Blasphemer!!!
Indeed.
On the film itself. I still don;t think there needs to be 3 films. A lot of unnecessary padding. That said, the fikm itself is by and large spectacular. Some verry good performances, notably from Freeman who really is excellent in the film. The scenes with Gollum were almost worth the admission money alone.
The comedy element still seems to be more suited to a Pratchett adaptation and parts of the film lead to some "really?", "seriously?" and "are you kidding me?" moments. They manage to cling on to the side of the giants during their battle while being thrown all over the place but afterwards a couple of them manage to slip and need rescuing.
hen there's the tumble to the bottom of the goblin caves when the platform collapses and not one of them dies or is even remotely injured. Susepnding belief is one thing, eradicating it from your psyche altogether is pushing it a bit.
Gripes aside, I enjoyed it though. I'd give it 8.5/10.
Trailers for Jack the Giant Slayer and Man of Steel piqued my curiosity.
On the subkect of the 48 fps, to be honest I'm not sure it made any amazing difference. Not that I noticed anyway. Didn't appear to cause motion sickness, though I did have a bit of a headache afterwards but that may be due to the 3D glasses as much as anything.
