During the pre-release hype for The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, the film itself nearly became buried under talk of high frame rates and Hollywood’s continued 3D push and the questionable decision to turn a two-film book adaptation into a three-movie job — all conversations that director Peter Jackson himself put into play but that ultimately [...]
The guys are back for Episode 2 of The Cult Spark Podcast. The conversation in our sophomore effort breaks down thusly: 0:00 — Introduction 1:37 — The Hobbit 18:26 — Wii-U and videogame console talk 37:15 — Classic movie re-releases: we love ‘em The Cult Spark Podcast gang is: Bob Taylor, Terrence Aybar, Stewart Smith and [...]
For a while I was very much on the fence about Peter Jackson’s decision to split The Hobbit into two films. On one hand, the book would more than comfortably fit in a nice three-hour adaptation. Anything over that seems like overkill with the potential to spread the narrative too thin. On the other, most [...]
