Will The Hobbit end up "rotten"?

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How the hell are they going to make this into a trilogy? Not only is it just one book, it's shorter than any of the Lord of the Rings books.

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You know, I bet Nathan associates that reference with its origin, not with Donnie Darko.

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You know, I bet Nathan associates that reference with its origin, not with Donnie Darko.

I've always hated that movie.

You have as bad taste as Naso.

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To know that we'd need to know what films Ben does like.

I liked Donnie Darko okay, but I wouldn't describe myself as at all attached to it.

He gave a somewhat positive review to Meet the Spartans.

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Down to 68% now, but I think it has too many positive reviews in to fall below 60.

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Down to 66%. This is gonna be close but it should hang on. Most of the reviews are in now.

The main reason for the ratings drop (from what I've read) is that the critics are bitching and moaning about how long this film is.. 

There's plenty of movies that are fine being almost three hours long, one covering only one third of The Hobbit plus some additional material is not such of one. Nathan's point is pretty much it.

The Onion's take: http://www.theonion.com/articles/the-hobbit-to-feature-53minutelong-scene-of-bilbo,30727

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It'd take a deluge (no pun intended) of negative reviews to knock it below 60% now though. Still numbers are unimpressive for such an anticipated movie. Hell even The Phantom Menace got a "Fresh" on its original run with just above 60% (the pointless 3-D re-release resulted in more reviews which knocked it to "Rotten" finally.)

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Well, I just got back from watching it... in '3D'.

The film I found mostly quite boring - I hadn't found the Lord of the Rings films boring for the most part.  That despite having enjoyed the Hobbit more than the trilogy as a young teenage reader.

Also I really hate 3 D.  I wish they'd leave off with it, its very annoying and stupid.

Did it have Thai subtitles?

I don't like 3D either but luckily it's a gimmick kind of dying out, nowhere near as common as it was 2-3 years ago. The fact that The Dark Knight Rises wasn't in 3D is something I'm quite thankful for. Even The Avengers had at least as many standard as 3D showings (I saw in standard.)

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Did it have Thai subtitles?

I don't like 3D either but luckily it's a gimmick kind of dying out, nowhere near as common as it was 2-3 years ago. The fact that The Dark Knight Rises wasn't in 3D is something I'm quite thankful for. Even The Avengers had at least as many standard as 3D showings (I saw in standard.)

Yes, it had Thai subtitles.

That'd be kind of weird to me. Sometime I should watch a movie with some weird foreign subtitles on just to see what it's like.