the hobbit - back for cash again

Rating: 5/10 (21 December 2012)

ABOUT THE FILMS MAKING. seen as Jackson said the hobbit would be in 2parts as its such a big book. and then he puts the behind the scenes making of on you-tube to watch for months and years. and during the videos says its 2parts and says its 2part many times during filming and talking to Gandalf. and IMDb had it down as 2 parts but then ooh wait lets spin it out for more cash
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ABOUT THE FILM ITSELF. well seen as its a few years on I'm never a fan of prequels
CAST. most of them look good Cate is stunning but fro do just looks to old now BOO
as for the new comers well young Bilbo i wasn't n still not sure of freeman was good with his voice but just looks nothing like Bilbo and its hard to let go of but watching he was good just i didn't like the way they play his character as a complete old man and a bit of a loser. as for Kili Billy Oin Gloin Boing and what ever the hell they are all called a cast of 13dwarfs is never gonna work and its fullish directing and foolish to stick them all in and keep to the book like that. with so many faces in one spot with fat suits on i couldn't pick one of them out to watch during scenes of course close ups of faces and yes you spot Nesbitt (yuk why would you wanna) and Adim Brown... wait who yes no clue who he was but you can see his real face so easy its just bad they are meant to be dwarfs not men. a few more faces in there and some good actors but all in one screen mixed up i couldn't pick them out of a line up. at least with fellowship you had a mix of elf dwarf human and can spot them but one huge rule of film and directing is if you can see all the characters and associate with them then you don't care about them and thats whats happening here i don't no them and don't care about them its just a group of blob shapes moving around the screen could be 11 of them or 15 i couldn't tell or pick one of them out unless its close up shots of them.
STORY. right so why is this set 20mins before the start of fellowship ?? i have no clue it just kicks of with a bit of a crap opening and we see Bilbo right but not try hold the ring in his pocket ??
and how do they link in the old footage now of Bilbo finding the ring ?? they have him find it in this movie so how does the fellowship footage work now did he lose it and then find it again lol ops not gonna work ("lets have c3pos memory wiped lol" "oh no r2 do something").
there's no voice over start up or build up but rather into the film and have Bilbo read and tell us but its kinda strange that way.. then you have a cut back to 60years what is this an episode of dallas pfft.
cue gandalf just showing up at young bilbos house he just rocks up says he i need you to go on an adventure but he comes across ad an old creep and perv in that scene and i don't get why Bilbo ain't already friends with him.. for the sake of film i don't care if the book was done a set way books ain't films you always have to adjust and this made no sense to start of like this it felt rushed and silly.
the dwarfs all show up and eat stuff talk i still have no clue why they have all come together now and for what but hey I'm watching so its gonna tell me at some point I'm sure.... Bilbo says no I'm not going.... then Bilbo gets up runs after them "I'm going on a trailer poster" or something like that. they walk and walk and bore me with long stuff and then we find out some other back story i will point out i hate flashbacks then find out we have a bunch of white troll/goblin things after them. then some pointless bits we cut away to fill in some extra characters and of we go into more walking then catch up with other characters and then flash backs YAWNNN. then comes the trolls scene yeh its gonna be a cool fight cause gimli kicked ass but no its lame they are all lame and cant take down 1 single troll with a group of 14 but. gimli would have wrecked them in minutes alone. then bore me go see elves some old faces oks thats fine and little back story thats good but not great and then of they go again bump into more goblin people under ground and then of the go on a huge run again boring and back fighting the troll/goblin guys outside but its not action just running scenes over and over. then rescue by giant eagles yes fun cool but why do they drop them of just a few miles from the mountain that they are going to. it may have been a good idea in a book in the 30s but for film thats terrible and just no.
all in its kinda like T2 its the same but remade with very same style scenes walks action and just is not great at all. i couldn't care less about the dwarfs and they were the big draw to the film for me