Trailer Tuesday: The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

Welcome to “Trailer Tuesday” where I talk about trailers for upcoming movies, since I’ve always found them to be endlessly fascinating.

I figure that because I (intentionally) gave you a horrible trailer this morning, that I owed you an alternate.  So here, I present you with the freshly released trailer for The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug.  Watch below, and read on for my thoughts:

1) Do you think we can go ahead and compare this film to The Two Towers?   Continue reading

Review: The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

            “The Hobbit” was my favorite book when I was in elementary school.  I read it many times, equally enjoying the adventure story and the british humor and style of the book.  I didn’t read “The Lord of the Rings” until high school, once I had heard they were turning them into movies.  At the time I was surprised they weren’t starting with “The Hobbit”, but after seeing Fellowship of the Ring I was completely sold on their method.  “The Lord of the Rings” is more epic and adult than “The Hobbit” and the success of those films clearly shows that they made the right choice.

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