[ SECRET POST #2527 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2527 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

At least you can't be disappointed this time around.

I went into the first Hobbit movie expecting a LotR prequel equal to or exceeding that first trilogy, but ended up with a lukewarm kiddie movie with gross humor (parasites and troll boogers) that just happened to also take place on middle earth.

[(Anonymous)]

I gotta say, I kind of feel like you should have expected The Hobbit to be at least a bit of a kiddie movie.

[(Anonymous)]

I did expect it a bit, a few more moments of levity and an overall cheerier attitude, but there was way too much to me. The troll scene dragged on forever, then all that Benny Hill running around with Radagast, the wargs and the Dwarf party, and I still don't know why there was a Disney musical singing number while cleaning.

[(Anonymous)]

The singing and acrobatic cleaning up was from the book. Unless you're asking why they chose to keep it for the movie.

[(Anonymous)]

thank god you didn't see the extended edition. the goblin king's song was just "we left Middle-earth and ended up at a rock concert" levels of atrocious.

[(Anonymous)]

...Did you read The Hobbit? Just curious.

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DA

I went back to reread the book before the movie came out and was amazed at how different the tone was from LotR. Especially the scene where the dwarves arrived in Rivendell.

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ayrt.

I did read The Hobbit, quite a while ago admittedly, but I was expecting them to stick a little closer to the tone of the movies released before that cinematically established the world. I did expect more humor in the Hobbit movies because of that, but thought it would be along the lines of Merry and Pippin or Legolas and Gimli's competition than slapstick and gross-out stuff.

[greenvelvetcake]

Funny, most of the book purists complain that the movies aren't light/humorous enough. The Hobbit book had practically none of the gravity seen in the Lord of the Rings.

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ayrt

In that case, I agree. I've always been more of a fan of LOTR than The Hobbit because of the differences in tone, so I didn't bother watching the entirety of the movie, but what I did see had me cringing. It would make more sense to try to get more of the serious atmosphere LOTR had because chronologically The Hobbit movie came after the LOTR trilogy, not the other way around like it did with the books. It felt more like regression that progression.

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OP:

Yeah, I didn't like The Hobbit book as much as LOTR, but you have the remember that it was a stand alone kid's book and wasn't originally connected to his Epic, Mythopoetic Silmarillion world. I've always thought the Shire and the Hobbit race in general feel like they don't "belong" to the rest of Middle Earth.

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ayrt

Yeah, I just feel like the tone of the movie adaptations should fit into the cinematic universe since LOTR as a movie trilogy is already established. An upopular opinion among book fans, I know.

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OP:

I understand your complaints. I thought it was cute, but I knew the bunny-sleigh was going to be just a tad too twee for a lot of people.

I think (hope) the third one is going to be more LOTRingish as I know they're going to include stuff from Tolkien's notes and unpublished stuff to try to connect the trilogies. And we have the Battle of Five Armies to look forward to and I assume it's not going to be "Bilbo, too bad you hit your head and missed that INCREDIBLY EXCITING EPIC BATTLE that just ended, but let me tell you it was AWESOME."

[(Anonymous)]

I kinda agree, but at the same time The Hobbit was meant to be a kiddie book and was written prior to LotR so it's not like there was much you could do about that.