Hobbit

[mizarchivist]

OK, so I went to see The Hobbit. I'm glad I did. I got to go in honor of ahf's birthday following Chinese food. Anyone else want to talk about it? I'll start (in comments)...

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[mizarchivist]

I'm pretty sure the original story was plenty dramatic enough not to add new ways to get from point A to point B. They could have cut a whole hour and still had a long movie that stopped where it did.
Mind you, the addition of the little council at Rivendale meant the 5 minutes with Galadriel. Nice to see her again. Even if she's not IN the book. S'ok.

Um, Radagast. I think you can probably get crazy hippie vibe without bird poo as accessory.

[cos]

What did you think of the whole "pale orc" plot they added?

[weegoddess.livejournal.com]

I love love loved the goblin king. He was a dee-light.

And well, yeah, beardelicious dwarves. Eye candy and squirm-worthy.

The Bataan Death March was shorter and less torturous...

[kebbykate.livejournal.com]

As I posted on FB after we went to see the movie. I'm just not a fantasy fan and have never read any of the books, but I really enjoyed the LOTR movies. The Hobbit's pace was just way too loooooong and the story arc was unsatisfying. Visually gorgeous, though.

It was definitely bird poo, plus maybe some lichen or moss. Just too gross for words. I've seen references to it in several professional reviews. Isn't it amazing how in a world with all sorts of stuff depicted in movies and TV that it's bird poo that grosses everybody out?

I kept turning to my sister to say, "and thirteen concussions later". They FELL way too much. I think the various fight and chase scenes were too long and drawn out.

Among my acquaintance the way the opinion is breaking is that the real Tolkein fans are actually pretty happy with The Hobbit while the more casual fans are just overwhelmed and exhausted. I think it might be comparable to how I'm perfectly happy to watch one of the long BBC productions of "Pride and Prejudice" straight through but other people are not.

[weegoddess.livejournal.com]

Boy am I glad that I tabbed this to come back to. I haven't laughed that hard in days.

::adoration for fun posts that get funner::