movie wise
awesomeness. i saw it dec. 30, so that was 3 (4?) weeks ago. i find it great we can see the magical but oh-so-real world of Tolkein. Jackson hasnt lost his imagination of Middle-Earth at all. i really liked the elves being involved (although in the back of my head im almost sure they didnt appear in the book) and legolas was nearly as epic as he was in LOTR (come on, who else thought that was cool?
). the elf girl he crushed on....well i found no problem with that . legolas likes a girl. *shrugs* its not such a big deal. his eyes were brighter but they were awesome too
once of my favorite parts was the barrels, and i could see Jackson tried to make it as real as possible; it worked - was sick of the water by the time they came out i was a little disappointing
scene didnt happen; i wanted to see how it would turn out
well i havent been told dont listen to marketing for nothing XD finger crossed it happens in the next movie though.
one of the things i found peculiar in the elf part of the movie was that we see legolas...but where was aragorn? im trying to figure out the exact gap between the Bilbo's adventure and the LOTR so i can understand if aragorn was born at the time or not. but i have my bets he would most likely would have been born and been late teen/early adult at that time. if legolas was going to be in the movie at all (which he wasn't supposed to)they could have at least brought him in; where ever legolas is, he is.
my second (and final) favorite part - which is probably my very favorite, it wont lie - was the dragon. he scared the EVERYTHING out of me. his appearance was terrifyingly captivating, and the more captivated i was, the more it got harder for me to look away. if nothing else convinces you to look at it, look at it for the dragon - THE BEST PART OF THE MOVIE.
what i found myself rather disappointing with the film was the CGI. the orcs were almost always generated, and it didnt seem fair to the orcs that were real in the LOTR. there were some parts that had to be generated - the bear, the spiders, the dragon of course - but the orcs could have at least been real. it looked like Jackson didnt have enough money or he was just lazy.
what i really didnt like was the elf girl (i keep forgetting her name goshdarnit). not that legolas like her;that was fine, iv'e said that already. but the elfxdwarf....im sorry it just annoyed me. now even though i dont like couples this wouldnt be a problem for me - if her lover wasnt a dwarf. it was a bit unrealistic for me that she liked him - almost immediately - and was willing to disobey over 500 years of loyalty to a guy of a rave elves are all supposed to hate. and at that she just met him (at best) a week ago. then, knowing legolas would follow her (taking advantage of his attraction towards her, is what it looked like to me), she would have someone to support her on her crazy adventure. yes, the dwarf was hurt, but it doesnt make sense. all elves hate dwarves. there really wasnt a good reason for the elf girl to think otherwise. and then she goes and contradicts herself. she hides her attraction/growing love (maybe?) by saying "it is our fight".
when the two save the family and the hobbits logolas is yelling at her (twice!) for her to come on. she doesnt even follow him, and legolas got his can kicked. if he would be angry with her later on i wouldnt blame him.
"You drag me along, disobey your allegiances with our land, tell me 'it's our fight' and then you just leave me like this?! Seriously?
I'Mdoing these things on
YOURbehalf, and you dont even help me with
YOUR plan!"
and shes pretty and all....but she wouldnt exactly fit for elf beauty ._. then they tried to make her even more beautiful by the light and everything but it just didnt ring with me. Lady Galadrial pwns all.
the movie was great, and i guess i'd have to be grateful because you can ignore the elfxdwarf parts; they arent shown in the movie that much. but maybe its me and my couples hatred that's getting in the way and its not a such a big deal :/
also is it just me or did Bilbo barely get any facetime/talking after the barrels and before the dragon?
sooooooooooooo i think i'll just give the boopity a 3 1/2 out of 5.
book wise
it has absolutely nothing to do with the book.
well,
hardly
one of my mother's favorite parts in the books was when Bilbo had to fight a spider in the dark all by himself. he cant see it but in the end he kills it. its a huge piece a character development and yet its not in the movie. bilbo got some character development in the first one, but not so much to me in this one (besides the barrels and Smaug). perhaps if Jackson added it it might have been much better.
she (my mom) also points out the bilbo and his friends
were captured by elves, but they were entirely different ones. wood elves, i think, is what she says they were called. these elves (along with all, but im just talking about these) detest dwarves, and if they had even dreamed of being with them it would be more of a nightmare. Tolkein set it up so there would be absolutely no room for what the movie showed. there wasnt even any holes for them to even be allies UNTIL THAT ONE MOMENT when legolas teams up with gimli. so not only do they include the wrong elves (which isnt such a big deal with me), they make this absolutely impossible chemistry between these to which - in Middle Earth reality -
would never come to exist. and the same for the dwarves, too. this hatred towards each other lasted for hundreds of years in the least, making it cultural; because legolas and gimli have next to no reason to hate each other if not that they were raised on it.
