'The Hobbit'

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I've just come back from watching 'The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey'. I'm not coherent enough to wax poetry, so let me just say that I loved every second of all three hours and ohmygod go watch it right NOW!

I realize not everyone's going to like it a lot, but I really did. There's always things to nitpick about in a film, but I was blown away in the cinema, and if I'm blown away in the cinema, then I'm going to stand by that film, even if I nitpick about it on rewatch when I get the DVD.

LOOK WHAT ARE YOU EVEN STILL DOING HERE GO WATCH IT RIGHT NOW!!

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btw, guess what's been motivating me to write my major today:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuBWqdSk_GA

It was definitely an experience, especially because now we're old enough to really get it, and both sit and just let the magic reveal itself, but also be critical, and still appreciate all the work that goes into film-making. And of course CHRISTOPHER LEE!!

I was just SO HAPPY. I can't even explain it. I think it's because, as much as I loved the HP-films, I was not satisfied with them in accordance to the books. It didn't affect the whole experience, but... well. And while I loved the adaption of The Hunger Games, and I absolutely adore those books, Tolkien is another huge part of my childhood (especially because my brain has convinced itself that without Tolkien there would have been no Harry Potter etc., so therefore I owe the man my soul and a firstborn) and this adaption was done almost exactly like I think I wanted it to.

I'm rambling aren't I? ;) but FEELINGS!!

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OMG YES! I'm in it for a night of essay writing, and this is going to keep me awake :D (I'm in trouble, I'm already sleepy)

Exactly. I know a few things about the CGI bothered me a bit, for example, but overall it's a very well-made movie, and it's true to my book feelings of The Hobbit, which makes me immensely happy.

Me neither, they changed too many things for no reason. Though I'm pretty sure some of the new things they'll have had to come up with to fill 3 movies of The Hobbit will annoy me as well, but you can't have it all.

FEELINGS INDEED. Rambling is cool :)

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Oooh, pulling an all-nighter, its been a while since I did that. Good luck! What do/did you have to write?

It wasn't until I got out of the cinema that I realized it was the Seventh Doctor that played Radagast! Sylvester McCoy, hello! :D but yeah, there was a few things that seemed... off? CGI-vise. I watched it in 3D and that new something-format that I can never remember the name of, and it looked veryvery good actually. It was like being in the movie instead of the movie coming out to you.

Though I'm pretty sure some of the new things they'll have had to come up with to fill 3 movies of The Hobbit will annoy me as well
Yes, exactly, though they did stick pretty close to the book for the first one. I'm thinking, for length, we'll have more scenes like the one between Gandalf/Galadriel/Elrond/Saruman that happened, and we know we'll get to see Legolas again etc. UGH LEGOLAS!!

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It was ex-haus-ting, thank God it's the week-end now! I had to write a Philosophy essay. Thing is, I panic so much when I get assignments, that I always end up writing them at the very last moment :/

McCoy was great as Radagast, and hello Doctor indeed :D I really like him as the Doctor actually. I watched it in 3D too. It's nice to feel like you're in the movie etc. I'm not entirely sold out on the format though, it still feels a bit weird and my eyes hurt a bit. I was quite happy with 2D, lol.

I really hope the extra scenes will be about them and Gandalf with the Necromancer backstory, because I really love that story line and wanted more of it in the book, so if they choose to develop it I'll be happy :) Legolas will be back? I didn't know, but yay!

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I panic so much when I get assignments, that I always end up writing them at the very last moment :/
Ugh, this so much! One of my friends is done with her major, I'm only a little over half-way now because I've been rather lazy this past week. And I'm freaking out right now! But did it turn out okay, your essay?

While Radagast was definitely one of the sillier aspects of the movie, I didn't mind it, I found. They excluded him from LotR, so it's only right he got a cameo here ;) and I think it added to the urgency of the story, that we got to see glimpses of Dol Goldur and the Necromancer already.

Ooh, sorry if I spoiled you! I thought you knew about Legolas (-: but yeah, he'll be there, though I don't know how big of a role he's going to play. I'm thinking we'll most likely see him in Mirkwood, when the dwarves get there next movie.

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I don't know, I think I mostly wrote crap and I'm going to get a C or a D again. Blah :( I really need to be more organised and most of all stop panicking all the time.

No worries, I can't exactly be 'spoiled' about Tolkien stuff ;) And yes, Mirkwood, I'm so looking forward to it!!

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Aw, well :( there's always next time <3 One thing I've started doing is, when I first read the assignment, I write down some of my initial thoughts, because most of the time, that's some good ideas, and I can go back to it a week+ later, when I want to start writing. It really helps a lot, for me at least :) and I'd tell you to write the assignment as soon as you get it, so its over and done with, but even I don't wanna do that, haha xD a lot of the time I do write better under pressure, though, but sometimes it can be a good idea to at least write as much as a few sentences, and then come back to it later.

And I get crap grades once in a while too (and C isn't even a crap grade - though I'm not completely sure about the French grading system :) we have numbers and general oddness about it all over here!)

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Indeed, thanks <3 And your approach is the right one, of course, I tend to do that too, but sometimes I just freak out and think all my ideas are crap, and well... Also I have so much work to do that organization has become a major issue, most of the time I just don't know where to start.

Our marks are numbers too, they go from 0 to 20. What I call a C would be a 7 or 8, and a D, ikr, 4? In the course I'm taking, it's okay to get an 8, but I'd like to have better marks once in a while. Oh well, I got an A in English, life is good ;)

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I do that too <3 (like right now ;) ) your course sounds so hard, but think of it like this: you've gotten this far. You might not have done as well as you wanted, but people hardly ever do, because we tend to set very high goals for ourselves. And that you're still hanging in there is proof that you're doing at least something right!

Ours is sort of similar, except not? We have: -3, 00, 02 (if you get this its a pass, the rest are fail), 4 (which is in the middle, so its an okay grade), 7 (which is 'well done'), 10 (which is 'really well done') and 12 (which is 'amazingly done, superb' ;P) but it got changed a couple of years back. We used to have more numbers, so it was actually easier to see how well you did: a 7 can be either an 8 or a 9 according to the old way of doing it, so that can be a bit annoying. Plus the big leap between 02 and 4, with no grades in the middle.