The two teenage girls I saw the movie with were not especially impressed. They thought Smaug was the best character, and the romance was adorbs, and the rest was Dumb. They barely recognized Legolas. They failed to realize that the woman Kili was talking about in his delirium was indeed Tauriel; they thought he was talking about some other dwarf girl and "Talia"'s heart was broken. Granted they spent most of the movie huddled up next to each other giggling, so maybe they weren't paying very close attention.
'Sleeper'
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Or maybe there will be a single 3-hour Phantom Edit of the whole trilogy.
This is what I want.
Plei, how bad are the spider scenes? Are we talking a FUCK NO CLOSE YOUR EYES DON'T OPEN THEM AT ALL level, or will I be able to white-knuckle through it?
Not Plei, but close your eyes and don't look. Just....no.
Not Plei, but I'm thinking the scene is at FUCK NO level.
That is the impression StuntHusband gave me, but I figured I should get some more opinions.
I normally don't have Jillifont issues and I wish I'd kept my eyes closed.
It's about as bad as it gets, Jilli.
Movie needed MOAR SMAUG.
Because, well, dragons!
Paul, being fonder of the actual source texts than I am (the writing style is not my thing), would have preferred more Beorn.
We both made the o.0 at the barrels.
Unlike me, he didn't watch the stupid animated Hobbit movie a million zillion times (I have The Greatest Adventure stuck in my head now, AGAIN, and I don't care if it's awful and dumb and whatever, I STILL AM FOND), so that limited my ability to have the deep discussion about differences in adaptations. Though it was amusing to outline the climactic differences in the animated movie vs. the book as we speculated about Hobbit 3.
Apparently, I have a deeper fondness for The Hobbit than I do for the rest of the Middle Earth stuff, though, so I've actually liked these movies more.
Jilli,
I'm not an arachnophobe and those scenes nearly put me under the chair. Do not open your eyes even once.
Nothing good will come of it.
Uh oh. I better warn my kids.
So Franny has decided that taking a few friends to see The Hobbit will suffice for the lack of birthday party this year. Isaac is possibly on board as well.