epiminondas writes:
I went to see The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug recently. I wish I hadn’t. It was essentially shot as though it were some juvenile computer game. Poor acting, too. And a multicultural Dale? What were Jackson and his writers thinking? Poor Tolkien would have had a fit had he known about this god-awful perversion of his simple tale. At least TLOTR trilogy had the feel of Tolkien’s novels. This has little in common with the wonderful tale Tolkien left us. I was mildly disappointed with the first film in the series. I positively HATE the second one and have no intention of wasting my money on a third. Take my advice: read the The Hobbit…don’t watch it. Here’s a great review that covers most of my criticisms.
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Whoa boy, it sounds like a mess. I’ve always preferred “The Hobbit” to the LOTR trilogy b/c of it’s smaller, more modest scale. But I guess when it comes to the film geeks who are Jackson’s real audience, it’s all about MORE MORE MORE.
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I lost track of the Hobbit movies and thought the first one at the library was the second one I hadn’t seen yet. Or maybe that I just hadn’t seen the first one. It was just so confoosin. So I got it and started watching it, and it took me a good long time before I realized I had seen it before. After a while they all run into one another.
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