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07-30-2014, 04:49 AM
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DoS is ten times worse than AUJ. You've missed nothing not seeing it. I shouldn't check this thread at work though, remembering all these horrors makes me cringe and sooner or later coworkers will start asking about the funny face.
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07-30-2014, 07:58 AM
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Ghost Prince of Cardolan
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A lot of commentators online seem to be arguing that three films were necessary for the plot to make sense and so on. I think that would be more true if the screenplays trusted the source material more. One thing I will say for these films is that although both of the ones which have come out so far are about 45 minutes to an hour too long, I don't necessarily object to the different 'episodes' of the original text being given room to breathe. If I'm to be perfectly honest I'm actually not averse to the current 'trilogy' structure as such, but for it to work it would have to hew more closely to the source material and focus more on characterisation and atmosphere than additional action. If there is one thing these films seem to get praised for with zero substantiation it's the idea of characterisation, since in my view it's either totally generic characterisation (Bilbo and Thorin) or there is no characterisation where there could be (most of the other Dwarves). We've still got the books, though, haven't we? Books with big pictures of Martin Freeman on the cover.
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07-30-2014, 08:39 AM
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Regal Dwarven Shade
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07-30-2014, 11:45 AM
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07-30-2014, 01:30 PM
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Regal Dwarven Shade
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What's galling is that many books now have movie imagery plastered all over them.
In my opinion he hasn't made a particularly great Bilbo Baggins.
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07-30-2014, 02:41 PM
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Pile O'Bones
Join Date: Dec 2013
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Yeah, to be honest, Freeman's performance as Bilbo is a bit too deadpan. It's kind of difficult to imagine that this hobbit would one day be Ian Holm's Bilbo.
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