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daysofseptember

Hobbit 3

Dec 16, 2014 22:38

Well, that was two hours of people in high fantasy armor poking swords at each other and God help me: I loved every second of it. It'll probably be really dull on a small screen, though.

( For spoilers or something I guess, and probably the kind of spoilers that weren't in the book )

fantasy, film, tolkien

Comments 2

47nite December 23 2014, 06:01:12 UTC

Aaaaaaaa it was great. ;;

Can't help but think for Smaug's death Mr. Jackson was trying to one-up del Toro's Pacific Rim (i think you know the scene I'm taking about)

The "aww" moment for me was the acorn. Yeah. Big stonking armies clashing and it was the acorn that did it for me. Bilbo really does it for me like that too.

Yeah, I dunno I guess the first movie tried to play up Azog and Bolg as super-duper End Boss Battle dudes, but it wasn't reflected as much in the second film.

To some extent Tauriel was the straight female audience proxy wasn't she. Date ALL THE PRETTY BOIZ.

I don't recall the book mentioning any of the other dwarves dying so it got enough of the point across without taking too much focus off Bilbo~

GAH, I WANT TO MAKE SO MUCH ART NOW.

daysofseptember December 30 2014, 01:08:56 UTC

I'm ashamed to say that I don't even know whether Pacific Rim is TV or film. Life without TV does something to your familiarity with certain parts of pop culture *g*

I really have no idea what it is about Bilbo that makes me love him so hard, but whatever it is, Martin Freeman captured it as well as I expect it could be in Jackson's universe. (which speaking of: the book only says that Fili and Kili died defending Thorin with their lives, not getting trapped in orc ambush)

I wonder how much of the motivation behind bringing in Tauriel was the excuse to bring Legolas back as something more than a roaring drunk. I also suspect that the second film owes much of its existence to her, because they needed to give her some big part in the plot. But yeeeeeah, being told to marry Legolas and then having a star-crossed love story with a suddenly pretty dwarf would have been INSTANT SUE if someone dared do it in fanfic.

WELL AT LEAST YOU CAN MAKE ART SO GO AND DO IT. Do it for those of us who cannot make anything we draw look like it did in ( ... )