The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey download the new version for ipod

I missed the days of the Fellowship, where each race was represented and each character had its flaws as well as its destiny to fulfill.

Perhaps we'll get to know Dwalin, Kili, Fili, Dori, Nori, Ori, Oin, Gloin, Bifur and Bofur in subsequent films. Otherwise, aside from fat Bombur (Stephen Hunter), a source of comic relief, the other ten seem more or less interchangeable.

With more lines to speak than the others, the white-bearded Balin (Ken Stott) also feels fully fleshed-out. As dwarf-in-chief, Thorin is given a revenge-infused backstory, pulling us back to a sepia-toned flashback sequence about the fall of Erebor and the kingdom of the Lonely Mountain his pain and motivation to get revenge makes his character meaty. But despite the enormous running time of this first episode - coming in at a whopping 2 hours and 50 minutes – we don't get to know each dwarf very well. The designers at Weta Workshop have done a fine job making them each look different. Rather, the trouble is making each dwarf distinguishable from the next. To me, I was happy to get to know more of Bilbo's digs, and his character. Some reviewers have complained about the pace – that it takes half an hour just to get out of Bilbo's door. After some consternation, Bilbo signs the contract. They tumble through the round green door. He makes orcs rampage and stone giants heave mountains at one another, and he dwells especially lovingly on all those dwarves: Balin and Dwalin and Fili and Kili and especially the Dwarf Lord Thorin (Richard Armitage).Newcomers to the franchise include a 60-years-younger Bilbo, played by Martin Freeman, and the 13 dwarves, who arrive mysteriously on Bilbo's doorstep, led by Thorin Oakenshield (hunky Viggo-in-waiting Richard Armitage). He plays with extra-super-duper high-frame-rate 3-D technology that makes every detail of Bilbo’s home in Hobbiton sparkle with almost disconcerting smoothness of surface. Working from a simpler, jauntier, more picaresque story about how Bilbo came to possess the One Ring that would later cause such a rumpus, Jackson operates with even more unrelenting genius-nerd filmmaking intensity. Frodo, you remember, had this ring he needed to return … But never mind, even the unfaithful who can’t tell Ian McKellen’s Gandalf the Grey from that other wizard guy in Harry Potter can follow along easily in this teeming prequel. He was the hairy-footed fellow of passing interest - the uncle of that saga’s central character, Frodo Baggins (Elijah Wood). Devoted followers will recall that Ian Holm embodied Old Bilbo in LOTR.

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey download the new version for ipod