Although many say that the 48 frame per second was not the best choice that Jackson went along with as it was a bit too fast to capture the real magical moments in the movie. And that it's kind of being on set and so you see everything behind the scenes. Since I'm a fan, I would have gone to see the film regardless of how it was shot. Most of us are not photography or film maniacs so we don't know the details of how the movie was shot and to be honest most of us don't care. To me, movies are all about enjoyment and not about the technology used to create them. Unless, of course, something was very obviously ruining the movie.
The Hobbit novel is only around 300 pages long which makes you wonder how the writers of the movies will rewrite some parts of the story in order to be able to stretch it into a trilogy. However, I want to point out that I have not read the novel so my review is solely based on the enjoyment of this movie.
As most Lord of the Rings fanatics know, The Hobbit is a prequel and these events take place shortly before the first LotR film. We see a young Bilbo Baggins, who is portrayed amazingly well by Martin Freeman, whom Frodo takes a lot after by the way. We also see a very green and peaceful Shire, before all the chaos that envelopes it.
The big bad wolf in The Hobbit is Smaug, a ruthless dragon who thirsts for gold and guess who has a lot of it? The dwarves. The story follows how Bilbo is 'tricked' into tagging along with 13 dwarves on an amazing adventure as a thief to retrieve their homeland, Erebor, along with Gandalf the Grey (another great appearance by Ian McKellen).
There are a lot of dangers on the road ranging from fearsome (not to mention really ugly) orcs to thick headed trolls and goblins, and a few surprises here and there as well. I was not disappointed that the orcs were animated as it would have been really difficult to design a costume as detailed as the animation, not to mention it would've been very hard to move around in. It looked pretty real to me.
The scenery was beyond mind blowing, I cannot even begin to describe how stunning the locations were. And they all added so much more to the the story, it was truly dazzling.
To put it quite frankly, I did not recognize the actor who played Thorin at all and throughout the movie my husband and I were trying to remember where we saw him before but with no avail (we had to search it as soon as we got home). Richard Armitage played the dwarf king and that's basically how good his performance was; we couldn't recognize him. He fitted the role beautifully. We also see some familiar faces from the LotR movies such as Kate Blanchet, Hugo Weaving and Christopher Lee. I don't think I even need to go into how well they all performed (even though it was only for one or two scenes).
The soundtrack also added greatness to the story, the dwarf songs and the music all came together fantastically. The music simply gives you goosebumps.
While the movie is pretty long I didn't feel it since I was enjoying it so much. I didn't feel as if it was dragging on, sure I enjoyed some moments more than others but in the end it put a smile on my face. I have heard that the movie is misleading from the book but as I have said before, it doesn't really irk me as long as the major plot has not changed. Besides, you can't compare this with the LotR trilogy, it's going to be different and we to accept that. You might think change isn't always good but a little of it won't do much harm, will it? Following the novels exactly feels boring and dull to me, I will feel like my imagination did it better but the differences add a little spice to the story and so there's a little element of surprise too. I give this movie an 8/10! It may not have lived up to our expectations but it's spectacular nonetheless.
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