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Escapist
Gondor
Dec 13 2012, 4:38pm
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The only awards that AUJ will probably get
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are it's right to exist, be seen and enjoyed by the people that want to see it so much, and return again for parts 2 and 3 ... and to make a spot for itself in film history on a number of points (the number of which is yet to be seen - but already there are some points it has made here).
But I think that this in itself, is pretty awesome and more than many expected (but less than what some hoped for).
This movie is shaking things up ... long established movie making community things that don't like being shaken ... at least not unanimously.
It's hard to compare AUJ to any other movie, really. People want to compare it to LOTR and The Phantom Menace but it really isn't following the path of either of those. The things it is being panned by some critics for have little or no overlap with the things that TPM got panned for. People are trying to draw parallels but the parallels just don't really fit - in spite of how much some minds are trying to make them fit. It's the same world as LOTR, but TH compared to LOTR as a text reads so differently in tone, pace, perspective, characterization ... almost everything. All the differing reviews for AUJ span the gamut of what could be said about any movie. I could probably put a set of random statements made about all the movies (good and bad) this year into a hat, randomly select three or four of them, and make a review - then find some critic somewhere that said just those things. What other movie in the history of film has had this kind of reaction? As much as we are trying to make comparisons, I just don't think there are good overall comparisons. The only comparisons that I think really makes sense are to compare the plot structure of AUJ to the plot structure of FOTR and to compare Riddles in the Dark to Gollum scenes in LOTR. Anything else is really a stretch and quite inconsistent across reviews (or so it seems from what reviewers are contradicting each other about).
Disclaimer: I haven't seen it yet, so I am not so much giving my own reaction to the film as I am trying to make sense of the set of wildly varying reviews and reactions to it.
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The Hobbit: Golden Globes 2013
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riverwalker11
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Dec 13 2012, 3:08pm
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Well, that is a shocker! /
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DanielLB
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Dec 13 2012, 3:58pm
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I don't see why you're susprised
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Welsh hero
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Dec 13 2012, 4:03pm
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I am surprised...
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riverwalker11
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Dec 13 2012, 4:08pm
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Didn't get a nomination in critics choice either //
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Welsh hero
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Dec 13 2012, 4:16pm
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correct me if i'm wrong
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unexpectedvisitor
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Dec 13 2012, 4:04pm
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It stinks, I know, but. . .
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hamlet
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Dec 13 2012, 4:20pm
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actually
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unexpectedvisitor
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Dec 13 2012, 4:28pm
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Good point about Bilbo/Frodo comparison.
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hamlet
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Dec 13 2012, 10:55pm
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The only awards that AUJ will probably get
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Escapist
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Dec 13 2012, 4:38pm
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Well I didn't expect anything anyway
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LoremIpsum
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Dec 13 2012, 5:55pm
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The Hobbit was released too late to be considered for this year's Globes,
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Ataahua
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Dec 13 2012, 7:05pm
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well there you go!
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unexpectedvisitor
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Dec 13 2012, 7:21pm
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Does that mean it might
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shadowdog
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Dec 13 2012, 8:56pm
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im not an awards whore, but.....
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locko
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Dec 13 2012, 10:48pm
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too similar too LOTR
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irodino
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Dec 13 2012, 11:13pm
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