Also, this is my first time writing a review. For The Hobbit, I'm totally willing to record my feelings and thoughts. If you are interested, you can take a look at the pastime.
Six and a half years. I've been waiting for this moment for as long as I've known Middle-earth.
The Grand Rex in Paris actually had an early premiere. In fact, it started on the 12th, but the avant-premiere was organized on the 10th.
I queued up three hours early to get in, only to find out after I got in that I was much luckier than I thought. The title even has a video greeting from PJ leading the creator to the screening!
When the subtitles came out, my heartbeat was already pounding my eardrums.
My least favorite of all time is The Hobbit, and as a history student, The Silmarillion is the one that I can't put it down. But PJ made me walk into the theater with the feeling that I was half-baked with the story and eager to try it out. He totally opened my eyes.
Everything is recreated perfectly: Hobbiton, Frodo and old Bilbo at the beginning, and Queen, Wizard and Elrond later.
There was a marathon screening of the trilogy in the same theater on the evening of the 8th, which continued until yesterday morning. All the plots and scenes of the trilogy are vividly remembered, so once again appreciate PJ's intention to reshape the details. [I have a problem with ORZ in this regard. When HP started changing costumes and props in the third installment, I am still stuck in my throat, even though the clothes and wands were changed well. 】
The first narrative stage tells the story of the fall of the Lonely Mountain, and at the same time I met His Majesty Thranduil for the first time!
Beautiful and majestic, incomparable. Especially the scene of riding a deer, the domineering exposure instantly killed me.
Then Thorin officially appeared in the movie after the narration part, and the full aura was also particularly eye-catching.
In the second narrative stage, how Thorin singled out the Orc boss at the door of Moria. Some time ago, I suddenly remembered the various monsters in the trilogy that fought against Prince Greenleaf. I have already memorized the faces. I am tired of seeing them. It is time for some newcomers to kill His Highness. So I was very satisfied when I saw what Thorin encountered: the shape is novel, the combat power is several levels higher, and the important thing is that I finally have a brain.
Now I am looking forward to how the prince will appear in the second part and will there be a battlefield scene, because finally there will be new plots and new scenes.
Martin Freeman [I just keep calling him John. . . ], in the trailer, I felt that there were too many elements of John, but in the feature film, I completely got rid of John's impression when I saw it halfway through, and completely recognized him as Bilbo. The humour was still there, but the John-Bilbo twist in demeanor was his grasp. His performance, for me personally, was so much better than I thought it would make me applaud at the end of the play.
Thorin fascinates everyone: kingly demeanor, courage and brains, a natural leader.
It's rare that the movie has a lot of scenes that remind me of the trilogy, but the character doesn't connect me with Aragorn at all, even though it does seem a bit like it now. [Or there was no connection at all, I was thinking too much. ]
Gandalf fascinated my classmates and said that the whole process was completely boss-like. But I think it's just the old Gandalf the Grey.
It's also a critical moment to call the giant eagle, and this time the timing makes me feel very uncomfortable. Although the same is for emergency use, the situation in the trilogy is that only Gandalf was rescued once, and the other time was rescued after the end of the war, and here the battle was not over to save everyone. It feels different. In the original novel, the giant eagle is obviously a savior of last resort, and usually does not directly or too much intervene, a bit like in Journey to the West, although there is Guanyin, but in 9981 difficulties, the group of four still has to learn from the scriptures and go by themselves, Guanyin will not Too much involvement.
So I feel that this time Gandalf the Grey is a little bit too big boss, that is, he is calling the giant eagle here.
But on second thought, in that case, the story without the giant eagle would have ended in the annihilation of the entire army, so there was nothing wrong with asking for help. Maybe it's just me thinking too much.
Galadriel is still herself, but Elrond feels more alive to me. Probably because they didn't know at this point that Mordor was almost ready, because it couldn't be that he was really much younger. It was only 60 years, and Elrond could not have the changes in appearance and temperament brought about by age.
One of the things I'm happy about is that Rivendell finally has a detailed description of elven life, as well as close-up shots of its beautiful elven subjects.
Also, for Legolas, I searched word by word for his traces in this story, and concluded that the prince must have gone out, and he was not at home at all.
Still, I'm excited for a large part of the storyline set in Mirkwood.
Now I have a glimpse of His Majesty the King and the Royal Legion, and I am looking forward to the jungle scene below!
This time, I finally turned the camera on the dwarves and elves.
The brown-robed wizard was not what I thought—a bit too crazy.
However, he led out the giant spiders in the dark jungle and the southern shadow, and there was another burst of excitement.
When Gandalf introduced the five wizards of the White Council, I could imagine that people who had never read the book would be confused again. So I felt that "The Silmarillion" is really the most impossible but also the book I most hope to shoot. Without it, too many people don't know the ins and outs. The trilogy period was okay, and the prequels are now dragging out more prequels.
For example, also mentioned Gondolin!
Here's more Silmarillion stories.
As far as the picture is concerned, I think it works well. But the regret is not IMAX [er woman, you don't know how to write the word contentment. . ], 3D glasses are heavy, the whole magnificent Middle-earth should look like glowing, but it is made a lot darker by the lenses.
In addition, aside from the issue of color, this picture effect and the "unfamiliar" adventure story give me the feeling that it is a gorgeous fantasy film like "Thor", but in my heart it is not at all.
In the end, the pacing of the plot is good. I'm a little lost myself just because I can't remember the original plot. . . So don't know where PJ will cut off. . .
Moreover, the more I went to the back, the more I realized that the prince would never be seen today. Especially seeing Mirkwood appear at the end.
So I finally realized that the people who watched the preview in the post bar watched two movies. . . I always thought it was the upper part, so I kept waiting for the little leaves to come out. After it was over, I didn't give up and sat until the end of the credits looking forward to seeing what happened next.
It was only when I got out of the movie theater that I admitted that I was "cheated".
Another year of waiting was cheated by PJ.
The next premiere should be seen in the United States. Although there will still be all kinds of cosplays I saw this afternoon, there will be no super luck like an early premiere.
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