'The Hobbit': An Only Sometimes Unexpected Cinematic Journey
Santa brings a very mixed bag to blockbuster franchise.
This holiday, with the expected blockbuster franchise The Hobbit (it has already broken records for midnight release of a movie more than two-and-a-half hours long) Santa brings a very mixed bag. First, let's talk about the coal-worthy aspects of the An Unexpected Journey. Unless you are a slave to technology, spend most of your days playing video games or crave seeing the next big thing, avoid the mercifully limited number of screens (10 percent) showing it in 3D filmed at 48 frames instead of the usual 24. Find out where it's playing in/near Ashburn. Director Peter Jackson argues the high frame rate technology gives the movie a sense of reality, like "looking into the real world." Unfortunately, while it brightens the often-muddled look …
carl
1:30 pm on Sunday, December 16, 2012
I felt it took too long to get to the beart of the movie. Also the energy is toned down a bit to much so the moments were lost..example is the singing of the dwarves...it lost its suspence. I did enjoy the teling of how oakwnshield got his last name. I am sure the next movie will attract more energy. more ›