And to be fair, each point has some merit. The theatrical version has already been criticized ad nauseum for being too long, too bloated, too ungainly, too action-oriented. If you thought The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey was a divisive 169-minute return to Middle-Earth, just wait until fans sink their teeth into filmmaker Peter Jackson's 183-minute extended cut. Reviewed by Kenneth Brown, October 31, 2013 The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Blu-ray Reviewįun but flawed, the extended cut arrives with a host of special features in tow. The fact that Peter Jackson can write a nine minute scene with an actor and a digital actor together (the Riddles in the Dark scene) to me is a great testament to what you can do with the art form these days.The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Blu-ray
"We've brought creatures off the page as Tolkien described them, in a way that ten or twelve years ago would have been almost impossible. In The Hobbit, in addition to Gollum, we have five other speaking digital characters. "Gollum was our one speaking character in the original LOTR sure we also had Trolls, Uruk-hai and Orcs fighting battles but they really didn't have to deliver lines. Letteri says that it's this realisation of digital acting that stands out as The Hobbit's crowning FX achievement. Because there's less blur you perceive detail all the way though - you really pay attention to the nuances of Gollum's facial animation." "If you look at that cave scene with Gollum, that's the biggest pay off for us creatively, that's where it all came together. "For very fast motion, and Gollum's rapid fire dialogue, we found we could really sharpen up movement. "It really helped us creatively," he explains. Not only did HFR fundamentally change the look of the film, Letteri says it also transformed what Weta could achieve with CG animation. Peter Jackson pioneered the use of high frame rate 48fps movie-making with The Hobbit
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