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Post by captainchrisredfield on Mar 3, 2017 19:14:39 GMT
The Hobbit was a severe disappointment for me. I'm a big fan of the Lord of the Rings movies, so I was looking forward to the Hobbit. But I didn't really like the movies. I'm normally not too harsh on CGI, but the Hobbit looked like a videogame sometimes, the effects were terrible. The action scenes were too over the top, the characters boring (the dwarfes were too much of a comedy team) and the story was stretched way too long, the attempts of humor also didn't workd. The character of Tauriel was unecessary as was the love story (Gimlis and Legolas friendship was much better). I really hated the overall look of the movies: too many colours, everything looked totally unrealistic. The CGI was one of the worst in a big production, I've ever seen. Movies ten or more years older look way better. Bilbo often wasn't even the main character, he felt more like a side character. I haven't even watched the 3rd movie. The first was bad, but the second was worse and after seeing the trailer for the third, I decided to save the money. Smaug and Dol Guldhur were my favourite parts of the movies. But the fight with Smaugh kinda ruined him, way too long and why did they make Smaug Godzilla size if they wanted him to have a fight with the dwarfes? Overall, I really couldn't enjoy those movies and they bored me a lot. I was a bit sad, because I really liked Lotr. The Maple Films fan edit desaturated the colors to make it look more realistic, and I think it's pretty effective. It also cuts down the fight scenes A LOT, so that it doesn't feel like a videogame anymore. When the dwarves enter Smaug's lair, they just get chased around for about three minutes and then Smaug leaves, without the stupid liquid gold thing. Of course, I'd prefer if they didn't encounter him at all, and Smaug just left as soon as he was done talking to Bilbo, but the edit still works better than the real movie. The same guy also made a separate hour-long edit that cuts the movie down to just the Dol Guldur stuff, and I think it works a lot better as a separate movie, rather than inserted into the main story. Now, Bilbo feels like the main character again. I vastly preferred this fan edit over the actual movies. So check it out if you're interested. There's even some clever edits done so that if you hadn't seen the original movies before seeing this, you wouldn't ever know they had originally been different in the first place. I definitely will check it out. Thank you for the information. |
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