lol awesome, i wonder if dwarves throw molotov in this one

Molotovs were actually "invented" by the Finns.

Unfortunately, a russian adaptation made more awesome by a very talented pseudo-translator.

I really, really really wish this was the genuine translation.

I liked it, but it was way too long. I hope there'll be a director's cut- a version where unimportant parts have been taken out and the action scenes have been shortened. Of course that won't happen- we are more likely to get the oppesite.

I just talked to a friend who is Russian to ask her if that translation was anything like the actual words being spoken. It of course wasn't - but it was super well done I thought.

I do want to know how ridiculous it is from a real translation - because the visuals are crazy. haha

i trundled along the other day to see it, wasn't exactly wanting to for any other reason than it using the 24fps 3D. i enjoyed the FIRST watch of LOTR movies, but the second and 3rd i was just bored (maybe its me lately!) and i think i will feel the same here.

did anyone feel extremely underwhelmed with the 24fps 3D it was built up to be super amazing and window like clarity and the future of cinema etc and i just left with "Meh".

sorry slightly off topic i guess. just wondered if anyone felt the same?

hehehe if LOTR is any indicator, the directors cut will be even longer. :P

The new technology is the 48 fps 3D projection, not 24 fps. The latter is the standard framerate for all films. If you really saw the Hobbit at the usual 24 fps it's not surprising that you were unimpressed.

i thought the hobbit was the quintisential fantasy movie of all time. including the other lord of the rings movies, this was the greatest movie ever. WOOT WOOT!

I just rented the movie in Blu Ray and it still blew my mind, I still loved it.

I forgotten that some of the sets were just blue screen, the wilderness looks so real you almost forget it is fake looking.

If anyone agrees imo WETA digital does CG best (they are not completely perfect you can tell whats CG and fake but they put such detail on the images that it has realistic features)

I just cannot wait to see the next film.

Got that right. I recently rewatched The Lord of the Rings trilogy and I even had trouble figuring out which shot was CG (for instance, I had no idea that the shot of the fellowship crossing the bridge at Moria was 100% CGI). Keep in mind that this particular movie is now 12 years old (woah. Time flies by quickly).

Of course the best CG of all time is in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest with Davy Jones, some people thought it was a very elaborate costume.

I hadn't read the book in a number of years, but I think that the material that Peter Jackson added to it was appallingly bad. I could have understood if it simplified things or made the plot work better, but in all cases that I noticed, it stopped the action and made things boring.

He's got basically two movies tops that can be made from the Hobbit, and if my informal calculations are correct, at least 30 minutes of the first film was pure filler material, if not more than that. Not to mention how horribly convoluted the action sequences were.

I don't personally think that he needed to slavishly copy the source material, but if he was going to add rather than subtract, it should lead to a movie that was, well better. I was constantly looking down at my watch as there were scene upon scene in the movie that didn't serve any real purpose. And again, those were the ones that he added. We didn't need Smaug to have a backstory, IIRC, Smaug didn't have much of one in the original book, and that worked fine.
I didn't know they had 4D cinema outside of China. I didn't get to go in, but one time I saw a 5D cinema sign. Not sure what that extra D was for. Perhaps it was a 3D movie with DD women.