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Gruesome Spectre
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This is to me the most interesting:
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![]() As for the rest, it's pretty much what we "unjust" critics here have been ruminating about for some time. At any rate, I may end up seeing it despite my misgivings. I am matched against a power too great for me (my wife), who has said she wants to go. ![]()
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Illustrious Ulair
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Guardian bit more positive http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2012/...journey-review
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Its odd that they justify extending the story over three films by claiming that there was too much material for just two films, when all the extra material is stuff they've just (unnecessarily) made up. Its like a cook serving up a 15 course banquet when you only asked for a nice 3 course meal & justifying it by claiming that he had LOADS of food there which would have gone to waste otherwise, & your first thought is 'Well, why did you make so much then? Nobody asked you to.' You get the feeling that Jackson & his writers are incapable of any kind of discrimination when it comes to their ideas - if they think of something they just film it & stick it in there. Got the same feeling about their King Kong. Interestingly I just finished listening to Nicol Williamson's reading of TH on You Tube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ggm7XM-3dF8 & while its an abridged version it is an absolutely beautiful & faithful re-telling, which comes in around the same length as this first movie.
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Han Solo doesn't think much of PJ's Hobbit:
"I've got a bad feeling about this." <iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/lytZ7fYOlgU" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
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Oh well. I found this line from the Guardian review utterly hilarious... Quote:
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Illustrious Ulair
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‘they desecrated our sacred holes’.....*
Metro a bit noncommittal http://metro.co.uk/2012/12/10/the-ho...rings-3310069/
* my favourite line from the movie so far - I hope the reviewer isn't joking about it being in the film. I want it on a tshirt. |
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Gruesome Spectre
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Illustrious Ulair
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We are off to see it (in 3D) on Friday aft. Personally I'd have preferred to wait for the DVD and take the edges off it with a couple or five glasses of madeira ...... Noticed the reviews on the sfx and Mail sites are a bit half hearted as well.
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I decided I am going to see it, but at least a couple weeks after the 14th. I'm not the one to go stand all day in line waiting to get the tickets, just to spend the next couple hours in an overcrowded room full of overexcited fans.
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