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Neo Rasa posted:I saw all three Hobbit movies. What in the gently caress. Battle of the Five Armies more like Batle of Five Hours for how blah and long that flick felt. WTF I just remembered the bear guy like drops out of the sky at one point and is never seen or mentioned again. Also some big worms appear and are never mentioned where the gently caress even were they, why was that filmed I’m glad somebody else mentioned Alien3, because for just a moment my interest was piqued and I wondered if they were going to maim or kill Smaug with that trick… and then he shakes it off like Singin’ in the fuckin’ Rain, and decides he’s gonna rageboner all over Lake-town. La dee dah. Never saw the third, apparently missed the apotheosis of desperate filler on film for that year.
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Alan Smithee posted:I’ll tell you whose not lighting green smoke weed no days
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I mean it makes sense, he's gettin old and smoking any substance long enough is gonna be bad for you.
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Nov 17, 2023 16:04
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Cut to him doing a Super Bowl commercial for some vape or edible in two months
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Nov 17, 2023 16:39
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I still lol how the Battle of Five Armies only had four
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I also saw all three hobbit movies when they came out. But I honestly just forgot everything of them outside of parts of the opening from the first movie. Probably because of the two songs that show up there that I liked. I think I only saved the soundtrack from the first one, even if it ends with an Ed Sheeran track.
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Neo Rasa posted:The melting gold, I seriously could not believe what I was watching for that entire part where they're assembling it and the ensuing melting effects. And then because the dwarves never saw Alien 3 they're surprised when he just shakes it off instead if splashing cold water on him to make him explode. To this day one of the worst effects in a big budget film.
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FlamingLiberal posted:Cut to him doing a Super Bowl commercial for some vape or edible in two months Chatter is this, or he's committing to be drama free in his old age (no "smoke")
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MechanicalTomPetty posted:Someone really, really, really wanted another LOTR trilogy and wasn't going to take "no" for an answer. That's the only explanation that makes any sense at all to me for how those Hobbit movies turned out the way they did. If anyone is really interested in an in-depth autopsy of how these three films were made, Lindsay Ellis's three-part breakdown of the films is pretty much the gold standard (https://youtu.be/uTRUQ-RKfUs?feature=shared). I know YouTube essays are not everyone's thing, but she does an immense amount of research and even flies to New Zealand to interview members of the cast! It's a great description of the inner workings of filmmaking and how everything was stacked against these films ever being good.
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What's even worse about the Hobbit movies is that they released a Lego video game version between the second and third with promises that the third part of the story would be added as DLC. Then after the movie did so poorly, they quietly cancelled it so the game remains incomplete.
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Anonymous Zebra posted:If anyone is really interested in an in-depth autopsy of how these three films were made, Lindsay Ellis's three-part breakdown of the films is pretty much the gold standard (https://youtu.be/uTRUQ-RKfUs?feature=shared). I know YouTube essays are not everyone's thing, but she does an immense amount of research and even flies to New Zealand to interview members of the cast! It's a great description of the inner workings of filmmaking and how everything was stacked against these films ever being good. Seconding this watch if you find the time. I agree with her, and I hope most people, that Martin Freeman was an excellent casting choice for Bilbo.
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Yea for sure, Freeman was a really good Bilbo and he was a bright spot in those movies.
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 on all that, wish he had more to do. As I mentioned before the best scenes of the movie (and of the book) were Bilbo's verbal duels with Gollum and Smaug and he sells both of those
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Neo Rasa posted:I know Billy Connolly wasn't available to reshoot his entire role but how in the gently caress did they think dropping a 2010 WoW trailer level CG version of him in there was the way to go? Like was that really better than just putting a double in a wig like they clearly did for Christopher Lee any time we weren't seeing an extreme closeup? It was so sad to see Christopher Lee in the Hobbit films. He clearly wasn't guided through the greenscreen process well so it's painfully obvious he's not seeing any of the other characters in the scene, and he looks like a doddering old man.
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I don't know what you guys are talking about, there's only one Hobbit film and was released in 1977
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Family matters. Oh, wait, excuse me. Family Matters is back in animated form https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_J1vG-ut3U
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It's also very funny that Saruman tells everyone to leave Sauron to him and it doesn't occur to Gandalf or Galadriel the Tactical Nuke to go check in on that whole thing for like a century or whatever
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Tars Tarkas posted:Family matters. A Christmas special aimed at kids featuring a breakout character from a sitcom that ended 25 years ago is a strange choice. Even in this world of cheap nostalgia ploys we live in.
