You're implying I didn't stop after the quote "I am a Baggins - of Bag End."Mangue Surfer said:Is one Rivendell scene too long. Serious, the Rivendell "videodcast" really boring me.
"Look you stupid nerd fan boy, characters of the Lord of the Rings cameo, now you can masturbate!"
There were like, 10 of them.bdcjacko said:As long as the watcher isn't bored it isn't too long, unless it has like a 5 hour run time with no potty break. Then again I grew up in the 90, when they were all about the 3 to 4 hour movies.
Bob has a weird blind spot when it comes to the number of dwarves. He was corrected before. It bugs me because Tolkien stressed it as a justification for adding Bilbo to the party. Thirteen is an unlucky number, and since Gandalf can't be with them all of the time, they need a 14th member.artanis_neravar said:There are 13 Dwarves.MovieBob said:Is The Hobbit Too Long?
MovieBob ponders if The Hobbit is longer than it needed to be.
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I would say the Hobbit was the perfect length. The only time I ever checked my watch was when I was trying to figure out how much more awesome i was going to be able to see.
This. Cloud Atlas was also as long, but I never got bored with it either (I could see how someone else would be confused by that one though).OtherSideofSky said:The problem isn't the actual runtime: Django was as long, but I never got bored or noticed that it was going on so long.
I think they are going to make the second movie take care of most of the build-up of getting to Smaug (including sneaking into the cave) and gathering the Wise. Then, the third movie has a structure built around three battles:quantum mechanic said:Re: how will the content of the book be divided among the next two movies? {beware of spoilers, I guess}
I think the second one will (and/or should) deal with the dwarves meeting Beorn, getting through Mirkwood, making it to Lake Town, and setting off for the Lonely Mountain, while Gandalf leaves them at the edge of Mirkwood and takes care of all or most of the "Necromancer in Mirkwood" plot with the rest of the Wise*. The third movie would then wrap up the Necromancer stuff (if necessary), get all the dragon stuff in, with the destruction of Lake Town and the death of Smaug as the mid-way mini-climax, and then all of the political arguing and Battle of Five Armies happens as the real climax. I like Bob's division, but I'm not sure there's enough material to make the third one seem like it wasn't just tacked on at the end.
*I really hope this is tied in with the dwarves' imprisonment by Thranduil in some way like in the book (sort of). Along the lines of 'these guys are kind of xenophobic because the forest is going all giant spiders and evil sorcery on them,' I guess. I didn't like how Thranduil just seemed like a totally compassionless asshat in the first movie...he wasn't really like that in the book (the way I read it, anyway).
For the most part though the 90s had much fewer big release a year, unlike today where there are more movies released a month than for all summer 1992Zachary Amaranth said:There were like, 10 of them.bdcjacko said:As long as the watcher isn't bored it isn't too long, unless it has like a 5 hour run time with no potty break. Then again I grew up in the 90, when they were all about the 3 to 4 hour movies.