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Hercules with the rock

It is what it is. I know critic like to bash movies that deliver what they promise. Still I like this take on the legend. And I like all the usual stuff about gods is in there but nothing happens to verify the gods existence. In these sort of movies the SOP is the gods step in to provide then right words/tool/ action. Like how people used to complain about Q
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FormerBondFan wrote:I don't think PJ intended The Hobbit to be better than LOTR. If anything, the former is like a group of pieces building up to greatness of the latter.
Be curious to here his thoughts on the two trilogies almost 10 years apart
He said that BOFTA is the best of the Hobbit trilogy.
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Omega wrote:
FormerBondFan wrote:I don't think PJ intended The Hobbit to be better than LOTR. If anything, the former is like a group of pieces building up to greatness of the latter.
Be curious to here his thoughts on the two trilogies almost 10 years apart
He said that BOFTA is the best of the Hobbit trilogy.
he was right about that
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My wife gave me the extended editions of the first two Hobbit movies for Christmas. I've only watched the first half of the first movie so far, but from what I've seen, it's streets ahead of the theatrical version. The difference is even more pronounced than it was with the LOTR trilogy.
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An enjoyable 'blue collar Bond' thriller, starring Sir Tony. The fight in the graveyard looks sloppy, especially compared to some of the fights Bond had already been involved with by this point (SEE: Bond vs Grant in From Russia With Love).
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The Hobbit finale conquers the last weekend of 2014.

http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page ... e&id=58044
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FormerBondFan wrote:The Hobbit finale conquers the last weekend of 2014.

http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page ... e&id=58044
I expected it would of smashed it more. It's going to be big I had hoped it would do better in the US.
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The Equalizer

Verdict = Did Not Suck :up:

Better admit I maybe watched a hand full of episodes of the TV show so I have no real convection of who Robert McCall should be.

Denzel was fun to watch in this, the director who's name I will not bother to misspell is somebody I've thought for years should take on a Bond movie.

There are a few difference between what I though of the TV show and the movies was like. I had the impression the TV show was about a man who James Bonded around the world for 30 years to retire with a guilty conscious. [spoil]this seems to be a guy who did CIA work who walked away years earlier to live the quiet life and gets pulled back in to violence to help somebody because he has the skills to do it.[/spoil]

I did wondered why it was a generic home improvement store until the last battle, home alone but more bloody. Home Depot wouldn't want their name on this because the underlying message beside the massacre is the quiet well manner employees spend their spare time thinking of how to kill people with the items on the shelf.

It was fun, predictable but it's one of those movies you know where you are going when you buy the ticket. I did like the equalizer didn't pull any punches, killing the bad guy after he gave them a chance to make it right. I can't remember how the tv show handled this considering it was a tv show the dirty truth of dealing with psychopaths probably didn't come up.

In the end I guess it would be called anything and still be as enjoyable, it didn't have to be the equalizer.
I could also tell what sony thought of this movie they frontloaded a ton of placement and the blu-ray had a endless supply of trailers before the main menu was reached.
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FormerBondFan wrote:The Hobbit finale conquers the last weekend of 2014.

http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page ... e&id=58044
I expected it would of smashed it more. It's going to be big I had hoped it would do better in the US.
I hope it becomes 2014's highest grossing film. Beating HP7.2's total gross is out of the question. ROTK's? Maybe or maybe not.
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I was looking at the first weekend up till I'm not sure what date I thought it seemed not as strong as previous Lotr movies. In the us that is .


