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[FlinnFlush]

I thought the movie was great. I also thought it was great in 48fps, unlike the majority of the reviewers. It takes about 15 minutes to get used to it, but after that it makes the action look so much more realistic.

[Governator]

The theatrical blu-ray & dvd come out today. Anyone buying now or waiting for an extended edition? That's planned to come out in Q4 before Xmas. The LOTR EE was well worth it but I don't think any additional scenes would really help The Hobbit, I think it would just slow it down too much.

[SuperJon]

I thought new releases came out on Tuesdays?

Oh well, just gives me something to do this weekend. Didn't see it in the theaters, but figure it's probably good enough to spend 20 bucks on.

[Essay21]

i don't know if i can wait. i want to see it again now.

[Governator]

Oh sorry, you're right it comes out this Tuesday. Doh

[Whiskers]

[SuperJon]

I watched it a couple weeks ago and feel asleep. There are definitely some boring drawn out scenes in the LOTR Trilogy, but they were able to maintain my interest.

I was really tired though when I first watched The Hobbit, so I'll definitely give it another go.

[Governator]

Whiskers, on 11 June 2013 - 09:54 AM, said:

Man that looks awesome, can't wait. I'm surprised they showed the dragon's full head (Albeit, it was dark). I thought they would have kept that a pure secret for the release, kind of like what they did with Gollum in LOTR and only showing the dragon's eye previously.

I'm sort of confused though why Legolas is in this considering he's not even mentioned in the book. Regardless more elves will help the movie anyway. The barrel escape scene was pretty sweet and I'm guessing Bilbo was wearing the ring when Smaug was looking for him.

[The Ocho]

Governator, on 12 June 2013 - 08:14 AM, said:

Man that looks awesome, can't wait. I'm surprised they showed the dragon's full head (Albeit, it was dark). I thought they would have kept that a pure secret for the release, kind of like what they did with Gollum in LOTR and only showing the dragon's eye previously.

I'm sort of confused though why Legolas is in this considering he's not even mentioned in the book. Regardless more elves will help the movie anyway. The barrel escape scene was pretty sweet and I'm guessing Bilbo was wearing the ring when Smaug was looking for him.

This is why. Galadriel and Legolas were not in the book, yet Peter Jackson wanted the actors who played them involved, so he wrote them in. I'm not overly upset about it, but it's unnecessary and changes the story a bit more than I would like.

[BigDMcGee]

Governator, on 12 June 2013 - 08:14 AM, said:

I'm sort of confused though why Legolas is in this considering he's not even mentioned in the book.

1) The hobbit is 320 pages, and a great deal of it nothing exciting is happening. How the hell are you going to make 3 movies without putting in a bunch of stuff that was not in the book.

2) Legolas was of the wood elves, who are most certainly in the book . I believe Legolas's father is the king of the wood elves, if I remember right, and he's certainly in the book, so it's not that much of a stretch

3) Legolas was just about the only male sex symbol in Lotr. I guess Strider was a bit, but Legolas by far was the most popular character with women. Since the hobbit has zero in the way of love story, they need to throw some bone to the ladies, if you want them to give a **** about the movies.

[Essay21]

I don't have a problem with it. I loved the first one and I'm sure ill love this one too.

[BigDMcGee]

Most popular with women, and homosexuals, I meant to say. Sorry about that, essay.

[Whiskers]

Do dwarfs have dishwashing superpowers in the book too?

[BigDMcGee]

They do, strangely enough