The time has come again for another Trailer for the next film in The Hobbit trilogy, and with that comes another Trailer Review from me! I don't know about anyone else, but this is the movie coming out this year that I have been looking forward to the most. With the success of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey last year, I have high expectations for its follow-up, The Desolation of Smaug. Peter Jackson continues to deliver good-looking footage based on the book by beloved author, J.R.R. Tolkien. Just like in my Trailer Review of The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, there WILL be spoilers in this review, since the movie is based on a book and the review is geared towards those who have read said book.
Firstly, here is the trailer:
There's a lot packed into just two and a half minutes. As opposed to the teaser for the previous film, which was mainly devoted to introducing the dwarves, this does less about who the main characters are... unless you're Legolas. Anyways, The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug is an upcoming action-adventure fantasy sequel film based on the book "The Hobbit" coming to theaters December 13, 2013. Sequel to The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, it is the continuing adventures of title character Bilbo Baggins, a Hobbit of the Shire, as he journeys with a company of dwarves to the Lonely Mountain to reclaim their homeland and treasure from the evil dragon, Smaug. Starring Martin Freeman, Ian McKellen, Richard Armitage, and Benedict Cumberbatch.
The Trailer starts out with a shot of The Lonely Mountain. As I brightened the pictures on my computer, I noticed a boat sailing towards it that I had missed while watching the trailer the first five or six times. As we see this, we hear a voice (possibly Thranduil?) asking the question, "Where does your journey end?"
We are then treated to shots of Erebor up close, and we see the dwarves climbing a statue, which I assume to be the path to the hidden door. Also, like I said above, when I brightened the images, I noticed even more. In this case, I see that at least one dwarf isn't climbing up on the axe like the rest. I think it's Bombur, which makes sense.
We see the ruined city of Dale, which we saw destroyed in the prologue of the previous film.
Here we have a shot of what I strongly believe to be the elf king's hall of Mirkwood. I am very intrigued and impressed by this image. The set bares strong resemblance to both Rivendell and Lorien, the other two elven realms we've seen in LOTR.
It is then we finally get a look at Thranduil, the elven king and father of everyone's favorite elf, Legolas. Admittedly we saw Thranduil briefly in An Unexpected Journey, but we didn't really get fully introduced to him.
And of course, one of The Hobbit's more memorable scenes is the barrel scene where the dwarves escape the elf king's halls by way of hiding in barrels. Depicted above is Bofur in a barrel.
Another image we see is Bilbo at the treetops of Mirkwood, seeing the blue butterflies. It is a moment for Bilbo, as at that point in the story, he and the dwarves have been lost in the forest for several days.
We get to see more barrel shots. Here is Dwalin, half out of his barrel going down a small fall.
Here's where the first added thing that I've notice comes along. It seems as though the elves are racing after and shooting at the dwarves. This did not happen in the book, but I guess it adds suspense.
And here is Mirkwood. A once green, lush forest, no overrun by darkness. We see Bilbo and company over to the right.
Oh hey, look. Legolas is in this movie. This doesn't bother me exactly, even though he was not in the book, because Legolas is the son of the king Thranduil, and given elves' immortality, it is plausible that Legolas could be there. I also see they have his eyes blue. They didn't do a good job keeping them blue in LOTR.
This one I had to think about. Once I realized what it is, I felt stupid. The Dwarves are in Beorn's house, and it seems one of the giant bears is trying to get in.
...And then there's this chick... the one that I'm sure had a lot of Tolkien fans scratching their heads and going "...huh???" I did some research, and found out that she is an original character to this movie named Tauriel. Not sure how I feel about this move. Jackson didn't add any original main characters to LOTR, and I'm assuming she's a main character if they are showing her THIS much in the trailer, and believe me, she's in it a lot more. I also learned that Jackson and fellow writers Philippa Boyens and Fran Walsh added her because they "felt they needed a strong female character in the series". ...So is Tauriel Peter Jackson's answer to The Hunger Games' Katniss Everdeen?
Yep. She's a Katniss R.O. Seems legit.
The trailer treats us to a shot of the lake town, where the Dwarves stay and rest before taking the final trek to the Lonely Mountain.
And we're back to Tauriel and Legolas. This part confuses me a little bit. Is she also going to be a love interest for Legolas? Two characters who aren't in the book having their own little subplot? I smell some story padding.
