Finally got around to watching The Hobbit part 1.
I thought being the first of three films, and at 2 hours 45 minutes, it would drag a bit, but it really didn’t. Nicely done.
Cumberbatch really nailed Smaug, didn’t he. I can just see him going into a studio to record his voice for part 1. “Okay Benedict!” “Rrrrroooooooaoaaaaaaaarrrrr!” “Excellent, thanks very much — see you next movie.”
(Yeah yeah, I know, he also played the Necromancer.)
And 7th Doctor Sylvester McCoy as Radagast was good. No spoons to play though, thankfully.
It all looks gorgeous on Blu-Ray, of course. One notable thing though, it’s one of a small number of discs I have which drops a few frames in some scenes on my setup. Might be an image correction/quality setting on the TV which isn’t handling the throughput — perhaps I can switch it off.
Anyway, very much looking forward to part 2.
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Am a great fan of all four films now released.
Are you sure there are three movies in ‘The Hobbit’ series?
And despite the next two films being COMPLETED AND READY TO GO… we have to wait until, December to see part two, and then wait ANOTHER YEAR until we get to see part three… in December 2014.
Remember when Australian TV did that? Soemthing shown in America, and we would wait years until one Australian TV station decided to show it? Those were the days of rotary phones…
If they have to stop and characterise every golbin and orc on the way it is going to get tiresome.