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Anyone disturbed by "The Hobbit" film?
12-26-12 | LinnieBeth

Posted on 12/26/2012 3:46:05 AM PST by LinnieBeth

We went to see The Hobbit yesterday and we thought it was awful. Been surprised that since it's release there haven't been any posts to the Hole.

Are you all disgusted with Part 1?


TOPICS: TV/Movies; The Hobbit Hole
KEYWORDS: film; hobbit; hollywood; jackson; moviereview; vanity
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To: Sherman Logan

I didn’t like the storm giants either, but I checked and they are in the book.

I hated the goblintown stuff, but I think the average 12 year old boy would love it.


81 posted on 02/26/2013 7:41:46 PM PST by LadyDoc
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To: ExGeeEye

In the Silmarillion, it is pointed out that the world itself was used in the same way by Melkor/Morgoth, the Vala who was the original Dark Lord. Sauron was just his lieutenant.

Morgoth poured so much of his own self into the world in order to control it that he weakened himself enough that he was defeated and expelled from the world. But the evil he put into the world is now forever part of it.


82 posted on 02/26/2013 8:05:37 PM PST by Sherman Logan
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To: LadyDoc

Saw it with Girl 16, Boy 14, Girl 14, and Boy 9, two sets of unrelated siblings. They all loved it.


83 posted on 02/26/2013 10:45:53 PM PST by ExGeeEye (It's been over 90 days; time to start on 2014. Carpe GOP!)
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To: LinnieBeth

The changes in the main characters bothered me the most.

When it stuck to the book, it excelled.

When Jackson decided to rewrite scenes and characters, the enjoyment dropped.

Thorin is *not* so shallow a character as was portrayed in the movie. He has his vices, but he is also honorable (in dwarvish fashion), and noble (again, after the manner of the dwarves).


84 posted on 04/03/2013 9:51:36 AM PDT by Altariel ("Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!")
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