THE HOBBIT
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I mostly love this for the straightforward headline:
http://www.thestar.com/entertainmen...hobbit-s-48fps-technology-won-t-make-you-sick
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If you go to Rotten Tomatoes, it's painfully clear that most of them haven't. If you bring this up, you're ironically told that the movie is to be judged on its own merits. Why is that ironic? Because most of the reviews compare the movie in some way to LotR.
Not really sure, but I would at least get past the goblin mountain, and the game of riddles.Random query: Does anyone know where this movie ends? I want to know how fast I need to speed read the book to my son before we go see it.
Heck, you should be able to finish the book in a week.
Depends on the five year old, and how comfortable you are exposing him to that. I was watching horror movies at six, but only because my aunt let me watch nightmare on elm street (against my mom's wishes) and my mom had me watch the making of so I wouldn't be afraid of it.
I recommend using a website like commonsensemedia.org or the like, that will generally break down what's in a movie and give their own rating. The rating system is terrible now. That said, I probably won't take my almost 7 year old daughter to see it because she scares easily at live action movies (vs. animated where she's pretty indifferent), but I will most likely bring my 10 year old son, after we read the book first, so he knows what to expect. (He is not good at handling scary scenes in movies if he can't read about them first, such as Harry Potter.)
We've been planning to take our son to see it since he read the book. He's only 7, but I think with both my husband and I with him he should be ok. He's watched all the Star Wars movies except Revenge of the Sith, so my feeling is that he should be able to handle The Hobbit since those movies didn't bother him.
Nope. It's AWESOME!
Didn't notice any kids getting freaked by the Nazgul, but Gollum's attack at the beginning of the second movie had kids in shrieking panic.
Anyway, a parent's gotta judge for themselves, because the rating system is crap. If you already know your kid can't handle scary stuff, don't take them. There's going to be a cave-riddled mountain full of sharp-toothed, gibbering monsters jumping out of the dark, plus Gollum trying to kill the main character, and possibly stuff with the Necromancer that wasn't even in the book (overtly).
I think I did that as an adult watching that.
North_Ranger
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I haven't seen the original, but Johnny Depp's Michael Jackson impersonation in the remake was creepy as hell.
My 6 year old niece freaks the hell out on Gollum, just on the ads for The Hobbit.
"Nope, I don't like that Goblin guy!"
"Nope, I don't like that Goblin guy!"
That's a really good idea.
It worked. From that point on I loved scary movies. My little kid self was able to understand that they're just people in costume, and that the blood was really just "ketchup", and then it just became halloween on screen.
Guys.
Guys.
Guys.
Two days.
Guys.
Guys.
Two days.
Excited are you?
I hope you don't pay the sitter by the baby/hour.
North_Ranger
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Goddammit, friend... Tell me how many people are gonna go to the show so I can fucking reserve the tickets already! They're going fast!
Gah... This is why I hate going to the movies with more than two people...
Gah... This is why I hate going to the movies with more than two people...
North_Ranger
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It's just me trying to control the situation as much as possible... Because of my medication and the kidney drain, I need to make sure I get a place next to the aisle so I don't have to worry about some asshole next to me accidentally tripping on the drain or something else.
The problem just is that the people who suggested we go see the Hobbit together - an engaged couple who also attend my Pathfinder games - only later told me there would be more people than just the three of us hitting the show. And just as the number of cats you have exponentially increases your level of crazy, the number of people trying to figure out when to go to the movies exponentially increases the amount of time it takes everyone to figure out a good time to go.
The problem just is that the people who suggested we go see the Hobbit together - an engaged couple who also attend my Pathfinder games - only later told me there would be more people than just the three of us hitting the show. And just as the number of cats you have exponentially increases your level of crazy, the number of people trying to figure out when to go to the movies exponentially increases the amount of time it takes everyone to figure out a good time to go.
BananaHands
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Ya'll ready to do the ol' Hobbit Vomit?
Do what I do, and just say "fuck it" and go alone.
I love going to the movies by myself.
Just got back from the show, after a few drinks with the group to discuss it.
Didn't like it. I love Tolkien's work, didn't like this movie. The entire episode with Dol Guldur and the White Council, what the hell was that about? The grave of the Witch King of Angmar? And am I to believe that vaguely human-like form screaming at Radagast was actually Sauron/The Necromancer?
Wife, me, Sunday morning.
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