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The hobbit 2: Electric boogaloo

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I saw it at midnight, really liked it. There were a few things I didn't like, mostly that its the middle entry of a trilogy, so naturally there is no beginning or end. Leaves you feeling a bit bummed in the middle. I guess my two biggest complaints are the female elf character, Tauriel, who is an expansion of the captain of the guard character from the book, and Laketown which is expanded far too much. Like, it all boils down to padding, the reason why all the additions in the first one are okay and not okay here are they all came from existing Tolkien sources in the first one. The captain of the guard character has been made up completely out of the air and is in a hamfisted romance plot with Kili the dwarf. Her character reminds me of the post lotr trend of fan fiction in that universe featuring Uber competent female elves who all the main characters are vying for romantically. She's not as bad as those characters but she basically holds the same place in the plot. I may be a bit bias because he I really hate her actress but her sub plot is entirely unnecessary and drags on the film. Laketown has been expanded from the place the Dwarves pass through on the way to the mountain to a bustling fish town, which normally would be fine, but during the climax of the movie where tons of crazy shit is going on elsewhere we keep cutting back to laketown being there and back. Its very bad for the pacing.

 

But leaving that behind, Smaug as amazing, the spiders are awesome, and the Necromancer is crazy cool. It gets all of the important events down perfect. There is a scene with barrels that is one of the best action pieces I've seen bar none. Definitely worth your time.

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Yeah I just sighed when Kili inevitably turned the one female character in the whole movie into a romantic subplot. Like, the opening dialogue is sexual innuendo, and you expect us to get invested in this?

 

"You didn't search my trousers," said Kili, "That's where my cock is."

"Ha ha how witty I am so above it and your boyish filth!!!" said the elf girl blushing secretly when she walked away. Silly boys...

 

And from the perspective of someone who hasn't read the book (though I have, but near 10 years ago, so I can't remember it at all), the Laketown plot didn't really mess with the pacing so much, to be fair. I didn't feel like it was wasting time by cutting back to Laketown over and over like that.

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Yeah, I saw the movie with a friend and he didn't mind laketown so much. I didn't hate it, but I thought it could definately stand to be cut down a bit? None of it was really taken from any of the appendices or other books so it was very meh for me

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I just saw it. There was no reason for Bard to be arrested other than to delay him preparing the arrow. I was like "what? Why?" when they arrested him and the guards were actually like "for whatever reason the master wants". Lol

The barrel and river scene was probably the best action scene from any movie I can think of.

Bilbo really didn't say much in the movie, lol.

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wait its out

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Yup. Also Dennys does hobbit food. Good stuff

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Kasie really wanted to see it with me so I was forced to watch the first one at home. It was super boring and I almost fell asleep several times. I currently have no desire to see part 2.

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If you didn't dig it I'd say its just not your thing. Its definately not everyone's.

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Yeah, every time Tauriel showed up I just kept thinking of fanfiction and how fanfiction-y she felt. I mean, I read these things more than I'd like to admit but it just doesn't belong in a movie. I did like the whole talk about the families the dwarves left behind. Gives more feeling.

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Also the Gimli reference

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Everyone in the theater I went to loved the river+barrels scene and thought the part with the Gimli reference was hilarious and cool, hilarious being his wife and cool being the reference.

 

 

Smaug's part was probably my favorite and not just because the CG for him was amazing. I liked how all of the things you wouldn't normally hear talk, like, spiders and dragons, actually have voices in this. It really gives them more personality than just them being evil. Smaug's dialogue made it even more sweet. But that whole part was hurting my insides because, even though I can normally suspend my disbelief for most things, but nine dwarves and one hobbit avoiding this massive dragon that can breathe fire in large quantities just made no sense. The worst offender of this is the scene where Thorin aggravates Smaug to breathe fire to get the bellows working and then they hide behind these incredibly thin strips of a metal gate as the fire safely passes them by with no harm done to any of them.

 

My favorite part though, had to be when Smaug is doused in molten gold. Not the fact that they tried to kill him with it, just how he looked covered in gold and them flying up into the air and flapping it all off. It reminds me of the scene from Wind Waker for the second part of the Helmaroc King fight where it flies up from the water while spinning and them spreads its wings. Both scenes looked amazing to me.

 

Good movie overall. I liked it better than the first.

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How much fun did they have rendering liquid gold and then a gold-covered dragon?

Also, i kind of was thinking that all of the gold coins that Bilbo was running on would heat up a lot when Smaug blew fire on them

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I actually thought maybe the dragon would've melted down all of those coins into something by the time they got there or something. I guess you can see my point as well, 'cause that's another thing, although I didn't think of it.

 

Do you mean how hard it must've been or just how cool it looked. Smaug covered in molten gold was one of the coolest things I've seen in awhile, really liked it.

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I mean how much fun it would be to have that job

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Yeah I love how after the gold thing he's just like, "OKAY puppy IT EVERYONE DIES"

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