The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug An IMAX 3D Experience (locally sold out 1st 2 days)

[Omaha Steve]

MORE at link: https://www.imax.com/movies/m/the-hobbit-the-desolation-of-smaug-an-imax-3d-experience/

The first TWO days worth of shows plus the late show the night before are already sold out. They show times start at 9:30 AM. Jeez. I haven't looked yet. Will there be six different formats again for this release?

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug An IMAX 3D Experience

Release Date: December 13, 2013. Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures.

The second in a trilogy of films adapting the enduringly popular masterpiece "The Hobbit", by J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug continues the adventure of the title character Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman) as he journeys with the Wizard Gandalf (Ian McKellan) and thirteen Dwarves, led by Thorin Oakenshield (Richard Armitage) on an epic quest to reclaim the lost Dwarf Kingdom of Erebor.

The IMAX release of The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug will be digitally re-mastered into the image and sound quality of An IMAX 3D Experience® with proprietary IMAX DMR® (Digital Re-mastering) technology. The crystal-clear images coupled with IMAX's customized theatre geometry and powerful digital audio create a unique environment that will make audiences feel as if they are in the movie.

[MurrayDelph]

1. One of those seats won't be mine

I love the book, having read it several times (and listened to the audiobook version of it a few more times on cross-country road trips), but I hated the first movie.

In their efforts to make another Lord of the Rings super-EPIC, they forgot what worked with LotR. Where LotR removed many lovely components that worked in a book, but took away from the narrative, the Hobbit series, having decided to expand what would have been a good two-part movie into a three-parter, had to find all sorts of things to pad with. And along the way, they forgot that Hobbit was a cute children's fantasy.

Now, to be honest, I have to admit there was one thing about seeing the movie I didn't hate: my small-town local theatre threw in free popcorn.

[JCMach1]

4. I read the books 20+ times when I was a young teen, but I still enjoy the movies as an old fart...

Hobbit pt 1 was Jackson's best effort since LOTR, pt. 1.

I enjoyed it immensely as pure, unadulterated cinema (and not a bad adaptation)...

[Omaha Steve]

2. Stand by the grey stone....

This household and granddaughter can't wait.

OS

[BainsBane]

3. The first Hobbit was one of the most boring movies I've ever seen

I'll be passing on the rest.

[Vashta Nerada]

5. I liked the first one.

But The Hobbit should NOT be separated into three movies. The book isn't long enough for three parts.

[TransitJohn]

7. It's just barely long enough with Jackson's rights to LoTR's appendices

which is where the extra non-Hobbit material is coming from. 2 would have been better with the appendices' extras (Radagast, etc.), but the studio wanted a 3rd. It's a cash grab.

[liberal_at_heart]

6. The first one and this one are released right around my daughter's birthday. We will go see it as a

birthday present. I loved all the Peter Jackson Lord of the Rings movies including The Hobbit. Seeing that eye pop open gave me chills. I can't wait.

[Egnever]

8. The first hobbit lost me

When they started throwing the dishes around.

Loved the LOTR series though.

[Hekate]

9. The LOTR series was true to the books; The Hobbit, sadly, isn't

I probably won't pass on it, because I want to take the grandkid as I did last year.

Honestly, though, one of the best things I did for him was to insist on reading The Hobbit to him before we saw the first movie -- Even though he was only 8 at the time he really caught on to the differences and wanted to talk about them. Sheesh, if Jackson wanted to pad out The Hobbit, which is a children's book, he could have tossed in Tom Bombadil and Lady Goldberry instead.

Oh well, in for a penny, in for a pound. I'll see all 3 parts.