I think I will probably be grumpy about it but will still like it enough to get the extended edition when it comes out in the hopes it has more of the real shit.
I really hated snowboard Legolas, but I thought mumakil Legolas was okay, so I'm shooting for not throwing anything at the screen.
Still really pissing me off that they don't have midnight screenings for this one.
Got my tickets for Monday, they're showing all three movies back to back.
Should be a good time. If not, it'll still beat being at work.
I'm going on Monday too! 9 hours of Hobbit awesomeness in 3D! I don't even really care much about the 3D.
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surfing legolas is just a silly sidebar for me, but surfing legolas wasn't the action norm for LOTR
i'll probably go see this but i'm pretty down about how little excitement i have for it
Thranduil as a character is much closer to the Elves of the Silmarillion than the other Elves we've seen in the films so far. He's barely morally superior to Thorin. Kinda puts Galadriel refusing the ring into a new perspective in the context of the movies.
Everything involving Dain and his war company was excellent. My two favorite moments in the film were the Dwarven army approaching over the mountain and the Dwarves using formation tactics during the battle.
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I thought the barrel scene was one of the worst in the film
I don't understand this. It was great cinematography, great characterization, an interesting take on an otherwise boring part of the original narrative, and was downright fun.
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surfing legolas is just a silly sidebar for me, but surfing legolas wasn't the action norm for LOTR
i'll probably go see this but i'm pretty down about how little excitement i have for it
I didn't even bother with the second one. Doubt I'll bother with this one.
Desolation of Smaug was worth it for the barrel scene alone.
i actually liked the barrel scene, though i don't think i'd have patience for it were i to ever re-watch
but i found desolation to be infinitely more tiresome than the first hobbit overall. the rest of the movie specifically made the barrel scene no longer a notable setpiece of any interest and instead recast it as the first salvo in the movie's war on my patience
the Hobbit movies feel like they are taking action queues from Sucker Punch
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What I really liked in the Hobbit films is how they took the world Tolkien had written and really made it seem bigger and more complicated than the original narrative. That the elves, lake town, the orcs and goblins, and pretty much every other one dimensional force in the original books were given actual motivations and depth made me pretty happy.
I did not like what they did to Radagast, in my mind he was always a burly lumberjack wizard, but I can see why they wouldn't want to confuse the audience due to similarities between him and Beorn. The dragon fight scene was kinda wonky a bit in that Smaug is clearly useless. I enjoyed the roller coaster ride through the Lonely Mountain but it all seemed rather unneeded for the plot.
Aside from those two things I've enjoyed the films. I grew up with the Hobbit, it was something my grandmother read to me as a kid and that I read and re-read as a young adult. They are more lighthearted and silly than LotR but they should be. The Hobbit was a kids book, Lord of the Rings wasn't.
Everything involving Dain and his war company was excellent. My two favorite moments in the film were the Dwarven army approaching over the mountain and the Dwarves using formation tactics during the battle.
I didn't like the movie as a whole that much, but there were a lot of good individual moments and scenes, and that was absolutely one of them. Especially
I am less unequivocally enthusiastic about the Hobbit films than I am about the LOTR films, but a lot of the complaints people make about stuff in Journey and Desolation really confuse the hell out of me.
I posted a bunch of stuff to Facebook that I'll just copy and paste here:
- So when is the fan edit if these movies going to come out? I think there's two pretty coherent two hour movies in here.
- Between this and Sherlock, I've decided that if you need someone to scrunch his face a lot and look exasperated, Martin Freeman is definitely your guy
- These movies are a pretty good counterexample if you know anyone who complains about the stuff they left out of LOTR (well, sorta)
- the title is pretty descriptive, because it pretty is just the Battle of the Five Armies
- one thing about these movies being so drawn out is that you lose some of the emotional punch (like I still tear up at the end of FOTR, and I've seen that move close to 2 dozen times, and it didn't happen even once in this movie).
