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Post by Red Impact on Dec 16, 2013 19:11:30 GMT -5
I wasn't really a fan. It was better than the first, the action scenes were really fun, if a bit too long and overdone, and Smaug was amazing. And holy hell, Legolas actually bled inbetween bouts of god-moding. That must have caused a break through in Peter Jackson's group sessions. But it still had all the same problems that I had with the first. Unlike the Lord of the Rings movie, these movies have no arc of their own. I can watch any of the LotR movies on their own and get something out of them, I don't think I can with these. And it's split so we can overly draw out Lake Town and give us an interspecies love triangle? Not even to develop the other dwarves? It's still a big step down from LotR for me. That blood scene bugged me. "Oh crap, we have to show vulnerability... make him get a light nosebleed after effortlessly killing a legion of orcs, and make the orc that gave him the nosebleed flee in terror!" Oh totally, but he actually bled his own blood. Compared to how he was treated in Lord of the Rings, he might as well as had a heart attack on screen.
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Post by Cela on Dec 16, 2013 19:14:26 GMT -5
That blood scene bugged me. "Oh crap, we have to show vulnerability... make him get a light nosebleed after effortlessly killing a legion of orcs, and make the orc that gave him the nosebleed flee in terror!" Oh totally, but he actually bled his own blood. Compared to how he was treated in Lord of the Rings, he might as well as had a heart attack on screen. At least he was an archer in LOTR as opposed to an all around mega-elf, he did melee, but briefly and never as a first resort. LOTR Legolas would never have pulled out a big f*** off sword.
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Post by mcmahonfan85 on Dec 16, 2013 20:00:01 GMT -5
That blood scene bugged me. "Oh crap, we have to show vulnerability... make him get a light nosebleed after effortlessly killing a legion of orcs, and make the orc that gave him the nosebleed flee in terror!" Oh totally, but he actually bled his own blood. Compared to how he was treated in Lord of the Rings, he might as well as had a heart attack on screen.
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Post by Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!! on Dec 16, 2013 21:55:36 GMT -5
Oh totally, but he actually bled his own blood. Compared to how he was treated in Lord of the Rings, he might as well as had a heart attack on screen. that was the first thing that came to my mind.
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Post by Jedi-El of Tomorrow on Dec 17, 2013 15:46:58 GMT -5
Just saw it, and I enjoyed it. I liked it more than An Unexpected Journey, but it's not on the level of any of the Lord of the Rings movies. That's not an insult as I thought all 3 LOTR movies should have won the Oscar for Best Picture.
Smaug was amazing, there's really not much else that can be said about Smaug.
But this is all killing time till the 3rd movie.
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Post by YAKMAN is ICHIBAN on Dec 17, 2013 16:34:04 GMT -5
Oh, and HOLY SHIT DOES GODZILLA LOOK AWESOME.
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