Hobbit thoughts

[Fidcal]

I don't like the sound of that. Seems like inferior writing and direction. It appears to trivialise the scene and make it unrealistic. Even fantasy should be portrayed in a realistic way, story-wise. The scene is not in the book which only refers to giants throwing rocks about across the valley while Bilbo and the dwarves are up in a mountain passage sheltering (inefficiently) under an overhang from the rain. The giants are a story device to motivate the party to find better shelter from the hurling rocks and lashing rain - which is the reason why they end up

in the goblins' cave.

 

 

[EDIT] Incidentally, I feel less unhappy about a movie extending and adding to a story than I do about changing it, eg, if they replaced the giants with flying ghosts or something. I'd still rather we have one movie true to the book: "The Hobbit: The True Story' and then other movie makers make "The Hobbit: The extended version/ The Musical/ Meets Godzilla' whatever.

[woah]

I watched someone's video recording of it since I wanted to skip out on the holiday bustle, but I absolutely loved it and I'm kind of flabbergasted that the reviews were so bad overall. In particular I loved its silly and whimsical tone, and this is the same reason I liked the first LOTR (was really disappointed they left Tom Bombadil out of The Fellowship of the Ring movie) while the latter two didn't really do much for me--both book and film versions (the "epic battle" stuff really turned me off).

[ungoliant]

the "epic battle" stuff really turned me off

you might want to skip out on the 3rd movie because I can almost guarantee its gonna be about 2 hours of The Battle of Five Armies, and the preceding dragon attack.

[Psychomorph]

the "epic battle" stuff really turned me off.

 

Same for me. The first LOTR film was about an adventurous journey. That Moria part was awesome, Dungeon Master flair. Rivendell was amazing. The other parts are just long and mostly about the battles and kind of boring.