'The Hobbit' Truly is an Unexpected Journey
Hold onto your hats, kids; we're heading to Middle Earth again with Peter Jackson and company.
After years of waiting it's finally coming to theaters -- Peter Jackson's "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey." Bilbo Baggins, a kicked-back, happy-go-lucky Hobbit, joins Gandalf the Grey and 13 dwarves on a dangerous quest to reclaim their homeland and their treasure from Smaug the dragon. The film is a staggering 160 minutes. But unlike any of the "Lord of the Rings" films, it takes about an hour for anything to really get going. Once it does, though, game on, with non-stop chase scenes and action sequences. On the journey they run into every kind of creature imaginable. The problem is, most of them are CGI creations. That was a big misstep, I think. In the "Lord of the Rings" films most of the monsters were just guys in makeup, and there…
Jamie Dempsey
10:29 am on Saturday, December 15, 2012
So it doesn't tell the entire Hobbit story? "The Hobbit" was a book in and of itself, just as each of the three "Lord of the Rings" books were. . .have they split it up? Also, FWIW, it's "Gandalf", not Gandolf. . . Thanks for the heads-up! HAd hoped to see it yesterday, but with the length. . . "real life" took priority! more ›