Well… this is kinda nice, innit? Stuart Walker isn’t a name I’m familiar with, but this seems quite modern for a British movie from 1934? I mean, it seems very technically accomplished — all mod cons, with a very mobile camera and actors that don’t look like they’d rather be on a theatre stage.

Oh, he was involved with all those Bulldog Drummond movies, but stopped directing the year after this movie.

I’ve seen other versions of this Dickens thing, of course, so the plot itself isn’t very … exciting? to watch? But it’s still nice.

Great Expectations. Stuart Walker. 1934. ⚃

Nice horns.

The first hour or so was very slow — all faffing around — but once the action started, it’s quite fun. Feel-good gore?

Well, I made it! I watched all three Hobbit movies in one day. I’m not sure I agree with everybody that says it’s obviously too long — if it had been a nine episode TV series, nobody would have blinked an eye. (It probably would have been a 24 episode TV series, though.)

But… there are bits that do drag. I didn’t feel the first movie had that problem — sure, there was a 45 minute supper scene, but it felt natural. But in the second movie… eh.

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies. Peter Jackson. 2014. ⚂

Scale.

Anyway, this starts off right after the first one, but it’s more… ponderous? I mean, the first one didn’t exactly zip, but I was on board from the start, and this one asks a lot of the viewer (to stay interested).

So evil! Sort of!

This fight/chase scene had me laughing out loud. It’s amazing!

Somebody called the Hobbit movies “Peter Jackson fan fiction”, and it’s accurate in more ways than one: There’s so much fan service here, what with the whirling Dwarf dervish, and Legolas getting to be even smugger while killing orcs. It’s perfect!

Bollocks.

This Hobbit episode too a strange turn.

This is the highest-tomatometered of the Hobbit movies, and that’s just… that’s just… that’s just typical, because it’s a lot worse than the first one.

Oh, yeah — the second episode ended on a cliffhanger.

Man, this was so much worse then the first movie. Basically nothing happened. But there were some fun fight scenes.

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug. Peter Jackson. 2013. ⚂