Talk about pushing the limits far further

Rating: 10/10 (29 April 2013)

Sometimes it's just pure mastercraft you have to bow to. Call anybody a Peter Jackson's Groupie, he still would have loads of efforts to achieve a convenient homage to what has been shown on screen.
Several years from nowadays, tons of people will still be beginning to discover the majesty of this state-of-the-3D-art masterpiece. Simply put, HD and high-frame rate 3D filming were waiting for this to find their own way of achievement.
Before that, you can already love that movie on a flat screen. There is vertigo enough (see Erebor), childishness enough (see the dwarfs in Bilbo's home), lust enough (see the glamorous trolls), relentlessness enough (see the ever-hunting orcs), Jar-Jar-Binksity enough (see Radagast), Eerie enough (see Rivendell), goliathness enough (see the Stone Giants), franticity enough (see Goblintown), psychosis enough (see Gollum), paragliding enough (see the Eagles) to forget ten times that you were waiting for a dragon. The pages of the book are turning one after the other, never falling short from the expectations.
Everything you may have asked to yourself IS somewhere on the screen : nothing else to do than searching after which tiny part of the frame it is set in. And then you find other unexpected stories of their own in each of the tiny parts surrounding, just as if some Ellen McArthur was adjusting veil after foresail after capstan to capture every bit of the wind.
A foot appearing on the screen is not only a foot, it's an encyclopedic glimpse into the locomotion habits of the kin which the owner of the foot is belonging to.
Shortly said, it is not a movie you are looking at, it's a movie you are diving in. Splendor is everywhere.
Add the 3D-effect, and you're totally wet.