Just got back from seeing The Hobbit: Battle of the Five Animals with April Sentieri and Diana Canzi. Felt like a weirdly appropriate way to start the year, saying goodbye to something past as we look forward. The film itself? Bit of a mixed bag. Felt like a lot of filler, although the parts that I loved I REALLY loved. Few people can animate a battle like Peter Jackson, and the man has apparently done amazing work in the advancement of badass battle mounts. The script was sometimes a little ragged, but the actors found amazing ways to retroactively build believable emotions where normally they couldnt stand. In a lot of ways, it just felt like a long goodbye to a franchise that had been SUCH a part of my, or even our, collective fandom lives. My earliest changeover from a budding geek to full on fandom participant was during the original run of these movies as well as Harry Potter (imagine if tumblr and reddit existed back then). Harry Potter is, in a way, still around. JK Rowling is still actively producing stories in the world, but Tolkien is long past, and it seems highly unlikely (to me at any rate) that theyd try and force blood out of that particular stone. So this is goodbye, Lord of the Rings. I mean, not goodbye, I still have the extended edition trilogy sitting on my shelf, but it still feels like a goodbye, because for the last... jesus, ten years? The movies being released were a part of our lives. Now I need to go back to my Avengers comics so I can look forward to the next year. Also: I REALLY want to play a round of D and D right now. Like, even a plot-less dungeon crawl.
Posted on: Fri, 02 Jan 2015 02:30:54 +0000
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