Thar Posted December 17, 2014 Report Share Posted December 17, 2014 So it came out today. Haven't seen it yet, but I plan to, so I'll be sure to look at this thread only, and ONLY, have I seen it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tentacruel Posted December 31, 2014 Report Share Posted December 31, 2014 FUCKING terrible. Okay, not that bad, but still. Legolas is pretty much Middle Earth Jesus. Forget riding eagles over Mount Doom, just have him shoot an arrow into it with ring taped to it. Blatant CGI masturbation, with literally entire characters being completely CGI. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simping For Hina Posted December 31, 2014 Report Share Posted December 31, 2014 Fucking terrible. Yes, that bad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thar Posted January 3, 2015 Author Report Share Posted January 3, 2015 I'm still seeing it. Not gonna let the tradition die, even if it's terrible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thar Posted January 4, 2015 Author Report Share Posted January 4, 2015 Fucking terrible. Yes, that bad. Jokes on you. I loved it! :D Quite impressive that the entire movie is based off like two pages from the book. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simping For Hina Posted January 4, 2015 Report Share Posted January 4, 2015 Except it wasn't really. Everything in the last movie was based around ideas that weren't in the book. Pretty much everything that happened was only an over view of parts of the book, nothing more. At least Thorin died, which is the only thing that was right in the movie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thar Posted January 4, 2015 Author Report Share Posted January 4, 2015 That was a given, really. There's not a single book-based movie that isn't entirely accurate, if at all. The thing about books compared to movies is that the storytelling is what drives the reader to continue. In movies, it's the visuals and cinematics. Something's gotta give between mediums. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simping For Hina Posted January 4, 2015 Report Share Posted January 4, 2015 But not introduce entirely new concepts and stories that were never mentioned in the book at all. There was no giving, just things put into the movie to make it a trilogy. Most of the crap in the movie didn't happen in the book, or happened differently as a whole that you can't even see the comparative spectrum between two mediums. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aerion Brightflame Posted January 4, 2015 Report Share Posted January 4, 2015 But not introduce entirely new concepts and stories that were never mentioned in the book at all. There was no giving, just things put into the movie to make it a trilogy. Most of the crap in the movie didn't happen in the book, or happened differently as a whole that you can't even see the comparative spectrum between two mediums. Some of it (Namely all the Dol Guldor/Necromancer stuff) chronologically happened at the same time as the book, and is established as events in the greater lore. It's not suprising that that stuff was put in into the films overall, because it made Gandalf a relevent character in the film, whereas in the book he does just bugger off for the most part and then turn back up. It was still a very poor adaptation of the source material, but hey, at least more of it has basis in the setting than it appears. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyng Posted January 18, 2015 Report Share Posted January 18, 2015 Goat.Ex.Machina. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fusion X. Denver Posted January 21, 2015 Report Share Posted January 21, 2015 I thought the movie was fine, pretty decent popcorn flick. I've seen the Hobbit movies as their own thing rather than being a "proper" adaption of the book and I lost any gripes I would've had otherwise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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