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Ray Oursler
The Hobbit desolation of Smaug …. (Review score 6 out of 10
by Ray Oursler on Dec 14, 2013 07:54 PM  | Hide replies

First let me say I am a huge Tolkien fan and have read every book half a dozen times as a child. Ok that being said I know not everything can’t be translated from book to film and they love to Hollywood these things up with love stories and younger takes on main charters.
On to the new movie then, PJ once again brings us such breath taking shots of middle earth it is truly stunning and makes you believe you are in middle earth truly he has a gift for capturing this aspect of the world. That being said I would like to list the pros and cons of the film from my perspective as fan of both the movies and books.
Pros…
1)Breaths taking stunning shots that make you feel you’re in middle earth.
2)The side addition to the story,Gandalf’s adventure is true to Tolkien form and fits nicely and is enjoy able Mirkwood, Lake Town, the hall of the elven king and the lonely mountain are all well done.
3)The spiders were really creepy and it was cool he could understand them with ring on
4)PJ made legolas father the elf king kind of a jerk and a little greedy for dwarf jewels ( which he was in the book)
5)The addition of Radagast , legolas is not bad and adds to the film and fits nicely to the main story
6)The Dragon looked awesome and pretty evil
Cons…
1)The first part of the story seems rushed and moves way too quickly. First they are with Beorn then in the woods next thing you know the spiders are there then the elves jump out and save them from the

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Ray Oursler
Re: The Hobbit desolation of Smaug …. (Review score 6 out o
by Ray Oursler on Dec 14, 2013 07:56 PM
2nd part of review got cut off =:)

Cons…
1)The first part of the story seems rushed and moves way too quickly. First they are with Beorn then in the woods next thing you know the spiders are there then the elves jump out and save them from the spiders. This in turn takes away from Bilbo saving them and diminishing his role so the dwarfs start to really listen to him.
2)Bard look too much like Will Turner (Orlando Bloom) from pirates of the Caribbean. He was not the grim man I thought he should have been cast as nor in this movie he the captain of the guard of Lake Town. He is just some boat man who for some reason the Master of Lake Town hated and conspired against.
3)The love triangle with the elf girl and the dwarf and legolas really did not need to be there other than to give some girl air time. The could have just left that out and had legolas have a sister that was kind of rebellious that wanted to help the dwarfs and fight the growing evil in the woods and achieved the same goal.
4)In this version Bilbo takes his ring off and talks to Smaug, why? PJ changed this and I have no idea for his reason, you could have kept it similar to the book and have Bilbo confuse the dragon with his invisible riddling. By taking that away Bilbo is once again diminished and seems less somehow.
5)Instead of cowering and making Bilbo do all the work the dwarves in this come down to help him and end up in a Scooby doo type chase with the dragon complete with a trap in the end.

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Ray Oursler
Re: Re: The Hobbit desolation of Smaug …. (Review score 6 o
by Ray Oursler on Dec 14, 2013 07:57 PM
End of my review

6)In the end Smaug just leaves all the dwarves and Bilbo alone in his home with all the gold and flies off to Lake Town why? If I was a dragon and had a mountain of gold I would not leave a bunch of greedy little dwarfs in my home standing right in front of me then just decide to just take off for a quick fly to burn some town. I would trap / try to kill them like in the book then go burn the town.

All in all a ok film it could have been better and PJ could have made it worse I gave it a 6 because despite all of its flaws I love middle earth and even a poor adaption of it brings me back to my childhood days.


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Ray Oursler
Re: Re: The Hobbit desolation of Smaug …. (Review score 6 o
by Ray Oursler on Dec 14, 2013 07:58 PM
End of my review

6)In the end Smaug just leaves all the dwarves and Bilbo alone in his home with all the gold and flies off to Lake Town why? If I was a dragon and had a mountain of gold I would not leave a bunch of greedy little dwarfs in my home standing right in front of me then just decide to just take off for a quick fly to burn some town. I would trap / try to kill them like in the book then go burn the town.

All in all a ok film it could have been better and PJ could have made it worse I gave it a 6 because despite all of its flaws I love middle earth and even a poor adaption of it brings me back to my childhood days.


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Ray Oursler
Re: Re: The Hobbit desolation of Smaug …. (Review score 6 o
by Ray Oursler on Dec 14, 2013 07:59 PM
End of my review

6)In the end Smaug just leaves all the dwarves and Bilbo alone in his home with all the gold and flies off to Lake Town why? If I was a dragon and had a mountain of gold I would not leave a bunch of greedy little dwarfs in my home standing right in front of me then just decide to just take off for a quick fly to burn some town. I would trap / try to kill them like in the book then go burn the town.

All in all a ok film it could have been better and PJ could have made it worse I gave it a 6 because despite all of its flaws I love middle earth and even a poor adaption of it brings me back to my childhood days.


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Ray Oursler
Re: Re: The Hobbit desolation of Smaug …. (Review score 6 o
by Ray Oursler on Dec 14, 2013 08:01 PM
End of my review

6)In the end Smaug just leaves all the dwarves and Bilbo alone in his home with all the gold and flies off to Lake Town why? If I was a dragon and had a mountain of gold I would not leave a bunch of greedy little dwarfs in my home standing right in front of me then just decide to just take off for a quick fly to burn some town. I would trap / try to kill them like in the book then go burn the town.

All in all a ok film it could have been better and PJ could have made it worse I gave it a 6 because despite all of its flaws I love middle earth and even a poor adaption of it brings me back to my childhood days.


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Ray Oursler
The Hobbit desolation of Smaug …. (Review score 6 out of 10
by Ray Oursler on Dec 14, 2013 07:53 PM

First let me say I am a huge Tolkien fan and have read every book half a dozen times as a child. Ok that being said I know not everything can’t be translated from book to film and they love to Hollywood these things up with love stories and younger takes on main charters.
On to the new movie then, PJ once again brings us such breath taking shots of middle earth it is truly stunning and makes you believe you are in middle earth truly he has a gift for capturing this aspect of the world. That being said I would like to list the pros and cons of the film from my perspective as fan of both the movies and books.
Pros…
1)Breaths taking stunning shots that make you feel you’re in middle earth.
2)The side addition to the story,Gandalf’s adventure is true to Tolkien form and fits nicely and is enjoy able Mirkwood, Lake Town, the hall of the elven king and the lonely mountain are all well done.
3)The spiders were really creepy and it was cool he could understand them with ring on
4)PJ made legolas father the elf king kind of a jerk and a little greedy for dwarf jewels ( which he was in the book)
5)The addition of Radagast , legolas is not bad and adds to the film and fits nicely to the main story
6)The Dragon looked awesome and pretty evil
Cons…
1)The first part of the story seems rushed and moves way too quickly. First they are with Beorn then in the woods next thing you know the spiders are there then the elves jump out and save them from the

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tejas patadia
English please
by tejas patadia on Dec 13, 2013 06:40 PM

The whole narrative in the review is complicated without giving much importance to the performances as well as to providing an understanding of how the movie is. The reviewer should have explained it better in a simplistic language for the movie buffs to understand it better

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Abhishek Kumar
Awesome movie
by Abhishek Kumar on Dec 13, 2013 11:57 AM

This movie/series is simply awesome....5 star *****

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