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Old 12-19-2013, 10:04 AM   #13674 (permalink)
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The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

keeping with what seems to be a tradition...i took my nephews to see this yesterday and......

ok...let me first say that i read the book a year ago before the first flick came out and this film is waaaaaaaay off from the book...more so than the first one was

that being said

this is actually a good thing....although the film dragged a few times and honestly felt like it was 4 hours and 40 versus 2 hours for me there is only one reason to see this movie

Spoiler for if you live under a ****ing rock:
THERE IS A FUCKING TALKING DRAGON IN IT!!!!!!


and he is in it for a solid 40+ minutes and he is incredible!
Yeah, the dragon was amazing. And I actually liked the filler much better than the first movie.

Spoiler for blah:
The stuff they added to the first movie might have actually happened in the "real" LOTR timeline, but all the council and Dol Guldur stuff just cut the movie in half and ruined any of the momentum built up in the first half. When they finally came back to Bilbo and the dwarves as they were leaving Rivendell I was kinda like, "Oh yeah, these guys are here too. What's happening with these guys? Wasn't there a dragon or something involved?"

The added on stuff from the new movie, whatever you want to say about it, was at least integrated into the movie in a much less awkward way. And I'm sure I'm taking my reputation into my hands by saying this, but I'm a shameless, cheesy **** and I thought the tacked on romance with the elf and the dwarf was kind of charming. It helped that she was dumb fine.
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