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I am very happy that Guillermo Del Toro is directing The Hobbit.  His direction, art and cinematography are astounding and gorgeous.

I am equally happy that he is not writing the plot or the dialogue for it.  Because he does not seem to have grasped that a bunch of scenes is not the same thing as a movie, nor that trite and cliched dialogie is a bad thing.

Date: 2008-09-04 01:40 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] marrog.livejournal.com
Along with his healthy dollop of "Omg this is the stupidest thing to do, but I'm-a do it anyway 'cause I need to for the plot to advance!"

Mind you, Tolkein already wrote a bit of that into the plot of The Hobbit...

Date: 2008-09-04 02:08 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bracknellexile.livejournal.com
"was definitely a 6/10. Shame as it looked like a 9!"

You sure you weren't in your seat the wrong way up again? :p

Date: 2008-09-04 02:16 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] marrog.livejournal.com
See, I'd give it a seven. That was a whole heap of Prettyshiny.

Date: 2008-09-04 02:29 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] marrog.livejournal.com
Yes, that bit reminded me that I still haven't seen Strings.

Date: 2008-09-04 02:27 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] meaningrequired.livejournal.com
I really liked it. If those elves had been in LOTR I would have been MUCH MUCH more sold on LOTR :)

Date: 2008-09-04 02:29 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] marrog.livejournal.com
If those elves had been in LotR, though, it wouldn't have been LotR.

Date: 2008-09-04 02:34 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] meaningrequired.livejournal.com
I always felt the LOTR elves were a bit faded and washed out. I like passionate, fiesty elves in eyeliner!

Date: 2008-09-04 02:43 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] marrog.livejournal.com
Heh. Or in other words, IAWTC.

Date: 2008-09-04 02:44 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] meaningrequired.livejournal.com
Bah!

If Tim Burton had directed it they would have worn eyeliner....

Date: 2008-09-04 04:55 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] chuma.livejournal.com
Yeah but then he would have cast Johnny Depp as Frodo...
Edited Date: 2008-09-04 04:55 pm (UTC)

Date: 2008-09-09 03:32 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] 0olong.livejournal.com
What, and he'd've been worse than Elijah Wood?

Date: 2008-09-04 02:43 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] marrog.livejournal.com
Me too, but I think the LotR elves were a bit washed out. I mean, they were all "Yeah, we've seen it all and srsly, cannot be fucked anymore. Off to the West!"

Date: 2008-09-04 02:33 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kurosau.livejournal.com
See, I think that all of his writing for his spanish language features is awesome. I simply cannot understand what happens to the movies he makes for an english language audience, so I don't really think that it's him stinking up the place.

Date: 2008-09-04 04:35 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] surliminal.livejournal.com
See this is what I said about hellboy 1. And indeed pan's Labyrinth., And everyone disagreed with me :-P
he'a an ARTIST not a WRITER. it's like when John Byrne tried to write the X men (shudder!)

Date: 2008-09-04 04:55 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] chuma.livejournal.com
Not seen Hellboy 2 yet. Recommend it? Or is it like the first; okay but nothing special.

Date: 2008-09-04 05:29 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] meaningrequired.livejournal.com
I had a different storyline in mind and thus was disapointed.

I was disapointed, I don't think you'd be upset if you saw it on DVD, I don't think you'd say "Damn! Wish I'd seen it on the big screen!"

Though, theres a very pretty (female) blond haired elf in gothy make up that makes the whole thing easier on the eyes... but then I do have a recessive thing for elves :)

Date: 2008-09-04 06:21 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] johnbobshaun.livejournal.com
I didn't think the dialogue was necessarily *bad*... it was a maybe a bit too pulpy and B-movie-ish and at odds with the way the film looked, however.

My main beef was that Del Toro still can't pace and direct action very well.

7/10.



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