Film: The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013)

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Oh, nice. To rotten tomatoes!
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Apparently the other reviews are embargoed til dec 8

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Isn't that the same review where they called Fast and Furious 6 one of the ten best movies of the year, though?
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Did they?
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dimejinky99 wrote:Did they?
I don't read Time.
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McParadigm wrote:Isn't that the same review where they called Fast and Furious 6 one of the ten best movies of the year, though?
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McParadigm wrote:
dimejinky99 wrote:Did they?
I don't read Time.

Got it in one.
(Not cos of that but Bob is never wrong)
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E.H. Ruddock wrote:
McParadigm wrote:Isn't that the same review where they called Fast and Furious 6 one of the ten best movies of the year, though?
What's the problem here?
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uh

it's just

...of the year?!?
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I always pronounced it smog. The way they pronounce it in the commercials sounds weird to me.
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Im with you Pete. I'm not sure there's any recording of Tolkien saying it though.
But smaowg sounds wrong to me.
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Harold and Maowd.
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We picked the same vowel set dime, me old son. I grok you long time.
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I'll take that:)
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McParadigm wrote:
E.H. Ruddock wrote:
McParadigm wrote:Isn't that the same review where they called Fast and Furious 6 one of the ten best movies of the year, though?
What's the problem here?
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it's just

...of the year?!?
yeah, you're right. I'm just still caught up in all the emotions of Paul Walker's passing.
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Also, every time I see the CGI elves in the trailers it takes me out of the game for a second.

If you equate movie making to being basically a really artful form of lying, where success means convincing a willing and participatory audience for at least the length of the lie itself, then the last movie was chock full of special effect moments that were basically pauses to say, "By the way I'm totally lying about this." Not on a Star Wars prequel level, but it was a lot more than could hope to be justified.

I'm hoping for so much less of that this time around.
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I hated the 1st one. jackson slept through most of the making of the film, right? The CGI is brutal. Why is LOTR so much better? Someone in the know please tell me

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Strat wrote:Also, Im going to need a quick summary of McP's thoughts.
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The second one will be great. I can feel it in the water. Feel it in the earth. Smell it in the air.
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dimejinky99 wrote:The second one will be great. I can feel it in the water. Feel it in the earth. Smell it in the air.
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the desolation of slog
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