelligence.

I didn't even mind the female elf in A Movie Called Hobbit: Part 2.

 

[GuldTuborg]

I can't imagine why a reviewer would be so negative about Tolkien's book.

Oh, that schmuck from the LA Times? Betsey Sharkey is her name. Want to go egg her house?

 

[cheezydemon3]

Pacific Rim is a little stoopid, but kinda fun. Don't see myself ever watching it again, but I don't hate it.

The CLOCK idea was clearly ripped off from BSG, and poorly done at that. In BSG it was amazingly well done.

The Galactica would JUMP to a sometimes random location hoping to evade the far superior Cylon force. Like clockwork the cylons appeared after a certain amount of time (32 minutes?). The grudging relief felt when the clock went 1 second...2...3,4,5,6 seconds past the zero and finally complete relief when it became apparent that something was different was AWESOME.

The EMP or whatever the Jaiju (or whatever) shot out that crippled the newer Jagers but left the old one OK was pretty poorly done and transparent too.

In BSG, well......just watch it. It is only 345 times better than Pacific Rim, and 1427 times better than the HOBBIT

 

[Homercidal]

Oh, that schmuck from the LA Times? Betsey Sharkey is her name. Want to go egg her house?

Only if she is standing in front of it...

I seriously wonder if she has ever read the book. I take that back. I seriously doubt she has ever read the book.

She appears to have preferred the (not always great) CGI effects to the actual story. Now, don't get me wrong, SMAUG was rendered beautifully, and even if some of the drawn-out action scenes dealt with him (and nothing that was even in the book), he was still a wonder to watch.

There were plenty of nearly God-awful action scenes rendered in CGI that were not lifelike, which made it tremendously difficult to suspend disbelief.

Know what would be great? A Middle Earth series filmed like Game of Thrones... Then we could REALLY see some dwarf on Elf action!

Female Elf: And what's your name, dwarf?
Male Dwarf: They call me Smaug, because I'm a draggin! (wink)

 

[Darwin18]

Know what would be great? A Middle Earth series filmed like Game of Thrones... Then we could REALLY see some dwarf on Elf action!

Female Elf: And what's your name, dwarf?
Male Dwarf: They call me Smaug, because I'm a draggin! (wink)

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[GuldTuborg]

Female Elf: And what's your name, dwarf?
Male Dwarf: They call me Smaug, because I'm a draggin! (wink)

Oh man. Worst joke all month. You win 10 internets.


Since I haven't yet seen it, is this a more accurate review, to your thinking?

 

[cheezydemon3]

Oh man. Worst joke all month. You win 10 internets.


Since I haven't yet seen it, is this a more accurate review, to your thinking?

You better not be taking those 10 internets from the 400000 internets you owe me!

I like that review!

 

[Darwin18]

Oh man. Worst joke all month. You win 10 internets.


Since I haven't yet seen it, is this a more accurate review, to your thinking?

I think that's a fairly accurate review, at least from my point of view. I disagree with the author's critique of movie's visuals as I thought they were very impressive, if not spectacular in certain sequences. Everything the author wrote regarding the storyline is spot on.

 

[mchrispen]

Dammit. Haven't seen it yet and REALLY want to click on that review...

 

[cheezydemon3]

Dammit. Haven't seen it yet and REALLY want to click on that review...

No more spoilers than are here, it just basically says that the movie is a pretty transparent piece of crap, made only to make money.

 

[passedpawn]

I'm going to part 2 tonight. Excited.

 

[Homercidal]

Elf: You Dwarves are well known for finding your way around in the dark... and for burrowing in tight places. Tell me, what do you know of wood?
Dwarf: I'm FAMOUS for my wood!

 

[TxBrew]

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I love South Park and I laughed till it hurt with that song.

 

[cheezydemon3]

That cretainly rivals the "Taco taco taco" song