12-27-2013, 07:39 PM
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Doubting Dwimmerlaik
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Heaven's basement
Posts: 2,499
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We took the extended tribe (almost a dozen children) to see DoS. I agree mostly with what others posted more eloquently above. Some notes:
- Hated how they took a 'chance meeting' and made the whole quest a set up by Gandalf.
- No mention why the ponies should be returned and not taken into Mirkwood.
- Are the Dwarves fighters or fools? One moment, they are taken captive by the spiders; then soon after, fight their way through them (with a little help). Same applies to Smaug...the Worm takes the whole dwarven city, but 13 dwarves (or however many; my head still hurts from the previews) can contrive to boot him out.
- Is Bard related to Legolas? They look like brothers.
- Saw nothing provocative when Tauriel was healing Kili; then again, I'm old and mostly dead.
- Isn't Kingsfoil called 'King's foil' for a reason? Or is it generic healing plant for generic evil weapon wound?
- You're going to use heat on a creature that produces heat - hot enough to melt magical rings. Genius.
- Thought for sure that the golden statue was going to become a transformer or mech suit.
- I'm no economist, but what's with all of the coins/horded treasure? Smaug may have gathered a bit of it together during the ransacking, but wasn't most of the coins already there?
- Orcs should slide on steep rooftops, unless they are Moria orcs, which can stick to any surface.
- Gandalf is caged by Sauron's minions? Just when I thought that being powned by the Witch King was the ultimate insult.
- So when the movie faded to black, my youngest summed it up by saying, "What a ripoff!"
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