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<blockquote data-quote="Olgar Shiverstone" data-source="post: 6232789" data-attributes="member: 5868"><p>Shicked, shocked I am, that EN Worlders are not yet discussing the new Hobbit movie, <em>The Desolation of Smaug</em>.</p><p></p><p>We saw it earlier today, and as usual it was visually appealing and exciting. The New Zealand countryside as usual is beautiful and Smaug absolutely steals the movie.</p><p></p><p>However, as a Tolkien geek, I am quite disappointed with the excessive embellishment of the film. I don't mind the insertions from other sources -- I can see the need to link this more firmly to <em>Lord of the Rings</em>. I could even forgive a brief appearance of [spoiler]Legolas[/spoiler], under the circumstances. The changes to LotR were relatively minor in the scheme of things, in comparison. This film got some significant plot, character, and sequencing adjustments, though, that felt excessively padded. About forty minutes of movie are three added action sequences, two of which feature a character Jackson made up out of whole cloth, and seem like they're in the film because the director said "Gee, it's been ten minutes without a fight ...". Even my wife -- not a Tolkien geek -- turned to me at one point and said [spoiler]"OK, this silly barrel chase fight has gone on long enough."[/spoiler] And I kept wondering [spoiler]during the forge fight sequence, "What, is Smaug going to just let the dwarves take the treasure and leave to go to Lake Town? Which of course he then does."[/spoiler]. That bit of motivation made no sense to me.</p><p></p><p>So color me somewhat disappointed. I'd like to see a "Tolkien edit" when this is all done, deleting most of the additions to streamline the films (much like the "Phantom Edit" that deleted Jar-Jar Binks).</p><p></p><p>Overall, B-. Fun, visually stunning, but with a bit of unnecessary added padding.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Olgar Shiverstone, post: 6232789, member: 5868"] Shicked, shocked I am, that EN Worlders are not yet discussing the new Hobbit movie, [i]The Desolation of Smaug[/i]. We saw it earlier today, and as usual it was visually appealing and exciting. The New Zealand countryside as usual is beautiful and Smaug absolutely steals the movie. However, as a Tolkien geek, I am quite disappointed with the excessive embellishment of the film. I don't mind the insertions from other sources -- I can see the need to link this more firmly to [i]Lord of the Rings[/i]. I could even forgive a brief appearance of [spoiler]Legolas[/spoiler], under the circumstances. The changes to LotR were relatively minor in the scheme of things, in comparison. This film got some significant plot, character, and sequencing adjustments, though, that felt excessively padded. About forty minutes of movie are three added action sequences, two of which feature a character Jackson made up out of whole cloth, and seem like they're in the film because the director said "Gee, it's been ten minutes without a fight ...". Even my wife -- not a Tolkien geek -- turned to me at one point and said [spoiler]"OK, this silly barrel chase fight has gone on long enough."[/spoiler] And I kept wondering [spoiler]during the forge fight sequence, "What, is Smaug going to just let the dwarves take the treasure and leave to go to Lake Town? Which of course he then does."[/spoiler]. That bit of motivation made no sense to me. So color me somewhat disappointed. I'd like to see a "Tolkien edit" when this is all done, deleting most of the additions to streamline the films (much like the "Phantom Edit" that deleted Jar-Jar Binks). Overall, B-. Fun, visually stunning, but with a bit of unnecessary added padding. [/QUOTE]
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