View original postAll that stuff you mention was ridiculous and over the top. I saw the movie three times. Slept soundly through the dwarves' messing around with Smaug twice.
Would you say you enjoyed the movie, even so? I just don't get the decisions they made - the Smaug bit must have been a huge chunk of the budget, and you're happy to sleep through it.
View original postThe golden statue - what they did was pour melted gold into an empty form. It held for a moment, then collapsed.
Makes more sense, but again. That's ridiculous. There was a perfectly built and ready-to-function mold for a giant gold statue, ok. Thorin knew where it was after not being there for most of his life, ok. Thorin knew how to turn on the forges, ok. After that, holy hell.
View original postI did enjoy the barrel scene. The fat dwarf twirling was unnecessary, but the elves hunting orcs was awesome. This is how I explain improbabilities in movies: it was probably not as easy as that (they fell out of barrels, had to climb back in, etc...), the movie just doesn't show all that, and focuses on only the highlights.
Oh my goodness, I couldn't stand it. The highlights like when the fat dwarf jumped back into one of those barrels? And honestly, I love when elves get to be graceful badasses, but I can think of a million other ways they could improve on how to show it. He made them fakey and silly.
The Hobbit - The Desolation of Smaug
- 13/12/2013 10:03:50 AM
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Sorry, two-legged dragons are just goofy, even if they did the best they could with that limitation
- 13/12/2013 11:13:34 PM
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I'm glad I am not the only person who cares about that.
- 15/12/2013 08:41:48 AM
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I don't care whether dragons have "hands" or not, as long as it meets all other draconic reqs.
- 15/12/2013 02:16:15 PM
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I especially liked Thranduil's scenes. *minor spoilers*
- 13/12/2013 11:25:30 PM
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such a good physical match for Legolas
- 14/12/2013 01:22:21 AM
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Thought he looked more elf than Elrond and Galadriel put together.
- 14/12/2013 07:13:00 AM
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So how is the new female elf they introduce "Tauriel"
- 14/12/2013 05:34:56 AM
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Have to say, this was even worse than the first one, and I fear the third one may be still worse.
- 04/01/2014 12:32:51 AM
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You know what I think. I definitely have spoilers.
- 04/01/2014 07:23:52 PM
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No point in arguing about such things, of course
- 04/01/2014 09:51:07 PM
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This is true.
- 04/01/2014 11:22:51 PM
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"Hamster", not "Hampster".
- 05/01/2014 05:28:48 PM
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It's a Gerbil from the Hamptons.
- 05/01/2014 08:11:39 PM
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Or perhaps a hipster rodent. All the more reason to poison it. *NM*
- 06/01/2014 07:54:13 PM
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The golden statue
- 06/01/2014 05:55:31 PM
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...that doesn't make me feel better.
- 07/01/2014 06:41:01 PM
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*NM*