EPT[Movie] The Hobbit Trilogy - Page 83
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TheRabidDeer
United States3806 Posts
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Valiver
Caldeum1977 Posts
On December 31 2013 07:25 TheRabidDeer wrote: It appears a lot of people hate the dragon sequence... how are you all so certain that Smaug was dumb or couldn't find them? I never read the books so I don't know how things played out there. My interpretation is that he is toying with his prey since he knows for a fact that they can't do shit to him. The fact that he takes off for Laketown after learning they care about Laketown kinda drove that home for me. I think he was toying with them for a while, especially after the conversation with Bilbo to start that whole thing off. The whole thing in the forge though I still thought was overdone. | ||
BigFan
TLADT24920 Posts
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Noocta
France12578 Posts
Smaug is fucking majestic. Probably the most impressive monster I've seen in a movie to date. I don't really care for the problems people are pointing at. It's a red dragon, it's pretty common in mythology about this kind of beast to toy with people and be very arrogant. Seriously tho, the whole part of the movie with the dragon inside the mountain is a representation of my dreams as a boy liking fantasy. You know, when you imagine it in your head ? God. Majestic and enormous. | ||
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Mensol
14536 Posts
 But my favorite thing about this movie is its songs. I See Fire is so FUCKING good. | ||
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Thorakh
Netherlands1788 Posts
The only things I liked about it besides the CGI was Bilbo's conversation with Smaug, Martin Freeman's acting, the portrayal of Erebor and... yeah well that was it, really. At least during the making of the LotR trilogy Jackson seemed to control himself and deliver a product that could be called a decent adaptation of the books. It seems like with these movies he was given the greenlight to go batshit crazy and instead of making a good adaptation he made an endless rollercoaster ride of stupid action scenes and random love bullshit without any concern for pacing (seriously, what the fuck was wrong with that?) and a plot that at least has some semblance of coherence. If Tolkien was alive he'd have killed Jackson and all others responsible for this. | ||
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Lebesgue
4542 Posts
On January 19 2014 04:21 Thorakh wrote: Terrible, terrible movie. This isn't a movie adaptation of the Hobbit, this is Jackson losely basing a mindless Transformers-like action movie on important events from the Hobbit. Sure, the CGI was fucking amazing and yeah, the movie was entertaining... if you disregard the plot, which made no sense at all. The only things I liked about it besides the CGI was Bilbo's conversation with Smaug, Martin Freeman's acting, the portrayal of Erebor and... yeah well that was it, really. At least during the making of the LotR trilogy Jackson seemed to control himself and deliver a product that could be called a decent adaptation of the books. It seems like with these movies he was given the greenlight to go batshit crazy and instead of making a good adaptation he made an endless rollercoaster ride of stupid action scenes and random love bullshit without any concern for pacing (seriously, what the fuck was wrong with that?) and a plot that at least has some semblance of coherence. If Tolkien was alive he'd have killed Jackson and all others responsible for this. Totally agree. I seriously do not understand how it got better reviews than the first part which was already not that great, but was OK and enjoyable. This one felt overlong and boring. Seriously, a few times I was looking at my watch to check how much more of the movie there is left; which I never do unless the movie is damn boring. This movie has so little to do with the book it is just astonishing. I mean, at most 15% of the events in the movie are in the book and this is being generous. The part with Beorn, Mirkwood, spiders is just a sad joke. And it only gets worst from there on. Orcs everywhere chasing all the time the dwarves, Legolas and Tauriel, Kili being left behind with the wound, the fight with Smaug are all unnecessary or way too long. And the scene of the movie made me feel as if I am watching a TV series not a movie trilogy. Jackson added all those unnecessary scene to the movie that there is no time left character development whatsoever. By the half of the movie I didn't care about the dwarves, Bilbo or anyone else. At the beginning I was sceptical when I've heard that the hobbit will have three parts. But I thought that this not necessarily bad. It would allow Jackson to elaborate on issues that the book mentions only in passing, like the necromancer in Dol Goldur. Instead, this felt just like Star Wars: Phantom Menace. A movie made for teenage boys and a slap in the face of older fans. Congratulations Jackson, you are following the footsteps of George Lucas... | ||
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Torte de Lini
Germany38463 Posts
The rest I did not care about; in contrast to the book the movie feels like a Tex Avery cartoon of chasing without any light-heartedness. | ||
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Staboteur
Canada1873 Posts
Obviously a fleshed-out world is harder to create via cinema, but I think the magic of the story is lost in the films, and we're left with a cool bunch of action sequences and seeming epicness. That said, smaug is cool as fuck. | ||
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{CC}StealthBlue
United States41117 Posts
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/24/the-hobbit-the-battle-of-the-five-armies_n_5205488.html | ||
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Valiver
Caldeum1977 Posts
On April 25 2014 03:00 {CC}StealthBlue wrote: The final film's name has changed to "Battle of the Five Armies" http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/24/the-hobbit-the-battle-of-the-five-armies_n_5205488.html It does make more sense this way. They are all there already, so the "there" part of There and Back Again wouldn't apply. If I remember correctly the only stuff left from the book at least is the battle and the journey home (which was what, 2 pages?), although I guess they've added stuff with the Necromancer and all that. It should be a fairly action-packed movie. | ||
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Dunmer
United Kingdom568 Posts
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Falling
Canada11607 Posts
I like that they were going to name it that. But if you are driving past the theatre marquee, I am certain Battle of Five Armies sound like a much more appealing film then going and coming back again. | ||
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{CC}StealthBlue
United States41117 Posts
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Serejai
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Caladbolg
2855 Posts
On July 23 2014 02:25 Serejai wrote: Is it just me or does the guy on the right look like a slightly older Orlando Bloom? When I first saw Desolation of Smaug I thought it was Orlando Bloom playing two roles. He's like Aragorn and Legolas' lovechild. They should've gotten Bard a more beefy-looking actor. | ||
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Warlock40
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Dunmer
United Kingdom568 Posts
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Falling
Canada11607 Posts
New trailer is out. I've updated the OP. | ||
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Musicus
Germany23579 Posts
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