The Hobbit - final installment

[dwimordene_2011]

There's a pattern to my PJ film preferences: 1 = favorite, strong film but I can see where narrative decisions will come back to haunt later, 3 = better than the middle installment by a good margin, 2 = mmm...some good things, but overall not a strong installment.

Things I liked:

Comments

[huinare]

There's a pattern to my PJ film preferences: 1 = favorite, strong film but I can see where narrative decisions will come back to haunt later, 3 = better than the middle installment by a good margin, 2 = mmm...some good things, but overall not a strong installment.

I feel quite similarly about both PJ trilogies. Which is...interesting, being that the original Star Wars trilogy taught me as a kid that the middle film ought to be the best.

I really liked Azog, as a character. A pity he was so terribly (both as an intensifier and as a value judgment) digital, execution-wise.

[dwimordene_2011]

Agreed, on his CGI-ness. Also, as bad-ass as it is to make your forearm a sword, that's a particularly weak axis - the odds of that basically splitting off of your arm and tearing out the joint it's anchored to when you hit something dense at relatively high speed, seem to me to be... unacceptably high.

I wish I could like him better as a villain, but then, too, the dialogue gets to me. Other than generalship, he mostly just says stuff like 'drink their blood', 'kill them all', etc. It's the villain analogue of Captain Obvious Legolas, to me, and so I mostly find it hard to get into him. I appreciated Lurtz because he didn't really say anything - he just strutted around and killed stuff, per orders.

[huinare]

Also, as bad-ass as it is to make your forearm a sword, that's a particularly weak axis - the odds of that basically splitting off of your arm and tearing out the joint it's anchored to when you hit something dense at relatively high speed, seem to me to be... unacceptably high.

Ah shit, it's true. Dammit, Dwim, there you go disrupting my appreciation of superficial appearances of bad-assery with your grasp of reality. I was too busy going "dude must just jam that thing right into his forearm after pulling the hook thing out, dude is badASS!"

Other than generalship, he mostly just says stuff like 'drink their blood', 'kill them all', etc

I attributed it to the conlang crew not having much source material to work with (which, in the case of Legolas, offers no excuse) and managed to pretend in my head that Azog must actually be much more verbose. X)

I appreciated Lurtz because he didn't really say anything - he just strutted around and killed stuff, per orders.

Lurtz's CV:
"Skills: strutting; killing stuff; following orders."

[doranwen]

Hi, this is Doranwen again. I didn't hear from you last time (and I got into other things for a bit), and I don't know when you'll be back online again, but if you happen to see this, would you mind going to my Unabeauverse timeline (the Google doc) and helping place some of the fics and ficlets I couldn't figure out timewise? I've had tabs open for months hoping to hear back from you and some of the others to get the final touches worked out on this.

If you don't have the link to it, either reply here or e-mail me at Yahoo.com. (The part before the @ is just my nick here.) I'm not linking it in this comment because LJ tends to think it's spam for some reason.

Thanks!