Friday 14 December 2012
Thursday 13 December 2012
The Hobbit
Okay, time for a little review.
Ill start off with a little description for those who arent aware of what it's about.The hobbit is the prequel to my all time favourite film series, Lord of the rings. Set 60 years before the LOTR trilogy.
Although it is the prequel to the trilogy it tells an altogether different story with only a handful of characters (such as gandalf and golem) and referances to the trilogy, as well as being set in the same region, Middle Earth.I went to see it in HFR 3D, which means high frame rate. 48fps rather than the industry standard of 24fps. Not a big fan of 3D really but i wanted to experience it to see if the HFR would improve the classic 3D moving image blur. The results were impressive, the film seemed alot smoother and the 3D alot more impressive.
Now for the film itself. First things first, if you watch his film, you have to dissociate it from Lord Of The Rings or you will be disappointed, as i was for the first half. Dont expect it to be like Lord of the Rings. It isnt. It isnt consistant with what you see in the trilogy.
It also helps to not read the book before or youll just notice the inconsistancies between that too. However i suppose the same could be said about alot of films that are based on books. As soon as i learned to treat it as a separate trilogy (which it will be as there are 2 more films to come) i really enjoyed it, they really tried to twist the story to make it funny and it worked. Alot of laughter from all around the cinema.
It goes quite in depth as there are 3 films all for quite a small book yet i noticed bits had been left out and even stories being added in.The worst thing about the film over everything though is that i now have to wait 12 months for the second film and another 6 months after for the trilogy to be complete.
8.5/10
Ill start off with a little description for those who arent aware of what it's about.The hobbit is the prequel to my all time favourite film series, Lord of the rings. Set 60 years before the LOTR trilogy.
Although it is the prequel to the trilogy it tells an altogether different story with only a handful of characters (such as gandalf and golem) and referances to the trilogy, as well as being set in the same region, Middle Earth.I went to see it in HFR 3D, which means high frame rate. 48fps rather than the industry standard of 24fps. Not a big fan of 3D really but i wanted to experience it to see if the HFR would improve the classic 3D moving image blur. The results were impressive, the film seemed alot smoother and the 3D alot more impressive.
Now for the film itself. First things first, if you watch his film, you have to dissociate it from Lord Of The Rings or you will be disappointed, as i was for the first half. Dont expect it to be like Lord of the Rings. It isnt. It isnt consistant with what you see in the trilogy.
It also helps to not read the book before or youll just notice the inconsistancies between that too. However i suppose the same could be said about alot of films that are based on books. As soon as i learned to treat it as a separate trilogy (which it will be as there are 2 more films to come) i really enjoyed it, they really tried to twist the story to make it funny and it worked. Alot of laughter from all around the cinema.
It goes quite in depth as there are 3 films all for quite a small book yet i noticed bits had been left out and even stories being added in.The worst thing about the film over everything though is that i now have to wait 12 months for the second film and another 6 months after for the trilogy to be complete.
8.5/10
Wednesday 14 November 2012
My First Blog!
As the title says, this is my first blog. Ever. Anywhere. I'm hoping it's not going to be too much of a personal diary, so keep reading for topical monologues. Perhaps. Who knows? I Don't.
I'm going to discuss whatever comes to my mind when I want to blog something, or things I want to with you and myself.
So my first topic is going to be one I'm sure a lot of people can relate to and many of you have experienced.
Drunken Amnesia. Drumnesia. "Whatthefuck-ness" It happened to me for the first time the other weekend, well the first time a large single piece of the night is missing, not just forgetting a few minutes here or there.
So here's a run up to the night and what happened and what I remember, broken down...
I went to a town where a few of my friends went to university, the plan was a to stay at one of his former flatmate's house. After a quick visit to the supermarket to buy pre-drinks, we headed to this guy's house. Pre-drinks went well, a few drinking games, and plenty of new faces, and alcohol. At, I think, about 11 we headed to the Student Union. This is where is where my memory starts to get a little hazy. I remember the queue being quite large but don't remember being in the line long so I must have forgot a bit already. I remember paying and then getting past the bouncer quite vividly, and then nothing.
A few hours went by until my next memory. Spending 45 minutes looking for my friend's glasses with nothing more than drunken blurry eyes and the flash light on my phone. I know, just the way anybody would want to spend their night. But anyway. I found the glasses, amazingly, but had lost all but two of my friends, one who was waiting for me to find his glasses and another who was getting off with a girl. Needless to say we left him to it and trundled outside where we found the guy who's house we were staying out and then headed home.
AND IT'S SO SCARY!! It's shock factor will probably wear off after a while or after a few more drunken nights out but know I have lost all those memories and not know what I got up to at all during the night apart from a few blurry photos.
Where have these memories gone? Will I get them back? Does anyone have any tips on how to get them back? Because I'd really like to.
Let me know what you think of my first blog and why not come back for more?
I'm going to discuss whatever comes to my mind when I want to blog something, or things I want to with you and myself.
So my first topic is going to be one I'm sure a lot of people can relate to and many of you have experienced.
Drunken Amnesia. Drumnesia. "Whatthefuck-ness" It happened to me for the first time the other weekend, well the first time a large single piece of the night is missing, not just forgetting a few minutes here or there.
So here's a run up to the night and what happened and what I remember, broken down...
I went to a town where a few of my friends went to university, the plan was a to stay at one of his former flatmate's house. After a quick visit to the supermarket to buy pre-drinks, we headed to this guy's house. Pre-drinks went well, a few drinking games, and plenty of new faces, and alcohol. At, I think, about 11 we headed to the Student Union. This is where is where my memory starts to get a little hazy. I remember the queue being quite large but don't remember being in the line long so I must have forgot a bit already. I remember paying and then getting past the bouncer quite vividly, and then nothing.
A few hours went by until my next memory. Spending 45 minutes looking for my friend's glasses with nothing more than drunken blurry eyes and the flash light on my phone. I know, just the way anybody would want to spend their night. But anyway. I found the glasses, amazingly, but had lost all but two of my friends, one who was waiting for me to find his glasses and another who was getting off with a girl. Needless to say we left him to it and trundled outside where we found the guy who's house we were staying out and then headed home.
AND IT'S SO SCARY!! It's shock factor will probably wear off after a while or after a few more drunken nights out but know I have lost all those memories and not know what I got up to at all during the night apart from a few blurry photos.
Where have these memories gone? Will I get them back? Does anyone have any tips on how to get them back? Because I'd really like to.
Let me know what you think of my first blog and why not come back for more?
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