My spoilery review for TH:DOS

[dreamflower02]

First of all, just going to the movie was a lot of fun. Our son took his dad and myself to the local theater, so it was in 2D; we didn't dress up this year, but I did wear my Bilbo's journey shirt and my hobbit feet. Here's a link to a picture of me that our son took

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Not happy

[llinos]

Lesley (Marigold) and I both disliked it for the most part. Like you, we liked pretty much all the parts with Bilbo in, especially his conversations with Smaug, but felt there were too few of these

Re: Not happy

[dreamflower02]

PJ's always had a slight problem with plot holes. (Remember in FOTR how Gandalf rode off to Isengard after telling Frodo and Sam to "meet me in Bree"? He must be pretty bad at geography if he thinks he can get to Bree before them after detouring through Isengard, LOL!)

The funny thing is, I did still enjoy it overall. I think most of the credit for that goes to Martin Freeman and Howard Shore.

I hope that the last movie will return things to the original path. I expect it probably will, but I won't be shocked if it doesn't.

BTW, I recently finished reading a long and promising AU that took a left turn into darkness. So, with such a recent experience of something worse, I guess that made me cut PJ a little slack.

It's good to hear from you! Give Marigold my love!

Re: Not happy

[llinos]

We really liked the first one, because it had more Bilbo and character interaction and especially the Gollum cave scene - but again - the plot holes! Bilbo has forgotten that today is his (not to mention Frodo's) birthday? Replies to invitations are just arriving and apparently Frodo already knows what they say before opening them... etc. etc.

These are such stupid things! After all the care they take with the special effects costumes, casting, design etc. you'd think they could just get the script right!

Re: Not happy

[dreamflower02]

PJ's great strength has never been plot or characterization. His greatness lies in visuals and imagination, and the ability to pull together the best people for the work (like Howard Shore for music; Alan Lee and John Howe for art and settings; or the perfect actors to play key roles).

But his scripts have always had problems, both in any dialogue that did not come straight from the books, and in plotting.

It's why I rarely use events from movie-verse in my fic. Props, visuals,physical appearances, yes. Events, very rare, and only if they don't contradict the book. And I sometimes like to tweak his nose a little by making fun of some of his ideas. ;)

[periantari]

Yeah most likely Tauriel and Kili will run off and live happily ever after in next movie or Tauriel and Kili get slayed trying to defend each other in big on slaught of orcs and then cry about it.
Anything possible in next movie because it's big AU fanfic.