Hello fellows, here we are once again and this
time we’ll be talking about the HOBBIT (we know, guess what? WE LOVE IT TOO!).
OK, before you start asking yourself “Why
Hobbit?”, this week we had two options, OK three, but one was instantly put
aside, the other option, besides The Hobbit, was Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s
Stone, although we also like Harry Potter, we are major fans of Tolkien’s
work, and so we decided to write about the first movie (The Hobbit: An
Unexpected Journey). António was with high expectations about this movie, since he watched The Lord of
the Rings (LOTR) trilogy, and for him, it went as expected, but he keeps thinking that LOTR is so much
better. For Rodrigo, it was the first time that he was watching a film adaptation of a Tolkien's masterpiece, after watching it and thinking "OMG what was I missing?" he saw the whole LOTR trilogy two days later!
OK, before we start describing the movie, please press play on this video:
Done? So, here we go..
Once upon a time, there was a guy, white as snow, weak as a chicken waiting to go to the aviary, and small as a 5 year-old kid. His name was Bilbo Baggins, and he was a Hobbit! Before you start wondering "what the hell is a Hobbit" and start looking for it on wikipedia, I will tell you: it's a kind of a small human specie that lives in The Shire, a colourful place where everybody smiles, but nothing happens. Ok that's all I can tell you.
So, let's go back to the narrative... This guy, Bilbo, is
invited by a giant wizard, Gandalf, the Grey, to go on an adventure with him and a group of
dwarves (Oin, Gloin, Bombur, Bifur, Bofur, Ori, Nori, Fili, Kili, Balin, Dwalin
and Dori [the guys in the picture above]), leaded by Thorin Oakenshield (another dwarf), son of Thrain, son of
Thror, from the line of Durin, the next king under the mountain (yes, António did his homework). The purpose of
their adventure was to reclaim Erebor and to recover the dwarves’
long-forgotten gold, a shinny treasure that was being safe kept by Smaug, the Terrible (a dragon
that took over the city of Erebor, in the Lonely Mountain, and stole the dwarves’ gold, killing many dwarves and, even worst than that, destroying a kid's toy [SHAME ON YOU, SMAUG!]).
During this adventure, returning
to Bag End, his home, was something that crossed Bilbo's mind several times,
but after they found “Sting” (his sword) he kind of gain some courage that made
him keep going, no matter how hard and dangerous it got. It is in this film
that we see Bilbo finding The One ring (the one forged by Sauron in the fires
of Mount Doom) that so far belonged to Gollum. After he found it he was able to
become invisible and run away from Gollum and from the Goblins’ cave.
When he finds this ring, he gets the chance to know a creepy but cutie weird "creature", Smeagol, basically, a guy that talks with himself (there was no psychologist in Middle-Earth...), and that has a creepy face:
We wont
tell you anything more about the plot, otherwise you would not get curious to
watch the movie, and that would be shameful!!!!
So, now
here it comes our opinion (noooo, don't close the blog!!!):
In our
sincere, opinion, this movie is amazing! Great plot, great action scenes, great
music, great EVERYTHING (except their size, don't forget that most of them are
dwarves...)! But once we can only give a 10 to the LOTR trilogy, we are very
sad to tell you that we gave this super nice movie a shameful 9,9! :(
Before
we finish this kind of a review, we want to congratulate Peter Jackson for
another great job (yeah, we are talking about the first Hobbit, obviously!), it
was a great choice of actors, and even with some modifications to the book, he
managed to do a great adaptation of it!
This is pretty much our opinion, maybe if Rodrigo had given
António the opportunity to write even more, you would probably be finishing the
lecture of this super well written text (or not) with your grandchildren saying
"Happy 120th Birthday!" (assuming that you are 10 now).
See you later, you hater! :D
