[ZeeDrippyVessel]

[NancyBrooke]

Did you all see that the 'Desolation of Smaug' trailer debuts online today? In about an hour and a half ... www.theonering.net has a gizmo for figuring out the time in your zone.

I, for one, am excited! Have you seen the poster? It's a wow!

[NeumeIndil]

I had a total nerd-gasm.

[Viv]

I see Kate from Lost is back to make my life miserable. Wonder if that actress has learned in the intervening years how to close her mouth.

However, the Pie Maker appears to be rockin Thranduil. Yeah, get all snide with me blondie. We loves it.

Smaug underwhelmed just a bit, but hopefully that's just the trailer and he's much more intimidating in the film.

[NancyBrooke]

Watched DOS:EE last night and I think it's much better with all its bits attached. Still, Fran Walsh et al are the best fanfic writers evah!

[ZeeDrippyVessel]

the last movie was MUCH TOO short. Left too many characters dangling and I so very badly needed a royal funeral for the three.

Am thoroughly in love with Richard Armitage.

Was not impressed with Pace's Thranduil.

Let's hope the Extended fixes a lot of the danglies.

And yes, Fran Walsh, PJ and Phillipa are awesome fanfic writers!!!

[NancyBrooke]

^Agreed^

[NeumeIndil]

I didn't even bother to go see #3 in theaters. After 1 & 2 I am... let down. If I can find it at a $2.00 theater we'll go, or I'll get it from RedBox. Love the music, but the rest? Eh.

[Haleth]

The movie was fun.

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Loved Martin Freeman as Bilbo. He does understated bravery better than any actor I've seen. Loved Bard, especially when he was trying to negotiate with Thorin and Company and Thranduil was telling him it was a lost cause. Antigraity!Legolas caused a lot of exclamations of dismay from the male half of my family. (Darned engineers...going to a fantasy movie and expecting physics to work. And the rest of it makes so much sense with the dragon and the hobbit and dwarves and elves.)

Favourite scenes: Thorin and Azog (or was it Bolg?) fighting on the ice. Dain's speech.

Most Distracting Scenes: When the fully caparisoned battle ram 'magically' appeared just when Thorin needed a ride up hill. All I could think was....where'd THAT come from?
Beorn being airdropped into the battle. Apparently skin-changers can bounce.

Overall it was fun but it didn't have the impact of Lord of the Rings. It would have been better as two movies. I could have lived without the love story.

Fran Walsh really is the best fanfic writer ever.
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[NeumeIndil]

Finally saw it at the second run theater, and I'm glad I didn't pay full price. I got inordinately excited about Ironfoot's battle mount. And Billy Connelly was a great choice for a Tolkien dwarf. I'm not sure why I hadn't thought of him sooner, but he's one of my favorite actors.

The whole Mirkwood elves situation makes me want to stab things with arrows, and I agree about the mountain goats. Where the frack were they from the get go?

Still like the music, particularly Billy Boyd's contribution at the end. Still like Kili, perv that I am. And props to Bard's son for getting his hands dirty. That was no small feat on his part either!

The difficulty for me in this whole scenario is that my husband read the book some 30 years ago, but remembers almost nothing until he sees the films, so I'm left trying to summarize HOME and bits of the Silm between battle scenes and getting distracted by all the changes that make me want to shout obscenities at the screen.

But at least we know Galadriel's Hulk Rage from the first films is an on-going condition now.