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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.
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.
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Date: 2008-09-04 01:40 pm (UTC)Mind you, Tolkein already wrote a bit of that into the plot of The Hobbit...
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Date: 2008-09-04 01:44 pm (UTC)I still enjoyed it, because it looked great. But it was definitely a 6/10. Shame, as it looked like a 9!
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Date: 2008-09-04 02:08 pm (UTC)You sure you weren't in your seat the wrong way up again? :p
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Date: 2008-09-04 02:42 pm (UTC)When we see them in the rest of the films it's millenia later, and they're old and exhausted, magic is fading from the world, and they're making their final journeys into The West.
You'll notice that it's always Autumn in the elven woods :->
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Date: 2008-09-04 02:44 pm (UTC)If Tim Burton had directed it they would have worn eyeliner....
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Date: 2008-09-04 04:35 pm (UTC)he'a an ARTIST not a WRITER. it's like when John Byrne tried to write the X men (shudder!)
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Date: 2008-09-04 04:42 pm (UTC)And I felt that Pan's Labyrinth worked as a story.
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Date: 2008-09-04 05:29 pm (UTC)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 :)
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Date: 2008-09-04 06:21 pm (UTC)My main beef was that Del Toro still can't pace and direct action very well.
7/10.
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