part i and ii had a thread, but apparently noone even watched part iii
hobbit, part iii (the movie)
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I saw them all- thought 3 was a lot tighter than the others (as it should be, since it was like 2 or 3 chapters of the book!) and like the others not as good as LoTR. Just get over thinking it is going to be like the book and accept that it is Peter Jackson Fan Fiction Set In The Time Of The Hobbit, and it is reasonably entertaining.
I'm sure I'll get the extended editions too, and I really hope some other director gets to try again someday, and without the studios forcing it to be so obnoxiously long and bloated.Comment
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Someday I will create NPPTheHobbit by taking all three movies and editing them down to a 2 part, 5-6 hour movie. There is a great movie in there somewhere, but the whole thing was about 2-3 hours too long.NPPAngband current home page: http://nppangband.bitshepherd.net/
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in the hobbit series i enjoyed the first part most, especially some of the calmer moments in it. by part iii i was already resigned to watching a fantasy-action movie loosely based on the hobbit, what spoils it for me, is not length, difference in tone to the book etc., but that even the action is just so mindboggingly stupid.
everyone is now on the level of legolas in lotr films and legolas is superman. bilbo taking out rather sizeable enemies reliably with stonethrows, but despite this apparent danger of ranged attacks (at least bows are now increasingly used at range!) heroes still don't wear helmets. bows are still used for silly action movie standoffs at full draw. thorin sends away half of his small group when attacked by a 100 orcs (in part i thorin was "do you think a night raid by orcs is a joke", he must have had serious level ups in between)... in short all this is about as epic as infinite hitpoints + infinite damage playthrough would be in angband.Comment
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You mean like this?NPPAngband current home page: http://nppangband.bitshepherd.net/
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It's really too bad. Peter Jackson did fans of the books proud in the LOTR movies (apart from a few nits that I had with them, like the enormously long ending, besmirching the character of Faramir, and the idea that Frodo is seen nearly giving the ring to a Nazgul and is then helped along his way by those who saw this). The Hobbit movies, I think, make most fans of the book want to retch.“We're more of the love, blood, and rhetoric school. Well, we can do you blood and love without the rhetoric, and we can do you blood and rhetoric without the love, and we can do you all three concurrent or consecutive. But we can't give you love and rhetoric without the blood. Blood is compulsory. They're all blood, you see.”
― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are DeadComment
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It's really too bad. Peter Jackson did fans of the books proud in the LOTR movies (apart from a few nits that I had with them, like the enormously long ending, besmirching the character of Faramir, and the idea that Frodo is seen nearly giving the ring to a Nazgul and is then helped along his way by those who saw this). The Hobbit movies, I think, make most fans of the book want to retch.
Hobbit wasn't vomit-inducing to me, but I can see how that would be the case. I didn't begin with any expectations and just saw it as an action movie set in Middle Earth, though beholden to some crucial plot points. (I had read The Hobbit beforehand. I just consciously chose to separate the films from the books.)Comment
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It's really too bad. Peter Jackson did fans of the books proud in the LOTR movies (apart from a few nits that I had with them, like the enormously long ending, besmirching the character of Faramir, and the idea that Frodo is seen nearly giving the ring to a Nazgul and is then helped along his way by those who saw this). The Hobbit movies, I think, make most fans of the book want to retch.Comment
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Yes, the Scouring of the Shire was missing. In its place a third, sappy, sentimental ending. I saw its lack as a minor change though. Saruman was already dead in the movie by this point. It's only purpose, to me, would be to show that the hobbits had become competent and powerful in their own right, but even in the books I found it a little unbelievable that they could defeat Saruman even without his staff.“We're more of the love, blood, and rhetoric school. Well, we can do you blood and love without the rhetoric, and we can do you blood and rhetoric without the love, and we can do you all three concurrent or consecutive. But we can't give you love and rhetoric without the blood. Blood is compulsory. They're all blood, you see.”
― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are DeadComment
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