So whose going to the cinema to see the Hobbit on release?

[G1BB0]

http://www.thehobbit.com/#content=video&section=moment&media=trailer_1

looks great :thup:

I might have to make a trip into the smoke and watch on imax

 

[Hobbit]

I'll be going. Read the book several times, same with LOTR..

 

[pendodave]

Read the book with my youngest recently, so will take him along. One of the small pleasures to offset against the stresses of parenthood...

Read em all as a kid. Mixed feelings about the lotr films. Why do screenwriters always muck around with stuff to try and make it work for the lowest common denominator?

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

The Hobbit - great little book - first read when I was 13 - recently re-read after finishing a re-read of LOTR. The Hobbit is a much easier read than LOTR - so it's much more of a children's book than LOTR which is really for older readers. And The Hobbit is short. To get three films out of it Jackson and the scriptwriters willl have to do a lot of exposition around the characters - and the risk of doing that is that you introduce stuff someone who has read the book won't recognise - and with classic literature that is never a good thing.

If you haven't read the book I'm sure they will be three cracking films. Will go and see the first but bound to feel frustrated with inevitable slow story progression.

 

[patricks148]

The Hobbit - great little book - first read when I was 13 - recently re-read after finishing a re-read of LOTR. The Hobbit is a much easier read than LOTR - so it's much more of a children's book than LOTR which is really for older readers. And The Hobbit is short. To get three films out of it Jackson and the scriptwriters willl have to do a lot of exposition around the characters - and the risk of doing that is that you introduce stuff someone who has read the book won't recognise - and with classic literature that is never a good thing.

If you haven't read the book I'm sure they will be three cracking films. Will go and see the first but bound to feel frustrated with inevitable slow story progression.

I too remember reading the book when i was 11 or 12 and i have images of it being a much thicker book that LOTR, both a slog though.

whouldn't be seen dead at the film though, will wait till its on telly

 

[CMAC]

If you haven't read the book I'm sure they will be three cracking films. Will go and see the first but bound to feel frustrated with inevitable slow story progression.

thats the main thing that got me with LOTR1, the beginning was so slow and tedious about munchkins in a little hollow. I kept expecting Tinky winky or La la to make an appearance. I did nod off several times, the fight scenes were quite good though.
I expect the Hobbit to be 3 films like the beginning of LOTR1

 

[Doon frae Troon]

Well blow me down!
Dame Doon is not known for throwing her money about but she has just paid out £140 to take me to see War of the Worlds, the musical at the SSEC.

 

[MegaSteve]

I might have to make a trip into the smoke and watch on imax

Well worth it... Best viewing experience out there...

 

[FairwayDodger]

I'm pretty perplexed that they've stretched it to three movies.... even two would have been a push. That's putting me off a bit TBH but I'll probably still go.

 

[SwingSlow]

We'll go when it comes, but first, No.1 daughter and I are going to the back to back screening of all 3 TLOTR films. Running time 592 minutes excluding adverts and trailers.

 

[DelB]

Just learned this morning that The Hobbit is rated as a 12A. My 7 year old daughter has been on at me to take her to see it since the trailers started appearing on the telly weeks ago. Not sure what to do now. :mmm:

 

[Fish]

The DVD'd will be flying around the pubs soon, look out for suspicious Chinese looking men & women carrying large sports bags

I never buy off these people but see many that do.

 

[DappaDonDave]

The DVD'd will be flying around the pubs soon, look out for suspicious Chinese looking men & women carrying large sports bags

I never buy off these people but see many that do.

Slightly racistically stereotypical...I'm not Chinese.

Anyone notice the difference between the hobbit at 48fps and any other recent blockbuster film being filmed at 24fps. Apparently it's so totally the new HD

 

[DAVEYBOY]

Was going to watch it but the ign review isn't flattering. Basically nothing happens for 70 mins and then it kicks off. The goblins and monsters or what ever they are called are computer generated opposed to LOTR where they were actors. Got a GOOD rating appose to the AMAZING LOTR got.

I might still check it out.

 

[DAVEYBOY]

Here is the review

http://uk.ign.com/articles/2012/12/04/the-hobbit-an-unexpected-journey-review

 

[WideEyedFox]

16:20 Saturday 15th December in 3D. Tickets Booked :thup:

Looks like I'm not shaving my feet for a week!

 

[HNewby]

I will be...read all the tolkien books and seen all the LOTR films,,,cant wait

 

[DavyW]

Me! not that i'd admit it to the boys at work...they think its abit nerdy

 

[DappaDonDave]

Just watched the fellowship this morning... YOU SHALL NOT PASS still gave me goosebumps. My three year old didn't understand why I kept dying it to him afterwards lol

 

[mikevet]

I'd love to see it, especially as I think Martin Freeman's great. The only thing that grates, though, is that they're making 3 films from a short book....