The acting, from Martin Freeman and Ian McKellen to Christopher Lee as Saruman and Richard Armitage as Thorin Oakenshield, leader of the dwarfs, are all very good, inhabiting their roles with conviction and passion. So the effects work from Weta Digital is all the more impressive and astounding from skin textures to the manifold buildings of Rivendell, it's sometimes hard to believe it's not all real. For a film set in a mythical fantasy land, any poor special effects or sub-standard computer generated imagery will stand out glaringly. However, this raises a problem for the filmmaker. Instead of shooting at the normal speeds of twenty four frames per second, he has doubled it to forty eight frames a second so when viewed you have an astonishing clarity of detail as well as smoothness in camera movement with no motion stutter or blurry jerkiness when shown in 3D. So it is appropriate that Jackson is here breaking new ground with the very way we watch films. It was only at the dawn of the last century that people like Georges Méliès realised the potential of this medium. Of all the art forms of the world, film is the one most invested in technology created by scientists, not artists at the end of the nineteenth century. Tolkien's Middle Earth after his vast and Academy Award wining "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy (2001 – 2003), he is actually experimenting with cinema itself. While at first glance it may seem that he is travelling over familiar ground, again tackling the fantastical world of J.R.R. "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey" simultaneously takes director Peter Jackson in two different directions.
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