{"id":37841,"date":"2013-06-16T23:19:16","date_gmt":"2013-06-17T05:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/06\/16\/watching-the-hobbit-an-unexpected-journey-again.html"},"modified":"2013-06-30T17:50:24","modified_gmt":"2013-06-30T23:50:24","slug":"watching-the-hobbit-an-unexpected-journey-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/06\/16\/watching-the-hobbit-an-unexpected-journey-again.html","title":{"rendered":"Watching "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey" again"},"content":{"rendered":"
A Fathers Day rewatch, expanding (slightly) on my original review (https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/12\/15\/movie-review-the-hobbit-an-unexpected-journey-2012.html<\/a>).<\/div>\n

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A \u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605\u00bd review of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012)<\/a>
\n Despite my intent not to buy the first Blu-Ray release of the film (knowing that there are at least three or four further editions to come), I received a very nice Fathers Day gift of same, and was strongly encouraged to watch it. I stand by the below, and add only: 1. Martin Freeman is brilliant. Perfect. He is Bilbo. 2. On rewatch, all the non-canon foofoorah seems much of an annoyance. It’s Peter Jackson’s “Hobbit,” just as major director\/prod…\n <\/p>\n

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A Fathers Day rewatch, expanding (slightly) on my original review (https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/12\/15\/movie-review-the-hobbit-an-unexpected-journey-2012.html). A \u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605\u00bd review of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012) Despite my intent not to buy the first Blu-Ray release of the film (knowing that there are at least three or four further editions to come), I received a very nice Fathers Day gift … Continue reading “Watching "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey" again”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,382,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-lord-of-the-rings","category-media-movies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":32443,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/02\/05\/and-so-the-hobbit-purchase-repurchase-repeat-festival-begins.html","url_meta":{"origin":37841,"position":0},"title":"And so the Hobbit purchase-repurchase-repeat festival begins","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 5-Feb-13 5:12pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Hurm. 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