I saw it on sunday morning as well for exactly the opposite reason as Heero's: in France sunday morning films in English tend to have less children and less cheering
But I think the same as you Heero.
I was telling friends who will go see it that if they liked Jackie Chan's movies they will love it.
As I posted on my Facebook status, I can't wait for the last one to be shown so that poor JRR will again be able to Rest In Peace.
Maybe if we take the 3 films and remove all the stupid fillings we can end up with a 1:30 hour film that is not that bad.
Spoiler:
Let's see :
- Unexpected party ;
- Trolls ;
- Rivendell ;
- Beorn ;
- Spiders ;
- Thranduill ;
- A bit of images from Lake Town and Erebor ;
- Let's hope the battle of the five armies will have less elf surfing battles and we can keep a bit of that.
The end.
Rumple C wrote:We all love Jackie Chan, but let's face it... He hasn't made a good Jackie Chan movie in a looking time.
He's old. Give the man a break.
He ain't gonna make any more good Jackie Chan movies no moar.
Maybe in the afterlife.
Speaking of Jackie, the one guy who's done some fun martial arts movies in recent years has been Tony Jaa.
So if you like Jackie you can check him out. Ong-bak is fun, as well as Tom-Yum-Goong (The Protector). Amazing dude. Fun movies.
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The Jackie Chan analogy is brilliant - this was elf and dwarf Jackie Chan's done with CGI (rather than Jackie Chan's physical AWESOMENESS) and, now having re-read Heero's review, yeah, he's right, Legolas and Freckles rack up hundreds of kills - at one point Legolas tells Freckles "Tauriel, you cannot hunt a pack of 30 orcs by yourself") - well . why the f'k not? She kills three or four every second and they never lay a finger on her. I am all about bad-a$$ girls in movies and books, but the Anime-level absurd fight scenes in this movie ruined it for me ... almost as bad as the giant gold statue of a dwarf ruined it - WTF?!?!? And Thorin surfing a river of molten gold in a wheelbarrow?!? WTF?!?
The more I think about the movie, the angrier I get. I need to log in and kill someone. Would someone who is not over-fond of their PC please log into TSM so I can kill you? I promise, I will do it elf-style by standing on the heads of a pair of dwarves barrel-surfing down a river while I twirl about firing arrows ...
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I was willing to forgive the dwinja action in the first film's troll fight scene, because as we all know dwarves get +4 AC vs. giants. However the rest of the fight scenes were pure shit. I won't be watching the second film.
Ronan wrote:I was willing to forgive the dwinja action in the first film's troll fight scene, because as we all know dwarves get +4 AC vs. giants. However the rest of the fight scenes were pure shit. I won't be watching the second film.
Elfy beating up Huge Orc dude in a fist fight.
Not even by being super agile and bouncing around, just by tossing huge orc dude around like a doll.
Lame.
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You guys are really making me feel so excited to go see it with my brother next weekend. I suppose at the very least I'll get to enjoy James Newton-Howard (composer for you philistines) and spend quality time with my brother. UK IMAX is also superior to my local US one so maybe that too!
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loulabelle wrote:You guys are really making me feel so excited to go see it with my brother next weekend. I suppose at the very least I'll get to enjoy James Newton-Howard (composer for you philistines) and spend quality time with my brother. UK IMAX is also superior to my local US one so maybe that too!
Don't listen to the nay-sayers. The movie is great and I was thouroughly entertained when I saw it. Sure it takes artistic freedom but that's perfectly well and fine by me.
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