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Hobbit: Battle of Five Armies
Jan. 18th, 2015 06:32 pmToday Sunday was swapped for Epic Sunday of Cinema, so me and mum and sibling went not to the supermarket but to the cinema.
... so I've run out of bread and a bunch of other things, but that's fine, I can totally fix that tomorrow.
also on the way there we went in Waterstones and mum and sibling had cake and I checked on my book order. Which isn't out until 31st March, which wasn't what I'd thought when I ordered it or I'd have ordered something more... existing. But that's cool, I'll go get it when it exists.
So today I bought The Mammoth Book Of Best New SF 27, which I have been looking forward to.
It's going to have half a dozen books on top of it in the to-read pile, but still, is good.
We went to see the Hobbit :-)
... that was a long fight sequence.
... like, the whole movie. a loooooong fight sequence.
and I watch martial arts movies, so I'm not inherently averse to such things, but... well... there were bits in the middle where I thought possibly it could become a better movie if someone had taken more of it away and put their foot down about it.
Also if they had run it past some wargamers, maybe SCA people, someone to check it for... stupid.
... there were bits where my mum, who is not a big fan of fighty movies, could see someone had suddenly become stupid in the fighting department. If my mum can see it, it is probably not subtle.
it is possible there were bits of it that were not very good?
... I am deeply puzzled by this, because I have been looking forward to this movie for a long time, and it had all sorts of exciting bits in it, so really it should be good?
there were bits that made me laugh not because they were being funny but because their quest to be Moar Epic had just broken my suspension of disbelief.
oh, also, because Legolas makes good faces. that was good though.
I just feel that sometimes just because you can make it Moar Epic doesn't mean you should.
This isn't even a 'I don't remember that bit in the book' purist thing, it's just, sometimes I felt like a bunch of people had been bouncing ideas around going 'and then, and then, right...' and maybe they could have taken it back a notch without losing anything.
... so now I'm turning it around in my head looking for the bits where I could change emphasis to make it the movie in my head.
but, I had fun watching, and I'm glad I went.
which is probably the important bit.
... so I've run out of bread and a bunch of other things, but that's fine, I can totally fix that tomorrow.
also on the way there we went in Waterstones and mum and sibling had cake and I checked on my book order. Which isn't out until 31st March, which wasn't what I'd thought when I ordered it or I'd have ordered something more... existing. But that's cool, I'll go get it when it exists.
So today I bought The Mammoth Book Of Best New SF 27, which I have been looking forward to.
It's going to have half a dozen books on top of it in the to-read pile, but still, is good.
We went to see the Hobbit :-)
... that was a long fight sequence.
... like, the whole movie. a loooooong fight sequence.
and I watch martial arts movies, so I'm not inherently averse to such things, but... well... there were bits in the middle where I thought possibly it could become a better movie if someone had taken more of it away and put their foot down about it.
Also if they had run it past some wargamers, maybe SCA people, someone to check it for... stupid.
... there were bits where my mum, who is not a big fan of fighty movies, could see someone had suddenly become stupid in the fighting department. If my mum can see it, it is probably not subtle.
it is possible there were bits of it that were not very good?
... I am deeply puzzled by this, because I have been looking forward to this movie for a long time, and it had all sorts of exciting bits in it, so really it should be good?
there were bits that made me laugh not because they were being funny but because their quest to be Moar Epic had just broken my suspension of disbelief.
oh, also, because Legolas makes good faces. that was good though.
I just feel that sometimes just because you can make it Moar Epic doesn't mean you should.
This isn't even a 'I don't remember that bit in the book' purist thing, it's just, sometimes I felt like a bunch of people had been bouncing ideas around going 'and then, and then, right...' and maybe they could have taken it back a notch without losing anything.
... so now I'm turning it around in my head looking for the bits where I could change emphasis to make it the movie in my head.
but, I had fun watching, and I'm glad I went.
which is probably the important bit.