there was a small (or big, depending on how big of a fan you are of Tolkein) point my brother pointed out in the movie: the part with the barrels. it was a huge disrespect for dwarves to be "rolling around" and so he was furious at bilbo, although he possibly just saved all of their lives. not sure this would bring down a star, but just sayin'.
oh and the part when gandalf gets in a fight with the orcs and he sees the Eye and the whole thing when he gets captured?
never happened.
what actually happened was gandalf would meet with the elf queen, saruman, and a few others to discuss a few things (the reason excapes me a the mo). at some point "the sorcerer" (saron) comes, but gandalf and co. shoo him off; that was how he made mordor and inc.
saron wasnt even half the point of the story; in fact at best he cameoed twice in the entire book, and even then once it was a mention and the other was not even 4 pages. we didnt even know his name - his was simply called "the sorcerer". we know nothing of his power (if he even had any at this point) and most definitely nothing of
him. so i wonder how Jackson is going to write gandalf out of this predicament, because this just seems very lost to me.
the hobbit was (is) a book very close to my mom's soul, and so she wasnt exactly not picky. she just didnt understand the little parts in the movie. for example, gimli's reference ("my nephew [or was it son?]!") or saron's appearance in the Eye (although that was freaking awesome and horrifying to me). she was already disappointed with the first one, and now that she has seen this one, im not sure she wants to see the final.
the one thing she gave a massive 5 star thumbs up was the dragon; she could just go on and on about it! and i must agree; as not only scaring the everything out of me, i literally didnt swallow in quite a time for i dont know, and so when i swallowed i choked the hardest i had ever did! luckily it was a very loud moment so i didnt get embarrassed.
i can decide which is the worst part of him; the sheer body mass, the close ups on his monstrous mouth, his terrible eyes, or his dark, booming ominous voice (which was voice acted by Khan of the recent star trek). and the fire! i wasnt sure which was worse - the fire starting in his belly or the actual flamed coming out.
my mom says that her scariest part when bilbo and his friends were beside the colons and smaug just blasted the hellfire through, but i cant wrap my mind around my scariest *shudders*
she also says that the fighting of the dragon never happened but made an exception: people need action in a movie like this. anyway, she says, the dragon looked so good. she thinks Tolkein would have been very approved of smaug.
im certainly glad i saw it im the movies, though. smaug's perfect sound quality was bouncing off the walls in such a special was i know that if i re-watched it on DVD it wouldnt have 1/12 of the effect.
but im thankful. very much, in fact. i was too late for all of the LOTR to see them in the movies - and i was at a point in my life when i couldnt have possibly cared anyway. but now when i look even at the extended editions, i feel a pang of regret; i still want to see them not only in the theatre, but for the first time. i wanted to be in on the LOTR havoc and fan risings and such. i still do. i really do hope they reshow them in the movies; not only would it give out even more money, it would just be so epic for all of those who missed out. for instance a friend of mine had "never liked" the lord of the rings and never watched any movies until for my brother's brithday, when the first hobbit came out, he was invited to see it. now he absolutely loves it, and wants to look at all LOTR related movies. so you can guess he was pretty pissed when he learned i, two of my brothers, and my father went to go see it without an invitation (but it couldnt have been helped, my father had taken us as a surprise so we didnt have a chance to invite him. now to only stop him thinking about Harry Potter like he once did with the lord of the rings.......).
am i fully satisfied of the hobbit? im going to have to tell the truth, no. but im ever so thankful this movie is out (and continuing) and i can be in Middle Earth before it all ends. the LOT had three movies, and so does the hobbit. so im not sure about my mom, but ill make sure ill see the final part of the Middle Earth universe, and i'll be as excited as the LOTR fans when they saw all of their three movies, back in the early 2000s. and its freaking Tolkein, and i'd rather Jackson, who's imagination has already been proven to be incredible, do this movies before anyone else.
so ill be seeing you guys this year of whatever year the next one comes out (of course i wont
), the final production of the Tolkein world will stop, and im sure i'll be proud to say i looked at all of the hobbit movies years later, because i was in on it.
i (finally!) wont miss the next ticket.
I wonder if Tauriel knows what shes letting herself in for? Ofc thats all academic.
, my only main concern was:
i appreciate it greatly. its amazing you guys even read through my extremely typoed post XD
