2013 Directed by Peter Jackson
The Dwarves, Bilbo and Gandalf have successfully escaped the Misty Mountains, and Bilbo has gained the One Ring. They all continue their journey to get their gold back from the Dragon, Smaug.
Ian McKellen Martin Freeman Richard Armitage Benedict Cumberbatch Orlando Bloom Evangeline Lilly Lee Pace Luke Evans Stephen Fry Ken Stott James Nesbitt Antony Sher Mikael Persbrandt Sylvester McCoy Aidan Turner Dean O'Gorman Graham McTavish Adam Brown Peter Hambleton John Callen Mark Hadlow Jed Brophy William Kircher Stephen Hunter Ryan Gage John Bell Manu Bennett Lawrence Makoare Cate Blanchett Show All…
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Christopher Boyes Brent Burge David Farmer Michael Semanick Dave Whitehead Michael Hedges Justin Webster Chris Ward Hayden Collow Melanie Graham Jason Canovas
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gandalf takes up most of the space on the poster yet all he does is straight up dip from the quest unannounced just before the forest because he doesnt fuck with giant spiders. even in middle earth ian mckellan gives us relatable content
Like with the first film, I am more than willing to step over creative liberties and narrative flaws because Jackson once again allowed me to spend time in Middle Earth. If you didn't care for the first one, don't torture yourself and stay home. You won't like it. If you don't like drawn out fantasy epics, stay home. You won't like it. If you like Tolkien, thought the first film was flawed but ok, you'll probably have a pretty good time as it is a much smoother ride than the first one. If you're an infantile Tolkien fetishist that loves high fantasy adventure like me, you'll love the everloving crap out of it.
This unintended trilogy is not an adaptation…
Somehow the master of Lake Town reminds me of somebody... a so called "leader" who doesn't give a shit about his people and only thinks of himself and his personal benefit, making fun of others to distract from his own incompetence and corruption. But who could that be?
The Good: Two things: the spectacular barrel sequence and Smaug.
The Bad: Desolation of Smaug is a bloated and exhausting 161 minutes. Dialogue is often eye-rollingly cheesy. Acting is a bit shaky—Lee Pace leads the charge here as the Elven King, hamming it up like he's in a LotR parody. The love triangle between Legolas (Orlando Bloom), Tauriel (Evangeline Lilly), and Kili (Aidan Turner) feels tacked on. Legolas and Tauriel are given many moments to showcase their badassery—and it is cool at first—but all the arrow-shooting and sword-fighting quickly become repetitive and tiresome. Worst of all, the sequel continues the trend of its predecessor of being built on deus ex machina. You could…
excellent, all things considered. stakes & scale can’t match LOTR, but nails world-building & sense of adventure that made those films work. given how production works on these things, it seems foolish to suggest that Jackson learned from the raw material of the first film (which, *woof*), but... who knows. genuinely not responding to this on a curve, but it's his first film not to be at least a little embarrassing since 2003.
Bilbo comes into his own as a character, the set pieces bristle with style, each location feels at least vaguely alive, and – most crucially – the fading complexion of Middle Earth is palpable. the thing zips by, offers a ton of valuable connective tissue to the LOTR trilogy…
can’t help but think about what Guillermo Del Toro’s movies could have been.
I will admit I’m dangerously close to becoming hobbitpilled & convincing myself that these are good, actually. However, I’m 99% certain that’s just a stockholm syndrome situation
When The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey premiered on silver screen as the first in a trilogy of films based on J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit, the response it received was mostly positive to mixed. The majority of criticism was targeted at the needless expansion of a single film story into three features but, in my opinion, it did commence this latest Middle-Earth adventure on the right note and, despite the sluggish pace, provided a largely satisfying experience.
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug is the second chapter of The Hobbit film series and picks the story right from where it was left off in An Unexpected Journey. Continuing the adventure of Bilbo Baggins who's accompanying thirteen dwarfs on their quest to…
Buttercup Cumbersnatch is the bitchy hoarder
Lee Pace is Middle-earth's Cersei
Legolas is a friendzoned racist
Evangeline Lily is the strong, independent female elf who doesn’t need a male elf (but needs a dwarf)
Stephen Fry is Donald Trump
Luke Evans is a single dad archer
Sauron is a shadow chillin' in some ruins
For a second I thought they even wheeled Shelob in for an encore but I am guessing these were just some distant relatives of hers
The rest of the characters including dwarves whose names I still do not know after five hours of this story (is it..."Kiwi"?) are also there. That Ed Sheeran song is better than the movie.
tired: generational violence passed from father to son
wired: generational adventure passed from uncle to nephew
Fuera de Serie: The Glossy, Nightmarish, Epic Journey Into The Middle Earth
EXTENDED CUT
Most people have come to know the Lord of the Rings universe through the original trilogy, but in my case, not only was my first movie from the Lord of the Rings franchise the very first Hobbit, but this was actually the first movie I ever watched on theater from this series. I remember enjoying it a lot and loving that ending.
That was the last time I saw it was that time, and re-visiting it after so long was a pleasant experience, but not the same. This could have been due to the fact that I watched it back to back with the first one,…
