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Re: The Hobbit
« Reply #60 on: December 15, 2012, 05:16:43 pm »

Saw it yesterday, did not realize it would be split into three parts.  Major sense of letdown.  They easily could have made it into 1 movie if they had focused on the core story but they needed all the EPIC because LORD OF THE RINGS!!!111!!

My girlfriend and I agree that the most nerd rage inducing part is where:
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Re: The Hobbit
« Reply #61 on: December 15, 2012, 05:18:07 pm »

The way the book ended the trolls confrontation was far better.

Maniac, read the books? Wizards are not (at the least, allowed) to be a trump card.
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Re: The Hobbit
« Reply #62 on: December 15, 2012, 05:20:36 pm »

The way the book ended the trolls confrontation was far better.

Maniac, read the books? Wizards are not (at the least, allowed) to be a trump card.
Oh yeah, I definitely agree there. I was looking forward to Ian Mckellen doing a troll voice. I don't like how powerful the dwarves are in the movie. In the book, they all get snatched up because they're tiny dwarves. In the movie they actually beat the shit out of the trolls, and are only bested because of Bilbo.
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Re: The Hobbit
« Reply #63 on: December 15, 2012, 05:20:58 pm »

I blame Bombur. If he wasn't there, they could probably take on the orcs and win.
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« Reply #64 on: December 15, 2012, 09:10:55 pm »

2) erebore reminded me of dwarf fortress so much

Technically DF was created as a Moria simulator, though I'd guess Smaug may have been an inspiration for megabeasts.

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Re: The Hobbit
« Reply #65 on: December 15, 2012, 09:20:44 pm »

I found a chunk of the movie to be very Pratchett esque. Specifically, everything with Radagast, especially the rabbits.]

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Re: The Hobbit
« Reply #66 on: December 15, 2012, 09:39:35 pm »

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Re: The Hobbit
« Reply #67 on: December 15, 2012, 09:40:46 pm »

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Re: The Hobbit
« Reply #68 on: December 15, 2012, 09:54:44 pm »



Sound like exactly what I was expecting.  A fucking action movie only expanded into three films for the sake of stuffing in more action scenes that have no place in the story and an imbalance of time spent misrepresenting a few characters (EVERYONE IS ACTION HERO), while ignoring the rest of the book's cast and overdramatizing everything.
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Re: The Hobbit
« Reply #69 on: December 15, 2012, 09:57:51 pm »

The addition of Azog is a total fabrication of the movie, which adds nothing and only detracts from the book's ionic scenes (such as the one where Gandalf and company hide in the trees and lob flaming pinecones). In reality, Azog died in the battle of Khazad Dum along with Thrain.
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Re: The Hobbit
« Reply #70 on: December 15, 2012, 09:58:58 pm »

Along with the
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« Reply #71 on: December 15, 2012, 10:00:00 pm »

Along with the
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Are you talking about the drawn out and COMPLETELY RIDICULOUS part when the dwarves massacre their way out of the goblin caves?
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Re: The Hobbit
« Reply #72 on: December 15, 2012, 10:01:26 pm »

Spoilers, dude.

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« Reply #73 on: December 15, 2012, 10:03:34 pm »

If someone's reading the thread, they should expect some spoilers, but fine.

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« Reply #74 on: December 15, 2012, 10:04:33 pm »

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