Sorry, I cannot help myself... 
and you are a pretty hot old broad, ya know?
Posted on 12/14/2013 6:35:37 PM PST by Perdogg
Pretty women have always had the world by the tail. We humans love YOUNG pretty women and YOUNG handsome men...always have and always will.
When women turn 35 or so, men stop looking at them, even if they are "still pretty."
After ALL the years of women's lib NOTHING has changed. Women are STILL judged by their looks, face and body.
All men oogle and stare at the pretty women. YOUNG women look at pretty women to compare. The only ones who don't care about looking at pretty women are us older broads. Men and young women ignore us. Young women and men deny this but, being an older woman, I KNOW what I say is true.
I always tell the young women, "JUST WAIT until the guys start looking past you and stop even SEEING you." They don't believe me, of course, thinking I'm just a bitter old woman. Haha, they just have to wait a while and they will know the truth of being an invisible old woman.
Caveat: I was waxing poetic on this in my mind and I walked past an OLD, OLD man and was about to ignore him.....and I stopped and looked at him.
He was staring up at me with a melting look of love. :o) I was STILL attractive to men, but the men were in their 90's!!!
Hahaha, life is so interesting, isn't it?
What is HFR? Glad you feel you got your money’s worth, because $16.75 seems super high for a movie to me.
“a mixture of themes found in Star Wars, John Carter, Thor, and Game of Thrones. “ What silliness. Tolkien wrote before any of those movies. Tolkien wrote of the universal battle between good and evil. Those other pretenders barely do the originals any justice at all
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The LOTR trilogy was an epic that will remain relevant for generations as will the books themselves. The LOTR speaks to the very heart of western values and civilization. In effect, Tolkien’s objective was just that. He interwove Judea-Chistianity over pagan Roman, Celtic, and Saxon/Nordic mythologies and race memories.....in effect, exactly what Western Civ is all about. Peter Jackson’s challenge there was to cut the 3 volume classic down to fit into the 10 to 12 hour total run time (depending on the many versions he marketed)
The Hobbit was written first, by Tolkien’s own admission, as a bedtime story for his kids.
The Hobbit suffers in over-stretching what is at it’s heart a short story into another 12 hour over-commercialized epic. It shows, but is still better than most sci-fi or fantasy work. The Hobbit (both book and film) lacks the well done and deep studies in personalities and inner as well as outer angst of men and women in conflict with the evil of this world and the next.
All that said, I will/have seen everyone of them 3x in the theater and then buy the first cut, the director’s cut, and the boxed set extended version with commentary as they are released.
And I will participate breathlessly in discussions like this, because in the end, I am a geek and embrace it.
“Before they are posted”
Many Bothans died to bring you that spoiler.
I first read LOTR while still in school...many years ago. And reread it and reread it.
I don’t know if the movies were really that good or if I superimposed my conception of how things were in the books.
Your point about The Hobbit is absolutely correct. A pretty good short story without the depth of LOTR.
But making money is the name of the game...and maybe someone will be compelled to read the books.
Sorry, I cannot help myself... and you are a pretty hot old broad, ya know?
The Hobbit movie should have been made in a single episode.
I understand the economics of making three movies, but they should at least have the honesty to admit that they whored themselves for money, and not claim it is “art.” It is not art. It is three paychecks instead of one. Period.
Well and truly said, brother. :-)
Oh wah wah wah....
After this first two, I think that trying to do the whole story as one movie would have been too much. Done properly it can’t be done in two or three hours. No way. But it could have been closer to the Tolkien story.
What spoiler alert could there possibly be? Is there anyone going to see this movie who hasn’t been reading these books since they were twelve?
Not true. Not in my experience. Maybe teenage boys and guys of 22 don't look, but men in their late twenties until they're in their coffins still look.
A lot depends on how a middle-aged or older woman moves, dresses, and expresses herself. And I don't mean at all in a cheap, flashy, sexy way.
I completely disagree. He did it right.
Buncha furry people riding around on horseback — a lot.
Yawn.
Those books aren’t very well written.
Oh wah wah wah.... if it was closer to the Tolkein story, it could have been done in one episode. That's why Tolkien wrote it as a single book.
I saw the first Hobbit movie in HFR (high frame rate which is 48 fps vs 24 fps) and was a bit disappointed because it looked too real which gave it a kind of soap opera / BBC feel. The 2nd Hobbit is similar. I saw it in HFR also and felt the cinematography was slightly better, but it really needs something to give it more of a film look.
What stood out most to me was that, more than any movie I have ever seen in the theaters, this one leaves the audience hanging at the end on almost every plot line... the dragon, the town, the love triangle (not in the book as you mentioned), Gandalf. It almost seemed like a TV serial other than being nearly 3 hours long. The first Hobbit had a great stopping point at the end in which the tension of the story was resolved, but the audience’s expectation is set for coming adventures. In this one, very little of the story is resolved.
One negative that stood out to me was the love triangle involved a brief sexual innuendo that seems quite out of character for a Tolkien story and for the targeted family audience, particularly because it came from among the ensemble of heroes rather than a villain. Not a major issue, especially by today’s standards, since worse happens all the time on prime time public programming. But it was still a little disappointing as it deviated from the spirit of the LOTR series and Tolkien in general I thought.
But I still enjoyed it over all. And I actually like the embellishments that flesh out the characters and the world they live in.
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