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Ringer Reviews - The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey


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Terminator

44, San Diego
United States
Date Posted: 2012-12-15
Tolkien Fan Level: 6
Film Format Seen? 3D 48 fps
Will view again in a different format? Yes
Rings!

I was very excited to see the movie at the midnight release and had to see it at the 48 HFR 3D as intended. Shockingly different and it took a bit to look past this. Everything was great but distractingly so initially. I saw it again today "normal" and would recommend the Jackson version 100%.

There was plenty of dialog from the book, which was great, and the additional scenes beyond the book taken from the appendixes or elsewhere worked for me. Particularly Radagast and the Erebor prologue were great. I've seen some reviews that didn't like the troll sneeze, the bird poop on Radagast or the Azog and goblin king in CGI. It all worked for me.

I can't wait for the next two!

The Ratings
The Other Ratings
Martin Freeman 's performance as Bilbo Baggins?
Richard Armitage 's performance as Thorin?
The Overall representation of The Dwarves ?
Andy Serkis' performance as Gollum?
Ian McKellen's performance as Gandalf?
Bilbo's retelling of the history of Erebor and of Thror/Thrain/Thorin
The Eagles rescue sequence?
The Goblin King ?
Initial impression of Thranduil?
Hugo Weaving's performance as Elrond?
Radagast's portrayal in the movie?
The representation of Goblintown?
Cate Blanchett's performance as Galadriel?
The Bag End Supper scene?
The scene of the Trolls?
The representation of the Arkenstone?
The Stone Giants?
Escape from the Goblin cave?
Riddles in the Dark scene?
The return to Rivendell?
The attack on the party by the Wargs
The first glimpses of Smaug?
The ending of the movie; in regards to leading well into the next film, and serving as a good ending point.
The overall pace of the film
Peter Jackson's vision in bringing the Hobbit to the big screen.






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