Last installment of the Hobbit

[mainaman]

So I know this one has been out since December, but I finally saw it this weekend before the shut it down in all the local theaters. I guess it says something about my expectations that I didn't see it until the last minute anyway. Can I just say that my expectations were met in spades? I thought the first Hobbit movie was mediocre at best, the second was awful and this last one was pretty gosh awful as well.

Things I hated the most:

2) The love interest with the girl elf and Fili or was it Kili? Again, a complete movie fabrication, very contrived and again completely predictable. Yes, I know you have to do something to keep the ladies from leaving the theater but did this really do it?

the she-elf is not a character in the Hobbit, so I guess this one was a story line to keep the story "interesting" ?.

6) The scene where Leogolas (what was he doing in this movie anyway, another something for the ladies I guess) runs up the falling rocks to safety.

Legolas is Thranduil's son so it makes sense to be there.

I have to say this one was the least entertaining of the Hobbit trilogy

 

[sideways]

See you can't just adding stuff to a classic. That's just wrong.

 

[Bob W]

To avoid spoilers I didn't read any of your posts. I do want to watch all three movies, but no way in hell did I want to see them a year or two apart. Watching Lord of the Rings like that sucked; I never remembered what was in the previous movie(s).

So I'm going to get the Hobbit movies on Netflix and watch them all in a single week or two.

 

[Triton]

To avoid spoilers I didn't read any of your posts. I do want to watch all three movies, but no way in hell did I want to see them a year or two apart. Watching Lord of the Rings like that sucked; I never remembered what was in the previous movie(s).

So I'm going to get the Hobbit movies on Netflix and watch them all in a single week or two.

That's a good plan, it's easier to rip the bandaid off than to have to do it once a year for three years.

 

[Triton]

I kept wishing Samwise would just push Frodo into the fire, ring and all. Couldn't stand either of them, frankly, but thought Andy Serkis as Gollum was fabulous.

I'm with you there, that would have been a nice plot twist that I could have gotten behind. Honestly, did they have to get the most girly looking Frodo they could come up with and then make him a massive wimp on top of that? It was annoying enough when he was sniveling on Weathertop, but then to basically reprise the scene again in Moria with the trolls stabbing him was just over the top.

 

[Triton]

All I got to see was Beorn jumping off of an eagle and hitting the ground running as a bear into a pack of orcs, and that was it.

Yes, and that was deflicted also, nearly as much as the war pig, the war rams, the war elk and the "were worms" Apparently the just had transportation problems in this movie!

 

[Triton]

Why wasn't this is whine and cheese?

Fair point.

You can't just make a movie that is exactly like the book without it being complete crap.

No, apparently you can make a movie that is completely different then the book and make it complete crap that way.

The Thorin vs Azog storyline was actually pretty necessary so that in the end it wouldn't be "a random orc killed thorin and he died, the end." It worked in the book, but in a movie it would have been ridiculous.

Well they certainly set the template for that in the Lord of the Rings movie by inventing some ultrameanie orc to kill off Boromir, but I disagree with the premise that you MUST have a larger than life anti-hero to fight your hero.