I love the LOTR and the Hobbit books and I love absolutely every one of the Peter Jackson LOTR/Hobbit movies that have come out so far.
I am a Tolkien addict and I am happy.
I am a Tolkien addict and I am happy.
Saw the first Hobbit film in theaters, and wasn't crazy about it--too video-gamish and stretched out. It did have some good points, though. The second one didn't.
I didn't mind the ice fight, just because I thought the movie actually showed a little personality and cleverness (Thorin throwing the Orc his own ice block, for example, and despite myself I liked the ridiculous Legolas fight on the crumbling tower because you could only get away with that in Middle Earth. I do agree with you there were some odd choices of what to put on film and what not (like the town sleaze bag).
But overall, the three films do not tie together well and I had a lot of unanswered questions, like as mentioned before--did the dwarves get their mountain? Bard's never seen from again? I only counted four armies?
I haven't actually seen the film yet, but Galadriel's always been powerful. She's pretty much the most powerful elf in Middle Earth at the time of the Hobbit.
She's badass. She just doesn't show it often.
I felt the same way. I waited till I could see the first film on DVD and enjoyed it, so I took a friend to watch the second in a theater, sight unseen. What a waste of money. It just went on and on, like the special effects would make up for the lack of plot. If I wanted that, I'd watch Michael Bay.
I might borrow the DVD of the third film from the library, when they eventually get a copy.
I know she's super powerful (and that so many of them don't show it often) but I didn't think she could (spoiler) single-handedly banish Sauron.
I'm afraid the first Hobbit film ruined the trilogy for me. That interminable meal at Bilbo's house...and the...SINGING. Dear God, the singing. I'm not often in the mood for singing dwarfs, but when I am I turn to Wagner and Disney.
Also the armies are supposed to be: Goblins, Wargs, Elves, Men, Dwarves, but the movie just showed the two orc armies, I guess? Not really sure why they didn't show Dain become King Under the Mountain, or Bard become King of Dale...
FWIW, this is the shortest film in the whole LOTR/Hobbit franchise.
And this is what is a little strange, that you can spend 2 hours and 45 minutes running around Middle Earth in the first movie and then not give 15 minutes to the end of this one to resolve. My guess is Jackson was trying to avoid the "never-ending ending" that was Return of the King, but here it was actually needed. Or you can, as discussed, not feature a lot of other scenes.
That's because she's got one of the 3 Elvish rings, and Sauron doesn't have the one ring to control it.
I'm guessing there's a nice expensive extended director's cut coming on DVD...
The slo-mo under-credits "Where are they now?" segment set to Don't You (Forget About Me) by Simple Minds is at least another four or five hours long.I heard the last third of the movie is gonna be split into another three movies.
I'm afraid the first Hobbit film ruined the trilogy for me. That interminable meal at Bilbo's house...and the...SINGING. Dear God, the singing. I'm not often in the mood for singing dwarfs, but when I am I turn to Wagner and Disney.
That's one of the few scenes that was most true to the book.