random Q thoughts - The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies

[qthewetsprocket]

Saw the last Hobbit movie today, and in no particular order, here are some random obscure things I liked / noticed:

Comments

[sharkbait]

Awesome points, I have to agree with everything!  My only big annoyance with the movies overall has been the elf-dwarf romance that never really jelled for me. If you must insert such a thing, make it more believable than a Taylor Swift song please.

[qthewetsprocket]

That bugged me too, though for different reasons: firstly, because Evangeline Lilly didn't want to do the movie if Tauriel was just going to be the hub of a love triangle, and they promised her she wouldn't be...and then promptly went back on their word once she'd signed the contract. I'm with her, frankly: if you're going to introduce a kickass female character who wasn't in the books, then for god's sake don't reduce her entire character to "someone who is desired by two men

[gritsinmisery]

I really thought there wasn't enough Bilbo in this one, to the point where when he finally got his first line, I was like, "Oh yeah, Martin Freeman's in this

[qthewetsprocket]

I never thought I'd say this, but I kind of wish Guillermo Del Toro had directed it instead of Peter Jackson. Because that way, The Hobbit might have stood half a chance of actually being its own movie, with its own focus on its own hero, instead of almost nine hours of "hey, remember how much you liked Lord of the Rings?"

And yeah...if there were a criminal court for people who wasted good actors / characters in movies, then Jackson and company would be in very deep trouble for finding the best human on the planet to play one of the best characters in all of literature...and then completely reducing him to background fodder in his own damn story.