Now, finally, we get a glimpse of the Dwarven treasure. Bilbo is sliding down on it, and that's sure to set off Smaug's OCD. (Dragons know their treasure to an ounce, according to the book).
...And we're back to Dul Guldur, (forgive me if that is misspelled). This is something I knew was coming. I knew that even back as far as when the The Hobbit was being made into just two movies (and even then I was shaking my head that it was two movies). I knew that they would explore what Gandalf was doing while he was away from the dwarves.
...Speaking of Gandalf, here's basically our only shot of Gandalf. I know he's in other shots, but this is pretty much the only shot he's in that he's actually doing something (I.E. says one line).
It also appears as though the non-cannon orcs are going to attack the elves. Mr. Voldem-orc here is still chasing Thorin and Co. for revenge.
After that tangent of things not in the book, we are brought back to the actual story, and this shot made me excited. The trailer teases us with the giant spiders by giving us just enough of a look at one.
We are also treated with our first look at Bard. I'll be perfectly honest... when I first saw him, I literally thought I was looking at Orlando Bloom in Pirates of the Caribbean. He looks A LOT like Will Turner.
The final collection of action clips in the trailer give me a theory. This shot depicts Legolas and Tauriel fighting orcs (in day light, no less *facepalm*) on what I believe to be the outskirts of the forest. Since we already saw the elves attacking the dwarves in the barrels in the river, perhaps how the dwarves get away involves the orcs attacking while the elves are attacking, and the elves fight off the orcs while Thorin and Co. slip away.
As the trailer closes, my favorite dwarf, Balin, delivers the most dramatic line of the trailer in response to an off-screen dwarf asking "was that an earthquake?": "That, my lad... was a dragon."
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug. BUT! Before the trailer ends, there is one last major teaser:
THE DRAGON!!!! Now THAT is a great way to end a trailer, especially since they've been teasing dragon since the first film. I lightened the image up a bit and we get to see a bit more detail of Smaug.
December 13. Another contender for end-of-the-year blockbusters. A a blockbuster it shall be! Overall, I liked this trailer a lot, but was confused a bit by the middle where they focus on Legolas and Not-Katniss Everdeen. But I'm still excited and I still going to see it. Until then, we've been there, and we will go back again when The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug is released.
This is the first post of what I hope to be regular posts here on this blog where i highlight the biggest movie mistakes I know. Like they say in the YouTube channel CinemaSins, "No movie is without sin". It's definitely true. Here is a list of a few of the biggest mistakes I've noticed in my favorite movies.
1. INDIANA JONES and the TEMPLE OF DOOM (1984)
This movie is just FULL of mistakes to begin with... the amount of audio/visual unsynchronizations alone is pretty laughable, but the biggest mistake that stands out to me is during the fight between Indy and the big thug before the crusher scene. When the thug picks Indy up and tosses him into the minecart, Indy's arm flops backwards as it hits the rim of the cart, revealing that Indy is a dummy. Not only that, but his hand makes it worse, because since it's a dummy, the hand remains in one position whereas if your arm really hit the side like that, your fingers would be splayed in pain.
It's also worth noting that the mine cart itself in the same shot is being towed by a cable which is very visible in the shot.
2. JURASSIC PARK (1993)
Everybody knows and loves the scene where the T-Rex breaks out of its pen, but it creates a HUGE problem continuity-wise. The problem is when Grant and Lex escape the jeeps but are pushed back in towards the pen. Suddenly, it's revealed that the edge of the wall is the top of a steep drop. Since this is the exact same spot that the T-Rex simply walked out of earlier, it is impossible that the drop should be right there, or else the T-Rex would have had to climb out (impossible in and of itself).
3. HARRY POTTER and the DEATHLY HALLOWS part 1 (2010)
It's not really a big deal that the Harry Potter movies take place in the 2000s instead of the 1990s like the books. Its excusable, as exact dates as to when the books take place weren't even given until after the movies were already being made. What IS a problem, however, is that in the movie Deathly Hallows part 1, where the year is supposed to be 1997 in the book but 2007 in the movie, they include the dates of Harry's parents' deaths on their graves. These dates are directly from the book, which means that in the movie, they are off by ten years. Following this logic as well, this makes Harry 27 years old instead of 17.
4. THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY (2012)
This really can pertain to any of the Lord of the Rings/The Hobbit films, but it is established in this film that elven blades, like Bilbo's sword Sting, will glow when orcs are nearby. It is also established that Gandalf's sword Glamdring and Thorin's sword Orcrist (forgive me if these are misspelled) are elven blades. However, neither of them glow in the movies (and Gandalf's doesn't glow in LOTR either). It can be noted that in the book The Hobbit and in the Lord of the Rings book series, Glamdring was said to glow white. There is also a moment in An Unexpected Journey where Orcs are close by, but Sting does not glow.
5. STAR WARS episode V: THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK (1980)
As much as I love Empire Strikes Back, I have to say this one is just REALLY contradictory. While fighting the AT-ATs on Hoth, Luke clearly tells his fellow snowspeeder gunners "That armor's too strong for blasters!" However, after tying up the legs of an AT-AT and causing it to fall, they blow it up using... BLASTERS.
Are there any more big movie mistakes you can think of that deserve to be mentioned in a future blog post? Let me know in the comments!
Review of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey soundtrack
(special edition)
As a huge fan of both Howard
Shore’s scores for The Lord of the Rings film series and of movie soundtracks
in general, the score for The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey was easily the most
anticipated soundtrack of 2012 for me. I remember the day they announced that
Howard Shore would be returning to score The Hobbit, and while I didn’t have
much doubt going into it that Shore wouldn’t do it, I was still relieved. His
masterful work for LOTR has my bid for best movie score of all time, and my
expectations for The Hobbit were set extremely high.
The
soundtrack for the Hobbit was released on December 11th, 2012 –one
day before the film was released in theaters – in two different ways: A two-disc
soundtrack and a two-disc special extended edition. The track listing of the
album (I use the Extended version) stands thusly:
1.My
Dear Frodo (8:03)
2.Old
Friends (5:00)Extended
3.An
Unexpected Party (4:08)
4.Blunt
The Knives (1:01) Exclusive Bonus Track - Based on text by JRR Tolkien
5.Axe
or Sword? (5:59)
6.Misty
Mountains (1:42)Based on text by JRR Tolkien
7.The
Adventure Begins (2:04)
8.The
World Is Ahead (2:19)
9.An
Ancient Enemy (4:56)
10.Radagast The Brown (6:37) Extended
11.The Trollshaws (2:03)Exclusive Bonus Track
12.Roast Mutton (4:56)Extended
13.The Hill of Sorcery (3:50)
14.Warg-Scouts (3:02)
Disc 2
1.The
Hidden Valley (2:49)
2.Moon
Runes (3:39)Extended
3.The
Defiler (1:14)
4.The
White Council (9:40)Extended
5.Over
Hill (3:42)
6.A
Thunder Battle (3:54)
7.Under
Hill (1:54)
8.Riddles
in the Dark (5:21)
9.Brass
Buttons (7:37)
10.Out of the Frying Pan (5:55)
11.A Good Omen (5:45)
12.Song of the Lonely Mountain (6:00)Extended
13.Dreaming of Bag End (1:56)
14.A Very Respectable Hobbit (1:20)Exclusive Bonus Track
15.Erebor (1:19)Exclusive Bonus Track
16.The Dwarf Lords (2:01)Exclusive Bonus Track
17.The Edge of the Wild (3:34)Exclusive Bonus Track
The overall scale of the score is
toned down somewhat from the epic sensation that was Lord of the Rings, but
this is fitting for the story of The Hobbit, which was not as large as LOTR. It
captures more of the simple charm of the story, rather than the grandeur of the
world. This is at complete contrast against the aggressive battle themes
brought on by the story’s new lead villain, Azog the Defiler. While not in the
book apart from a mention, Azog’s music is highly different from the rest of
this score, but fits right in when compared to the big LOTR picture. It was
also a nice change when some of the original songs that JRR Tolkien wrote in
his novel were incorporated into the score, including the song “That’s What
Bilbo Baggins Hates” (called “Blunt the Knives” on this soundtrack) and
Thorin’s ballad for The Lonely Mountain (called “Misty Mountains” on this
soundtrack).
