The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
So, I just saw Wikipedia's summary for the second Hobbit movie:
"At the Prancing Pony in Bree, Gandalf the Grey warns Thorin Oakenshield that someone is trying to have him killed. He persuades Thorin to obtain the Arkenstone to unite the dwarves, and suggests that a stealthy burglar may be needed to steal the jewel back from Smaug.
One year later, Thorin and his company are being pursued by Azog and his Orc party down the Carrock following the events of the previous film. After Bilbo informs the group that a bear is also tracking them, Gandalf ushers them along to the nearby home of Beorn. Upon their arrival, they are attacked by the same bear; Gandalf reveals that Beorn is the bear, as he is a skin-changer, and that he may be able to aid them in their journey. That night, Azog is summoned to Dol Guldur by the Necromancer, and instructs his son Bolg to take over the hunt for Thorin. The next day, Beorn loans his horses to the company so they can reach Mirkwood, and hinders the pursuing Orcs. Upon their arrival at the forests border, Gandalf discovers Black Speech graffiti imprinted on an old ruin, coinciding with a telepathic message from Galadriel imploring him to investigate the tombs of the Nazgûl."
... ok. stop right there. Graffiti? Did the Nazgul ride up on their skateboards and tag the ruins with spray paint? And Gandalf gets telepathic messages from Galadriel coinciding with what he's already looking at?
Peter Jackson, do you realize that you made Gandalf look like a schizophrenic wandering around an urban area?
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i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
Lord of the Wheels.
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
ninja'd by spears
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Gagarin Yuri?
Screw you Bard and the elves and screw you Bilbo; dem's Dwarven gold and none of y'alls deserves a speck of it except maybe Bilbo for helping (one fourteenth sounds legitimage; but nooooo, you had to take the Arkenstone which clearly wasn't in the deal, so you forfeited yerself outta alla dat treasure).
(*The Hobbit: starring YOUR MOM as Benedict Cumberbatch playing Smaug*)
The visuals still remind me of LOTRO very much, which might be a good thing - so nostalgic.
Action scenes were numerous and pointless.
Also, apparently it did not occur to dwarves that a fire-breathing dragon might be fire resistant
i did enjoy it, but i'd hardly call it an adaptation of The Hobbit
they kept the basic structure of the story but that's about it
Also, the dwarves are still ridiculously handsome. The elf-dwarf romance might even be considered an example of ugly girl, hot guy - the elf maiden is rather plain, while the dwarf is handsome