tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1428176506603176161.post4881589701183866548..comments2024-03-17T09:34:55.466+00:00Comments on The Penciltonian: The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012)Ben Swithenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11530388805551668894noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1428176506603176161.post-48579213851043713222012-12-17T13:07:27.887+00:002012-12-17T13:07:27.887+00:00A few years ago I would have been with you about M...A few years ago I would have been with you about Martin Freeman, thinking him rather an ordinary fellow. Last year, though, I saw him give a brilliant and electrifying performance in 'Nightwatching', a 2007 Peter Greenaway film in which he played the painter Rembrandt embroiled in conspiracies, at times coming across as somewhere between John Simm and Senor Dinners. Since then I've been rather more excited about him, and found him wholly suitable to be young mr Ian Holm. I can believe they're the same Hobbit.Ben Swithenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11530388805551668894noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1428176506603176161.post-73548205562848181142012-12-17T11:30:33.033+00:002012-12-17T11:30:33.033+00:00aaaah, I'm still put off by the main actor pla...aaaah, I'm still put off by the main actor playing the titular character. He's already ruined so many things i enjoy by being very dull and not seeming to understand the part he's playing. like David Jason crow-barred into the role of Rincewind in the colour of magic, it does not sit well with me. I'm sure the film is a fine and wonderful frolic none-the-less. I should state that I have on several occasions completely given up trying to read a number of things by Tolkien, his being an incredibly dense body of work, and my attention span being akin to that of, for example: an 8 year old girl in a pony factory. <br /><br />I found the graphic novel of The Hobbit to be greatly enjoyable and spiritingly, in only one volume. Philip J. Cook, Art Guyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13830235910100544747noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1428176506603176161.post-62288752624093223672012-12-17T00:41:13.298+00:002012-12-17T00:41:13.298+00:00...crashed out somewhere in chapter two...
I was ...<i>...crashed out somewhere in chapter two...</i><br /><br />I was about fourteen when I first read The Hobbit I think, and I remember being very unimpressed with the singing and the general flow of the book until chapter seven. I have no idea why chapter seven changed things, but it apparently did. <br />Lord of the rings took me 21 chapters to get into! I didn't even manage to finish return of the king in the end. I find Tolkein's habit of describing things at great length pretty of-putting, but that is why they translate so well to the screen, I think.<br /><br />I didn't know Sylvester McCoy was in this! How did I not know that?<br />That, and the points you make about the characters being fleshed out makes me actually want to see it. I hadn't planned to before.JojoScotiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11094118111503063991noreply@blogger.com