There are plenty of new themes
established in the new film as well, and they fit right in with the themes from
LOTR. First off is a new theme for the Company of Dwarves, and their mission to
reclaim their homeland from Smaug the Dragon. This theme is the melody for the
songs “Misty Mountains” and “Song of the Lonely Mountain”. “Misty Mountains”
features lyrics straight from the text of Tolkien’s book. There are two other
Dwarven themes added in this movie as well, including a theme for Thorin and a
theme for Erebor. Gandalf is also given a theme for this movie, which can be
heard several times in the soundtrack, as well as Radagast. Smaug the Dragon
and Azog the Pale Orc are also have new evil themes as the film’s two main
antagonists.
But then there is Bilbo. He has
quite a unique musical presence in this score. Several melodies play through
his character, including two returning themes from LOTR (those being the themes
for Hobbiton and the theme for Frodo/The Shire). Bilbo also gets a new melody
that pertains to him alone, and is highly similar to the Shire theme. There is
also a new theme that plays through Bilbo’s struggle to adapt to the Dwarves’
lifestyle way outside of his comfort zone. These Bilbo-centered themes all
compliment each other nicely.
Overall, this soundtrack, while not
quite as sweeping and epic as any of the Lord of the Rings scores, is a very
excellent soundtrack to compliment LOTR. I personally can’t wait for the next
two movies and soundtracks to come out. Until then, the road goes ever on.
Growing up having my Mom read The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings to me, I was a fan of the books from an early age. The LOTR movies were just coming out right after Mom read me those books, but (obviously) there was a longer gap in between when she read me The Hobbit and when Peter Jackson made his movie versions. As I previously stated in my "prereview" earlier this week, I had lots of doubts going into the fist movie, but if you haven't read it, go here.
NOW. Onto the movie itself. I'm going to include the whole experience, I'm gonna start from the beginning, and for once, I'm gonna go more in depth. I'm still not gonna give TOO much info so as not to spoil the story though. My mom heard a review on the radio that said that the movie should be seen in 3D, and that's just what we did. It was the first movie I've ever seen in 3D, and it was pretty amazing. There was one point at the end where I literally flinched because I thought a pine cone was coming right at me. At first the 3D gave me a annoying headache, but I got used to it pretty quick. It made the backgrounds stand out, and since New Zealand is a beautiful country, this was awesome.
After sitting through like twenty minutes of previews (all of which seemed to be about a destroyed post-apocalypse Earth being taken over and reclaimed or fought against...) the movie finally began. I was thrown off at first because it began with the Warner Brothers logo. Even though I somewhat obsessively followed the making-of process, I was unaware the Warner Brothers were involved. Then came the MGM logo. I was also unaware of MGM being involved. THEN came the New Line Cinemas logo, and by that time I had realized it was playing LOTR music and that the film must be starting. The movie starts with Old Bilbo talking to himself (although he's addressing Frodo, he's not actually speaking to anyone) about telling Frodo about the truth of his adventures. After a short prologue about the lonely mountain and the dragon taking over (all filled with information I felt a bit odd that Bilbo would be so well-versed in) Frodo came into the movie. It was quite a bit nostalgic to see Elijah Wood come back as Frodo,and he didn't look a day older (quite a feat, since over ten years have passed since LOTR first came out). After Frodo goes away to wait for Gandalf (which would lead directly into his introduction into Fellowship of the Ring), the story begins. It was a good opening, but the only thing that I disliked about it was the fact that while narrating the beginning of the story, Bilbo's lines are direct from the book EXCEPT that they changed it. That ticked me off and my Mom leaned over and said "You couldn't just keep the wording?" The actual line is this: "In a hole in the ground, there lived a Hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing to sit down on or to eat: it was a Hobbit hole, and that means comfort." They butchered that line, and it was a bit aggravating.
Martin Freeman's performance as young Bilbo Baggins was really, really good. He has a lot of the same figgity mannerisms that Ian Holm had as old Bilbo in LOTR, while adding his own characteristics to the character. Ian McKellen's performance of Gandalf at first seemed a bit different to me, but I couldn't quite put my hand on why it seemed that way... but it soon felt just like it did before long. The dwarves were pretty good, too. They created a (quite different) back story for Thorin, who I think they tried to give him some distinct Aragorn characteristics, not the least bit noticeable is his scruffily good looks. Seriously. He's a dwarf. That's a thought I also had about the two youngest dwarves Fili and Kili. Kili just plain looks like a young man, and not a dwarf. Ori was a bit weird looking, and I was worried that his looks would detract from my opinion of him in the movie, but I eventually just accepted him. Balin was really good in my opinion. Apart from Thorin, Balin was probably the dwarf that Tolkien developed as a character the most. Oin, Gloin, Dori, Nori, Bifur, Bombur, and Dwalin didn't get very much screen time, but I was surprised that Bofur got as much screen time as he did. I was reading the book right before the film came out, and I was paying attention to how many lines each dwarf got, and Bofur definitely wasn't one of the top-runners.
