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Hated pretty much everythign about The Hobbit. Seeing it in 48fps certainly didn't help it out (I thought it resulted in everything looking more fake, not more real and I never got used to it; but this is why I've never been interested in Bluray, the demo movies at the TV store look awful and cartoony and fake to me; wouldn't mind seeing it for something that isn't almost pure CGI).
There is 80 minutes, maybe, of move expanded to 170 minutes. All the worst excesses of the last half of the LOTR trilogy and King Kong without much in the way of narrative or character progression.
About halfway into the movie I actually got into my normal airplane seat sleeping posture and tried to go to sleep as a form of escape (I was in the middle of the row due to the 3D and couldn't tell if Lani was enjoying it). Didn't work for more than a couple minutes. Though I did manage to jump suddenly from Gandalf, Cate and Future Bad Guy having a talk in Rivendell to suddenly watching cartoons cling to Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Rock Bots.
So let me condemn this movie in the strongest way: I'd rather have to spend a weekend watching the Transformers trilogy over and over (and some of you may recall how much I hated each Transformers movie) than sit through half of this one again.
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Conversely, I'm surprised by how much I loved Lincoln. The opening scene is bad and the epilogue is Spielbergian glurge but I adored everything in between.
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