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Desolation of Smaug
blacksinow:
Movies I mean. I liked the fact that it only hinted about the return of Sauron, that it was an adventure for Bilbo and nothing really beyond that.
GarandMarine:
Sure, but when you're bringing fans over who have only ever watched the movie, and you're prepping them for the movies, a bit more exposition is required to make everything make sense. Sure you could throw a wall of text at the end of The Hobbit to explain how all this leads into LOTR exactly beyond Bilbo finding the ring, and the various vague comments from Gandalf about dark powers rising, but that's telling, not showing. When in doubt show, don't tell, and Peter Jackson is showing us the complete story of The Hobbit and answering the question every single person who hadn't read the rest of the lore would be asking if JUST The Hobbit went to film "Where the hell did Gandalf go? Where the hell did all this stuff come from at the finale that isn't adequately explained?" While in the books The Hobbit just being a hell of an adventure for one particular hobbitses works for the books, but for what's going on with the films it's just not going to aim for mission success.
blacksinow:
But... the orcs didn't chase the fourteen to Rivendell though.
LeeC:
saw it last night. I enjoyed it. It was fun. Rather liked how the book did things but this Jackson version is entertaining.
Plus seeing Stephen Colbert in it for a brief second was awesome!
Metope:
Yeah I quite enjoyed it too, although somehow there seemed to be too much going on at the same time as nothing actually happened. Some of it seemed borderline unnecessary, but I assume it's mostly a build-up for the last movie so I'll let it slide until then.
It's been years since I read the book so I don't remember what's in it or not anyway, but I don't think it would have mattered to me since I don't want movie adaptations to follow their original source too closely. Might as well just read the book again instead. Sometimes it's difficult since I have images in my head about how certain things should be, but usually it's more entertaining to see how other people have interpreted it.
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