Saw the third Hobbit... (spoilers)

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They could've defeated Sauron's army single handedly apparantely. Hell why didn't Frodo just jump on one of their backs and drop the fricking ring into the fires or mordor? frick it. I hated the third movie, and felt like the whole hobbit series was a leech sucking money out of me. Bought fricking popcorn, cokes, hot chocolate for the kids in each movie. Cost a god damn fortune for that horse shite.

It should have been 2 movies. Easily could have removed an hour and a half of footage from the last 2 and made it one movie. Have the first one end when they escape from the Elves, and the second start at Laketown. That would have been the way to do it.

I am curious how it will hold up after doing a marathon though.

You have to really, really want to like these movies for the amount of suspension of disbelief required to enjoy them.

Even when you apply the "science" of that reality, you have tons of coincidences and stretched logic to deal with.

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Did not understand the last communication between Thranduil/Legolas. Wasn't the Hobbit 50-60 years before FOTR? What the frick does Legolas do for 50-60 years (despite the fact I dont think he was ever involved in the Hobbit book).

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If you go by the books, he was approximately 10 at the time. In the Two Towers he tells Eowyn that he is 87. That would put him closer to 20 or 30 at the time according to the movie. But in the book, if I recall correctly, from the time Frodo acquired the ring until the time he left the Shire 17 years had gone by.

I liked it, but the elf dwarf romance thing was silly

I really can't wait to see some mega-fan edit down the movies to a 4 hour epic, and then it will be great.

And the thing that is frustrating is that any scene Jackson knows he can't afford to frick up (ie: Gollum and Smaug), he completely knocks it out of the park. I'm glad these films exist simply for those masterful scenes. He completely got Smaug and transferred him perfectly to the big screen (which I wasn't sure if he could do), and my favorite scene in the whole franchise may be when Bilbo spares Gollum.

He just does these scenes so well, but just goes so over-the-top in a Lucas sort of way with much of the rest of it. Granted I don't think its fair to compare these movies to the Star Was prequels. There is clear effort being out in by people who love the franchise, while the prequels were just a complete hack job with no emotion whatsoever. The Hobbit films are still good movies, they just aren't on the level of the original trilogy, although they do have scenes as good as any in the original trilogy. You can tell there was care put into this, but don't know why we needed a ridiculous number of CGI orcs and goblins. Azog and the Goblin King I'm fine with, but no other Orc or Goblin should have been CGI.

Yeah, I really enjoyed all of these three movies.

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Smaug dying wasn't even in the book. The story stayed with the Dwarves and Bilbo and they found out later that the dragon was killed by Bard

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Well, I think that's a scene they needed to show in the movies. The movie doesn't entirely come from Bilbo's POV like it does in the book, so it needed to be shown.

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They could've defeated Sauron's army single handedly apparantely. Hell why didn't Frodo just jump on one of their backs and drop the fricking ring into the fires or mordor?

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