The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

[tari_roo]

Ho hum *dances nervously from foot to foot* I don't know if I liked it.

*ponders deeply* On one hand, awesome special effects, excellent acting, wonderful scenery and battle scenes. The spiders were creepy. The elves were haughty. Thorin was all tainted and difficult. I liked it

But on the other hand *stares at the other hand* maybe its combination of second movie blues in that it has a cliffie and won't resolve anything until next movie. I generally don't mind extra bits and changes and add ons and... sigh. If that is so, why do I feel so... urgh about it all - as in all the new stuff. The actual bits in the book i.e. the spiders and the forest are over SO quickly and we spend AGES on all the new, fandangled stuff. Is this bad? Why am I so torn?? Instead of regurgitating the book we are getting new things, new angles, new stories. Why then am I iffy about it all? I like Tauriel. Bring on more she-elves in my opinion. Hurt!Kili? Bring it, love it! Stephen Fry cameo? thumbs up! So why? Why do I feel so... torn about genuinely liking it all?

I hate to say it, but I haven't felt so ambivalent about parts of a movie since Dark Knight Rises (and in the end I came down on the 'no, don't like.) *dances nervously*

ARGHHHHH *shakes fists at the dragon free sky~*

Comments

[tari-roo.livejournal.com]

I think we all understand the Kili attraction *lol* I think you hit the nail on the head - very little advancement of the story. I know they need to save enough for a big climatic movie, but honestly, not too sure there is much more (if they keep it all)

Oh well, Thorin and Kili are still hot, Bilbo and Gandalf are awesome and I love it all, wrapped together (even if some of the individual parts are less loved)