[ SECRET POST #3354 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3354 ⌋

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09. [ warning for homophobia / transphobia / misogyny take your pick, people seem to be divided on this one ]













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Comments

Re: Should I watch The Hobbit?

[(Anonymous)]

Music - Hobbit music is a letdown. There are very few recognizable themes, and they call back to the original LOTR music in places. The Misty Mountain song from AUJ is the only really good theme (though some people like Tauriel's theme apparently).

Visuals - I was very disappointed. The character design for a lot of the characters (Beorn, Radagast, Smaug, some of the dwarves) was just bad. Some of the sets were good. Erebor is big and lovely (though there's an improbable scene with the forges). You've seen a lot of places (Rivendell, Shire) in LOTR, and I found places like Mirkwood, Dol Guldur, and Thranduil's realm to be very disappointing.

Fight scenes - Also disappointing. For the epic battle, Battle of Five Armies was a huge step back. You can't keep track of where the armies are or what tactics they're supposed to be using. If you liked the over-the-top stuff Legolas did on the elephant, then you might like some of what they did. The big battle almost immediately degenerates into a series of individual fights. They don't use the fact that they have an army of archers or have more than a handful of good guys fighting together at any one time. The battle is a series of gags.

For individual fighting, it's very repetitive. I saw a great meta where the person pointed out how in LOTR, each fight moment had three parts: set up, resolution, reaction from the character. There's none of that in the Hobbit. It's just a mess of stuff going on without any shaping. In some places, it looks like a video game. There's no character-conflict in most of the fights, and nothing to invest in. None of the characters react like they're scared so there's no weight to the danger they're supposedly in.

Characterization - The changes to a lot of the characters were infuriating to me. If you do love the book, I'm not sure you'll be prepared how badly some characters make out. Also, the few characters you do become invested in aren't given any payoff, so you end up frustrated.

Foreshadowing - The Hobbit tries to foreshadow some stuff but it fails in almost all regards. It repeats what LOTR does ALL the time, but it doesn't do it in a good way - it just makes you SO aware of LOTR and how Hobbit doesn't stand up to that. Also, some of PJ's decisions ended up making no sense for the later LOTR films.

I say skip them. (I can go deeper if you want.)