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Cinema. Ever since Edison first captured pictures and put them to motion in his free time when he wasn't busy pettily ruining Nicolai Tesla's life, the movies have captured the imagination of the United States and in time the world like no other phenomenon before it. Whereas the radio and the airplane had made the world smaller and allowed mankind to share idea's, Cinema allowed men to share their dreams - stories could be spread far and wide, immersive and visual. Worlds of imagination and shared experiences became available.

So it is with great pleasure I begin a thread which, I hope, will serve as a guideline for our community - a place where we can congregate and discuss our experiences, and lend our recommendations. To inauguration this effort, I turn to a word smith we all know, a fixture of the community who, in his own special way, has commanded the attention of all. For us, he has deigned to review -

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Quote[21:13:21] The Hobbit was pretty gay

Marvelous.

I had family that went to see Hobbit on opening night. The review from Matron Mother via text was:

Quotedon't u go c hobbit. its full of noise and orgs

Orgs!

Quotehubbit sucked. hope u like noncanon characters

I don't recall any noncanon characters in that movie.

There were some big alterations to existing characters (fun fact, Azog was killed by Dain, not Thorin), but I don't think they just randomly made up any new ones.

I actually really liked the Hobbit.

I was rather entertained.  I am angry that Azog did not have his orcs sing the "15 Birds in 5 Fir Trees" song as that is the best song in the Hobbit.

Additions to the film to foreshadow the LotR Trilogy are fine, imo.  Placement of canon characters that did not actually appear in the Hobbit itself are fine, imo.

It was an entertaining film and when held up on its own has no issues.  The only gripes people have are complaints relative to the book.

My review of The Hobbit: meh

I thought the Hobbit was amazing

I was positivly suprised.

The Hobbit was sweet. Shut up idiots.

I was genuinely entertained. And RADAGAST THE BROWN was amazing!

welp

The Hobbit was incredibly fun. I thought it was a little nicer than LotR, perhaps lighter in tone but only by a little. It was very nice to see Gollum again.

My only complaint is that they did not sing all 27 verses of Over the Misty Mountains Cold.

The Hobbit was great, haters!

Django Unchained:  Like Inglorious Basterds, if you watch it in a vacuum, then its a really fun movie.  The language reminded me of Deadwood a lot, so I'm not sure why people got so offended over it.

Also I will watch any movie where Christoph Waltz plays a role.(Except the Green Hornet, what was he thinking?)

What funny little things....they have no wings.

Django Unchained: Go see it.

Batman the dark knight rises was the best film to come out of 2012. Watch it.

only movie worth watching is the room - tommy wiseau fanboi 4ever

Oh, hi Mark

Quote from: Equinox;320197Batman the dark knight rises was the best film to come out of 2012. Watch it.

+1

Really worth watching it, yeah.

Quote from: Equinox;320197Batman the dark knight rises was the best film to come out of 2012. Watch it.

Gonna have to disagree. It wasn't a bad movie, but it wasn't the best - and it wasn't better then TDK. Loved Bane, loved his performance, still not as great a villain as the Joker (not really the studio's fault when Ledger up and -died-), plot was a bit cyclical, and Alfred turns into fucking exposition fairy/Mickie from Rocky 3 (Y'can't take Bane y'bum, look at em he's a wrecking machine). Also he breaks up with Bruce - Alfred Pennyworth abandoning Bruce Wayne? yeah nah.

All in all a solid B movie and a solid B series, looking forward to when we can get away from the Nolanesque depiciton though - don't get me wrong he reinvigorated the character and the genre, but all 3 movies are essentially about Batman losing over and over again and how terrible it is to be him, and could probably be replaced with another non-property costumed vigilante and not affect the story at all.

This is of course not going into the silly plot/plot device of Bruce losing all his money, and lolfusionpower becoming lolfusionbomb in 3 minutes

Die heathen. Batman best film.

Dredd 3d best film 2012, to be honest. So action packed...

dredd suprisingly good

I'm going to say that Killing Them Softly was my favorite of 2012. I highly recommend it for anyone who enjoys movies about crime!

I agree. Batman was average.

Going to agree with the above.  Dredd was the best action movie of 2012, too bad it bombed.

Batman was mediocre.  Everything that made the Dark Knight good was missing.  Christopher Nolan's previously comprehensive understanding of the character of Bruce Wayne was gone, as the character was nowhere near true to form.  The movie had ridiculous plot holes and the villain was nowhere near as interesting as Heath Ledger's joker.....or even Liam Neeson's R'as Al Ghul.

It was actually the weakest movie of the trilogy, and that's saying a lot given the flaws of Batman Begins.

Honestly, The Hobbit had me so hooked to the story that at the end I almost blurted out at the IMAX 3D screen, "WHAT THE FUCK THAT'S IT!?"

.. I did do that

I loved the Hobbit: PART ONE , important, remember that! Ive read the book a million times :P, im a huge LOTR fan and i find that though it was lacking in some areas was relatively close to the book, not to mention that they went more into depth with the Radigast the brown than i read in the hobbit, it was rather pleasant i thought. I took my GF to see it though so it was probably that addition to the equation that made it better for me XD

I watched The Hobbit today. these are my opinions.

QuoteAndrew Schiffbauer
I saw the Hobbit today and was kind of underwhelmed

 Andrew Schiffbauer 10:25 pm
    I feel it failed at attempting to emulate The Lord of the Rings, which it was trying to do
    and failed to stand on it's own as a lighter, less epic and more adventerous tale, because it was so busy trying to be The Lord of the Rings
    LOTR cut things out and changed some events but roughly followed the events of the book
    The Hobbit just sort of changes shit to fit it's own new narrative
    one thats not so much about Bilbo but about Thorin, Gandalf, and Middle-Earth at large

 Andrew Schiffbauer 10:27 pm
    There's no period of character investment to make us emphasize with Bilbo, and Thorins entire backstory (which wasn't touched in the book at all) is thrown at us via exposistion fairy
    it's like - the opening flashback to explain the dragon and the fall of Erebor, thats great
    thats needed to set up the plot, and the stakes
    the White Goblin subplot is crammed in there from supplementary material
    As is the material regarding the White Council
    (as much as I loved radagast)

 Andrew Schiffbauer 10:29 pm
    I'd still say it was a good movie over all
    and it admittedly was delt a poorer hand in the matter of book material - the Hobbit being much LIGHTER than LOTR
    but THEY chose to make it a trilogy
    they could've made a much tighter focused Duology
    I guess 'too much fan service' sums it up?

 Andrew Schiffbauer 10:33 pm
    when it sticks to being a more light hearted adventure, it shines (The trolls, the giant fat goblin king), but these moments are at dissonance with the much heavier tale it's TRYING to tell.
    the balance between them doesn't feel right
    Admittedly my opinions may be colored by the fact I remember the Hobbit, and much more fondly, than I did LOTR
    So I have a bad case of "read the book"itus
    Still I enjoyed it for what it was
    I just had to actively tell my brain to shut up

Too digital.