Excellent day
Jan. 24th, 2013 06:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethI went to see The Hobbit :-D
Also I did finally get to the UEA library and got 7 books and fixed the thing where I couldn't log in to my account (because it thought I stopped being a student, but now it knows I'm still a student, I just needed a new password), and I went to CCN and took the books back and paid the library fines (£4.50. Makes just buying the things look like a more appealing option) and got a form for interlibrary loans for the books that neither library has.
And then on the way home stopped at Sainsburys to buy the food ASDA doesn't sell, and also to tell their customer service desk the online place won't send me my food. They gave me a helpline freephone number so maybe I can fix that.
Jobs achieved!
But the Hobbit was the best bit.
We went to the Vue, by way of Subway, Starbucks and the 99p store to get veggie patty sandwiches and coffee and ribena. Nowhere is selling ribena, it's all those blended drinks where I spend longer peering at the ingredients looking for sneaky stuff than I do drinking the things. And shops keep not being there when I look. Also the escalators were broken, and then both lifts, and there were a bunch of people in wheelchairs, and it was clearly not a good moving things day. But Vue does carer tickets for disabled people so I signed their paper thing and we got in quite cheaply. Loaded down with food from other places, but its not like they sell anything that isn't made of sugar and digestive woe.
There were a lot of OAPs in today. Some of the shops had signs out about special discount for OAPs days on Thursdays. So we watched the Hobbit in a room where I was not only the youngest but I may well have been half the average age.
Hobbit is awesomes. All the parts were good. There were no bits that were too long or that didn't fit, all the parts were good. It wasn't exactly precisely like the book but that's because it was trying to be a movie and I think it did awesome.
I keep humming the misty mountains song.
The running fight with the goblins I have heard called just a repeat of Lord of the Rings, but to me it was completely not a repeat, it was a compare/contrast. LotR had a band of professional warriors, plus Hobbits to be protected. They used weapons and ran and shot and sliced and made impossible shots and ran some more. It was all about how epic skilled they were. This running fight with dwarves in the Hobbit was all about how epic lucky they were. Luck, tool use, and timing. It called back to the opening sequence with dwarves under the mountain using HUGE great hammers to bam small bits of metal. Things swinging and thumping and lots of jumping and platforms and it wasn't their epic skill with blades, it was that this was an environment they know, underground, full of things they can use like them big hammers, timing and tools. If you compare the two groups you don't get the same use of space or tools to achieve a task at all. Which is excellent.
Also I liked every minute of Radaghast the Brown (however you spell that), and not just because it was Sylvester McCoy. The hedgehog rescue was telling an important bit of story and explaining why the 'wise' weren't paying attention yet. It's the little people that suffer first, the lonely farmer, the forest creatures. All the swish immortal types in their towers and hidden valleys don't have to pay attention to the small signs, they have comfortable already. (Plus Saruman is probably going lalala don't look nothing to see move along lalala, but even if he were being a good guy still, he wouldn't pay attention to hedgehogs.) But Gandalf's thing about how you stop evil with little daily acts of goodness is a proper good thing. So the hedgehog needed rescuing, because great big poisonous evil, and only the one man was paying attention because that's a very small thing compared to LotR's epic scale. But this is how it starts, small.
... I have seen people diss the running fight and the hedgehogs and the rabbit sledge. There is nothing wrong with rabbit sledge. That was just awesome.
All the parts were awesome. Nothing wrong with any of them.
And a lot just made me bounce because I seen it in my head for years already: silly dwarves falling in the door and singing the smash the dishes song, stupid trolls getting caught by the day, and Riddles in the dark, and flaming pine cones, and all the things.
Also, awesome eagles are awesome.
The visuals in this are stunning. Every minute of it was doing something. The landscape once again plays a series of characters. And the way we walk or ride or run or swoop through it all is spectacular.
Eagles are best.
Probably lots of other things are best too, but woosh! Swoops! Feathers!
... no, the feathers are really impressive, I want to see the feathers again.
And then, and then, right at the end, EYE!
Perfect.
There weren't any boring bits or broken bits or stupid bits, and I will :-p at anyone who says otherwise, because I was all bouncing and biting my nails and bouncing again happy when it worked and this is exactly excellently what a film should do.
... I won't go round their journals going :-p, but this journal is a happy squee place.
I want to see it again!
... which I'd probably have to do next week since it seems to be disappearing, and I don't really have the time or spoons, but in theory I totally want to see it again.
