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Release date:  12/14/2012

Warner Bros. Pictures

Directed by

• Peter Jackson

Produced by

• Carlynne Cunningham
• Zane Weiner
• Fran Walsh
• Peter Jackson

Screenplay by

• Fran Walsh
• Philippa Boyens
• Peter Jackson
• Guillermo del Toro

Based on The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien

Cast

Martin Freeman

• Bilbo Baggins

Ian McKellen

• Galdalf the Grey

Richard Armitage

• Thorin Oakenshield

The hosts review:

• “Your silly childhood nostalgia can’t defeat my logic.”
• A brief biography of Daniel Day-Lewis.
• We do not have a consensus!
• “Listen, b*#%hes! It is a MOVIE, it is not a BOOK!” (I could just stop here; nothing better can be said)
• Darrell goes WILD!!
• The movie was rushed, and part of that showed.
• Pacing problems and too long battle scenes.
• There is more back story on Thorin in the movie than in the book.
• David liked the parts of the movie he thought he would hate.
• Comparisons of reading The Hobbit to reading The Lord of the Rings
• The dwarves felt dwarfish.
• Singing dwarves are great!
• Martin Freeman is the Bob Hope of this movie.  He’s surrounded by craziness and he’s seemingly the sanest.
• David didn’t like Freeman as Bilbo.
• Hugo Weaving could end up as a quadruple-triple!
• Frodo is about ¾ moron and the other ¼ is Sam.
• Young Bilbo is much more likable than older Bilbo.
• Bilbo has a choice to leave; Frodo doesn’t really have a choice to leave.  Bilbo is better.
• The fight scene with the goblins was too fast, too busy, too much.  Also, their method of bridge-building was lame.
• Gollum was fantastic!
• Hey, remember all the places we went to in Lord of the Rings? Let’s go there again!
• David could do without the eagles.
• Wait… there’s giant spiders in the next movie?!
• The rabbit sled was very cool.
• Deuce could have used more Bilbo Baggins, Tony could have used less Radagast and dwarves (but not the main dwarves), and David could have used less conflict between Thorin and Bilbo.
• Deuce missed the part where Thorin Oakenshield gets his shield of… oak.
• Elves on horseback save the party again!
• A bit of Pacific Rim talk.
• Morgan Freeman must be so proud!

Trivial bits ‘n pieces:

Gollum (Andy Serkis) only appears in one scene in the book, and he completed filming during the first week of production.  Serkis stayed on as Second Unit Director.

The Hobbit is the first feature film to be shot and projected at 48 frames per second, versus the industry standard of 24 frames.  The intention is to provide the film a smoother and more realistic motion with reduced strobing.  This is beneficial when viewing the film in 3D, as the higher frame rate helps to correctly synchronize the images for each eye.

Bombur doesn’t say a word along the entire movie.

Your Producers for this episode were:

• Tony
• Darrell
• Tony/Deuce
• David/Disappointment

This episode was recorded: 1/3/2013

 

 

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Release date:  9/28/2012

TriStar Pictures

Directed and Written by

• Rian Johnson

Produced by

• Ram Bergman
• James D. Stern

Cast

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

• Joe Simmons

Bruce Willis

• Old Joe

Emily Blunt

• Sara Rollins

The hosts review:

• I’m just trying to figure out why Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Bruce Willis are both trying to do a Ryan Gosling impersonation.
• If Joseph Gordon-Levitt turns into Bruce Willis, what hope do any of us have?
• Some disagreement about how they show what Joe’s motivation is.
• It is universally agreed that Gordon-Levitt’s makeup was unnecessary.
• Breakout performance in the movie… the kid!
• Toss the word “paradox” around liberally, and then all problems with the plot go away.
• All the hosts seemed to have different thoughts on what the movie was going to be after seeing the preview… philosophy, action, time travel, chase?
• Was The Rainmaker pulling the strings to set it all up?
• A detour into…telekinetic manual adoration.
• Tony was surprised to find out that this wasn’t a book first.  All the complaints that the hosts have are things that could have been cut from a novel to make it a film.
• Mixed reviews on if Gordon-Levitt was a better Bruce Willis than Bruce Willis.
• JCVD & Time Cop.  Robo-TimeCop.
• The Hobbit.
• Shogun.
• A Few Good Men.
• A final thought… You can’t go back.

Your Producers for this episode were:

• Tony
• Darrell
• Tony/Deuce
• David

This episode was recorded: 12/20/2012

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