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Video Game High School (2012)
Painful.
This film was awful. We watched this last night as my boyfriend is a huge gamer and the premise sounded cool so we gave it a go. There were a few good points about the film, the idea was pretty cool and I liked the way they tried to show them 'in the game'. That was about it. The character development was terrible and unrealistic, the jokes and humour was painful and felt forced; and the acting was bad and uncomfortable to watch. I know this was made on a small budget and done as a web series, but it was just painful to watch. It wasn't that level of bad where it's actually enjoyable, just bad. The main actor has the charisma of a blunt spoon, I know he's meant to be an awkward teenager nerd type, but there was nothing endearing about him. His relationship with feisty blonde girl was laughable and didn't make any sense. The ginger girl who I'm guessing was meant to be comedic as she is 'kooky' was annoying and I felt bad for the actress, she was obviously trying her best but I don't think she has much of a future in acting. All in all I wouldn't recommend this film to anyone. It's a shame because the idea was a cool one, they just really fell flat in many many ways.
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012)
A great return to Middle Earth
First things first, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey does not meet that ridiculously good standards of any of the Lord of the Rings films. But it is still awesome in its own way, and frankly I would have been surprised if it was as good as any of the LotR films. Whereas LotR was on an epic scale, this film is on a much smaller scale compared to the impending doom of all of Middle Earth. But that isn't a detraction from this film at all, The Hobbit AUJ is a great film in it's own right and deserves the good reviews it's been getting. The humour of the film is done brilliantly, genuinely funny in parts, especially in the sequence with Gollum. A lot of people have said the pacing of the first hour is slow and could easily have been cut down, it could have been I suppose but I enjoyed getting to know the dwarfs and Bilbo. Okay they sing a song whilst washing up, but that sequence shows us how they work as a team and the bond of the dwarven company, and also brings a sense of fun - which is perfect as it's adapted from a children's book, so there should be humour and lighter moments in it. One of the things that wasn't so great about the film was definitely the CGI, particularly on Azog the pale orc and that baby hedgehog. I was quite disappointed with that, as in LotR they used makeup and prosthetics on the Urukhai, etc, so they could have gone down the same route in this film, especially as they did the big bad guys so well that way in LotR. Another thing was that I wasn't sure why exactly Radagast was around and felt he could have been taken out with no problem, same with the appearance of Frodo (especially now Elijah Wood's voice has deepened noticeably, which jars as Frodo isn't meant to have aged.) But, the action sequences were exciting and enthralling, particularly the rush through the goblins' lair. Martin Freeman made an amazing Bilbo (possibly the best thing about the film), the scene with Gollum was utterly brilliant and although you don't get to know each and every dwarf very well, Peter Jackson still manages to make you fall for their quest and puts you firmly on side with them so you really want them to succeed. Can't wait for the next two films, and eventually one day a marathon weekend of all three Hobbit films followed by LotR the next day!