We have dragon! Motherfucking SMAUG!!!

[sadaist]

Anyone see the midnight showing? Or is going tonight? I just couldn't see me staying up until 3 am on a work night. I didn't want to be miserably tired all day. I am going Sunday morning showing.

Also about Peter Jacksons design of Smaug. I was thinking how cool it was that he made him look like a regular dragon. When anyone thinks of a dragon, this is the typical image that comes to mind. So many of the top directors feel the need to create their version/concept of what a dragon should be. To leave their mark on the world. Like they are so gifted & important that their creation of something will be the new standard bearer. And Jackson said fuck that, make it look like a damn regular dragon.

From all the reviews, even the bad ones, everyone agrees that Smaug is the best creature ever to grace a screen. Not an easy feat.

[vandeleur]

Am taking my dad and the kids to the 7 o'clock showing .
A bit of a tradition since lotr

[PETE'S BROTHER]

i may not see it until blu-ray release.

[Zing!]

From all the reviews, even the bad ones, everyone agrees that Smaug is the best creature ever to grace a screen. Not an easy feat.

Exsqueez me? How wude! Yousa bombad crazy you thinkin de Smaug be biggest bombad creature, okeyday!

[PETE'S BROTHER]

Exsqueez me? How wude! Yousa bombad crazy you thinkin de Smaug be biggest bombad creature, okeyday!

bud crown black?

[Seshmeister]

2 hours 40 minutes of a video game full of "Greetings Smeegle Wibble, are you going to the fortress city of Erumblebottom where the Spickle Dweebs fashion great jewels from the rocks of Twatenstone Mountain which they sell to the Finklewargs who are known for their great leader Bungle Puss the disinterested...?"

I may skip this one and let her take the kids...

[PETE'S BROTHER]

have you sat thru the first 24 hours worth?

[Seshmeister]

I watched the LOTR. The third one put me off. I'm all for gay rights and so on but 3 hours of strident homo eroticism, will they won't they followed by 45 minutes of endings put me off a bit and I ended up skipping the first Hobbit movie.

The one that took a billion zillion dollars at the box office - I do realise I am in the minority here...

[PETE'S BROTHER]

so, it needs more boobs?

[Seshmeister]

The longest movie I've seen at the cinema in the last few years was Skyfall and it was long at 2 hours 23. There is only so much vodka you can drink before you need to go for a piss and I had to at that one at the 2 hour mark.

The worst was Gravity where we had 3 quick pints of beer, rushed into the iMax in the middle of a 40 person row with no central walkways. I needed a piss from 10 minutes in, thank fuck it was a fairly short movie.

I know this sounds like old man talk but to be fair real old man talk is when you have that problem without the pints of booze...

[Seshmeister]

so, it needs more boobs?

Very very few movies need to be over 2 hours, there is no need for it. In the LOTR I found Fat Sam fucking annoying whining on and it needed to be severely edited. Leave it to the DVD extras for the uber fans.

[PETE'S BROTHER]

The longest movie I've seen at the cinema in the last few years was Skyfall and it was long at 2 hours 23. There is only so much vodka you can drink before you need to go for a piss and I had to at that one at the 2 hour mark.

The worst was Gravity where we had 3 quick pints of beer, rushed into the iMax in the middle of a 40 person row with no central walkways. I needed a piss from 10 minutes in, thank fuck it was a fairly short movie.

I know this sounds like old man talk but to be fair real old man talk is when you have that problem without the pints of booze...

I swear to god and all holy pasta lords, that's why I don't wanna have to sit and not be able to pause the movie, and take of biz in between.

[Seshmeister]

That said I think if you watched Gravity on your TV you would be completely puzzled by why it got so much hype, it's more a Universal Studios ride than a bit of narrative cinema.

[PETE'S BROTHER]

Very very few movies need to be over 2 hours, there is no need for it. In the LOTR I found Fat Sam fucking annoying whining on and it needed to be severely edited. Leave it to the DVD extras for the uber fans.

don't think I've watched any of the "extras", that can be annoying (other than bloopers ). are intermissions so wrong?

[PETE'S BROTHER]

truth be told, an intermission at a theater that doesn't sell booze would be half as important