Papa’s Basement Radio Show 12-13-12-Show’s We’re Embarrassed to Love
The gang discusses the shows they’re ashamed to admit to liking, and I confess that show for me is New Girl (and, more specifically, Hannah Simone and her awesome Hindi […]
I’ve never seen any of the Lord of the Rings movies. Come to think of it, I’ve never seen the Harry Potter flicks, either. At least I can excuse that by saying I read the books. But I really don’t get LOTR, which is odd, because I suppose I’m a geek. I mean, I’ve seen Star Wars and all that. The majority of my movie nerdiness is spent autistically reciting Scarface and Goodfellas verbatim, though. To my ears, the Lord of the Rings stuff sounds like this.
So you can understand why I’m none too hyped about The Hobbit. It was the the only book in the series I read, and I remember having the everloving piss bored out of me by it as a kid. I wanted to read nothing but John Bellairs books. They had protagonists that were children like me, not troll-footed idiots that sat on their asses all day. And look at the cover art! What kid wouldn’t get sucked in by that Edward Gorey masterpiece? A robot pitcher? A killer robot pitcher? I loved baseball! And holy hell, what is watching that evil old man lay out the incapacitated kid? An alien? A ghost? Which one will molest our protagonist and which one will masturbate while watching the act? INFINITE POSSIBILITIES!
The one reason I might check out The Hobbit in theaters is the new, 48 frames-per-second rate it was shot in, which is double the current industry standard of 24 FPS. Combined with the 3D, it supposedly makes the film seem eerily lifelike. A little too lifelike, actually: People are getting motion sick and/or complaining that, instead of seeing a movie, they feel they’re watching people in another room or a VHS tape (weird range of descriptors, I know). Damn me and the fact that I’m always up for a train wreck. Tell me that a restaurant is good and I might someday pay it a visit. Tell me it’s the worst you’ve ever been to and I’ll have reservations for that evening.
Nothing I say is going to convince you to see or not see (haha, Nazi) The Hobbit, so instead leave a comment telling me how it is or if you don’t want to see it because you think it stinks. I will read them all. I can’t help it. They’re emailed right to my phone when they come in. I wish I knew how to turn that feature off, actually.
Thomas Pluck on December 14, 2012
I liked the book, but think this trilogy is rather idiotic and the marketing blitz is a big turn off.
As a fan of Edward Gorey I want to hunt down those Bellairs books now.
karlay on December 14, 2012
It has a corresponding menu at Denny’s, therefore it must be the greatest movie ever made. The end.
Shar on December 14, 2012
The entire ‘Lord of the Rings’ series is amazing, not boring. The movies were amazing, and also not boring. ‘The Hobbit’ was a more slow read, but it builds into someting spectacular, especially to a kid. I first read it in elementary school, and found it fascinating. I am very excited for the movie, personally, and it has nothing to do with anything but an unending love for Middle Earth, the One Ring, good and evil, and Tolkien.
BrendaBren on December 14, 2012
I didn’t read any of the books. I was suppose to read The Hobbit before watching the first LOTR movie but couldn’t get into it. Enjoyed the movies, minus the 3-4 false endings in the last 20-30 minutes in the 3rd movie. Each individual trilogy movie is 2+ hours long and by the time it was announced The Hobbit was being made I was LOTR’d out. At least Harry Potter had kids getting into trouble, disobeying rules, and doing the whole teenage angst in the form of wizard magic the way Buffy did with the Hellmouth.