30 days of babble, dec 26 - coffee, plus i saw the hobbit yesterday and have an opinion
yesterday i went over to my sister's house so we could order chinese and watch the hobbit #1, and then we hustled our asses out to get a good seat for the hobbit #2. i think i might possibly like #1 better. *ducks* but i liked #2! i really like martin freeman's bilbo and i like all the dwarves and i don't mind the addition of tauriel, except i didn't think they needed the love triangle and in fact i was annoyed it was added in - i mean, it's entirely possible to have a female character in your movie and not have her and a hot guy randomly and instantly fall in love for no reason other than they're both pretty people! it's the biggest cliché going and incredibly lazy writing. and i thought if they were going to go to the trouble to create tauriel in the first place, she could've gotten a little more fighting time! i wanted to see her run across the landscape and stand on dwarves' heads and kill orcs! i'm not invested in legolas! altho him making fun of gimli's picture was cute, in an "oh, just you wait" kind of way.
i liked smaug and the whole interior of erebor was pretty fantastic - actually all the set and production design was really nice. this movie seemed to have more extra stuff than the first one, tho - not necessarily filler, because i think everything that was added filled out the story in a generally positive way - i think peter jackson is trying to tell a much bigger story than exists in the hobbit the book, and in order to do that he has to add a couple extra plots to tie it to lotr. which is not a bad thing. my sister, who's never read any of the books, thinks it's a great idea for fans like herself, who've only seen the movies and aren't book purists. and i don't really disagree. i don't think the movie really dragged, altho in general i'm not a huge fan of splitting the cast so you can follow several different plotlines in several different places at once. it just seemed obvious to me that they were trying very deliberately to set stuff up for lotr. maybe because i know there's extra stuff in the movie, i don't know. it's not a criticism, tho. i mean, it is what it is. i can enjoy it or i can bitch about it, and i opted to enjoy it.
well, except for the love triangle. that just seemed stupid to me.
oh, and the spiders. i totally could've done without the spiders. a whole action scene i had to cover my eyes for! eeeek.
apparently stephen colbert had a cameo! as the laketowner in the eyepatch who was spying on bard. how cool. altho i wish i'd known that before i saw the movie.... i could've squeed at the time, rather than in retrospect.
i'm super curious what happens in hobbit #3, mostly because the end of hobbit #2 seemed to get very close to the end of the book, and even with all the extra bits they'll have added in, it seems like not a lot of action to hang three more hours of movie on. altho i freely admit i read the book a very long time ago and it's entirely possible i don't remember it that well.
appropriately, have a feast to make and eat during a rewatch of the lotr trilogy.
in other news, today's topic for the month of babble is from wendy who wants to know how i take my coffee, and the answer is "with chocolate syrup, milk, and whipped cream". :D or occasionally with condensed milk and a splash of regular milk. i don't actually like the taste of brewed coffee, altho i like coffee or coffee flavor in things - ice cream, baked goods, frosting for the baked goods, chocolate, etc etc - and i love the smell of coffee. but it's too bitter for me brewed. but if you put chocolate in it, i am all over it.
today was really quiet at work, no surprise, altho i had stuff to do and there were actually other people there. just no one who sits near me. and i forgot my earbuds so i couldn't even listen to spotify to entertain myself. *sigh*
i liked smaug and the whole interior of erebor was pretty fantastic - actually all the set and production design was really nice. this movie seemed to have more extra stuff than the first one, tho - not necessarily filler, because i think everything that was added filled out the story in a generally positive way - i think peter jackson is trying to tell a much bigger story than exists in the hobbit the book, and in order to do that he has to add a couple extra plots to tie it to lotr. which is not a bad thing. my sister, who's never read any of the books, thinks it's a great idea for fans like herself, who've only seen the movies and aren't book purists. and i don't really disagree. i don't think the movie really dragged, altho in general i'm not a huge fan of splitting the cast so you can follow several different plotlines in several different places at once. it just seemed obvious to me that they were trying very deliberately to set stuff up for lotr. maybe because i know there's extra stuff in the movie, i don't know. it's not a criticism, tho. i mean, it is what it is. i can enjoy it or i can bitch about it, and i opted to enjoy it.
well, except for the love triangle. that just seemed stupid to me.
oh, and the spiders. i totally could've done without the spiders. a whole action scene i had to cover my eyes for! eeeek.
apparently stephen colbert had a cameo! as the laketowner in the eyepatch who was spying on bard. how cool. altho i wish i'd known that before i saw the movie.... i could've squeed at the time, rather than in retrospect.
i'm super curious what happens in hobbit #3, mostly because the end of hobbit #2 seemed to get very close to the end of the book, and even with all the extra bits they'll have added in, it seems like not a lot of action to hang three more hours of movie on. altho i freely admit i read the book a very long time ago and it's entirely possible i don't remember it that well.
appropriately, have a feast to make and eat during a rewatch of the lotr trilogy.
in other news, today's topic for the month of babble is from wendy who wants to know how i take my coffee, and the answer is "with chocolate syrup, milk, and whipped cream". :D or occasionally with condensed milk and a splash of regular milk. i don't actually like the taste of brewed coffee, altho i like coffee or coffee flavor in things - ice cream, baked goods, frosting for the baked goods, chocolate, etc etc - and i love the smell of coffee. but it's too bitter for me brewed. but if you put chocolate in it, i am all over it.
today was really quiet at work, no surprise, altho i had stuff to do and there were actually other people there. just no one who sits near me. and i forgot my earbuds so i couldn't even listen to spotify to entertain myself. *sigh*