Hobbit II - The Desolation of Smaug
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wiseheartI've just seen the second film. I'm planning to write a longer review over at ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
edhellondawards, so only a few impressions for now.
Spoliers behind the cut, just in case.
1. NOT ENOUGH BILBO
2. Not enough Thorin, either.
3. No character development re: individual Dwarves
4. Too many sodding Orcs - what were they doing in these films anyway?
5. Too much gratutious fighting, just for fighting's sake.
6. Too many stupid Elven stunts.
7. Too much Legolas - the film could have done without him much better. He's still the cardboard caricature he was in the LOTR trilogy.
8. BLOODY FABULOUS DRAGON! I know male CGI geeks are whining all over the internet about the dragon being not convincing enough - well, too bad for them. I loved it!
9. Brand and the stupid arrow catapult. Somebody shoot me with it, please!
10. Against my expectations, I actually liked Thranduil. His crown and his dressing grown with the floral(???) pattern (yes, I know it was meant to be a robe, but it did look like a woman's dressing gown) were stupid, but the actor did a very decent job.
11. Thranduil's caves looked idiotic.
12. The Dwarves successfully destroyed Erebor from within - I won't say anything else about the whole idiotic plot twist concerning it.
13. Gandalf in a bird cage? Since when were he and Sauron indulging in BDSM practices?
14. The tombs of the Ringwrights? WTF, the whole trick with them was the not dying part... sort of.
15. Elf/Dwarf/Elf love triangle. Bleh.
16. KICK-ASS TAURIEL, though. Loved her.
17. BEORN. Sort of liked him, too. His halls were poorly done, though.
18. Laketown. Hated it. I know it's fanfiction, but not my interpretation. I prefer my Lakemen decent, save for the Master.
All in all, I'm perhaps the only one who liked the first film better. That, at least had a fleeting likeness to the book that I've loved for the better part of my life.
edhellondawards, so only a few impressions for now.Spoliers behind the cut, just in case.
1. NOT ENOUGH BILBO
2. Not enough Thorin, either.
3. No character development re: individual Dwarves
4. Too many sodding Orcs - what were they doing in these films anyway?
5. Too much gratutious fighting, just for fighting's sake.
6. Too many stupid Elven stunts.
7. Too much Legolas - the film could have done without him much better. He's still the cardboard caricature he was in the LOTR trilogy.
8. BLOODY FABULOUS DRAGON! I know male CGI geeks are whining all over the internet about the dragon being not convincing enough - well, too bad for them. I loved it!
9. Brand and the stupid arrow catapult. Somebody shoot me with it, please!
10. Against my expectations, I actually liked Thranduil. His crown and his dressing grown with the floral(???) pattern (yes, I know it was meant to be a robe, but it did look like a woman's dressing gown) were stupid, but the actor did a very decent job.
11. Thranduil's caves looked idiotic.
12. The Dwarves successfully destroyed Erebor from within - I won't say anything else about the whole idiotic plot twist concerning it.
13. Gandalf in a bird cage? Since when were he and Sauron indulging in BDSM practices?
14. The tombs of the Ringwrights? WTF, the whole trick with them was the not dying part... sort of.
15. Elf/Dwarf/Elf love triangle. Bleh.
16. KICK-ASS TAURIEL, though. Loved her.
17. BEORN. Sort of liked him, too. His halls were poorly done, though.
18. Laketown. Hated it. I know it's fanfiction, but not my interpretation. I prefer my Lakemen decent, save for the Master.
All in all, I'm perhaps the only one who liked the first film better. That, at least had a fleeting likeness to the book that I've loved for the better part of my life.
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Date: 2013-12-31 10:51 am (UTC)BTW, best wishes for 2014, and especially less work related stress!
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Date: 2013-12-31 11:18 am (UTC)Yes, I'm very angry about the Mirkwood sequence, too. That's perhaps the creepiest part of the whole book, and it went completely under in the general doom and gloom of the whole film.
Happy 2014 to you, too! I got your card - thanks. It made me feel ashamed as I've forgotten to send you one. But I was so focused on those who actually *did* ask for one a few posts before that I forgot the rest of mankind. So sorry. Will do better next time. Give the girls my love.
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