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Alan Smithee posted:He shakes it off like a wet dog but is like really traumatized by it I really like how, in the book, Smaug is a world threatening calamity that's just very, very lazy. He was basically dozing like a house cat for enough human generations to pass into myth, gets woken up by a hobbit and starts becoming his own personal hype man, because even when talking to a burglar he plans to kill he's still his own favorite subject. Then, when he finally gets mad enough to go burn down the town, the ends up having a grand old time because he hadn't enjoyed "the sport of town baiting" in years. I don't care, genuinely it doesn't do anything for me, how good Benedict Cumberbatch might or might not be in the movie, the movie is so bad I don't have any fond memories from the second. I have a vague feeling of liking the dwarves being obnoxious at the start of the first one, though I recall even then seeing the dinner clean up song and thinking they were laying it on way too thick with the CGI. Jack B Nimble fucked around with this message at 20:12 on Nov 17, 2023 |
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RBA Starblade posted:It's also very funny that Saruman tells everyone to leave Sauron to him and it doesn't occur to Gandalf or Galadriel the Tactical Nuke to go check in on that whole thing for like a century or whatever To be fair, they're all functionally immortal. A century to an Elf or a Wizard is probably like a couple of months in human terms. In the books, Gandalf was gone for 17 years before coming back to the Shire to check in on Frodo and the ring.
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Cristopher Lee in his prime could have killed Sauron in 7 ways before he hit the ground
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hallo spacedog posted:I don't know what you guys are talking about, there's only one Hobbit film and was released in 1977 That movie isn't exactly good, but it was way more solid than I expected.
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hallo spacedog posted:I don't know what you guys are talking about, there's only one Hobbit film and was released in 1977 This will always be the definitive version of The Hobbit for me. It had a banging soundtrack too. My bros and I still go down, down to goblin town. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogTDa-vG2MQ
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Schwarzwald posted:That movie isn't exactly good, but it was way more solid than I expected. You're right, it's not good, it's amazing. (This was one of the few VHS I had as a kid and so I watched it til it fell apart. I also feel like it captures for me what I liked about the vibe of the book and the world and everything so I'll always feel fondly about it)
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Neo Rasa posted:Also some big worms appear and are never mentioned where the gently caress even were they, why was that filmed Because in the book Bilbo says “Tell me what you want done, and I will try it, if I have to walk from here to the East of East and fight the wild Were-worms in the Last Desert.” So I imagine there was a meeting where they were trying to think of more poo poo to throw on the screen for the final battle, and someone said, "what about the wild were-worms?"
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jisforjosh posted:Seconding this watch if you find the time. 100%
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Freeman's also a really well-cast bright spot in HHGttG
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PriorMarcus posted:To this day one of the worst effects in a big budget film. It looks like a commercial for butterscotch candy.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:I mean it makes sense, he's gettin old and smoking any substance long enough is gonna be bad for you. Didn’t the same thing happen to his fellow Weed enthusiast Willie Nelson? His old man lungs were just too hosed up from decades of nonstop smoke so he had to switch to edibles?
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RBA Starblade posted:I still lol how the Battle of Five Armies only had four The fifth army is the audience struggling to make it to the end of the movie.
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Snoop and Willie Nelson will actually drop dead if they stop smoking weed. There is no way Snoop stopped smoking weed. It has to be a ruse of some sort. Or maybe he invented some sort of bizarro weed that gives you the same sensations, but in carbonated liquid form. The anti-energy drink.
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Grendels Dad posted:The fifth army is the audience struggling to make it to the end of the movie. The whole Fifth Army was standing just out of frame, laughing.
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I think Willie is a weed elemental at this point
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If Willie had a Viking funeral, everyone in attendance would ascend to another plane of existence outside of normal spacetime.
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RBA Starblade posted:I still lol how the Battle of Five Armies only had four The fifth army were the friends we made along the way.
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https://x.com/DiscussingFilm/status/1725635596616355934?s=20
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Wouldn’t a were-worm be a man who turns into a worm? He sounds very easy to fight
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vegetables posted:Wouldn’t a were-worm be a man who turns into a worm? He sounds very easy to fight Not if he's the God Emperor of Dune.
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