Review of Hobbit: Unexpected Journey- by 1Switchfoot

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Everyone, and welcome to my movie review for Peter Jackson’s new film, The Hobbit, An Unexpected Journey. So The Hobbit came out a few days ago and here in Australia and in twenty six. And I got to see it last night with my brother and his friend. And unfortunately, we didn’t see it in three days because, you know, they didn’t want to. Unfortunately, I would have liked to.

But anyway, so it was a really good movie. So if you know anything about the idea of the Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit is kind of like a prologue. It’s set before the Lord of the Rings, before the events of the Lord of the Rings movies.

So if you see in The Lord of the Rings, we know that it’s based on the adventures of Frodo Baggins. And The Hobbit is based on the adventures of Bilbo Baggins, who is Firdaus Uncle. So this is the first film in a new trilogy that’s going to happen. It’s going to be three movies again.

It was originally going to be just two movies, but they’ve extended it to be a trilogy. Now for the first movie is called An Unexpected Journey, and it just sets the pace for what’s going to happen over the next two films. So it’s a fairly basic story. It’s not as involved as Lord of the Rings films were, but it’s still really, really good. So the movie opens with a battle scene that’s happened years earlier, and it was when the dwarves lost their homeland to the Orcs and the Dragon. And it’s pretty much just showing you that because that’s what the whole pretty much movie is about. The dwarves trying to regain their homeland and the dwarf leader’s name is Storin. And his, I believe, was his father and his grandfather were killed in the war by this white. And so he pretty much wants revenge on the dog and he wants to take back his homeland. So it’s full of revenge. And he’s pretty much the driving force of the dwarfs in the movie. And he’s just like the leader as well. So then we make the younger version of Bilbo Baggins, and he still lives in the same house in Hobbit in in the shire is a pretty quiet person, keeps to himself, you know, just likes his pace and his own time. And then Gandalf comes and visits him. And this is where the story kind of starts. Gandalf once Bilbo to join this adventure. But he’s not really telling him, you know, what’s going to happen, you know, because he doesn’t want to scare him off. At first. Bilbo doesn’t really want to go on this adventure.

You know, he is content staying at home. He doesn’t want anything to do with it. Really. Later on that night, these dwarves will start showing up at Bilbo’s house and there’s about 12 of them.

I think they show up at separate times because Gandalf actually put a mark on Bilbo’s door, shut the door where to go. So so Bill was wondering why all these dwarves are coming in. They all come in and start eating his food. They’re wrecking his house, and then Gandalf comes in as well. So they’re pretty much trying to put the proposal of this adventure out to bilberry because they need a hobbit for their journey. They need a wizard. So Gandalf the Wizard. So as a company of about fourteen, you know, dwarves and was a hobbit in this whole group. So it’s kind of like the fellowship of the ring, you know, the gathering, the the fellowship to go on this adventure. So that’s the basic story. Bilbo is very reluctant at first. You know, he doesn’t want to leave his house. He doesn’t want the possibility of death, you know, even though there’s going to be a really big adventure. But he decides eventually to, you know, just just go for it. So it’s really quite scary, those guys adventure. But, you know, I think he thinks that he needs to do this because he hasn’t really done much with his life. And, yeah, he just wants to help those find their home.

So the rest of the movie from there on is pretty much just about their journey so far in the first third of the of the trilogy. So they obviously don’t get to the homeland yet because it’s just the first movie it’s going to probably pick up in the sequel exactly what the first one left off like the Lord of the Rings films did. So it was actually a really good movie. I really enjoyed this and was I’ve always been a huge blow to the Rings fan. I’ve always loved the movies, the trilogy. And I was really expecting, you know, I wasn’t actually expecting it to be as good as the Lord of the Rings, but it was fairly close for me. So then from there on, we’ve got the adventure side of the film. We’ve got Troll’s or Goblin’s Mountain Giants. You don’t really see much of the dragon in this film that took the walks around town at the beginning. It’s kind of hiding it, I guess, to show you what it looks like later on in the trilogy. But that’ll be cool when you finally do see the Dragon.

So it’s very much an adventure film. We’ve got a lot of adventure, a lot of journey, a lot of cartoonish humour in this film. I’ve noticed with that orderings film, it’s for a fantasy film. It’s quite realistic. And the violence and the look of the creatures. The Hobbit is a much more colourful, more humorous film. And there’s a lot more unrealistic looking creatures in this movie. And there’s a lot more CGI you’ll notice than the Lord of the Rings trilogy. If you watch Lord of the Rings, you’ll see a lot of the sets. They’re not actually sets. They’re just real places in New Zealand where they filmed. And a lot of the makeup is just make up. It’s no CGI. But in The Hobbit, unfortunately, they’ve done what a lot of movies do these days and they just get a bit lazy and CGI, a lot of the set backgrounds and a lot of the characters and, you know, creatures and stuff like that. But it was really good CGI and it looked fairly good. I can’t really comment on the forty eight frames per second. I know it’s the first movie to have forty eight frames. Normally you’ve got twenty four frames. I’m not even sure if I did see it in the forty eight frames.

It looked fairly normal to me. I mean certain parts did look a bit more crisp and. And fast, but I really like the look of this film and the tone it was going for, it sort of felt like the Lord of the Rings did, but different as well. It was its own film, but you could definitely tell it had borrowed things from the Lord of the Rings trilogy. So The Hobbit, An Unexpected Journey. I really love this film. It goes for almost three hours, so it’s quite a long movie like The Lord of the Rings. Films still highly recommend. You know, it’s just really fun and it does drag a little at the beginning. But, you know, it was actually fairly good. I really liked the intro as well, but it was a bit slow. So the film stars Martin Freeman as Bilbo Baggins, the younger version, got Ian McKellen back as Gandalf the Grey. So he’s not going off the way anymore because this is before the Lord of the Rings. So he’s getting off the ground again. Richard Armitage plays the head dwarf thorn, and he does really, really good in this movie.

You’ve got Cate Blanchett back and you’ve got Hugo Weaving again and also Christopher Lee as Saruman. And you’ve also got Sylvester McCoy playing Radagast the Brown. And he’s this other wizard in the film. So there’s a few wizards now. You’ve been introduced again off and now we’ve got this Radagast guy and he’s really strange. He just lives in the forest and he’s quite weird. So I don’t know yet how it’s going to tie in the trilogy because his story is kind of separate from the movie, but it’ll probably tie in somewhere in the second or third movie. So what I also liked was the soundtrack. The soundtrack also use some of the Lord of the Rings songs, brought that back as well as the new Hobbit song. So it’s good to have a mix of both Lord of the Rings and Hobbit soundtrack in there. And I think you’ve also got Andy Serkis in a scene back playing Gollum. So Gollum from the Lord of the Rings trilogy is back for a scene in this movie. And it was really good. The Saints go riddles in the dark. And there’s is between Bilbo and Gollum. And I have to tell these riddles. You know, if Bilbo wins, he gets shown the way out of the cave. But if Gollum wins, he gets to eat him or something like that. So it’s really strange, but it’s a cool thing. So thanks for watching Larrivee everyone on The Hobbit. And I expect the journey. I hope you like that and definitely going to see it be great if you subscribe to my channel, Chickamaw, other videos and probably have an unboxing up sometime in the next few days of the Lord of the Rings trilogy. I went out and bought it today. Just got me back into the feeling of the Lord of the Rings again. So I just wanted to go out and buy it. So I’ve got the Blu ray unboxing. I’ll probably do that sometime over the next few days. So thanks for watching by.