The Company is already halfway or more to the Lonely Mountain, though they have to get through a shapeshifter, a relentless troop of Orcs, a kingdom of haughty Elves, and men both sleazy and honorable first–and between all that, crazy barrel rides, spider attacks, Gandalf disappearing on a secret mission, a looming threat in Dol Guldur, poisoned arrows, and Elves both smitten and jealous. This second installation of The Hobbit trilogy picks up (almost) right where the previous movie left off. ( Answer: Yes, yes, they most certainly do.) Image taken from Two good reviews from entirely different viewpoints had to mean something, right? The former had never read the books and the latter had. And then I read my cousin Nico Parungo’s review, then edited Misha Lecaros’s review of it. So I wasn’t going into The Desolation of Smaug with very high hopes. And they were so obviously feeling their way around–I’d never complained about the length of a movie before Journey. The music was great, the acting was more than many Hollywood movies could ever ask for (I mean, that rendition of “Riddles in the Dark” felt like a coming home to me)–but so much of it was, for want of a better term, fanfiction. As the first of a trilogy-that-should-not-have-been, it was so obviously padded by both material from the appendices and scenes completely made up by Jackson and the screenwriters. I didn’t exactly fall in love with The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey.
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