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PJ deserves to have his 3rd billion dollar film.
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Just saw the 3rd Hobbit film. Definately the best one. A friend of mine was an extra and actually made it on screen as a man of Laketown defending Dale, so chuffed for him! :D Like the second film I am annoyed with Legolas hogging so much screen time (particularly since he wasn't even in the book). Viggo Mortensen was asked to come back as well, he said he would if not for one thing: his character isn't in the book... At least he wasn't swayed by the lure of nothing but a juicy paycheck.
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Kiwichris wrote:Just saw the 3rd Hobbit film. Definately the best one. A friend of mine was an extra and actually made it on screen as a man of Laketown defending Dale, so chuffed for him! :D Like the second film I am annoyed with Legolas hogging so much screen time (particularly since he wasn't even in the book). Viggo Mortensen was asked to come back as well, he said he would if not for one thing: his character isn't in the book... At least he wasn't swayed by the lure of nothing but a juicy paycheck.
legolas and that elf chick were not on the book. Glad Viggo had some scruples about it.

I don't know what extra material exists I'm kind of disappointed they didn't just follow the book they kept adding prequel crap. I don't know if the Wizards and elfs were doing what the did on screen according to Tolkien (sp) or Peter Jackson . To some fans Jackson is as good as jr Tolkien .

I tried to read the hobbit never did finish it , got further in the hobbit than Lotr . If rather watch fantasy medieval worlds than read about I guess
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Kiwichris wrote:Viggo Mortensen was asked to come back as well, he said he would if not for one thing: his character isn't in the book... At least he wasn't swayed by the lure of nothing but a juicy paycheck.
Viggo is too old as Aragorn is in his 20s at The Hobbit timespan or at least a child in the book version.
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FormerBondFan wrote:
Kiwichris wrote:Viggo Mortensen was asked to come back as well, he said he would if not for one thing: his character isn't in the book... At least he wasn't swayed by the lure of nothing but a juicy paycheck.
Viggo is too old as Aragorn is in his 20s at The Hobbit timespan or at least a child in the book version.
CGI and ignoring how old he is or isn't. But he'd look as freaky as legolas . The guy who played bard looks more like legolas than legolas . That guy should have played blooms father in pirates 2&3
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Omega wrote:I don't know what extra material exists I'm kind of disappointed they didn't just follow the book they kept adding prequel crap. I don't know if the Wizards and elfs were doing what the did on screen according to Tolkien (sp) or Peter Jackson . To some fans Jackson is as good as jr Tolkien .
The scenes with the wizards at Dol Guldur are from some Tolkein story, Fall of the Necromancer IIRC. Personally I quite liked them being included as it shows the film audience where Gandalf goes. In the book he disappears all the time and it was never explained, making it rather confusing to follow. I couldn't believe Radagast's bunny sled made another appearance, he really is the Jar Jar Binks of these films.
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Kiwichris wrote:
Omega wrote:I don't know what extra material exists I'm kind of disappointed they didn't just follow the book they kept adding prequel crap. I don't know if the Wizards and elfs were doing what the did on screen according to Tolkien (sp) or Peter Jackson . To some fans Jackson is as good as jr Tolkien .
The scenes with the wizards at Dol Guldur are from some Tolkein story, Fall of the Necromancer IIRC. Personally I quite liked them being included as it shows the film audience where Gandalf goes. In the book he disappears all the time and it was never explained, making it rather confusing to follow. I couldn't believe Radagast's bunny sled made another appearance, he really is the Jar Jar Binks of these films.
Aside from the book, The Hobbit Trilogy used the appendix from ROTK. And I don't have problems with Radagast's bunny sled.
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Some of the dwarves were more annoying than the bunny sled. Radagast himself I didn't think was too annoying if he had more screen time I'd might change my mind. Maybe watching the trilogy again might do it.

Seriously some of the dwarves were so awful to annoying I was cheering the orcs and goblins on.
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Did anyone here get the extended editions and what do you think of them?
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Omega wrote:Did anyone here get the extended editions and what do you think of them?
As I said above, I got the extended editions of the first two Hobbit films and the entire LOTR trilogy for Christmas. I have now watched both Hobbit films and I think the extra scenes mostly improve them. At least I think they did. I only saw them once in the cinema, a year or two ago (depending on which film we're talking about), so I don't always remember which bits are new. Did the Goblin King get a musical number in the theatrical version? Whether he did or not, I could have done without that scene.
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