Pro The Hobbit

[lsanderson]

Why Critics Will Come to Regret Their Relentless Savaging of the New Film
Seth Abramson
12.20.2012

Despite tentatively positive reviews from The Wall Street Journal, Rolling Stone, National Public Radio, The New Yorker, Entertainment Weekly, and several smaller urban newspapers, if you've heard much about the first entry in Peter Jackson's much-hyped Hobbit trilogy, it's probably that, well, it isn't very good. Right now the nearly three-hour demi-epic, controversially shot at double the frame-rate of most Hollywood features, is sporting a dispiriting 42% on Rotten Tomatoes, the movie-review aggregator that certifies movies as "fresh" or, as in the case of Jackson's The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, rotten.

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Comments

[geometrician.livejournal.com]

I was unimpressed and even a little dismayed in the first hour and a half or so of the movie. After that, I found myself increasingly caught up in the story and chomping for more by the time the credits rolled. I now await the return of the Hobbit.

[lsanderson.livejournal.com]

I'd read a few friends' reviews and several critics' reviews before going, ate first, sat back and let it flow. I was happy enough.

[andrewducker]

Actually, it's at 65% on Rotten Tomatoes. So the article is out of date already!

And 8.5 on the IMDB.