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aussiepeach

Hobbit movie blah blah

Apr 17, 2014 20:08

Finally saw the Desolation of Smaug on DVD! Hmm, what a curate’s egg of a movie. Parts were excellent, the other parts were… a lot of faffing about.

( Spoilers though you all know them! )

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mariole April 18 2014, 04:20:25 UTC

You will find my thoughts at great length here: http://mariole.livejournal.com/179719.html

Sigh. I'm with the "miss" crowd. I enjoyed maybe 20 minutes of the movie. The rest I was just waiting for it to move along. We never really got to Tolkien in this one; it was all physics-free silly shit. I will see the last, but I'm not expecting much.

As usual, Poil says it best: But we live in an age of Big, Bombastic cinema and I find it tedious.

aussiepeach April 18 2014, 08:41:21 UTC

Hee, enjoyed all your nailing of the plot holes! That gold dwarf statue really threw me when gold starting spurting from its eye. I couldn't figure out what was going on. Silly me, it's just PJ's physics-free Middle-earth!

Good point about Tauriel's healing. It's like Every Elf can do this now. I kept wondering where the 'hands of a king' would come in. Apparently Tauriel didn't need 'em.

I hope PJ makes some effort not to faff about in part 3, considering he has time to make a huge-arse battle, Smaug's death (with the pointless Dwarf thingy from ever-so-ready Dale) and then Thorin's death and Bilbo going home. I enjoyed the first film more. Have fond memories of watching it on the hospital TV after Rory was born. I'm thankful it wasn't this one!

mariole April 18 2014, 15:36:00 UTC

Yes, the first one was definitely faithful to the opening of the book, and the Dwarves song was awesome, a real highpoint. So we had pointless chases in between the really good bits.

In H2, we had mostly pointless "What am I watching? A child's video game?" with very little Middle-earth feel. ME should transport you, not bore you! So you'll have to mine deep to find the good parts. Alas.

I shall hope with your hope, that when PJ has a huge battle to direct his passion to have "action", ANY action, his energies might be channeled into something more productive. Hugs to you and Rory!