Great comments, I pretty much agree with all of it, except that I personally found the Legolas-as-Spiderman bits so silly that I actually really enjoyed them. Sort of comic relief. Not sure they were intended like that, but it worked like that for me.
For me the worst part of the ridiculously stupid battle tactics was jumping in front of one's own shield wall.
Also, I couldn't really tell Bolg apart from the other orcs, so I didn't understand why he was giving Kili and Tauriel so much trouble. I had no idea he was Azog's son or that he was the one leading the orcs from Gundabad until reading about it just now.
I love love love love loved the Galadriel scene.
Hm. Maybe I'll disagree about your key point. To me, this actually felt like a faithful expansion of the book. That is, it felt like the Hobbit, as I dimly remember it, with a few awesome parts added (like the Galadriel scene, and Legolas). While Bilbo is the title character, he's also something of a bystander for many of the events of the book.
Meanwhile, how much of The Hobbit is not any of the three Jackson films? Could someone take the three movies and re-cut them into one just-the-book movie?
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Date: 2014-12-30 05:36 pm (UTC)For me the worst part of the ridiculously stupid battle tactics was jumping in front of one's own shield wall.
Also, I couldn't really tell Bolg apart from the other orcs, so I didn't understand why he was giving Kili and Tauriel so much trouble. I had no idea he was Azog's son or that he was the one leading the orcs from Gundabad until reading about it just now.
I love love love love loved the Galadriel scene.
Hm. Maybe I'll disagree about your key point. To me, this actually felt like a faithful expansion of the book. That is, it felt like the Hobbit, as I dimly remember it, with a few awesome parts added (like the Galadriel scene, and Legolas). While Bilbo is the title character, he's also something of a bystander for many of the events of the book.
Meanwhile, how much of The Hobbit is not any of the three Jackson films? Could someone take the three movies and re-cut them into one just-the-book movie?