The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug The Hobbit: Negative Comments on the Battle of Smaug

2021-10-13 18:32
The result is the most important. The result of the film is: as a story, as an adventure, as the direction of a work of art, as a visual spectacle, it is as desolate and failing as the title in almost every aspect. () 
The biggest problem focusing on "The Hobbit 2" is still too long. The 166-minute movie length and the 3D version still make people's eyes a little uncomfortable. Although the second episode eliminates the need to introduce characters and directly enters the main story, the endless encounters with dangers, non-stop scene transitions and other clearance games are somewhat "visual fatigue". What's more, the characters in the film are extremely complicated. There are as many as thirteen dwarves. With the addition of various elves, necromen, orcs, wizards, etc., fans who are not familiar with the original can neither remember their names nor recognize them. Staying on the face, it's no wonder that you want to feel drowsy. () 
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  • Marcellus 2022-03-23 09:01:07

    Thranduil, the most authored man in Middle-earth

  • Micaela 2022-04-24 07:01:01

    Bud especially likes it, Long Tai is chatty... The action scenes are too cool and the laughs are a lot... or my laughter is too low. Kili's BG drama always feels that the development is too fast, Xiaoye feels a little gloomy compared to the trilogy, is it because of his father...

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug quotes

  • Balin: [to Thorin] We'll get this started in a jiffy!

    Dwalin: [seeing Smaug breaking through the iron framework to the boiler room] We don't have a jiffy!

  • Smaug: [searching for the invisible Bilbo; menacingly] Well... Thief! I can smell you... I can hear your breath, I can feel your breath... Where-Are-You?

    [comes really close to Bilbo, who begins to lose his nerve]

    Smaug: Where are you?

    [Out of fright, Bilbo takes off running. Smaug chases after him. Bilbo hides behind one of the columns]

    Smaug: [calmly] Come now... Don't be shy. Step into the light.

    [creeps towards Bilbo's hiding place]

    Smaug: There is something you carry... Something made of gold. Except only much... more... Precious...

    [Bilbo is assaulted by Sauron's eye and quickly takes the ring off. He sees Smaug's piercing eye in front of him. Bilbo gasps, startled]

    Smaug: There you are... thief in the shadows.

    Bilbo Baggins: I-I didn't come to steal, Smaug the inaccessibly wealthy. I only wanted to gaze upon your magnificence, and what the old tales say is true.

    [whimpers]

    Bilbo Baggins: But I did not believe them!

    [Smaug fluidly slinks away and does a pose of grandiose]

    Smaug: [proudly; his voice resonating] And DO YOU NOW?

    Bilbo Baggins: [in awe] Yes... Yes, what the stories said is true.