The story of The Hobbit was written as a children's story. This effect doesn't quite transfer over to the movie, which creates a lot more action and suspense than was in the whole book. There were SO many goblins, and they've made them more terrifying than they were in FOTR. There's also one thing that really seemed just plain wrong, and that was The Great Goblin. His voice was just plain too normal, and it really made him less scary. In the book, Thorin mentions a goblin by the name of Azog, who was only MENTIONED and was never in the book himself (that I remember). The movie brings him in a much more prominent role, as a hunter Orc out for revenge against Thorin. This automatically created new sequences for the movie that weren't in the book, including a prolonged chase sequence before the company reaches Rivendell. It was like the castle raid scene in Prince Caspian, which was created for the movie based on one sentence in the book.
Given that they are taking one book and making it into three movies, they have got to be filling it in with some new material. They explore Gandalf's absences in the book, since he does leave the company periodically. I won't go into detail, but Gandalf and the brown Wizard Radigast discover that an ancient evil has found its way back into the world. If you can't already guess what that is alluding to, I'm not gonna say it. But they found a way to work Galadriel and Saruman back into the movie, even though neither were in the book (neither was Radigast for that matter). Radigast was a little bit overdone in my opinion, but I can see what they were doing.
The scene I was most looking forward to was the Riddles in the Dark scene. By far my favorite chapter in the book, this scene is a pivotal hinge for the whole LOTR series, not just The Hobbit. It was really cool seeing Gollum again, and the riddle game was done really well. Andy Serkis recreated his Gollum mannerisms and voice perfectly.
The ending was a bit drawn out. Obviously, since it's being made into three movies, they did not even get to the lonely mountain. For non-spoiling reasons I won't say what this drawn-out ending is, but rest assured it's nowhere near as drawn-out as the ending of Return of the King.
As always, one of my favorite parts of the entire movie was the music. Those who know me know I am a sucker for a good movie score, and I am especially partial to Howard Shore's music for The Lord of the Rings trilogy. Like I said in my pre-review, I was overjoyed when I learned that Howard Shore would return to write the music for the Hobbit films. The music is simply amazing, as amazing as I could have even expected. The only things that I didn't like about the score were just four things: Three music ques from LOTR were brought back, but used in completely wrong contexts. The Lothlorien theme was used in a Rivendell setting (and I'm not talking about when Galadirel was there, that moment was justified.) In another scene, they used the Ring Wraith theme for dramatic effect when Thorin stands up to fight against an Orc (again completely out of context for the theme), and finally a theme for the race of men that was used at the very end. Since there were no men in this film (they were all Hobbits, Dwarves, Elves, Trolls, Orcs, Goblins, and Wizards), this was a bad move. The only other thing that I thought could have been better (though I still loved it the way it was) was the fact that the main theme of the film gets a bit repetitive. All this being said, these are things that detracted a tiny bit for me personally, and doesn't by any means mean that I thought it was anything less than amazing. I loved it a lot.
I have listed all these differences from the book in a somewhat negative light, but that does not at all mean that I thought the movie was bad. On the contrary, I liked the film very much. It is such an iconic story, and with Peter Jackson and all the same people who made Lord of the Rings the success of a film as it was, there isn't much you can do to make a bad movie (and why would you want to make a bad movie?) I recommend watching it in 3D like I did. I have heard that the new 48 fps technology makes some people sick, but the effect is better in 3D. Plus, you get an awesome pair of 3D glasses with The Hobbit logo on them.
I am a HUGE fan of J.R.R. Tolkien's "Lord of the Rings" novels, and that of course includes the book that preceded it, "The Hobbit". I don't know exactly why, but I feel more attached to the "Hobbit" book than I did with LOTR. Maybe it was the fact that my mom read "Hobbit" to me when I was younger, and then when she read LOTR to me, the movies were just about to come out, so I guess I've just had more time to get attached to my vision of the book.
