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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Argyle King" data-source="post: 6233132" data-attributes="member: 58416">To some extent, I was disappointed by The Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug.  I  still enjoyed the movie.  I thought it was really good up until they  introduced Legolas; at that point, I feel it started to go sharply down  hill.  (Though the barrel scene shortly after the elves come into the  story was pretty cool.)I don't want to go into detail for fear of spoiling the movie for  someone else, but I can say that I felt Legolas kinda stole the movie,  but not in a good way.  I think it took something away from the movie  and the story of the dwarves to have him there.  Also, there are some  changes to the interactions between Bilbo and Smaug which I feel weren't  as good as they could have been.I also feel that some of the choices for how Jackson chose to tie Hobbit  more closely to Lord of The Rings were (imo) somewhat poorly executed.   Which is odd when I think about it because there is a scene with  Gandalf which is actually pretty cool, but it doesn't really fit with  the rest of the story.  I'm not someone who feels you need to stick fast  to the book.  I understand that some things work better in a different  medium.  I also understand that Peter Jackson wanted to make some  changes to tie The Hobbit to Lord of The Rings more (and I support the  idea and theory behind doing so,) I just don't believe his choices for  what he changed and how he changed them worked very well.  I loved the  first part of story which I saw last year, but, while I liked Desolation  of Smaug, I left it not feeling nearly as excited about the upcoming  third movie as I thought I would be.A lot of people have said they felt Smaug "stole the movie."  I disagree; I actually think the presentation of Smaug was a let down.  As I've alluded to already, I didn't like the changes made to the interactions between Bilbo and Smaug; I feel it made Smaug far less cerebral than he was in the book.  There were also some things which really didn't make sense.  For example, how did Smaug smell Bilbo and know where he was -despite not knowing what Hobbits smell like, yet not notice the Dwarves at all -whom we know he knows the smell of because that's the whole reason for Bilbo being there- even when they were literally right under him?  To me, the movie downgraded Smaug from a major villain and major part into something second rate which will only serve to be a speed bump on the way to the Battle of Five Armies.  To me, the second half of the movie was really weak.</blockquote>

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