For instance, Ian looks the same as he did and so does Orlando Bloom.
Good job!!!
Also, I don't think Martin Freeman could've been casted better.
He just looks like I imagine Bilbo to be. He is an AMAZING actor.
Okay so I also noticed a ton of problems. Like what's up with Gandalf's sparkle scarf???
He just shows up wearing it and it's long and sparkly. He doesn't wear it in the mountains though. Only when he looking for the necromancer with Radagast. It doesn't make sense and I couldn't stop laughing. Also, the cg was kinda bad. I was looking at certain parts and thinking "A lot of video games have better textures than this." Also, there was this one part where they were all fighting Smaug and they used molten gold which ran as rivers through the rooms. It stayed super hot for super long and Throin used a wheelbarrow as a surf board on it. I know suspension of belief and all that but seriously? I can deal with the that hot for that long thing but that wheel barrow should be melted as well as Thorin. I kind of fell asleep for that part so luckily it's kind of blocked from my mind. The part with Biblo and Smaug was REALLY cool though. All of the negotiation and the acting and Benedict Cumberbatch was really awesome. The cg was pretty good, too.
One part that really got me though: The scripting near the end. It was so terrible. The end was just fairly bad. So to start off the whole gold scene they run into the smelting/ furnace/ whatever room and think "oh let's start the furnaces" but then one of the dwarves shouts "We don't have a hot enough fire to light the furnaces" and all the dwarves kind of turn to look at Thorin for advice. Then, Smaug roars right behind them and Thorin goes "or do we?" Multiple problems with this. 1: If you need fire, of course there's a dragon 2. Smaug was just chasing them; how could there forget about that GIGANTIC dragon who stole their homeland from them and was chasing them so quickly and 3. it was obvious and bad writing.
The movie as a whole I'm going to deem fairly good but there were points in the movie that ruined it when you remembered "oh yeah, this is a movie and totally not real." The elves were good and all of the main points were fairly good but I'd say about 2/3rds of the movie was fight scenes. I understand that they're padding the movie, but if you're going to pad it, pad it with something GOOD. They have the whole part w/ Mirkwood where they could have done so much more with that (the wood elf party and everything) but instead, they just had the spiders attack.
So the costuming, sets, acting, and look of it was amazing They need to work more on their cg and their writing. This movie was definitely worse than the first but I'm stil hoping they can bring it back in the third.
I hope they remake this one. It would be so much better if they just redid this one and redid all the writing and everything in it. You don't have to redo the costuming, the acting, the sets or anything, just get a new script. PLEASE. This movie is killing the Hobbit series. I would say "oh we'll just do a remake in a few years" but I would use the same sets costuming and actors. I would only change the writing. I can't stress it enough. It just kind of ruined it for me and continuously bugged me through out the entire movie.
Also, pad it with something we haven't seen before. For instance, they had an elf healing scene again. Just like they did with Arwin and Frodo. I want something new.
Another also, can someone explain to me why some people talk in American accents? The accents were kind of all over the place, even within the same races.
Other than all of that, good film. It was definitely better if you've watched Sherlock and you knew that John/ Bilbo and Sherlock/Smaug were the same characters. That made it more fun for the fanbase.
~R
I don't think they can change it too much. They do have to follow the book, and to deviate too much means to possibly mess up some other stuff. The one thing I know that shouldn't have been there was the scene where the orcs reached Laketown. That definitely didn't happen in the book. Also Legolas wasn't in it, but the scene where they capture the dwarf party is really entertaining if you know The Lord of the Rings, because there, Legolas and Gimli become good friends. But the script didn't seem to be that bad. The scene in the forges was funny. It was probably written for that purpose, comedic relief. And the wheelbarrow, these are dwarves, they probably had some fireproof material that they use in dealing with molten metal. Or it could have been stone for all we know. Sparkly scarf thing? I didn't notice that, but it still sounds entertaining. Well I guess I'll have to see it a third time and watch for the sparkling scarf.
ReplyDeleteThe orcs weren't supposed to be in it whatsoever, and neither was Radagast. He wasn't in any of the books whatsoever.They deviated from the book a TON. The gold wasn't in the book either. The dwarves never went into the mountain. But the movie was supposed to be epic. They tried to pass the gold off as a serious thing!!! It bugged me XD and you seriously didn't notice the sparkle scarf? As soon as he came on wearing it, everyone in my family just kind of turned to look at each other and laughed. I'll point it out to you if we ever watch it together.
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