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I suppose one of the good things about the Blu-ray release of The Hobbit is that we do not have to get into the whole High Frame Rate argument. This at least allows us to concentrate on the movie and not get into the psychoanalysis of whether higher frame rates make for more of an emotional attachment to the movie. Phew, got that one out of the way!
Prequels do still seem to be all the rage in movie world. When we are not rewinding Batman or allowing George Lucas to produce hours of pseudo-religious claptrap about the Force, we can at least use a series where the original book is up to scratch and there is at least half a chance of producing something decent.
Peter Jacksons relationship with Middle Earth goes back to the 2001 production of Lord of the Rings and spans the trilogy of movies that made up that series. Chronologically, The Hobbit slots in sixty years earlier and includes a small number of crossover characters, most notably Gandalf, Gollum and Bilbo...
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Prequels do still seem to be all the rage in movie world. When we are not rewinding Batman or allowing George Lucas to produce hours of pseudo-religious claptrap about the Force, we can at least use a series where the original book is up to scratch and there is at least half a chance of producing something decent.
Peter Jacksons relationship with Middle Earth goes back to the 2001 production of Lord of the Rings and spans the trilogy of movies that made up that series. Chronologically, The Hobbit slots in sixty years earlier and includes a small number of crossover characters, most notably Gandalf, Gollum and Bilbo...
Read the full review...