While I am very excited for this upcoming film adaptation of "The Hobbit", and I a big fan of Peter Jackson and the way he did LOTR, I am facing a bit of apprehension about it, too. The biggest reason I am uncertain about it is the fact that they are splitting the book into THREE movies. Seriously, I think the book is shorter than half the size of one of the LOTR books (don't quote me on that, I don't know for a fact). Harry Potter created a trend of splitting books into multiple movies, because Twilight copied it and now The Hobbit. I do think that they were justified in doing the split for Harry Potter, but I just don't get why Peter Jackson would do this to The Hobbit. The only way they could fit Hobbit into three movies is if they are adding stuff to it, and that's just not right. I also bet New Line Cinema's in it for the money since the LOTR movies were so popular.
The other thing I'm really somewhat unsure about are the thirteen dwarves. That had to be a daunting task going into the filming process, trying to make them all look different and distinguishable... but I'm not exactly digging the looks for some of the dwarves in this film. I've gotten used to some of them, but some just don't look dwarfish enough for me. I'm going to list them below and rate them 1-13.
GLOIN - #1
As the father of Gimli, the dwarf we all know and love from LOTR, Gloin is probably the best looking dwarf out of all of them in my own opinion. I also like the way they have Gloin carrying the same axe as Gimli did in LOTR.
DWALIN - #2
It's a different look, but I kinda like it.I can see him being a dwarf. A tough dwarf. I don't really remember if Dwalin was written as being a tough guy, but whatever. Still looks cool.
OIN - #3
Again, different, but still pretty dwarfish.
BALIN - #4
A bit cartoonish maybe, but I'm digging that coat. That's some nice threads.
DORI - #5
Decent. B-.
THORIN - #6
As the leader of the company of dwarves, Thorin has to look very distinctive from the rest. They went the Aragorn route for him, making him more handsome than you'd think a dwarf would be or the book described him.
BOMBUR - #7
I don't really like the braided beard (?), but they did make him fat, and that was his big character trait.
BIFUR - #8
A little wild, but still, what's with the hatchet wound?
BOFUR - #9
I don't know whether to compare his look to a hunter or a pirate. Does not scream "dwarf" though.
NORI - #10
Do I even need to comment?
FILI - #11
NOT. DWARFISH. ENOUGH.
KILI - #12
NOT. DWARFISH. AT ALL.
ORI - #13
Uh.................................... ?
I've been ranting on the things I don't like about what I think could be bad. However, to be fair, I don't know that it will be bad. In fact, since the movie has already premiered in New Zealand, there are already reviews for the movie up on IMDB.com. I didn't really read all of them, but five out of eight reviews gave the film 10/10 stars. That's not a common occurrence, by any means. Apart from that, there are several things I'm excitedly looking forward to about this movie. At the top of the list is seeing Martin Freeman as Bilbo Baggins.
I've really only seen Martin Freeman in the British television series "Sherlock", and I watched one episode of the British "The Office", where he plays the Jim Halpert character equivalent. From what I have seen of him, I think he is going to be a brilliant Bilbo. There are other cast members I'm excited for, such as the returning cast of Ian McKellen as Gandalf, Hugo Weaving as Elrond, Andy Serkis as Gollum, and even Elijah Wood as Frodo (for nostalgic reasons). The other thing that I'm looking forward to is... yep. The soundtrack.
Howard Shore's music scores for "Lord of the Rings" are what I think to be the all-time greatest soundtracks in existence. He really sells the history and the legends and the magic that were the backbone of the films, and I was overjoyed when I learned that Shore would be returning to score The Hobbit. I have listened to samples of the soundtrack and it's just like going back into the original films. It made me very happy.
Another thing I'm looking forward to (although maybe not necessarily excited for) is this new "48-frames-per-second" deal. I'm told it's pretty close to how the human eye perceives normal movement, making the film appear more realistic. I've also heard of people becoming sick while watching the movie. I guess that's the risk of doing new technology. I'll reserve my own judgement until after I've seen it.
Well, this is where I will leave off for this blog post. I will come back and write another review after I've seen the movie. Until then, we are going there and back again to Middle Earth in J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Hobbit".
