Thranduil is awesome, he should've been in this waaayyy more! After his battle scenes he's got a little heart on his cheek, did you see? Because the mud streaks ended up shaped like that, I couldn't unsee. *g*
I loved that Legolas ran out of arrows. Character development - he's learned from that. XD
Eh, I'd didn't like the Galadriel effect so much, I thought it looked much more fake and CGI than it did in LotR. Same with Azog actually, I would've loved him to be a dud in heavy make up like they did with the orcs in LotR. Would#ve felt so much more real, because the setting on the ice was indeed awesome.
I just loved at the Thorin/Dain hug, because that's dwarves for you: huge battle going on around them but dammit we've got times for hugs and small talk. XD
After having it seen twice now I also feel like there was stuff missing - beginning and ending to rushed, characters left hanging (Tauriel, Alfrid), sometimes weird cuts. But my father found the ending too long because he's weird (he didn't have anything against the ten endings of RotK so IDK). To me it really felt like, "So big battle scene over, let's wrap this stuff up, the audience doesn't want to keep sitting there anyway." And yeah they likely really intended it to be "Now go and watch fellowship", but it didn't work so well for a stand alone movie...
The Hobbit movies really can't be as great as LotR but that's also due to LotR being so huge and such a milestone in cinema, it's just not possible to even be as good as that. And we've become more crictical because LotR is so important to us, so we notice flaws much easier (although LotR by far wasn't flawless^^). The Hobbit is still a great epic and it'll be fun to watch all six movie in the right order at home. :)
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Date: 2014-12-20 05:38 pm (UTC)I loved that Legolas ran out of arrows. Character development - he's learned from that. XD
Eh, I'd didn't like the Galadriel effect so much, I thought it looked much more fake and CGI than it did in LotR. Same with Azog actually, I would've loved him to be a dud in heavy make up like they did with the orcs in LotR. Would#ve felt so much more real, because the setting on the ice was indeed awesome.
I just loved at the Thorin/Dain hug, because that's dwarves for you: huge battle going on around them but dammit we've got times for hugs and small talk. XD
After having it seen twice now I also feel like there was stuff missing - beginning and ending to rushed, characters left hanging (Tauriel, Alfrid), sometimes weird cuts. But my father found the ending too long because he's weird (he didn't have anything against the ten endings of RotK so IDK). To me it really felt like, "So big battle scene over, let's wrap this stuff up, the audience doesn't want to keep sitting there anyway." And yeah they likely really intended it to be "Now go and watch fellowship", but it didn't work so well for a stand alone movie...
The Hobbit movies really can't be as great as LotR but that's also due to LotR being so huge and such a milestone in cinema, it's just not possible to even be as good as that. And we've become more crictical because LotR is so important to us, so we notice flaws much easier (although LotR by far wasn't flawless^^). The Hobbit is still a great epic and it'll be fun to watch all six movie in the right order at home. :)