I dunno, was just reading it and each chapter, with a few exceptions has some action and tension. Trolls, Goblintown, Gollum, Wargs, Spiders, Elves, Laketown, Smaug, the freaking Battle of the Five Armies.

Yeah, the way that I look at it, is that The Hobbit and the rest of Tolkien's mythos are all part of one work, the Red Book of Westmarch. So, what wasn't revealed in one chapter, The Hobbit, is revealed in other chapters, such as LotR's appendices, The Silmarillion and Unfinished Tales.

There's a sideplot that Tolkien described in other books, as others have said, that happens at the same time as the book. It's what Gandalf does when he runs off from the group. And, from what I've read, it is very epic and dramatic.

Well, that's just, like, your opinion, man.

Heh, if that is his complaint about the movie and the LotR movies, then I wouldn't mind that at all. I was watching Fellowship of the Ring Expanded Edition on BluRay last night and it just felt like a nice comfortable soak in a hot tub. I love that stuff.

I think, the way Tolkien explained, the book was written from Bilbo's perspective. From Bilbo's perspective, it was a light-hearted, jaunty romp, at least at the beginning. However, from Gandalf's and Thorin's perspective, there was much higher stakes involved, which was described elsewhere in Tolkien's books.

I dunno, I think 24 fps is actually closer to the Uncanny Valley, because it moves much slower than life, while 48 fps looks closer to life. All it comes to is 80 years of tradition vs. something new. Nobody's forcing anyone to see it in 48 fps because most theaters will have it in 24 fps, though.

Most theaters will be showing it 24 fps, so yes. Only about 1 in 25 will be showing it in 48 fps.

Indeed, I've been wanting to see the siege of Dol Guldur for a long time. Seriously, Gandalf, Elrond, Galadrial, Saurman and (maybe) Radagast vs. Sauron. Who would not want to see that epic clash?

All that extra material is canon though, and if they weren't there. People would be wondering why Gandalf is missing for much of the 2nd half of the story. Seriously, he basically says "I've got business with the Necromancer" and poof, he's gone untilthe very end after the Battle of the Five Armies. LOTS of people…

Agreed. The reason why 24 fps was the standard for 80 years, was because the technology 80 years ago was not up to par. I'm sure if the standard for 80 years was 48 fps, people would be saying 24 fps looked weird. It's a different look and an experiment, that's all it is. To those who don't want to see it in 48 fps,…

I'd love to see that song in the movie somewhere. And, maybe to fit in with the Portal references...as a cover sung by Jonathan Coulton.

Here is my wild batshit theory caused by sleep deprivation that I cooked up last night. The movie takes place in an alternate Half-Life/Portal universe created by the Resonance Cascade. In this universe, instead of multiple small portals to the Xen and Combine universes, there is instead one large portal to the Kaiju…

Hmm, well the trailer does mention a portal and there are monsters from another dimension. Hmm. Well, if the AI starts going haywire talking about cake and we see a certain bespectacled crowbar-slinging theoretical physicist saving the day, THEN we'll know for sure.

If the big twist at the end is that the GlaDOS-Robot says: "At the end of the experiment, you will be baked, and then there will be cake." and then proceeds to attack the humans, I'm not going to lie, I will be having the HUGEST nerdgasm.

It worked for me. I didn't even move my eyes towards them. I basically didn't acknowledge that they did existed.

It seems most of them of the criticism are of the slower pace at the beginning. I really don't mind a slow pace, in fact, I prefer it. I've heard that it's mostly American critics who are ragging it on the pace, while international critics are far more supportive of it. Which makes sense. Americans are well-known for…

Probably, but even when I first saw it when I was 16 in 2001, I really enjoyed that part.

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