It makes me sad but I left the theatre feeling like I just watched a genuinely bad movie, and I went in quite excited for it, because I love the lord of the rings world.
Like, just poorly shot, edited, written... just bad. Getting ready for work so holefully I can get into more detail later but man this movie just bummed me the heck out.
After seeing the 3rd movie I'm still wondering what the point of Tauriel was. I guess the series would have been a bit of a sausage fest without her but they didn't need to add in all the elf/dwarf romance guff.
After seeing the 3rd movie I'm still wondering what the point of Tauriel was. I guess the series would have been a bit of a sausage fest without her but they didn't need to add in all the elf/dwarf romance guff.
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Also the movie premieres the day before I fly off to england.
I'm going to be tired on that flight.
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Still really pissing me off that they don't have midnight screenings for this one.
Got my tickets for Monday, they're showing all three movies back to back.
Should be a good time. If not, it'll still beat being at work.
To describe some of the action scenes in words would make one sound like a madman
The action is always visually clear and you can follow it very well, there's also no droning loud noises
It's only superficially related to the book at this point, though, a lot of the stuff I expected to see was missing
The second part is one giant action setpiece but I didn't get tired of it because it is so well executed compared to other movies
It has this very heavy videogame vibe though
I really hated snowboard Legolas, but I thought mumakil Legolas was okay, so I'm shooting for not throwing anything at the screen.
I'm going on Monday too! 9 hours of Hobbit awesomeness in 3D! I don't even really care much about the 3D.
i'll probably go see this but i'm pretty down about how little excitement i have for it
I didn't even bother with the second one. Doubt I'll bother with this one.
Desolation of Smaug was worth it for the barrel scene alone.
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you can't surf on a shield!
It's completely unrealistic
I don't understand this. It was great cinematography, great characterization, an interesting take on an otherwise boring part of the original narrative, and was downright fun.
i actually liked the barrel scene, though i don't think i'd have patience for it were i to ever re-watch
but i found desolation to be infinitely more tiresome than the first hobbit overall. the rest of the movie specifically made the barrel scene no longer a notable setpiece of any interest and instead recast it as the first salvo in the movie's war on my patience
I did not like what they did to Radagast, in my mind he was always a burly lumberjack wizard, but I can see why they wouldn't want to confuse the audience due to similarities between him and Beorn. The dragon fight scene was kinda wonky a bit in that Smaug is clearly useless. I enjoyed the roller coaster ride through the Lonely Mountain but it all seemed rather unneeded for the plot.
Aside from those two things I've enjoyed the films. I grew up with the Hobbit, it was something my grandmother read to me as a kid and that I read and re-read as a young adult. They are more lighthearted and silly than LotR but they should be. The Hobbit was a kids book, Lord of the Rings wasn't.
I didn't like the movie as a whole that much, but there were a lot of good individual moments and scenes, and that was absolutely one of them. Especially
What did the drunk hobbit say when he walked into the wizard?
Saruman, I didn’t see you there!
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This movie felt very disjointed. People, armies, everything just shows up, often in the nick of time.
Best bit: Christopher Lee said Sauron in a totally dramatic way.
- So when is the fan edit if these movies going to come out? I think there's two pretty coherent two hour movies in here.
- Between this and Sherlock, I've decided that if you need someone to scrunch his face a lot and look exasperated, Martin Freeman is definitely your guy
- These movies are a pretty good counterexample if you know anyone who complains about the stuff they left out of LOTR (well, sorta)
- the title is pretty descriptive, because it pretty is just the Battle of the Five Armies
- one thing about these movies being so drawn out is that you lose some of the emotional punch (like I still tear up at the end of FOTR, and I've seen that move close to 2 dozen times, and it didn't happen even once in this movie).
I don't think that "there's not enough plot here to support the run time" is exactly a controversial statement about these movies.
Like, just poorly shot, edited, written... just bad. Getting ready for work so holefully I can get into more detail later but man this movie just bummed me the heck out.
no it's a pretty good post
to be really boring and a bad character, i guess.