The first Hobbit movie

[steuard]

I saw The Hobbit a few days ago, and I enjoyed it. I started to write up some brief comments on the movie to post here, but they got a bit out of hand, so I've posted them on my Tolkien website instead. For those who are interested, have a look at my full review; comments are welcome!

Comments

[steuard.livejournal.com]

In fact, it's been made quite explicit that the whole "White Council drives the Necromancer out of Dol Guldur" storyline will be shown live on screen. (Making time to show "the Battle of Dol Guldur" was even one explicit reason that Jackson gave for making three movies instead of two.) I'm actually okay with the idea of embedding the Dwarves' quest story in its larger context for these movies (à la "The Quest of Erebor"). But using it as an excuse to focus on a bunch of additional big battle scenes bugs me.

And yeah, I guess it's reasonable to treat that scene with Thranduil as symbolic. But somehow that's harder for me to accept on screen, when you actually see it happen.

[feuervogel]

Peter Jackson sure does love him some Epic Battle Scenes and Comic Mischief. Bleh.