:-D
Also I did finally get to the UEA library and got 7 books and fixed the thing where I couldn't log in to my account (because it thought I stopped being a student, but now it knows I'm still a student, I just needed a new password), and I went to CCN and took the books back and paid the library fines (£4.50. Makes just buying the things look like a more appealing option) and got a form for interlibrary loans for the books that neither library has.
And then on the way home stopped at Sainsburys to buy the food ASDA doesn't sell, and also to tell their customer service desk the online place won't send me my food. They gave me a helpline freephone number so maybe I can fix that.
Jobs achieved!
But the Hobbit was the best bit.
We went to the Vue, by way of Subway, Starbucks and the 99p store to get veggie patty sandwiches and coffee and ribena. Nowhere is selling ribena, it's all those blended drinks where I spend longer peering at the ingredients looking for sneaky stuff than I do drinking the things. And shops keep not being there when I look. Also the escalators were broken, and then both lifts, and there were a bunch of people in wheelchairs, and it was clearly not a good moving things day. But Vue does carer tickets for disabled people so I signed their paper thing and we got in quite cheaply. Loaded down with food from other places, but its not like they sell anything that isn't made of sugar and digestive woe.
There were a lot of OAPs in today. Some of the shops had signs out about special discount for OAPs days on Thursdays. So we watched the Hobbit in a room where I was not only the youngest but I may well have been half the average age.
Hobbit is awesomes. All the parts were good. There were no bits that were too long or that didn't fit, all the parts were good. It wasn't exactly precisely like the book but that's because it was trying to be a movie and I think it did awesome.
I keep humming the misty mountains song.
The running fight with the goblins I have heard called just a repeat of Lord of the Rings, but to me it was completely not a repeat, it was a compare/contrast. LotR had a band of professional warriors, plus Hobbits to be protected. They used weapons and ran and shot and sliced and made impossible shots and ran some more. It was all about how epic skilled they were. This running fight with dwarves in the Hobbit was all about how epic lucky they were. Luck, tool use, and timing. It called back to the opening sequence with dwarves under the mountain using HUGE great hammers to bam small bits of metal. Things swinging and thumping and lots of jumping and platforms and it wasn't their epic skill with blades, it was that this was an environment they know, underground, full of things they can use like them big hammers, timing and tools. If you compare the two groups you don't get the same use of space or tools to achieve a task at all. Which is excellent.
Also I liked every minute of Radaghast the Brown (however you spell that), and not just because it was Sylvester McCoy. The hedgehog rescue was telling an important bit of story and explaining why the 'wise' weren't paying attention yet. It's the little people that suffer first, the lonely farmer, the forest creatures. All the swish immortal types in their towers and hidden valleys don't have to pay attention to the small signs, they have comfortable already. (Plus Saruman is probably going lalala don't look nothing to see move along lalala, but even if he were being a good guy still, he wouldn't pay attention to hedgehogs.) But Gandalf's thing about how you stop evil with little daily acts of goodness is a proper good thing. So the hedgehog needed rescuing, because great big poisonous evil, and only the one man was paying attention because that's a very small thing compared to LotR's epic scale. But this is how it starts, small.
... I have seen people diss the running fight and the hedgehogs and the rabbit sledge. There is nothing wrong with rabbit sledge. That was just awesome.
All the parts were awesome. Nothing wrong with any of them.
And a lot just made me bounce because I seen it in my head for years already: silly dwarves falling in the door and singing the smash the dishes song, stupid trolls getting caught by the day, and Riddles in the dark, and flaming pine cones, and all the things.
Also, awesome eagles are awesome.
The visuals in this are stunning. Every minute of it was doing something. The landscape once again plays a series of characters. And the way we walk or ride or run or swoop through it all is spectacular.
Eagles are best.
Probably lots of other things are best too, but woosh! Swoops! Feathers!
... no, the feathers are really impressive, I want to see the feathers again.
And then, and then, right at the end, EYE!
Perfect.
There weren't any boring bits or broken bits or stupid bits, and I will :-p at anyone who says otherwise, because I was all bouncing and biting my nails and bouncing again happy when it worked and this is exactly excellently what a film should do.
... I won't go round their journals going :-p, but this journal is a happy squee place.
I want to see it again!
... which I'd probably have to do next week since it seems to be disappearing, and I don't really have the time or spoons, but in theory I totally want to see it again.
:-D