the desolation of smaug - a review
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carlos21
KING OF REP
what are you saying.
Have they dragged it out to 3 movies as well, sheesh.
I watched the Hobbit the other week on Netflix, it was bad, very bad. Love the book though.
Anchorman 2 better not be a let down.
tsubaki
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The first one is much, much better than the second.
Oh my, it sounds like it could be on a crapness level of the last Resident Evil movie ( All the Resident evil movies are crap, but you have to hand it to the director for somehow surpassing the level of crapness of the previous movie, its a gift )
Disagree, it wasn't as good as Unexpected Journey, which was excellent imo, but it was still a very good film and stylisticly and visually on another level to anything that's been out in years maybe even since Return Of The King. Great storytelling. This one was a bit slower than i'd like but having read The Hobbit as a child the final film has been set up to be a total classic.
Ps. did anyone who went the cinema to see this notice the Godzilla movie being advertised? looks all levels of awesome and that's from someone who thought the original was a really stupid film.
Ps. did anyone who went the cinema to see this notice the Godzilla movie being advertised? looks all levels of awesome and that's from someone who thought the original was a really stupid film.
Garrick
Awesome, lid.
I enjoyed it. Definitely not as good as anything in the LotR trilogy.
The insertion of Legolas and that other Elf they made up was kind of irritating, but that's my only major complaint. Yes, Legolas is an elf of Mirkwood, yes he was alive (and would have looked/been pretty much the same) during the time of the Hobbit... but c'mon.
The third movie is going to be truly awful though I think. They have what, 100 pages if not less of content left to work with?
The insertion of Legolas and that other Elf they made up was kind of irritating, but that's my only major complaint. Yes, Legolas is an elf of Mirkwood, yes he was alive (and would have looked/been pretty much the same) during the time of the Hobbit... but c'mon.
The third movie is going to be truly awful though I think. They have what, 100 pages if not less of content left to work with?
Whole book would have made a really good three hour movie.
As it stands, it's being stretched out into a really woeful nine hour one, with scarce relation to the source material.
One of the things that made LOTR great is that it actually stuck fairly faithfully to the source material and benefited from the strong story writing because of it. To have orcs and elves in Lake Town and a love interest Elf in Mirkwood is pretty bloody stupid.
As it stands, it's being stretched out into a really woeful nine hour one, with scarce relation to the source material.
One of the things that made LOTR great is that it actually stuck fairly faithfully to the source material and benefited from the strong story writing because of it. To have orcs and elves in Lake Town and a love interest Elf in Mirkwood is pretty bloody stupid.
sbbefc
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I dont mind some of the background to the LOTR being included, such as the necromancer and brining in radagast (atleast he's an original Tolkien character). I havnt read the silmarillion but I think some of it is tied into the film.
What bothered me most was the constant action scenes and the bloody orcs turning up all the time. Its was like watching power rangers.
Two films would have been ok, that elf woman will definatly make up a big part of the next film again because I cant really see how the film will last 2.5 hours otherwise.
What bothered me most was the constant action scenes and the bloody orcs turning up all the time. Its was like watching power rangers.
Two films would have been ok, that elf woman will definatly make up a big part of the next film again because I cant really see how the film will last 2.5 hours otherwise.
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